Lab Members

Luke Lynch

Luke Lynch

Education 2013-2017 B.S. Biology Lenoir-Rhyne University 2019-2025 Ph.D. Biochemistry Stanford University (supervisor: Gheorghe Chistol) 2025-Present Postdoctoral Fellow Harvard Medical School (supervisor: Johannes Walter)   Awards and honors 2016 Stanford Cellular and Molecular Biology Retreat Top Poster Prize 2017 Stanford Chemical and Systems Biology Mansour Award for Best Short Talk 2020 NC Academy of Science 1st Place […]

Shivani Bhandarkar

Shivani Bhandarkar

Education 2017-2021 B.A. Molecular and Cell Biology University of California, Berkeley 2023-Present Ph.D. Student in Biological and Biomedical Sciences Harvard University (supervisors: Johannes Walter and Karen Adelman) Awards and honors 2021 Highest Distinction in General Scholarship, University of California, Berkeley 2021 Molecular and Cell Biology Departmental Honors, University of California, Berkeley 2020 Jesse Rabinowitz Memorial […]

Nayoung Cheon

Nayoung Cheon

Education B.S., Biological Sciences, UNIST(Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology), South Korea MS/PhD student Advisor: Ja Yil Lee, Ph.D. UNIST(Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology), South Korea 2023-Present Post-doc Harvard Medical School (supervisor: Johannes Walter) Awards and honors 2016 UNIST excellent scholarship (Overseas scholarship) 2018 2018 KPS(Korean Physics Society) Fall Meeting 2018 2018 […]

Martha Longley

Martha Longley

Education 2014-2018 B.S. Biochemistry Yale University 2020-Present MD/PhD student Harvard/MIT Harvard Medical School (supervisor: Johannes Walter) Awards and honors Magna Cum Laude (Yale University) Phi Beta Kappa (Yale University) Pat Wilde Prize (Yale University) Intramural Research Training Award (NIH) Publications Longley, J. Lee, J. Jung, F.W. Lohoff, Epigenetics of Alcohol Use Disorders – A Review […]

Maksym Shyian

Maksym Shyian

Education 2006–2010 BSc in Biology National University of Kyiv, Ukraine 2010–2012 MSc in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology National University of Kyiv, Ukraine 2012-2018 PhD in Biology University of Geneva, Switzerland (supervisor: David Shore) 2018-2019 Postdoctoral Research Fellow University of Geneva (supervisor: David Shore) 2020-present Postdoctoral Research Fellow Harvard Medical School (supervisor: Johannes Walter) Awards and […]

Tycho Mevissen

Tycho Mevissen

Education 2008-2012 Diploma (equivalent to M.Sc.) Biochemistry Freie Universität Berlin, Germany 2012-2016 Ph.D. Biochemistry University of Cambridge and MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK (supervisor: David Komander) 2016-Present Postdoctoral fellow Harvard Medical School (supervisor, Johannes Walter) Awards and Honors 2011 Erasmus grant for an internship at the MRC LMB, Cambridge, UK 2011 DAAD-ACS-IREU Scholarship […]

Olga Kochenova

Olga Kochenova

Education 2003-2007 B.S. Biology Saint Petersburg State University, Russia (supervisor: Elena I. Stepchenkova) 2007-2009 M.S. Biology (Genetics) Saint Petersburg State University, Russia (supervisor: Elena I. Stepchenkova) 2010-2016 Ph.D. Oncology and Cancer Biology University of Nebraska Medical Center (supervisor: Polina V. Shcherbakova) 2016-Present Postdoctoral fellow Harvard Medical School (supervisor, Johannes Walter) Awards and Honors 2013-2015 UNMC […]

Geylani Can

Geylani Can

Education 2005-2009 B.S. Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics (Honours degree) Izmir Institute of Technology 2010-2012 Master Thesis Karolinska Institute (supervisor, Boris Zhivotosky) 2012-2018 Ph.D. in Molecular Biology University of Cambridge (supervisor, Philip Zegerman) 2019-Present Postdoctoral fellow Harvard Medical School (supervisor, Johannes Walter) Awards and honors 2020-2024 AACR-Cancer Research UK Transatlantic Early Career Development Fellowship […]