Lab Members and Alumni

The Nolan Lab team at Stanford University Department of Pathology.

Current Members

Professor Garry Nolan

Xavier Rovira Clavé, Ph.D.

Position: Postdoctoral Fellow

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.

Position: Assistant Professor . Division of Gynecologic Oncology .Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

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.

Position: Senior Research Scientist

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.

Position: Sr. Research Scientist

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.

Position: LSRP Lab Manager

Education: Stanford University: B.S. in Biology

Specialties: Sectioning, in situ hybridization, histochemistry, and confocal microscopy

Gustavo Vazquez, B.A.

Position: LSRP

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.

Position: Graduate student, Chemistry

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

Position: Graduate Student

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

Position: Ph.D. student

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.

Position: Life Science Research Professional 2 (LSRP2)

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

Position: Postdoctoral Fellow

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.

Position: Postdoc

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.

Position: Postdoctoral Fellow

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

Position: Life Science Research Technician II

Aaron TAN Tze Kai B.Sc

Position: Ph.D. Student in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine

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

Position: Administrative Assistant/ Office Manager shamac@stanford.edu

Polly Kavanaugh, CPPS

Position: Lab Services Manager

Antonio Delgado González, Ph.D.

Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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

Position: Postdoctoral Fellow

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.

Position: Life Science Research Professional

Salil Bhate, BA MMath

Position: Graduate student, coadvised by Professor Stanley Qi

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.

Position: Postdoctoral Fellow

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.

Position: Instructor, Pediatrics – Immunology and Allergy Clinical focus : Allergy and Immunology

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

Neda H. B. Ph.D.

Position: Postdoctoral Fellow