Welcome to The Rangan Lab!

PRASHANTH RANGAN, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

prashanth.rangan@mssm.edu

Prash got his undergraduate engineering degree in Industrial Biotechnology in India. While pursuing his undergraduate degree, he spent a summer rotation working in a virology lab which left an indelible mark. His work that summer focused on understanding the contribution of RNA structures to retroviral infections. He decided to pursue graduate studies working on viruses and RNA. But while attending graduate school, he was introduced to the book "The RNA World." Reading that book completely opened his eyes to the role of RNA in the origin of life and broadened his perspective. For his PhD., he studied how RNA folds to attain its final structure an important determinant for its function. For his Post-Doctorate fellowship, he chose to work on the germline, where it is known that RNA regulation plays a pivotal role. His lab works on RNA and chromatin regulation in the germline.

julia tang

julia.tang@mssm.edu

Julia graduated from the University of Rochester with her B.S in Biological Sciences. She joined the Rangan Lab in 2023 as a research associate, and she hopes to continue her career onto the MD route. Julia likes to work out and paint.

Lina Park

seojin.park@mssm.edu

Lina joined the Rangan Lab in 2023 as a Research Associate. She graduated from New York University with her B.S. in biomolecular science. She hopes to continue her career onto MD route. Lina likes to explore cafes in Manhattan and do cover dances.

Shruti venkat

M.S in Biology at Johns Hopkins Univeristy

shruti.venkat@icahn.mssm.edu

Shruti completed her undergraduate degree in India, following which she pursued a master’s degree at Johns Hopkins University. While there, she worked with fruit flies and fell in love with developmental biology. She joined the Rangan lab at Mount Sinai in Spring 2022 as a Ph.D. student to continue studying her two favorite things. Currently, she is working to uncover the regulation of nuclear pore complexes during Drosophila oogenesis.

Anu Ramamoorthy

BSc Honours (Highest Distinction) in Life Sciences from Yale-NUS College, Singapore

anupriya.ramamoorthy@icahn.mssm.edu

Anu joined the Rangan Lab at Mount Sinai as a PhD student in Summer 2023. She comes from Singapore, where she previously did stem cell and aging research in the lab of Nicholas Tolwinski. She is currently investigating cytoplasmic reprogramming during oocyte specification, with a focus on ribosome turnover. Outside of the lab, Anu loves playing board games, petting every dog she meets, and making her world-famous (not really) banana bread.

Kahini Sarkar

M.S. in Microbiology from University of Culcutta, India

ksarkar2@albany.edu//kahini.sarkar@mssm.edu

Kahini has joined the Rangan Lab in Spring 2018 as a first year graduate student. She is studying germline stem cell differentiation in Drosophila. Apart from singing and painting, she loves to read story books and watch animations. Sheldon, Hosseini, Larsson and Ray are among her favorites. One day she hopes to have her own library.

Noor kotb

B.S in Cell and Molecular Biology from The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY

nkotb@albany.edu

Noor joined the Rangan Lab in Spring 2019 as a first year graduate student. Noor is from the Biomedical Sciences department at UAlbany. She studies the role of a transcription factor during germline stem cell differentiation. Noor enjoys eating sushi, politics and reading the news.

Samuel Batista

Samuel is a student from Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics, where he was connected to the Lloyd Sherman Scholars Program at the Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The program is a two year course, with the first year being a biotechnology course in his Junior year, and the second year being a lab placement in the Rangan Lab starting in the summer and continuing through his Senior year.

Jennifer wong-Deyrup, PH.D.

Senior Research Scientist at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Katarina Tlucková

Post-doc Fellow at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria’s Bernecky Lab

Ryan Palumbo

Post-doc Associate at Upstate Medical University

Patrick Blatt

Scientist in Quality Control, Virology-Development at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

pooja flora

Post-doc Fellow at Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai’s Ezhkova Lab

Alicia McCarthy

Associate Support Scientist at 10x Genomics

Elliot martin

Ph.D received from MCDN Program, Employee at SOHPiA GENETICS

Maitreyi upadhyay

Preceptor at Harvard University (Department of Stem cell and Regenerative Biology)

https://hscrb.harvard.edu/people/mity-upadhyay/

Shane Breznak

Scientist at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

ian rapisarda

D.O. student at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine