CUCINOTTA LAB
Miranda Prince
​Miranda is our amazing lab manager and 3D printing expert. She is helping us distinguish quiescent cells moving from one state to another
Dr. Komal Pekhale
Dr. Pekhale is our expert on basically everything! Her main focus is on quiescence and neurodegenerative diseases
Alex Antoncic
Alex is a senior MolGen student working with Victoria to uncover roles for a quiescence-exit specific transcription factor.
Hero Dessalange
Hero is a sophomore Biology major whose focus in the lab is on factors involved in transcription initiation in neural stem cells.
Emily Vais
Emily is a senior MolGen student focusing on BAF complexes in neural stem cells.
Ciena Sakamoto
Ciena is a junior Neuroscience student who is investigating chromatin dynamics during the first S phase out of quiescence.
Evelyn Onga
Evelyn is a second-year graduate student who is investigating chromatin remodeling complexes and subcomplexes and their cell state-specific functions.
Victoria Mabatah
Victoria is a sophomore MolGen student working with Alex on specific transcription factors involved in quiescence exit.
Christine Cucinotta
Christine earned her PhD at the University of Pittsburgh with Karen Arndt and completed her postdoctoral training at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center with Toshi Tsukiyama.