Needleman lab members come from diverse backgrounds to work together to study biological self-organizing. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can learn and grow.
Please contact Dan directly about interest in joining the lab, and reach out to any lab members about specific projects, research at Harvard, or with other questions! (You can access our emails by clicking on each lab member's name.)
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Graduate student (Applied Physics) |
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Graduate student (Molecular and Cellular Biology) |
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Graduate student (Applied Physics, joint with Fakhri Lab, MIT) |
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Graduate student (Physics) |
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Frank Costanzo Administrative coordinator |
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Graduate student (Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology) |
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Postdoctoral fellow (Applied Physics) |
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Undergraduate student (Harvard College) |
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Colm Kelleher (personal website) |
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Postdoctoral fellow (Molecular and Cellular Biology) |
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Graduate student (Physics, joint with Dogic Lab, UCSB) |
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Principal investigator (Applied Physics, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University and Center for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute) |
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Graduate student (Molecular and Cellular Biology) |
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Postdoctoral fellow (Molecular and Cellular Biology) |
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Graduate student (Biophysics) |
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Postdoctoral fellow (Molecular and Cellular Biology) |
Alumni
Jan Brugues, Postdoctoral Fellow
Liz Cam, Undergraduate Student
Manqi Deng, Research Fellow
Reza Farhadifar, Postdoctoral Fellow
Peter Foster, Graduate Student
Sebastian Fürthauer, Postdoctoral Fellow
Yang Gao, Undergraduate Student
Timur Gatanov, Graduate Student
Sebastian Gonzalez La Corte, Undergraduate Student
Bryan Kaye, Graduate Student
Noah Langowitz, Graduate Student
Kylie Ray Lee, Undergraduate Student
Daniyar Nurgaliev, Graduate Student
Doogie Oh, Postdoctoral Fellow
Tim Sanchez, Postdoctoral Fellow
Younes Sherkat, Undergraduate Student
Jose Soto, Undergraduate Student
Tae Yeon Yoo, Graduate Student
Che-Hang Yu, Graduate Student
Lab Visitors
Leslie Beh
Tim Campion
Sitara Chapman
Philip Kang
Gunar Fabig
Basak Gonen
Soichi Hirokawa
Nilay Kuşcu
Tarjinder Sing
Olivia Stiehl