Lab Members

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 […]

Ernst Schmid

Ernst Schmid

Education 2012-2016 BSc in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology UCLA 2021-Present Ph.D. Biological and Biomedical Sciences Harvard University (supervisor, Johannes Walter) Awards and Honors 2016 Summa Cum Laude UCLA 2013 – 2014 Rose Hills Foundation Scholarship 2012 – 2016 UC Regents Scholar 2022 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Publications Mullen, P. J., Garcia, G., Purkayastha, A., […]

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 […]

Yang Lim

Yang Lim

Education 2013-2017 B.Sc. Chemistry (Hons.) National University of Singapore 2018-Present Ph.D. Biological and Biomedical Sciences Harvard University (supervisor, Johannes Walter) Awards and Honors 2013–2017 Kent Ridge Undergraduate Scholarship 2017 GlaxoSmithKline Gold Medal 2017 Lijen Industrial Development Medal 2017 Pfizer Medal Publications Chu, V., Feng, Q., Lim, Y., & Shao, S. (2021). Selective destabilization of polypeptides […]

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 […]

Walter Johannes

Johannes Walter

Johannes Walter was born in Munich, Germany in 1967 and moved to the United States when he was one year old. He grew up in San Diego, California and went to college at UC Berkeley. In 1987, he participated in the undergraduate research program at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.  In 1989, he began graduate school […]