Current Lab Members
Tatianna (Tasha) Larman, MD
Dr. Larman (Principal Investigator) is a physician-scientist passionate about bridging the worlds of anatomic pathology and cell biology. She earned her B.A. from Harvard University and her M.D. from the University of California San Diego. During medical school, she spent two additional years as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Medical Fellow in the Harvard Medical School Department of Genetics, studying somatic mitochondrial DNA mutations in human cancer. She completed both anatomic pathology residency and GI/Liver Pathology fellowship training at Johns Hopkins, during which she spent an additional year as a postdoctoral fellow in the Rong Li laboratory in the Department of Cell Biology. Her scientific/medical heroes and former mentors include Judah Folkman, John Mulliken, and Farish Jenkins.
Maged Zeineldin, MD PhD
Dr. Zeineldin (Research Associate) is a geneticist and molecular biologist who earned his medical degree from the Alexandria University School of Medicine and his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology program. Under the mentorship of Dr. Kristi Neufeld, his doctoral work focused on APC biology in the context of colon cancer pathogenesis. His postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Dr. Michael Dyer (Developmental Neurobiology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) investigated pediatric neuroblastoma. In the Dyer lab, he discovered the mutual exclusivity of MYCN oncogene amplification and inactivation of the ATRX tumor suppressor, exploring how to exploit this synthetic lethality therapeutically. Dr. Zeineldin's main projects focus on normal colon epithelial responses to inflammation and hypoxia and how these responses may facilitate neoplastic transformation.
Tianhao Bi, MS
Tianhao (Doctoral Candidate) earned his bachelor's degree from Tianjin University and his master's degree from Johns Hopkins University (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2022). His master's degree project developed a method quantify aneuploidy using centromere imaging. His doctoral research currently focuses on nucleolar biology and dynamics across the normal-inflamed-neoplastic spectrum.
Varuni Rastogi, MS
Varuni (Research Technologist) earned her bachelor's degree from the DY Patil University School of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics and her master's degree from Johns Hopkins University (Biotechnology, 2023).
Lab alumni
Tiane Chen, MD PhD
AP/CP residency training, Penn State Hershey Medical Center
Lina Choi, MS
Medical student, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
Reem Abu-Shamma, MS
PhD candidate, Yale University