People

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.)

	Maya Anjur-Dietrich Graduate student (Applied Physics) Research Area: the spindle Outreach: Boston public schools tutoring program; MCB Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging task force
	Easun Arunachalam Graduate student (Molecular and Cellular Biology) Research Area: cellular energetics Outreach: Los Angeles County Science and Engineering Fair
	Yu-Chen Chao Graduate student (Applied Physics, joint with Fakhri Lab, MIT) Research Area: cellular energetics
	Will Conway Graduate student (Physics) Research Area: the spindle
	Frank Costanzo Administrative coordinator
	Gloria Ha Graduate student (Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology) Research Area: the spindle Outreach: HPREP
	Bill Ireland Postdoctoral fellow (Applied Physics) Research Area: cellular energetics
	Olenka Jain Undergraduate student (Harvard College)
	Colm Kelleher (personal website) Postdoctoral fellow (Molecular and Cellular Biology) Research Area: the spindle, pre-implantation embryo development Outreach: TED-Ed; science writing; BioBus; SoftBites; MathForAmerica
	Brian Leahy Postdoctoral fellow (Molecular and Cellular Biology) Research Area: pre-implantation embryo development
	Bezia Lemma Graduate student (Physics, joint with Dogic Lab, UCSB) Research Area: the spindle Outreach: LabOnTheCheap
	Daniel Needleman Principal investigator (Applied Physics, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University and Center for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute) Outreach: Lab tours, lectures, workshops, recruitment
	Marta Venturas Graduate student (Molecular and Cellular Biology) Research Area: cellular energetics, pre-implantation embryo development
	Hai-Yin Wu Postdoctoral fellow (Molecular and Cellular Biology) Reseach Area: the spindle
	Helen Yang Graduate student (Biophysics) Research Area: pre-implantation embryo development
	Xingbo Yang Postdoctoral fellow (Molecular and Cellular Biology) Research Area: cellular energetics

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

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