People

Ilya Levental
Principle Investigator
Associate Professor of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
CPRIT Scholar for Cancer Research
Co-Director of Biochemistry and Cell Biology Graduate Program 

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Kandice Levental
co-Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
Director of Center for Advanced Microscopy

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Dr. Fred Heberle
Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology

​Dr. Joseph Lorent
Postdoctoral Research Scientist

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Dr. Milka Doktorova
Postdoctoral Research Scientist

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Dr. Hongyin Wang
Postdoctoral Research Scientist

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Dr. Ivan Castello Serrano
Postdoctoral Research Scientist

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Barbara Diaz-Rohrer
PhD student 
UT Health Science Center at Houston / MD Anderson Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences 

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Jessica Symons
PhD student
UT Health Science Center at Houston / MD Anderson Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences ​

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Ehsan Irajizad
Visiting PhD Student
University of Houston

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Allie Skinkle
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Rice University

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Rossana Ippolito
Research Assistant

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Ailee and Emily Levental
Junior Trainees

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Former Lab Members:

Shawn Brisbay (Lab Manager Emeritus ; current: Research Lab Manager, Houston Methodist Research Institute)
Dr. Lakshmi Ganesan (postdoc ; current: IndiaBioscience, National Center for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India)
Dr. Xubo Lin (postdoc ; current: Associate Professor, Beihang University (BUAA), China)
Dr. Karolina Tulodziecka (postdoc ; current: Cellis / Medical University of Warsaw, Poland)
Dr. Kevin Spring (postdoc ; current: Instructor, Brazosport College)
Eric Malmberg (MS ; current: MD Anderson)
​Beatrice Herrmann (undergrad ; current: PhD student at University of Pennsylvania)
Emily Stockenbojer (undergrad)
Gia Longsworth (undergrad ; current: PhD student at Columbia University)
Dr. Shuli Wang