Vakoc lab
Yusuke Tarumoto
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Kinase dependencies in acute myeloid leukemia
Bin Lu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Mechanisms of MLL-fusion oncoproteins
Yuhan Huang
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Epigenetics of small-cell lung cancer
Tim Somerville
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Transcriptional regulation in pancreas cancer
Zhaolin Yang
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Ubiquitin Regulation of Fusion Oncoproteins
Yiliang Wei
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Signal transduction to chromatin in vivo
Olaf Klingbeil
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Next-gen CRISPR screening
Stella Hur
Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Metastasis dependencies in Pancreas Cancer
Yali Xu
PhD student
Project: Role of the TFIID complex in maintaining oncogenic transcriptional programs
Xiaoli “Sky” Wu
PhD student
Project: Histone methylation in small cell lung cancer
Sofya Polyanskaya
PhD student
Project: Phosphatase dependencies in acute myeloid leukemia
Martyna Sroka
PhD student
Project: Targeting fusion oncoproteins in sarcoma
Joseph Milazzo
Lab Manager
Lindsay Monaco
Scientific Administrator
Functional Genomics Core
Kenneth Chang
Research Assistant Professor and
Head of the Functional Genomics Core
Damianos Skopelitis
Functional Genomics Core
Research Investigator
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
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