Aryeh Warmflash
Principle Investigator
Associate Professor
CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research
Department of Biosciences
aryeh.warmflash@rice.edu
Office: MD Anderson Biology 372
Ext: 2456

Research Staff

Cecilia Guerra
Technician
MD Anderson Biology 369
Research interests: Reporters for signaling during Zebrafish development, micropatterned hESC differentation

Postdocs

Elena Camacho Aguilar
Postdoc
PhD, Mathematics, University of Warwick, UK
MD Anderson Biology 369
Research interests: Quantitative models of stem cell patterning

Graduate Students

Siqi Du
PhD Student
MD Anderson Biology 365
Research interests: Wnt signaling dynamics,
anterior-posterior patterning

Xiangyu Kong
PhD Student
BCB program
MD Anderson Biology 368
Research interests: Extraembryonic differentiation,
embryonic-extraembryonic interactions

Miguel Ángel Ortiz Salazar
PhD student
BCB program
MD Anderson Biology 369
Research interests: ectodermal and
neural patterning

Luisa Rezende
PhD student
BCB program
MD Anderson Biology 366
Research interests: Regulation of Nodal signaling
during gastrulation

Eleana Rizou
PhD student
BCB program
MD Anderson Biology 365
Research interests: Wnt signaling in
space, cancer stem cells

Alena Streletskaia
PhD Student
BCB program
MD Anderson Biology 365
Research interests: controlling gene
expression in space and time

Ye Zhu
PhD student
Bioengineering program
MD Anderson Biology 365
Research interests: Controlled 3D stem cell
culture, neural patterning

Undergraduate Students

Postdocs
Idse Heemskerk, Currently Asst Prof at U. of Michigan. website.
Lizhong Liu, Currently research associate at UTSW
Matthew Schmerer, Currently staff scientist at CDC
Anastasiia Nemashkalo, Currently postdoc at LANL.
Suparna Sarkar-Banerjee, Currently postdoc Landes lab, Rice Univ.
Philip Auckland, Currently group leader Kings College, London. website.

Graduate Students
Kinshuk Mitra, PhD RIce BioE 2019, Currently consultant at McKinsey
Joseph Massey, PhD Rice BCB 2019, Currently Medical Science Liaison.
George Britton, PhD Rice SSPB 2020, Currently Medical Science Liaison, Fresnius.
Sapna Chhabra, PhD Rice SSPB 2020, Currently postdoc Aulehla Lab, EMBL Heidelberg.

Technicians
Kari Burt
Teresa Saez, Currently technician at Sainsbury lab, Cambridge UK
Yida Liu, Current Medical Student UT Southwestern