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Faculty & Leadership Members

Richard Carthew

Richard Carthew

Center Director
Leadership Council Member

William Kath

William Kath

Center Co-Director
Leadership Council Member

Antonio Auffinger

Antonio Auffinger

Center Investigator
Leadership Council Member

Rosemary Braun

Rosemary Braun

Center Investigator
Leadership Council Member

Bennett Goldberg

Bennett Goldberg

Education Director
Leadership Council Member

Carole LaBonne

Carole LaBonne

Center Investigator
Leadership Council Member

Cody FitzGerald, Fellows Representative

Cody FitzGerald

Fellows Representative
Leadership Council Member

NSF-Simons Fellows

Joel Dokmegang

Joel Dokmegang

NSF-Simons Fellow 2021-2023
Office: Tech, Room M441
Phone: 1 847 491 4398

Cody FitzGerald

Cody FitzGerald

NSF-Simons Fellow 2021-2023
cody.fitzgerald@northwestern.edu
Office: Tech, Room M441
Phone: 1 847 491 4398

Dominic Skinner

Dominic Skinner

NSF-Simons Fellow 2022-2024
Office: Tech, Room M441
Phone: 1 847 491 4398

Center Scholars

Andre Archer

Andre Archer, Affiliated Graduate Student

Eliza Duvall

Eliza Duvall, Graduate Student

Daniel Fletcher

Daniel Fletcher, Graduate Student

Yitong (Pepper) Huang

Yitong (Pepper) Huang, Postdoctoral Fellow

Paul Huber

Paul Huber, Postdoctoral Fellow

Kristin Johnson

Kristin Johnson, Graduate Student

Andrew Liu

Andrew Liu, Graduate Student

Jiahui Liu

Jiahui Liu, Postdoctoral Fellow

Siqi Liu

Siqi Liu, Graduate Student

Yanyan Lu

Yanyan Lu, Postdoctoral Fellow

Andrew Montequin

Andrew Montequin, Affiliated Graduate Student

Connor Puritz

Connor Puritz, Graduate Student

Sara Rigney

Sara Rigney, Affiliated Graduate Student

Clark Rosensweig

Clark Rosensweig, Postdoctoral Fellow

Bingxian Xu

Bingxian Xu, Graduate Student

Gaotian Zhang

Gaotian Zhang, Postdoctoral Fellow

Ziyu Zhao

Ziyu Zhao, Graduate Student

Pilot Project Investigators

Alexandria Volkening

Alexandria Volkening

Mathematical Scientist
Purdue University
Project: A biomathematical approach to meristem formation in fern gametophytes
Funded Year 05

Yun Zhou

Yun Zhou

Life Scientist
Purdue University
Project: A biomathematical approach to meristem formation in fern gametophytes
Funded Year 05

Joseph Larkin

Joseph Larkin

Life Scientist
Boston University
Project: Collective Behavior and Pattern Formation in Bacteria
Funded Year 05

Andrew Mugler

Andrew Mugler

Mathematical Scientist
University of Pittsburgh
Project: Collective Behavior and Pattern Formation in Bacteria
Funded Year 05

Kathleen Foster

Kathleen Foster

Life Scientist
Ball State University
Project: Quantify how morphology and locomotor biomechanics change during growth
Funded Year 04

Alessandro Selvitella

Alessandro Selvitella

Mathematical Scientist
Purdue University Fort Wayne
Project: Quantify how morphology and locomotor biomechanics change during growth
Funded Year 04

Hojoon Lee

Hojoon Lee

Biological Scientist
Northwestern University
Project: Mapping the Transcriptional Path of Taste Cell Specification
Funded Year 04

István Kovács

István Kovács

Mathematical Scientist
Northwestern University
Project: Mapping the Transcriptional Path of Taste Cell Specification
Funded Year 04

William M. Brieher

William M. Brieher

Life Scientist
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Project: Mammalian epithelial cell sheets: mechanical stability and structural dynamics
Funded Year 03

Sasha Hilgenfeldt

Sasha Hilgenfeldt

Mathematical Scientiat
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Project: Mammalian epithelial cell sheets: mechanical stability and structural dynamics
Funded Year 03

Jeremiah Zartman

Jeremiah Zartman

Life Scientist
University of Notre Dame
Project: Mapping morphogens to tissue shape through surrogate models and optimization of model-based design of experiments
Funded Year 03

Alexander Dowling

Alexander Dowling

Mathematical Scientist
University of Notre Dame
Project: Mapping morphogens to tissue shape through surrogate models and optimization of model-based design of experiments
Funded Year 03

