Lab Members

Primary Investigator

Anuj Kumar
Professor, Dept. of MCDB
Associate Chair, Dept. of MCDB
Chair of Undergraduate Curriculum, Dept. of MCDB
Executive Board, Rackham Graduate School, UM

E-mail: anujk@umich.edu

Fuzzy Friends (Recent)

Hank
Hank was a happy and very friendly Shih-Tzu mix from the Humane Society who enjoyed long walks, food, human company, and food.

Spike
Spike was a very cute and intelligent cat who just happened along one night. He enjoyed cat toys, food, and the finer things in life.

Lab Members Past and Present

Josh Bauman
Josh is a Research Lab Tech Associate who joined the lab in 2022. He has contributed to several projects addressing AMPK signaling, cell growth, and amyloid biology.

Hunter Lischwe Mueller
Hunter is a Master’s student who joined the lab in 2022. While completing his degree, Hunter is studying the MAPK signaling network and its regulation of second messengers in yeast.

Tanvi Dongaonkar
Tanvi is an undergraduate student here at Michigan helping us with research in the laboratory.

Anton Mahama
Anton is a Visiting Scholar who is studying cell growth and signaling responses to nutrient stress.

Dr. Stuart Decker (Visiting Scholar)

Shriya Das (Undergraduate Researcher)

Dr. Sham Sunder Sharma (Research Lab Specialist Intermediate)

Alexandra Lifton (Undergraduate Researcher)

Heather Gregg (M.S., MCDB)

Angela Hsu (Undergraduate Researcher)

Han Seol Jeong (Undergraduate Researcher)

Kaitlyn Norman (Ph.D., MCDB)

Nebibe Mutlu (Ph.D., MCDB)

Amberlene De La Rocha (M.S., MCDB)

Brett Morris (M.S., MCDB)

Daniel Shiedy (Ph.D., MCDB)

Eric Cosky (M.S., MCDB)

Brooke Horton (M.S., CMB)

Cole Johnson (Ph.D., MCDB)

Christian Shively (Ph.D., MCDB)

Andrew Schuler (Undergraduate Researcher)

Dr. Tao Xu (Postdoctoral Researcher)

Ryan Marina (Undergraduate Researcher)

Qingxuan Song (Ph.D., MCDB)

Matthew Eckwahl (Research Associate)

Sarah Lawson Gemberling (Undergraduate Researcher)

Xuefeng Zhang (M.S., MCDB)

Prasanthi Geda (M.S., MCDB)

Nike Bharucha (Ph.D., MCDB)

Jun Ma (Ph.D., MCDB)

Phil McCown (M.S., MCDB)

Andrew Benjamin (Undergraduate Researcher)

Rui Jin (M.S., MCDB)

Craig J. Dobry (Research Associate)