Laura Lackner

Associate Professor

Ayesha Baig

Ayesha Baig

Undergraduate Researcher, Biological Sciences Major

Controlling the expression of proteins important in the formation of contact sights between organelles in Yeast cells

ayeshabaig2024@u.northwestern.edu

Guadalupe Bravo

Guadalupe Bravo

Undergraduate Researcher, Biological Sciences Major

Investigating how altering mitochondrial mass affects mitochondrial fission, fusion, motility, and inheritance as well as mtDNA maintenance

guadalupebravo2024@u.northwestern.edu

Jason Casler

Jason Casler

Postdoctoral Fellow

Investigating the dynamic behaviors of mitochondrial membrane contact sites in physiological and stress conditions

jason.casler@northwestern.edu

Kaylee Gonzalez

Kaylee Gonzalez

Undergraduate Researcher, Biological Sciences Major

Clare Harper

Clare Harper

Graduate Student, Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences

Developing synthetic organelle tethers to explore membrane contact sites and mitochondrial function.

clareharper2023@u.northwestern.edu

Marie Lamarque

Marie Lamarque

Graduate Student, Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences

Studying how lipid metabolism occurring at membrane contact sites modulates mitochondrial dynamics.

marie.lamarque@northwestern.edu

Michael Ray

Michael Ray

Graduate Student, Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences

I study how mitochondrial inheritance impacts mtDNA integrity.

michaelray2024@u.northwestern.edu

Erica Rosario

Erica Rosario

Graduate Student, Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences

Farzana Tuli

Farzana Tuli

Postdoctoral Fellow

Brett Wisniewski

Brett Wisniewski

Graduate Student, Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences

Investigating how mitochondrial fission and fusion maintain mitochondrial DNA.

brettwisniewski2017@u.northwestern.edu