Vakoc lab – PI, PhD students, Postdocs
Yuan Gao
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Epigenetic regulation by sphingolipids
Yuhan Huang
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: POU2F3 addiction and engineering of tuft cell lung cancer mouse models
Stella Hur
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Lineage reprogramming in pancreatic cancer
Olaf Klingbeil
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Paralog domain co-targeting CRISPR screening
Cristian Lopez-Cleary
PhD student
Project: Synthetic lethality in Rhabdomyosarcoma
Bin Lu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: ZFP64 and MYB addiction in leukemia
Diogo Maia-Silva
PhD student
Project: Squamous lineage reprogramming in pancreatic cancer
Sofya Polyanskaya
PhD student
Project: Phosphatase dependencies in acute myeloid leukemia
Damianos Skopelitis
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Elucidating redundant pathways that sustain cancer
Tim Somerville
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: TP63 and the squamous subtype of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
Martyna Sroka
PhD student
Project: Targeting fusion oncoproteins in sarcoma
Yusuke Tarumoto
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: MEF2C and Salt-inducible kinase addiction in leukemia
Yiliang Wei
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Bone marrow signals that support leukemogenesis
Xiaoli Wu
PhD student
Project: Identifying POU2F3 cofactors in small cell lung cancer
Zhaolin Yang
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Endogenous aldehydes in leukemia pathogenesis
Toyoki Yoshimoto
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Targeted therapy development in Rhabdomyosarcoma
Vakoc lab – Administration & Support Staff
Lukas Benjamin
Lab Technician
Joseph Milazzo
Lab Manager
Lindsay Monaco
Scientific Administrator
Genetic Screening Core
Kenneth Chang
Research Assistant Professor and
Head of the Functional Genomics Core
Osama El Demerdash
Functional Genomics Core
Bioinformatics
Kaarina Hanington
Functional Genomics Core
Research Technician
Vakoc lab alumni
Eric Wang (research technician from 2008-2015) -> currently a PhD student at NYU
Jessica Minder (research technician from 2013-2015) -> currently a PhD student at NYU
Anand Bhagwat (PhD student from 2012-2016)- > currently finishing his MD at Stony Brook Medical School as part of MSTP program
Junwei Shi (PhD student from 2010-2016) -> currently an Assistant Professor at University of Pennsylvania
Anja Hohmann (PhD student from 2012-2016) -> currently a Senior Scientist at KSQ Therapeutics
Chen Shen (PhD student from 2012-2016) -> currently a Senior Scientist at Pfizer
Yali Xu (PhD student from 2013-2018) -> current an Investigator at Novartis
Shinpei Kawaoka (postdoc from 2012-2013) -> currently a Group Leader at JST ERATO, Kyoto Japan
Jae-Seek Roe (postdoc from 2012-2018) -> currently an Assistant Professor Yonsei University