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Meet the Team

Our team is composed of interdisciplinary scientists with expertise in virology, synthetic biology, biochemistry, molecular genetics, and bioinformatics

Shira Weingarten-Gabbay, Ph.D.

Head of the Laboratory of Systems Virology

Assistant Professor of Microbiology,

Harvard Medical School

Associate Member, The Broad Institute

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Jessie Kaplan-Bie

Lab Manager and Research Associate

BA | Environmental Science and Philosophy, Juniata College

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Allie Stanton, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow​​

PhD | Virology, Harvard University 

(Thesis Lab: Pardis Sabeti)

BS | Biology and Mathematics, MIT

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Jenny Seo, Ph.D.

LSRF Postdoctoral Fellow​

PhD | Biological Sciences, Seoul National University (Thesis Lab: V. Narry Kim)

BS | Biological Sciences and Statistics, Seoul National University

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Yaarit Kitsberg, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow​

PhD | Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute (Thesis Lab: Noam Stern-Ginossar)

MS | Agriculture, Hebrew University

BS | Agriculture, Hebrew University

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Ziyan Liang

Graduate Student, Virology Program

MS | Biotechnology, Northwestern University

BS | Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University

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Tristen Franklin

Research Associate

BA | Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Rutgers University

The Weingarten Lab

Department of Microbiology 

Harvard Medical School

New Research Building (NRB), room 938​

77 Avenue Louis Pasteur

​Boston, MA 02115

© 2023 By Shira Weingarten-Gabbay

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