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  [### Leander Ammar

 ](/people/leander-ammar) <leander.ammar@gmail.com>Visiting Undergraduate Researcher

 

 

 I am in the last year of my Undergraduate Degree in Engineering Science at the Technical University of Munich. I'm interested in understanding cellular behavior with respect to the surrounding tissue. 

 

 

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   [### Markus Basan

 ](/people/markus-basan) <markus@hms.harvard.edu>Associate Professor of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School

Affiliate Associate Professor, Applied Physics Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)

Associate Member, Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

 

 

 About Markus : After undergraduate studies in physics at ETH Zurich and Harvard University, Markus obtained a PhD in theoretical physics working with Jean-Francois Joanny and Jacques Prost at the Curie Institute. He went on to do postdoctoral studies in... 

 

 

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   [### Nina Benites

 ](/people/nina-benites)Graduate student

 

 

 I graduated from Tufts University having studied Biology and English. As a graduate student in the Systems, Synthetic and Quantitative Biology program at HMS and NSF Graduate Research Fellow, my current research studies the effects of cytosolic pH and... 

 

 

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   [### Alice Chen

 ](/people/alice-chen) <achen2@college.harvard>Undergraduate Researcher

 

 

 

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   [### Jade Ealy

 ](/people/jade-ealy)Research Technician

 

 

 I graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a BS in biochemistry. As an undergraduate, I did research in environmental chemistry and completed my honors thesis on the additive effects of chemical pollutants in California streams. I am... 

 

 

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   [### Joey Huang

 ](/people/joey-huang)Undergraduate Researcher

 

 

 I am currently an A.B. Candidate in Chemistry and Physics and Computer Science at Harvard College. My current research focuses on the relation of tissue homeostasis and resting membrane potentials of epithelial cells. 

 

 

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   [### Hong Kang

 ](/people/hong-kang)Rotation Student

 

 

 I am currently a graduate student in the Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology program at Harvard University. My undergraduate background is in physics, and I am broadly interested in biochemistry, microscopy, and computational biology. My research... 

 

 

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   [### Emily Meeus

 ](/people/emily-meeus) <emilymeeus@outlook.com>Visiting Masters Student

 

 

 

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   [### Avik Mukherjee

 ](/people/avik-mukherjee)Postdoc

 

 

 I have earned my master’s degree in Biochemistry from the department of Biochemistry, University of Calcutta, India. I have obtained my Ph.D. from the Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, UK. My Ph.D. is focused on elucidating dynamic mechanisms the... 

 

 

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   [### Mark Polk

 ](/people/mark-polk)Undergraduate Researcher

 

 

 I investigate nutrient starvation in bacteria to further our understanding of how microbes withstand the stresses that they encounter in the natural environment. I do so through experimental work, assessing, measuring, and comparing the phenotypes of... 

 

 

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   [### Carlos Sanchez

 ](/people/carlos-sanchez)Graduate Student

 

 

 Carlos is a student in the Systems Synthetic and Quantitative Biology PhD program at Harvard Medical School. Before coming to Boston, Carlos obtained a B.Sc in Microbiology, and a B.Sc in Physics from Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. His current... 

 

 

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   [### Severin Schink

 ](/people/severin-schink)Postdoc

 

 

 I am broadly intersted in quantitative systems biology, in particular bacterial physiology. My current research focuses on starvation, where I try to understand how bacteria can survive long periods of carbon starvation and why they eventually die. I am... 

 

 

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