Di Gregorio Lab
Department of Molecular Pathobiology
New York University College of Dentistry
PEOPLE et al.
20 Year Anniversary
Anna Di Gregorio
Ph.D., Molecular and Cell Biology & Pathology,
Univ. 'Federico II', and Stazione Zool. 'A. Dohrn' Napoli, Italy
Associate Professor
Principal Investigator
The Plant
Active lab member since Day 1. Origin unknown, extremely resistant, wraps around the walls in Anna's office...intruders, beware!
Yushi Wu
M.S. in Biomedical Engineering, NYU
Junior Research Scientist
Lenny J. Negrón-Piñeiro
B.Sc. in Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico
Ph.D., Developmental Genetics, NYU
Postdoc
Zaneta I. Hwang
B.Sc. in Cell and Molecular Biology, Binghamton University
DDS student, class of 2021
Ludovic De Carle
B.Sc. in Biology, Loyola University of Chicago
DDS student,
class of 2020
Adrienne Jin hua Yu
B.A. in Biology, NYU
DDS student, class of 2022
Matthew Hwang
B.Sc. in Biology, George Washington University
Master student
The Lab Mascot
Marianna, Special Guest
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Natalia Caballero
B.Sc. in Biology, Penn State University
DDS student, class of 2019
Robert Ly
B.Sc. in Biochemistry, California State University
DDS student, class of 2022
The Sea Squirts
Simple yet extraordinary Chordates,
we would not be here
without you!
Thanks to all the creative, hard-working, amazing team players who joined our lab over the years.
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Mami Takeda, B.S. Univ. of Tsukuba (Japan), Research Technician, first lab member
Yale Passamaneck, Ph.D., WHOI/MIT graduate, first Postdoctoral Fellow
Matthew Dunn, Ph.D., graduate student
Jamie Kugler, Ph.D., graduate student
Izumi Oda-Ishii, Ph.D., Tokyo Metropolitan University, postdoc
Maira Biggiogero, Ph.D., visiting graduate student from the De Bernardi Lab (University of Milan, Italy)
Diana Jose'-Edwards, Ph.D., graduate student
Pierre Kerner, Ph.D., postdoc, now junior faculty at CNRS, France
Eamon Monaghan, Research Technician
Lavanya Katikala, Ph.D., Osmania University, Hyderabad (India), postdoc
Stefan Gazdoiu, Ph.D., New York University -Mount Sinai School of Medicine, postdoc
Jordan Thompson, Research Technician, now M.D. (Brown University)
Karina Braslavskaya, Research Technician, now M.D. (St. George's University)
Raymond Li, Research Technician
Jermyn Addy, Research Technician, now M.D. (New York Medical College)
Aakarsha Pandey, Research Technician
Hima Desai, pre-dental research volunteer, April - August 2016
Po-Lin Yang, NYUCD class of 2020, June – October 2016
Marie Kwok, NYUCD class of 2020, June 2017 – September 2018
Adrienne Jin hua Yu, NYUCD class of 2022, June 2018 - present
Julie Maguire, Ph.D., postdoc
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Rotation Graduate Students at Weill Cornell
Taya Feldman, Janice Imai, Jennifer Knauss
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Undergraduate Alumni
Todd Regnier, Gateway to the Laboratory Summer program, 2004, 2005
Gary Esses, Cornell University, Summer 2006
Erin O'Connor, Gateway to the Laboratory Summer program, 2007
Alessandra Szulc, Cornell University, Summer 2007, 2008
Irina Pyatigorskaya, Hunter College, 2007-2009
Talina Futeran, Hunter College, Summer 2009
Yusuf Abdu, Univ. of Connecticut, Summer 2012
Elen Gusman, honors thesis at Hunter College, 06/2012 – 09/2013
Slavena Salve Nissan, Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College, 12/2012 – 05/2014
Sahana Somasegar, Cornell University, Summer 2013
Joseph V. Afzali, Hunter College, 09/2013 – 12/2014
Victoria Simonne Humphrey, Traveler's Summer Research program, 2013
Gretchen Neymar Marrero Lozada, University of Puerto Rico, Summer 2013
Stella Chin, Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College, 10/2013 – 05/2014
Lisa Torre, Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College, 05/2014
Cindy Chou, Honors Thesis at Barnard College, Columbia University, 04/2015 – 05/2016
Cara Chow, Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College, 04/2015 – 05/2016
Riley Figueroa, Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP), 06/07 – 07/31/2021 (virtual)