 Jie Liang

Jie Liang

Mathematical Scientist
University of Illinois Chicago
Project: Quantitative Pattern Recognition and Behavior Prediction of Olfactory Neurogenesis
Funded Year 02

Ankur Saxena

Ankur Saxena

Life Scientist
University of Illinois Chicago
Project: Quantitative Pattern Recognition and Behavior Prediction of Olfactory Neurogenesis
Funded Year 02

Jianping Fu

Jianping Fu

Life Scientist
University of Michigan
Project: Mechanical Regulation of Fate Patterning in Human Pluripotent Stem
Cell Colonies
Funded Year 02

David Lubensky

David Lubensky

Mathematical Scientist
University of Michigan
Project: Mechanical Regulation of Fate Patterning in Human Pluripotent Stem
Cell Colonies
Funded Year 02

Madhav Mani

Madhav Mani

Mathematical Scientist
Northwestern University
Project: Adult Regeneration and the Formation of Cartesian Tissue Axes
Funded Year 01

Christian Petersen

Christian Petersen

Life Scientist
Northwestern University
Project: Adult Regeneration and the Formation of Cartesian Tissue Axes
Funded Year 01

Xin Li

Xin Li

Life Scientist
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Project: Computational Reconstruction of Gene-Gene Dynamics in Temporal Patterning of Drosophila Medulla Neuroblasts from Single-Cell RNA-Seq
Funded Year 01

Dave Sihai Zhao

Dave Sihai Zhao

Mathematical Scientist
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Project: Computational Reconstruction of Gene-Gene Dynamics in Temporal Patterning of Drosophila Medulla Neuroblasts from Single-Cell RNA-Seq
Funded Year 01

Center Staff

Tim Bisantz

Tim Bisantz, Program Administrator

Ginger Gilmore

Ginger Gilmore, Business Administrator

Michele McDonough

Michele McDonough, Research Administration

Program Evaluation Staff

Caroline Freitag

Caroline Freitag

Evaluation Research Project Coordinator
caroline.freitag@northwestern.edu
Office: Pancoe 3113
Phone: 847 467 0389

Science Club Outreach Staff

External Advisory Board

Internal Advisory Board

Alumni

Vasyl Alba

Vasyl Alba, Postdoctoral Fellow Alumnus

Rachael Bakker

Rachael Bakker, Graduate Student Alumnus

Postdoctoral Scholar, Subramaniam Group, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Sebastian Bernasek

Sebastian Bernasek, Graduate Student Alumnus

Scientific Computing Engineer, Emerald Cloud Lab

Jonathan Desponds

Jonathan Desponds, NSF-Simons Fellow Alumnus

Health Data Hub, France

Kathyrn (Katie) Evans

Kathyrn (Katie) Evans, Graduate Student Alumnus

Data Scientist, Precision Biosciences

Simon Freedman

Simon Freedman, Postdoctoral Fellow Alumnus

Bioinformatics Scientist, Illumina

Kevin Gallagher

Kevin Gallagher, Graduate Student Alumnus

Scientist, NeoGenomics

Ritika Giri

Ritika Giri, Affiliated Graduate Student Alumnus

Postdoctoral Scholar, Amaral Group, Northwestern University

Marta Iwanaszko

Marta Iwanaszko, Postdoctoral Scholar Alumus

Research Assistant Professor, Northwestern University

Ashika-Sita Jayanthy

Ashika-Sita Jayanthy, Postdoctoral Fellow Alumnus

Computational Biologist

Eric Johnson

Eric Johnson, Graduate Student Alumnus

Postdoctoral Scholar, Northwestern University

Keren Li

Keren Li, Postdoctoral Fellow Alumnus

Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Elan Ness-Cohn

Elan Ness-Cohn, Graduate Student Alumnus

Entrepreneurial Fellow, Chicago Biomedical Consortium

Joy Nyaanga

Joy Nyaanga, Graduate Student Alumnus

Bioinformaticist, Northwestern University

Anjali Rao

Anjali Rao, Graduate Student Alumnus

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Computational Medicine, NYU Langone

Sumit Saurabh

Sumit Saurabh, Postdoctoral Fellow Alumus

Teaching Faculty and Postdoctoral Associate, Loyola University – Chicago

Sasha Shirman

Sasha Shirman, Postdoctoral Scholar Alumnus

Senior Scientist at Applied BioMath

Alexandria Volkening

Alexandria Volkening, NSF-Simons Fellow Alumus

Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University

B Kell

B Kell, Visiting Scholar Alumnus

Graduate Student, University of Toronto

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