Team Members
Aybuke Garipcan
Postdoctoral Researcher
Crosstalk between gut epithelium and immune cells.
Charlie Chung
PhD Student
Cancer-immune cell interactions.
Kadir Ozler
Research Technician & Lab Manager
Interaction between metabolism, obesity, and diet in cancer and stem cells.
Paul Bunk
PhD Student
Interplay between cellular metabolism and immune function.
Semir Beyaz
Principal Investigator
Uncovering the precise mechanisms that link nutrition to organismal health and disease states at the cellular and molecular level.
Brian Yueh
Research Technician II
Makes organoids.
Elif Ozcelik
Visiting Undergraduate Student
Different diet's influence on tumor microenvironment immune cells.
Megan Gorman
Visiting Clinical Researcher
Development of a patient-derived orthotopic mouse models of endometrial cancers for evaluation of novel chemotherapeutics.
Santhilal Subhash
Postdoctoral Researcher
Exploring immune-cancer cell interactions by analyzing single cell sequencing data sets.
Timothy Maher
MD/PhD Student
T cell immunity, especially their role in cancer and autoimmune diseases.
Caryn Koza
Scientific Administrator
Administration, technology, funding applications, recruitment, team building, and organization.
Ilgin Ergin
PhD Student
Effects of immune cell metabolism on anti-tumor immunity.
Onur Eskiocak
PhD Student
Undercovering molecular mechanism of diet induced epigenetic memory and the role of fatty acids in stem cell activity.
Selin Saydam
Visiting Undergraduate Student
Intestinal epithelial-immune cell interactions and how they are regulated.
Vyom Shah
Visiting Undergraduate Student
Evaluating the intersection between immunology and regeneration and do so by analyzing omics data.
