People @ the Gertler Lab
 
Shannon Alford (Postdoc, Biological Engineering)
skalford [at] mit [dot] edu
Systems analysis of invasive Mena isoforms in EGF-mediated cancer metastasis
Ph.D. Biomedical Eng. Washington University St. Louis
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Iowa State University

 
 
Michele Balsamo (Graduate Student, Biology)
mbalsamo [at] mit [dot] edu
Function of Ena/VASP proteins in cancer cell migration and epithelial morphology
B.S./M.S. Medical Molecular and Cellular Biotechnology
La Sapienza University - Rome Italy
 
 
Guillaume Carmona (Postdoc, Koch Institute)
gcarmona [at] mit [dot] edu
Role of MRL proteins in cancer cell migration



 
 
 
Frauke Drees (Postdoc, Koch Institute)
fdrees [at] mit [dot] edu


 


 
 
Stephanie Gupton (Postdoc, Koch Institute)
gupton [at] mit [dot] edu
Ena/VASP-dependent and Laminin-dependent Neuritogenesis
Ph.D. Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute
B.S. Biological Sciences, Botany, North Carolina State University
 
 
Leslie Mebane (Graduate Student, Biology)
mebane [at] mit [dot] edu
Novel binding partners of Ena/VASP in axon guidance

B.A. Biology, Texas A&M College Station

 
 
Irina Shapiro (Postdoc, Koch Institute)
ishapiro [at] mit [dot] edu
Global analysis of gene expression and alternative splicing during epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition
 
Ph.D. Cell Biology, MIT
B.S./M.S. Biophysics, St.Petersburg State Polytechnical University - St.Petersburg, Russia

 
Jenny Tadros (Technical Assistant)
jtadros [at] mit [dot] edu


 


 
 
Ed Van Veen (Graduate Student, Biology)
vanveen [at] mit [dot] edu
I study the involvement of neuronal guidance factors in brain development and cancer metastasis.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Marina Vidaki (Postdoc, Koch Institute)
mvidaki [at] mit [dot] edu
 
Ph.D. Developmental Neuroscience, University or Crete & IMBB, FORTH Iraklion, Greece
M.S. Molecular Biology & Biomedicine,  University or Crete & IMBB, FORTH, Iraklion, Greece
B.S. Biology,  University or Crete, Iraklion, Greece
 
Frank Gertler (Project Investigator)      fgertler [at] mit [dot] edu
Current Lab Members
Lab Alums
 
Jose Medrano
Graduate Student
Boston University
 
Elaine Pinheiro elaineM_Pinheiro@dfci.harvard.edu
Research Scientist
Belfer Institute for Applied Cancer Research
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
 
Hyung-Do Kim hyungdo@northwestern.edu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Northwestern University
 
Amy Norovich aln2128@columbia.edu
Graduate Student
Columbia University
 
Ulrike Philippar ulrike_philippar@merck.com
Senior Research Biologist
Merck Research Laboratories-Boston
 
Erik Dent ewdent@wisc.edu
Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy
University of Wisconsin

http://www.anatomy.wisc.edu/Dent/index.htm
 
Adan Kwiatkowski adamkwi@stanford.edu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanford University
 
Doug Rubinson drubinson@partners.org
 
Melanie Barzik barzikm@nhlbi.nih.gov
Senior Research Fellow
National Institutes of Health
 
Craig Furman craig.furman@pfizer.com
Senior Research Scientist
Pfizer Research Technology Center
 
Cecile Lebrand cecile.lebrand@unil.ch
Group Leader
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
 
Eva Kovacs e.kovacs@imb.uq.edu.au
Scientist
University of Queensland, Australia
 
Matthias Krause matthias.krause@kcl.ac.uk
Group Leader, Randall Division
King’s College London
 
Joseph Loureiro joseph.loureiro@novartis.com
Senior Scientist
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
 
Gerry Strasser geraldine.strasser@gmail.com
Postdoctoral Fellow
Genetech
 
James Bear
Associate Professor
UNC Chapel Hill

http://www-cellbio.med.unc.edu/grad/depttest/bear.htm
 
Rob Makar rmakar@partners.org
Instructor in Pathology
Harvard Medical School
 
Sheila Menzies
 
Lindee Goh
The Boston Consulting Group
 
Lorene Lanier lanie002@tc.umn.edu
Associate Professor
University of Minnesota

http://www.neurosci.umn.edu/faculty/lanier.html
Frank Gertler
(on the left)
Frank Gertler
(present day)