The Maroun Semaan Chair in Biomedical Research; Chair, Department of Systems Biology;Professor, Program in Molecular Medicine; Affiliated Faculty, Program in Bioinformatics and integrative Biology; Member, Center for Cancer Systems Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Ph.D., Molecular Biology, Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Marian received her undergraduate and PhD degrees in biology from Utrecht University in the Netherlands. She then did a post-doc at MGH and later Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School. She started her lab at UMass Chan in 2003. She prides herself in aiming to bring out the best in each of her trainees and helping them to achieve their career goals. In addition to loving science, she loves her husband, her cats, her horse, and Sichuan food.
Office: Albert Sherman Center, Room 5.1051
Marian.Walhout@umassmed.edu
Assistant to Dr. Walhout
Albert Sherman Center, Room 5.1053
Lynn.NeJaime@umassmed.edu
Phone: 508-856-3601
Fax: 508-856-2105
Lynn NeJaime
L. Safak Yilmaz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin
Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin
B.S., M.S., Civil Engineering, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey
Office: Albert Sherman Center, 5-1057, Phone: 508-856-6711
Yuzhi Chen, Ph.D.
Post-doctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Genetic and Environmental Toxicology, King’s College London
M.S., Medical Biotechnology, Wageningen University, Netherlands
B.S., Applied Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
B.S., Biotechnology, Northwestern Agricultural and Forestry University, Xi’an, Shaanxi China
Gabrielle Giese, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
Ph.D., Basic and Biomedical Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School
M.S., Biochemistry, University of New Hampshire
B.A., Biology and Japanese, Bennington College
Xuhang “Hang” Li
Graduate Student
B.S., Biological Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Zeynep Mirza
Post-doctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Program in Molecular Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School
M.S., Biotechnology, Worcester State University
B.S., Biology, Selçuk University, Konya, Turkey
Becks Padrusch
Research Associate
B.A., Biochemistry, Mount Holyoke College
Tanatcha Sanguanphun
Post-doctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Anatomy and Structural Biology, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
B.S., Biology, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
Hefei “Fei” Zhang, Ph.D.
Post-doctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Neurobiology, Institute of Brain Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
B.S., Applied Chemistry, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
Alumni
Graduate Students
Head, Developmental Genomics Group, Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
Aurian P. Garcia-Gonzalez, M.D., Ph.D.
General Surgery Resident, Duke Univeristy School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
Biocurator, WormBase, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
Brent B. Horowitz , Ph.D.
Morningside Academic Leadership Postdoctoral Associate, Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts
Research Scientist, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
Shivani Nanda , Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Ashlyn Ritter, Ph.D.
Medical Science Liaison, AbbVie, Maryland
Alex Tamburino, Ph.D.
Associate Principal Scientist, Genetics and Pharmacogenomics, Merck & Co., West Point, Pennsylvania
Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Biology, UMASS Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA
Postdoctoral Fellows
Inma Barrasa, Ph.D.
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Assistant Professor, Biology Department, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
Sushila Bhattacharya, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist, Warnhoff Lab, Sanford Research, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Jote Bulcha, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Guangping Gao Lab, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts
Professor, Laboratory of Systems Biology and Genetics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lusanne, Switzerland
Cédric Diot, Ph.D.
Scientist, Universtié de Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, France
Yong-Uk Lee , Ph.D. ...
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Akihiro Mori, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Bill Schafer Lab, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Huimin Na, Ph.D.
Scientist, Sanofi, Framingham, Massachusetts
Olga Ponomarova , Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico, New Mexico
John Reece-Hoyes, Ph.D.
Investigator III, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Principle Investigator, Lab for Computational Biology, Integromics and Gene Regulation, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Assistant Professor, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Other
Alyxandra Starbard ...
Amy Holdorf, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, Translational Medicine, Dragonfly Therapeutics, Waltham, Massachusetts
Daniel Richards
Graduate Student, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts
Juliet Bolduc ...
Melissa Walker
QC Analyst, Medical Device at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Providence, Rhode Island