Current PostBac Researchers

Jackson Appelt is a graduate of the University of Virginia. His research focuses on the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying joint Tenosynovial Giant Cell tumors in the laboratory of Dr. Laura Donlin.

Erin Berube graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Biomedical Engineering. She works with Dr. Carl Imhauser in the Biomechanics Department, were she studies knee joint stability. Her current research focuses on understanding how knee laxity, bony morphology, and quantitative MRI measurements relate to risk of ACL injury and ACL graft healing. She has also studied the effects of surgical decision making on knee laxity in total knee arthroplasty (TKA).

Gabriel Cuilan is a graduate of Bowdoin College. His research focuses on the molecular and cellular mechanism of osteoblast activity under genetic differentiation as well as potential genetic markers for specific populations of osteoprogenitor cells within bone and muscle in the laboratory of Dr. Ugur Ayturk.

Mary Huang graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is studying "Inflammation-mediated signal transduction crosstalk between cytokines in monocytes" in the laboratory of Dr. Lionel Ivashkiv.

Aahna Rathod is a graduate of The College of New Jersey. Her research is focused on immune system responses in systemic lupus and the role of the vascular-stromal environment in skin photosensitivity to UV rays in the laboratory of Dr. Theresa Lu.

Claude Regis is a graduate of Stony Brook University.  He works with Dr. Carl Imhauser in the Biomechanics Department, where he studies knee joint stability. His current study involves obtaining objective knee laxity data with a novel knee tester and seeing how that relates to patient reported outcomes. He is also working on retrospective studies with Dr. Brian Chalmers in the Adult Reconstruction and Joint Replacement department.

Melissa (Missy) Romoff is a graduate of Northwestern University. Her research focuses on "Investigating the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying joint Tenosynovial Giant Cell Tumors" in the laboratory of Dr. Laura Donlin. 

Ketsia Seide is a graduate of Hunter College, City University of New York. She is studying “Transcriptional and epigenomic processes that control inflammatory gene expression in macrophages and in vivo” in the laboratory of Dr. Inez Rogatsky.

Andrew Thomson is a graduate of Boston College. His research focuses on “The role of LEPR in arthroplasty-related fibrous integration” in the laboratory of Dr. Mathias Bostrom.

Stephen Vulcano is a graduate of James Madison University and Temple University. His research is focused on "ABC-mediated networks controlling autoimmunity and musculoskeletal diseases” in the laboratory of Dr. Alessandra Pernis.