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ICBL Lab Members: 2022 |
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Principal Investigator |
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Stuart Campbell
Hometown: Pullman, WA
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Graduate Students |
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Ilhan Gokhan
Hometown: Bronxville, NY Current Research Focus: Mechanobiology of cardiomyocytes; modeling atrial physiology with iPSC engineered heart tissues; arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy. Ilhan graduated from Duke University in 2017 with a degree in biomedical engineering. His undergrad research was in cell mechanobiology. After graduating, he worked as a research technician at Duke in a molecular cardiology lab investigating biophysics of cardiovascular GPCRs. In 2019, Ilhan matriculated at Yale as an MD-PhD student. As a third-year in the program, he is excited to be a part of the Campbell Lab. |
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Saiti Srabonti Halder
Hometown: Dhaka, Bangladesh Current Research Focus: Investigating the role of Tropomyosin mutations in Dilated and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Saiti graduated from Sunnydale school in Dhaka, Bangladesh and came to the US in 2015 to pursue her undergraduate degree in Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University. Saiti’s interest in cardiac biomechanics and tissue engineering led her to start her Yale journey in 2019 at ICBL. Saiti is also currently the communications chair for Yale GradSWE and a McDougal Student Life Fellow. Outside research, Saiti is a sketch artist and a classical Indian dancer. |
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Shi Shen
Hometown: Hangzhou, China Current Research Focus: Investigating tissue remodeling in engineered heart tissue in vitro; Investigating ways to mature hiPSC-CMs in engineered heart tissues. |
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Jenette Creso
Hometown: Tacoma, WA Current Research Focus: Investigating the role of tropomyosin mutations in HCM and DCMs. Jenette is a 5th year PhD candidate in the Campbell lab. She came to Yale after completing her B.S. at UC Irvine in Chemical Engineering where she conducted research in yeast metabolic engineering. Her current work in the lab is split between running simulations with her computer model of cardiac thin filament activation and transducing engineered heart tissue with novel tropomyosin variants. After finishing her PhD this spring, she will be starting a position as a Healthcare Strategy Consultant. |
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Lynne Kim
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA Current Research Focus: Investigating Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy related ⍺-Tropomyosin Mutations. Lynne is a biomedical engineering student on the pre-med track. Her research interests lie in cardiac biomechanics and effects of mutations on cardiovascular phenotypes and diseases. As a member of the Integrative Cardiac Biomechanics lab, she is studying the underlying mechanism of myocardial diseases caused by alpha-Tropomyosin (TPM1) mutations. Outside of research, Lynne is a volunteer at the Elder Horizons Program at Yale New Haven Hospital interacting with alzheimer’s and dementia patients, providing key interventions to prevent delirium, and learning about patient care. In her spare time, Lynne enjoys outdoor climbing, pottery, and drinking tea with friends. |
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Fanny Cheung
Hometown: Charleston, SC Current Research Focus: Investigating the effect of variants in Troponin I near the switch peptide and its relation to Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy through viral transduction of EHTs. |
Other Positions |
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Xia Li
Position: Technician Hometown: Heilongjiang, China Current Research Focus: Culturing human induced pluripotent stem cells and differentiating to functional cardiomyocytes for heart engineering tissue models. Xia graduated from Harbin Medical University in 2008 and worked as a nurse and Nursing teacher in Second Affilated Hospital of Harbin Medical University from 2008 to 2012. She worked as research assistant at Yale Cardiovascular Medicine from 2015 to 2017 and as lab manager at Xiangya Hospital Central South University, China in 2018. She joined as a Research Assistant at ICBL in 2019 and focuses on iPSC-derived-cardiomyocyte differentiation and maintenance. |
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