Team Members

Michael Lodato, PhD

Principal Investigator

Somatic mutations in aging and age-associated disease.

PhD Candidate

Cross-organ analysis of somatic mutations in health and disease.

Research Associate

Functional analysis of age-associated gene expression changes in the brain.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Somatic mutations in neurodegenerative disease.

PhD Candidate

Somatic mutations in disease and across species.

Medical Student

Clonal somatic mutations in neurodegeneration

Visiting Scholar

Human lineage tracing using somatic mutations

PhD Candidate

Genetic analysis of motor and sensory neuron degenerative disease.

Summer Undergraduate

Clonal somatic mutations in neurodegeneration

Lab Alumni

Alexandra Steffens (Summer Undergraduate 2025) > Undergraduate Studies at the University of California Los Angeles

Ailsa Jeffries, Ph.D. (Graduate Student, 2020-2025) >Postdoctoral Fellowship, Wolfe Lab

Allie Tolles (Research Associate, 2019-2024) > Bouvé College School of Nursing at Northeastern University

Yerin Kim (High School Volunteer, 2024) > Vanderbilt University

Angela Gervassi-Saga (Summer Undergraduate Researcher, 2024) > Master's Student at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Kaylee Hill (Undergraduate Volunteer) > Software Engineer at CloudZero

Ashna Patel (High School Volunteer, 2021) > University of Florida

Shelby Johnson (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020-2021) > Senior Scientist, Sage Therapeutics