Anthony Vecchiarelli (ave@umich.edu)
Principal Investigator
HBSc & PhD: University of Toronto, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (Advisor: Dr. Barbara Funnell)
Postdoc: National Institutes of Health (Advisor: Dr. Kiyoshi Mizuuchi) Nancy Nossal Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Y Hoang (hoangy@umich.edu)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Hoang received her PhD in Microbiology & Molecular Genetics with Dr. Lee Kroos at Michigan State University.
Research Focus: phase separation in bacteria.
Dr. Hema Swasthi (hswas@umich.edu)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Swasthi received her PhD working on IDPs with Dr. Samrat Mukhopadhyay at IISER Mohali
Research Focus: Biochemical characterization of the carboxysome positioning proteins, McdA and McdB
Claudia Mak (makca@umich.edu)
Graduate Student (Biochem) – Started 2021
BA: Biochemistry – Skidmore College
Research Focus: Carboxysome organization by McdAB systems in bacteria.
Claire Dudley (dudleyc@umich.edu)
Graduate Student (MCDB) – Started 2022
MSc: MCDB Master’s Pathways – University of Michigan
BSc: Biology – Saint Lawrence University
Research Focus: Carboxysome organization in cyanobacteria.
Jordan Byrne (jxbyrne@umich.edu)
Graduate Student (MCDB) – Started 2022
BSc: Microbiology – University of Georgia
Research Focus: How does the McdB adaptor protein connect the carboxysome to its positioning ATPase
Rachelle Baumann (baumannr@umich.edu)
Graduate Student (Biochem) – Started 2023
BSc: Biochemistry – Grand Valley State University
Research Focus: How does the McdB adaptor protein connect to the carboxysome
Jessica Panchaud (jesspan@umich.edu)
Graduate Student (MCDB) – Started 2023
BSc: Cell and Molecular Biology – Spring Arbor University
Research Focus: TBD
Rachel Dow (rdow@umich.edu)
Lab Technician
BSc: Microbiology – University of Michigan
Research Focus: Engineering spatial control of protein-based organelles in bacteria
Vecchiarelli Lab 2023
Vecchiarelli lab 2022
Vecchiarelli lab 2021
Vecchiarelli lab 2020
Vecchiarelli lab 2019
Vecchiarelli lab 2018
Rotation Students
2016 – 2017: Ce Wang
2017 – 2018: Candilianne Serrano Zayas, Lotte Van den Goor, Ritvija Agrawal
2018-2019: Malak Bazzi
2019 – 2020: Christian Kelly, Christopher Azaldegui
2020 – 2021: Keerthikka Ravi
2021 – 2022: Holly Scheer, Carla Peralta
2022 – 2023: Claire Albright, Katherine Wentworth
2023 – 2024: Kimberly Edicha, Tyler Brant, Alice Youle
Alumni
2023 – Joseph Basalla (MCDB) – 3rd PhD Student (Now a Postdoc in Dr. Banerjee‘s – Department of Physics – University at Buffalo SUNY)
2022 – Lisa Tran Pulianmackal (Micro/Imm) – 2nd PhD Student (Now a Postdoc in Dr. Beth Winger’s Lab – UCSF)
2021 – Pusparanee Anne Hakim (MCDB) – 1st PhD Student (Now a Senior Research Specialist in Dr. Luke Chao’s Lab – Harvard Medical School)
2020 – Joshua MacCready – Michigan Life Sciences Fellow (Postdoc) (Group Leader at the DOE’S CCBC at MSU)
Undergraduate Alumni
2024 – May Yang – Work-study student
2023 – Maria Ghalmi – Work-study turned technician (Went to law school at Case Western)
2021 – Sinyu Yang – Work-study and Honors Thesis Student (Went to Wayne State Medical School)
2020 – Jeffery Zhang – Work-study and NSF Research Experience Undergraduate
2020 – Jesus Galvez – UROP student
2018 – 2020 – Rees Rillema (MCDB) – Masters Pathways (Went on to PhD program at MSU)
2019 – Molly Cavanaugh – Undergrad Volunteer
2017 – 2018 Brice Calco – 4th year – Thesis Student (Went on to an IRTA at the NIH)
2017 – 2018 Avery Liu – Work-study student (Went on to work with Teach for America)
2017 – 2018 Jessica Zhang – 3rd Year Thesis Student (Went on to PhD with Christine Jacobs-Wagner at Stanford)
2017 – 2018 Ian Lemersal – 2nd Year UROP Student (Went on to Summer Research with Susan Golden at UCSF)
