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Rich Binari

Rich Binari, Ph.D.

Lab Manager
I earned a B.S. in Biology from the University of Notre Dame, and subsequently completed a Ph.D. in Genetics from Harvard University in the laboratory of Norbert Perrimon, where my graduate work consisted of a molecular and phenotypic analysis of two genes involved in segmentation of the Drosophila embryo. After a postdoctoral interlude in the laboratory of Armen Manoukian at the Ontario Cancer Institute studying the role of heparin sulfate proteoglycans in embryonic development in Drosophila, I returned to the Perrimon lab. I am currently working on projects to determine the functions of miRNAs during development, and to generate new tools for lineage analysis.
Adam Carte, PhD

Adam Carte, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Adam was born and raised in rural Southern West Virginia and went on to study biochemistry at West Virginia University (WVU), where he graduated summa cum laude in 2014. He received his PhD from Harvard’s Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology Graduate Program in May 2022 but spent much of his last 2.5 years of graduate training in Switzerland as a visiting student at the University of Basel’s Biozentrum. During his PhD work in the lab of Dr. Alexander Schier, Adam paired quantitative microscopy with zebrafish to learn more about the generation and interpretation of signaling gradients in developing vertebrate embryos. Motivated by an interest in the molecular/cellular biology that occurs at the interface of organisms and their environments, Adam joined the Perrimon Lab as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with hopes to leverage the power of Drosophila genetics to learn more about the genetic and molecular basis of insect-bacteria endosymbiotic partnerships.

adam_carte@hms.harvard.edu
Po-Lin Chen, Postdoctoral Fellow

Po-Lin Chen, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow
I received my PhD from the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology at National Taiwan University under the supervision by Dr. Chun-Hong Chen. My doctoral work was investigating mitochondrial dynamics during aging. In the Perrimon Lab, I am interested in how mitochondrial function regulated in Drosophila gut tumor model.
po-lin_chen@hms.harvard.edu
Myeonghoon Han, Ph.D.

Myeonghoon Han, Ph.D

Postdoctoral Fellow
I received my Ph.D. from DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology) under the supervision of Dr. Sung Bae Lee, where I studied the pathogenic mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases. In the Perrimon lab, I am interested in revealing novel function of secreted proteins and their associated receptors.
myeonghoon_han@hms.harvard.edu
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Kerui Huang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

I earned my B.S. in Molecular Genetics from the University of Toronto, where I worked with Dr. Julie Brill on the phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) regulation on spermatogenesis using Drosophila. I earned my Ph.D. from Dr. Hua Bai's lab at Iowa State University, where I focused on hepatocyte-like cells (oenocytes) in fruit flies, and their regulatory roles on cardiac health during oxidative stress and aging. In Perrimon's lab, I am specifically interested in how oenocytes regulate whole-body metabolism under normal or stressed conditions.

kerui_huang@hms.harvard.edu
Ah-Ram Kim

Ah-Ram Kim, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

I received my Ph.D at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Techonology) in Prof. Kwang-Wook Choi's lab. In his lab, I studied the regulation of Angiotensin-converting enzyme gene expression during Drosophila development, showing that expression of Angiotensin-converting enzyme is regulated by Mad and Pannier, which regulation is also conserved in human. In addition, I found the interaction between chaperonin function and insulin/TOR signaling in Drosophila. 

ah-ram_kim@hms.harvard.edu
Liz Lane

Liz Lane, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

I received my Ph.D in Biological and Biomedical Sciences from Harvard University. I did my thesis work in the lab of Nika Danial where I studied how the liver senses and responds to nutrients like glucose. In the Perrimon lab I am interested in exploring how the gut can sense the environment and regulate systemic metabolism in response to it.

liz_lane@hms.harvard.edu
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Joshua Li, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow
I received my PhD from the University of Queensland, Australia in 2018. In Dr. Sean Millard’s lab, I studied the function and regulation of Drosophila Dscam2 alternative splicing.  In the Perrimon Lab, I am interested in understanding the gene regulatory networks that define stem cell states.
joshua_li@hms.harvard.edu
Ying Liu

Ying Liu, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow
I received my Ph.D. in the lab of Dr. Ville Hietakangas at the University of Helsinki in Finland, where I investigated transcriptional regulators involved in nutrient-dependent growth control. In the Perrimon lab, I am interested in exploring the crosstalk between diets and tumor using Drosophila gut tumor model.
ying_liu@hms.harvard.edu
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Enzo Mameli, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

I hold a BSc in biotechnologies from the University of Sassari and an MSc in medical biotechnologies from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. For my PhD, I received training from both the University of Perugia and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health under the guidance of Dr. Flaminia Catteruccia. My research during this time focused on the molecular reproductive aspects of the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae. In the Perrimon lab, I am dedicated to optimizing the existing drosophila CRISPR-based wide-genome screening technology for direct application in mosquito cell lines. One of the primary objectives of my work is to utilize this genetic tool to unveil the intricate interactions between mosquito vectors and the viruses they transmit.

enzo_mameli@hms.harvard.edu
Sun Jin Moon, PhD

Sun Jin Moon, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow
I received my Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from MIT under supervision of Prof. Hadley Sikes and Prof. Greg Stephanopoulos. My thesis focused on quantitative understanding of compartmentalized NADPH metabolism in cancer cells. In Perrimon lab, I am interested in improving in vivo metabolic flux quantification techniques using mass spec imaging, mathematical modeling, and biosensors.
sunjin_moon@hms.harvard.edu
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Jacob Paiano, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow
I received my PhD in immunology at the University of Pennsylvania, although I completed my thesis at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. In the lab of Dr. Andre Nussenzweig, I developed next-generation sequencing methods to study DNA damage and genome integrity during cell division. In the Perrimon Lab, I am interested in studying inter-organ communication networks that coordinate organismal stress responses.
jacob_paiano@hms.harvard.edu
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Younshim Park, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

I received my Ph.D. from the University of Kansas Medical Center and conducted the research in the laboratory of Dr. Kausik Si located at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. My doctoral studies were focused on regulatory mechanisms of intron retention during long-term memory formation. In the Perrimon lab I am interested in studying the functional role of protein isoforms in different biological systems.

younshim_park@hms.harvard.edu
Afroditi Petsakou

Afroditi Petsakou, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow
I received my Ph.D. from NYU in the lab of Prof. Justin Blau, where I studied how circadian rhythms control neuronal structural plasticity. For my post-doc in the Perrimon Lab I am investigating the role of enteric neurons in intestinal regeneration.
apetsakou@genetics.med.harvard.edu