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Lab Members
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Judith Steen
was educated in Africa, N.America and Europe. She studied chemistry and genetics at the University of Toronto. She moved to the University of Southern Denmark to work with Sir Peter Roepstorff, where she experienced mass spectrometry and discovered a world of immediate gratification. Judith loves chocolate and likes walking on the beach (on her hands).
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Hanno Steen
studied in many places starting at the University of Freiburg, Germany; UMIST, Manchester, UK; ETH, Zurich, Switzerland and the University of Southern Denmark with Matthias Mann. Hanno has his hair cut at Sal's Barbershop in JP. Hanno is a gourmet/and, and loves bikes and rowing!
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Zach Waldon has a BS degree in Biology and Psychology from the University of Massachusetts Boston
He used to work as Behavioral Neurologist were he studied the role of the nucleus accumbens in the neural underpinnings of drug addiction, and research investigating alterations in the GABA system resulting from in utero cocaine exposure. Zach has seen the light and is in enthralled by the APoP (Awsome Power of Proteomics). His favorite mass spec is the LTQ.
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Saima Ahmed
recently joined the Steen Lab with an enthusiasm to learn all about MS. She is primarily working on the LTQ, but hopes to one day master the FT and Orbi as well. She graduated with a B.S. in Biology from Umass Amherst. Whether it be a hike up Mount Sugarloaf, a weekend in the Berkshires, or just some coffee from Rao's, she will find any excuse to revisit the Pioneer Valley and reminisce with her college friends.
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Bikem Akten was born in Istanbul, Turkey and moved to the US to pursue graduate research in genetics and neuroscience. A big fan of all things Drosophila, Bikem is currently pursuing a project that interfaces the technical wizardry of the Steen lab with the neurological savvy of the Sahin lab. Having downsized from fruitflies, Bikem now spends her days coaxing her fledgling peptides into the mass spec. She enjoys cooking, dancing, and immunoprecipitation.
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Damon Anderson earned a BS in Biochemistry from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, prior to boarding the Steen train in 2008. His research interests center around the crucial role(s) that iron plays in biological systems, and his investigations focus on transport and signaling networks involved in iron uptake and storage. He is currently working on a joint project with Fleming lab focused on the design of quantitative MS-based methods for the detection of iron biomarkers in mammalian systems. He enjoys skiing, fishing, and penguins of the Pittsburgh variety.
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Linda Bengtsson
received her BS in Biotechnology engineering at the
Royal Institute of technology; KTH in Stockholm, Sweden. Her first exposure to research came in the lab of Prof. M. Masucci, Karolinska Institute, in the study of Ubiquitin C-Hydrolase L1s (a deubiquitinating enzyme) upregulation in EBV infected Burkitts Lymphoma cells. She went on to pursue an MS in chemistry jointly at KTH and Politecnico do Torino, Italy. Linda passes the time sipping tea and meditating in the mountains; that is when she's not skiing, kayaking, or swimming.
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Christian Dittrich
Coming soon
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Robert Everley hails from Kentucky (the state of bluegrass and bourbon), and has studied Forensic Science and Chemistry, receiving his PhD from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2008. Robert's specialty is top-down proteomics, and he is currently developing advanced methods towards top-down investigations of PTMs and isoforms involved in key cell signaling networks. He has lived in a number of locales, down South (Nashville, Tenessee), and out East (Taipei, Taiwan and Meizhou, China), and although he enjoys Boston, Robert likes to get away by taking drives in the country...with the top-down of course.
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Dr. Phil is a Neonatologist trained at Stanford where he studied insulin-like growth factors in fetal lung development. After caring for little rascals in the Sonoran desert he has acquired new allen wrenches; re-tooling as a Geneticist to experience academia and Boston's four seasons. He likes to borrow Sven's highly accurate pipettes, and pour liquid nitrogen into the mass spectrometers under adult supervision. Dr Phil's research interests are at the confluence of Biochemical Genetics and Proteomics. His favorite organelle is the tiny but powerful Mitochondrion which he studies with the LTQ-Orbitrap instrument. Dr Phil is the original Dr Phil, thus he enjoys Boston's arts and music scene, as well as outdoors adventures.
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Nurhan Ozluwas born in Turkey where she earned her bachelors at Bilkent University. She went on to get a PhD in Cell Biology from Max Planck Institute in Dresden. She joined our proteomics group in the summer of 2006, to pursue research in mitotic kinases in collaboration with the Mitchison lab (HMS Systems Biology). In her extra time, she enjoys playing professional frisbee, and catching lobsters.
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Marc Kirchner earned his Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. His research focuses on Computational Proteomics (CPX), where he develops tailored data analysis algorithms, machine learning approaches and statistical analysis procedures for quantitative mass spectrometry data. Marc is into rock climbing, running, reading and, recently (and more or less successfully), into asian cooking.
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Joao Paulo is a native New Englander who was born in Pawtucket, RI and attended Brown University, in Providence, RI before joining us at CHB in 2008. He is currently working on a joint project between the Steen and Conwell labs, investigating protein/peptide biomarkers associated with chronic pancreatitis. Joao enjoys reading on the train, his favorite instrument is the nanodrop, and he is sure to show up at any CHB event so long as food (preferably chocolate) is provided free of charge.
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Sasha Singh studied plant genetics for her MSc and biochemistry/crystallography for her PhD at the University of Toronto. Sasha is a big fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs and can become quite irate if they manage to lose more than three consecutive games. Late hours in the lab go by fast when she listens to the games live on the internet. She is scared of icebergs, outerspace and autoclaves.
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Wiebke Timm recently joined the Steen Lab after finishing her PhD from Bielefeld University, in Germany, where she studied "Peak intensity prediction in mass spectra using machine learning methods". Her technical interests include applications of machine learning, statistics, and pattern recognition in biology/chemistry, and she is currently working on the design of phosphoproteomics visualization strategies around MS. She admires ducks, squirrels, and yeast, although she is generally fascinated by everything that breaths, even the creeping, crawling, and scuttling species.
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Dominic Winter
Coming soon
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Andrew Briscoe Originally a hotel manager from Dublin in Ireland he gained his B.Sc. in Developmental Biology from the University of Edinburgh in 2002. He moved to Boston in order to take advantage of the fantastic research opportunities that exist here. In his free time he competes as a marathon canoeist, and in slalom kayak. Andrew plays guitar, but seems to have suffered a deletion in the Irish singing gene.
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Richard Lee is a Urologic Surgeon. He is completing a Pediatric Urologic Surgery Fellowship at Children's Hospital Boston. As a urologist he works with a lot of urine, so he is investigating urinary protein expression in renal injury. Outside of work Richard is often seen biking with his wife and Hanno (with Hanno lagging behind), participating in triathlons, hiking with his dog, or cooking.
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Ali Vaezzadeh comes from the Land of 1001 Nights. He was born at the dawn of a revolution and raised through a war. He moved to the land of chocolates, banks and watches to pursue higher studies and completed his PhD in multidisciplinary pharmacy under the supervision of Prof. Denis Hochstrasser. Finally, he relocated to the land of the free to bring proteomics revolution to urinary proteomics and stage a war on Uretropelvic junction obstruction in children under the supervision of General Lee. However, if a genie would magically grant him the wish to do things over, he would study politics!
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