Current Members

Brian Kelch, PhD

Principal Investigator

LRB 923
Tel: 508-856-8322

Professor
UMass Chan Medical School 
Director of the BMB Graduate Program

Pipets: Right
Favorite Food: Bacon Cheesesteak ‘With’
Favorite Movie: The Big Lebowski
Favorite Pipetman: P200
Favorite Amino Acid: Tryptophan
Favorite Animal: Monkey

Rakeyah Ahsan

Graduate Student

LRB 970G

Pipets: Right
Favorite Food: Cheesecake
Favorite Movie: Tenet
Favorite Amino Acid: Methionine
Favorite Pipetman: P20
Favorite animal: Birds

Krishna Anand

Graduate Student

LRB 970G

Pipets: Right
Favorite Food: Samosa Chaat
Favorite Movie: Kapoor & Sons
Favorite Amino Acid: Lysine
Favorite Pipetman: P20
Favorite animal: Black American Shorthair Cat

Emily Blackburn

Graduate Student

LRB 970G

Pipets: Right
Favorite Food: Nachos
Favorite Movie: Forrest Gump
Favorite Amino Acid: Tryptophan
Favorite Pipetman: P20
Favorite animal: Highland Cows

Julia Hobaugh

Graduate Student (Joint with Flores-Kim Lab)

LRB 970G
 
Pipets: Right
Favorite pipetman: P200
Favorite movie: The Shining
Favorite food: Orange Chicken and Fried Rice
Favorite amino acid: Histidine
Favorite animal: Dog

Janneke Icso, PhD

Postdoctoral Associate (Joint with Thompson Lab)

LRB 970G
 
Pipets: right
Favorite food: hagelslag
Favorite movie: Forrest Gump or Inside Out
Favorite pipetman: P100
Favorite amino acid: glutamate
Favorite animal: cats

Sylvester Kaminta

Graduate Student

LRB 970G
  
Pipets: Pipets: Right
Favorite Food: “Tuo-Zaafi”
Favorite Movie: Extraction
Favorite Amino Acid: Cysteine
Favorite Pipetman: P200
Favorite Animal: Peacock

Joshua Pajak, PhD

Postdoctoral Associate

LRB 970G

Pipets: Right
Favorite pipetman: P20
Favorite movie: The Iron Giant
Favorite food: Pizza (from New Jersey)
Favorite amino acid: Glutamine

Emma Sedivy, PhD

Postdoctoral Associate

LRB 970G

Pipets: Right
Favorite Food: sushi
Favorite Movie: Carol (2015)
Favorite Amino Acid: Histidine
Favorite Pipetman: P20
Favorite Animal: Dana Scully (my cat)