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Ophir Shalem, PhD

Assistant Professor of Genetics

Training and past positions:

Visting scholar at Andrew Dillin lab, UC Berkeley 10/2014 - 07/2016

Postdoctoral researcher at Feng Zhang lab, The Broad Institute, McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, 01/2013 - 07/2016

Ph.D. The Weizmann Institute of Science, Systems Biology, 09/2004 - 12/2012

BS.c. Beer Sheva University, Computer Science and Biology, 09/2001 - 07/2004

Graduate group affiliation:

Genetics and Gene Regulation

Genomics and Computational Biology

Neuroscience

Saranya Santhosh Kumar

Graduate Student 

Penn BioEngineering

Training and past positions:

Research Associate at the Shalem lab, 8/2016 - 8/2019

Research Assistant at the Rockefeller university (Hynes lab), 2014 - 8/2016

M.Sc. Genetics and Neuroscience at Uconn, 2008 - 2013

B.tech Anna University Chennai, Coimbatore, India

Yevgeniy (Jay) Serebrenik, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Training and past positions:

PhD candidate Yale (Craig M. Crews lab)

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Stephanie Sansbury

Graduate student

Cell and Molecular Biology, Genetics and Epigenetics Program

University of Pennsylvania

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Katelyn Sweeney

Graduate student

Cell and Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Physiology, and Metabolism Program

University of Pennsylvania

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Emily O'Driscoll

Graduate student

Cell and Molecular Biology, Genetics and Epigenetics Program

University of Pennsylvania

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Chris Buenaventura

Research Fellow

training and past positions:

BS. in Experimental Neuroscience from The Virginia Tech School of Neuroscience

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Sapanna Chantarawong

Research Fellow

training and past positions:

MS.c. candidate in Cell and Developmental Biology from Thomas Jefferson University

BA. DeSales University 

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Henry Sanchez

BE MD/PhD student

training and past positions:

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Gregory Cajka

PhD student (NGG)

training and past positions:

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Tomer Lapidot

Postdoctoral Fellow

training and past positions:

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Sarshan Pather

MD/PhD student

training and past positions:

Alumni

Sheridan Littleton, G&E, rotation student (01/2019 - 03/2019)

Adam Karami, Research Assistant (9/2017 - 11/2018)

Phoebe Greenwald, Research Assistant (11/2016 - 01/2018)

Alexis Oguh GGR, rotation student, (04/2017 - 06/2017)

Ashley Viera-Ortiz BMB, rotation student (04/2017 - 06/2017)

Vikram Krishnamoorthy, Undergraduate student, (06/2017 - 03/2018)

Eric Teichner, Undergraduate student, (05/2017 - 11/2017)

Shalem Lab

Functional Genomics

Protein Quality Control

and Neurodegeneration

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