Lab Members and Alumni
The Nolan Lab team at Stanford University Department of Pathology.
Current Members
Professor Garry Nolan
Xavier Rovira Clavé, Ph.D.
Education: B.Sc. Biology, University of Barcelona, 2010; M.Sc. Immunology, University of Barcelona, 2011; Ph.D. Biomedicine, University of Barcelona, 2016
Specialties: Immunology, mouse models of cancer, molecular biology
Field: Immunology, cancer biology
Projects: The interplay between nuclear architecture and gene expression in tumor initiation
Wendy J. Fantl, Ph.D.
Education: A Biochemistry University of York UK. Ph.D Protein Biochemistry Rockefeller University. UCSF Post-doc and Adjunct Assistant Professor. Spent 16 years in the private sector (Biotech/Pharma/start-up arena)
Specialties: My passion is in the mechanistic understanding of intracellular signaling and its application to understanding disease mechanism and drug development with “eye on the prize” of a translational endpoint!! Current interests are to apply the recently described multi-parametric single-cell mass cytometry platform to identify disease-causing cell subpopulations and their signaling networks in ovarian cancer
Field: Algorithm Design, Bioinformatics, Flow/Mass Cytometry, Machine Learning, Personalized Cancer Medicine, Statistics, Cancer Stem Cells, Systems Immunology
Projects: Proteomic and molecular characterization of primary ovarian cancer at the single cell level
Yury Goltsev, Ph.D.
Education: M.Sc. Biophysics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology; Ph.D., Ph.D. Molecular Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science
Specialties: Single cell analysis of gene expression, RNA flow
Field: Immunology, Cancer Biology
Projects: Single cell analysis of trancriptional networks implicated in hematopoiesis
David McIlwain, Ph.D.
Education: B.Sc. Anatomy and Cell Biology, McGill University; Ph.D. Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto; Postdoctoral. Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Disease, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf; Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University
Specialties: Clinical studies, Non-human primates, Knockout mice, Viral infection, T-Cells, Innate immunity, Rhomboid proteases
Field: Infectious Disease, Mass Cytometry, CODEX Imaging, Systems Immunology
Projects: Deep profiling time-dependent host responses to Ebola, influenza, zika and other infections
Angelica Trejo, B.S.
Education: Stanford University: B.S. in Biology
Specialties: Sectioning, in situ hybridization, histochemistry, and confocal microscopy
Gustavo Vazquez, B.A.
Education: B.A. Biology, B.A. Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Specialties: Molecular biology techniques, Antibody conjugation and titration, Tissue culture
Field: Immunology
Projects: Multiplexed antibody staining and imaging
Yunhao Bai, B.S.
Education: B.S. Chemistry, Tsinghua University, 2015
Specialties: polymer science, hydrogel, conjugation chemistry
Projects: Multiplexed ion beam imaging under expansion, novel polymer-antibody conjugates synthesis
Graham Larson Barlow
Education: BA (Molecular Biology), Pomona College
Specialties: Mouse models in Immunology, Molecular Biology, Computational Biology, and high dimensional imaging
Field: Immunology and Systems Immunology
Projects: Cellular niches: discovery, function and malfunction
Bokai Zhu
Education: BS Biology, Cornell University, 2017
Specialties: Sequencing, imaging and beyond of complex bacterial communities
Field: Microbiology and Immunology
Nilanjan Mukherjee, M.S., M.Eng.
Education: Integrated B.S., M.S. (Biological Sciences, Immunology), Indian Institute of Science
Specialties: Mass cytometry, multiplexed antibody staining, tissue culture, cell-based assays, microscopy, molecular biology and biochemistry techniques
Field: Molecular and Cellular Biology, Immunology, Host-viral interactions
Projects: Deep profiling of single-cell immune phenotypes, understanding immunological, pathological & genetic signatures in a disease
Wilson F Kuswanto M.D., Ph. D
Education: M.D., Ph. D Harvard Medical School; Internal medicine, Rheumatology Stanford University
Specialties: single cell RNA-seq analysis, multidimensional imaging
Field: Rheumatology, Immunology
Marc-A. Baertsch, M.D.
Education: Medical School, University of Heidelberg, Germany 2014: M.D., National Center for Tumor Diseases/German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany, 2016; Residency/Fellowship Internal Medicine/Haematology/Oncology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany
Specialties: Hematology/Oncology, Multiple Myeloma, Bone Marrow Microenvironment, Oncolytic Virotherapy
Field: Internal Medicine, Haematology/Oncology
Projects: Multiplex tissue imaging of bone marrow microenvironment and hematologic malignancies
Yuqi Tan, Ph.D.
Education: B.Sc. the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014; Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 2021
Specialties: Single-cell Omics, Machine learning, Technology Development
Field: Single-cell Transcriptomics, Computational Stem Cell Engineering
Projects: Multi-omics integration, Spatial multi-omics, and 3D imaging
Theresa Chu, B.S
Aaron TAN Tze Kai B.Sc
Education: B.Sc (Hons), Development, Regeneration, and Stem Cell Biology, The University of Edinburgh, 2018.3
Specialties: Ex vivo Hematopoietic Stem Cell Cultures and Manipulation, Bone Marrow Conditioning, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation5
Field: Hematopoietic Stem Cell Biology, Stem Cell Niche and Cellular Neighbourhoods4
Projects: Highly multiplexed profiling of ex vivo and in vivo hematopoietic stem cells at single-cell resolution (edited)
Shama Choudhry
Polly Kavanaugh, CPPS
Antonio Delgado González, Ph.D.
Education: B.Sc. Pharmacy, University of Granada, 2013; M.Sc. Molecular Biology, University of Granada, 2014; Ph.D. Biomedicine, University of Granada, 2019
Specialties: Chemical Biology, Nanoparticles, Dynamic Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Biomaterials
Field: Chemical Biology, Nanotechnology, Personalized Medicine, Molecular Diagnosis
Projects: Multi-parametric single-cell technologies (CyTOF and CODEX) applied to ovarian and kidney cancer. Alumni
Darci Phillips, MD PhD
Education: B.Eng, Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University; PhD, Biochemistry, Oxford University; MD, Harvard Medical School; Residency, Dermatology, Stanford University
Specialties: Dermatology, Proteomics, Translational research
Field: Dermatology
Projects: Characterizing immune signatures of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma
Ramsey Nissan, M.S.
Salil Bhate, BA MMath
Education: BA (Mathematics), University of Cambridge, 2013. MMath (Mathematics), University of Cambridge, 2014
Specialties: Machine learning for analysis of high-parameter tissue images, geometry, synthetic biology
Field: Machine learning, neural networks, cellular engineering, cancer immunotherapy
Projects: Deep neural networks to identify and characterize cellular niches. High-parameter in situ CRISPR screening
Sizun Jiang, Ph.D.
Education: B.S. Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2011. Ph.D., Virology, Harvard University, 2017
Specialties: Virology, Cancer Biology, Transcription, Epigenomics, Next-Generation Sequencing
Field: Chromatin Biology, Microbiology & Immunology
Projects: Methodology development for high-dimensional imaging. Dissecting Host-Pathogen Interactions with multiplexed imaging
Ivan Lee M.D. Ph.D.
Education: Fellowship: Stanford University Allergy and Immunology Fellowship (2020) CA•Doctorate of Philosophy (Ph.D.), University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, TX (2015) Board Certification : Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics (2018) Residency : Stanford University Pediatric Residency (2018) CA•Medical