Lab Members
Kyle Eagen, Ph.D.
Haneen Ammouri
Research Technician 
Celeste Rosencrance
Research Technician 
Qi Yu, Ph.D.
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Kyle was an undergraduate at Cornell University where he received his bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences with a concentration in Biochemistry while studying the rapid chemical kinetics of neurotransmitter receptors in the lab of George Hess. He moved to California in 2008 for graduate studies at Stanford University. At Stanford, he worked with Roger Kornberg studying chromatin and chromosome structure. After completing his Ph.D. in Biophysics, Kyle began his independent career in 2017 as the inaugural Feinberg Fellow at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine within the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics. Kyle is a recipient of a 2017 NIH Director's Early Independence Award.
Haneen received her bachelor’s degree from Jordan University of Science and Technology majoring in Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology. She then obtained her master's degree from Lund University, Sweden in 2014 working on microRNAs’ effects on prostate cancer metastasis with Yvonne Ceder. In addition to her previous experiences at Lund University and the University of Chicago, focusing on zebrafish behavioral research and D. melanogaster genetics, respectively, she is taking on Hi-C related studies in an effort to answer questions indicating the roles chromatin folding plays in human disease and gene expression.
Celeste graduated with her bachelor’s degree in Biology from West Virginia University in 2015. At WVU, she worked with Amy Welsh in the Wild Genomics Lab conducting research on the genetics of fish and wildlife populations. Celeste then moved to Memphis, Tennessee to work with John Easton in the Department of Computational Biology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. There, she engaged in experiments involving single-cell RNA sequencing and processing patient samples for next-generation sequencing. Currently, she is investigating the spatial organization of chromatin by applying Hi-C to unique biological systems.
Qi received her bachelor’s degree from Jilin University. She obtained her Ph.D. at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, where she developed algorithms and statistical methods to analyze protein-protein interaction networks. She then moved to Washington, DC and completed her postdoc training at NIH in Daniel Camerini’s lab. Her research at NIH used next-generation sequencing to investigate genome instability in meiosis. Currently, she investigates genome-wide chromatin states in human diseases using integrative analysis of histone modification and Hi-C data.
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We have limited openings for highly motivated graduate students, bioinformaticians, and postdoctoral fellows
interested in problems at the intersection of chromosome folding, genomics, biochemistry, and human disease.
Interested applicants should email Kyle, including their CV and a brief description of their research interests.
interested in problems at the intersection of chromosome folding, genomics, biochemistry, and human disease.
Interested applicants should email Kyle, including their CV and a brief description of their research interests.