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Team Members

Michael Lodato, PhD

Michael Lodato, PhD

Principal Investigator

Somatic mutations in aging and age-associated disease.

Cesar Bautista Sotelo

Cesar Bautista Sotelo

PhD Candidate

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

Jada Ormsbee

Jada Ormsbee

Research Associate

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

Jennifer Ziegenfuss, PhD

Jennifer Ziegenfuss, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Somatic mutations in neurodegenerative disease.

Bradley Class

Bradley Class

PhD Candidate

Somatic mutations in disease and across species.

Isabel Wood

Isabel Wood

Medical Student

Clonal somatic mutations in neurodegeneration

Waka Ujita, PhD

Waka Ujita, PhD

Visiting Scholar

Human lineage tracing using somatic mutations

Sushmita Nayak

Sushmita Nayak

PhD Candidate

Genetic analysis of motor and sensory neuron degenerative disease.

Alexandra Steffens

Alexandra Steffens

Summer Undergraduate

Clonal somatic mutations in neurodegeneration

Lab Alumni

Ailsa Jeffries, Ph.D. (Graduate Student, 2020-2025) > Open to Work

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

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

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

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