Team members: The people working in the Cancer Ecology Center are dedicating to understanding the ecology of cancer, how cancer metastasizes and developing new therapies for patients suffering from cancer.
Laurie Kostecka
Ph.D. candidate, CMM
Mikaela Mallin
Ph.D. candidate, CMM
Anna Gonye
Ph.D. candidate, CMM
Elizabeth Ferrer is a graduate student in Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences. She is study how cancer cells react to stress and access the PolyAneuploid Cancer cell state.
George Butler is a postdoctoral fellow in the Cancer Ecology Center. He is utilizing his computational modeling skills to study how bacteria and PACCs acquire therapeutic resistance.
Anna Gonye is a student in the Cellular and Molecular Medicine Program. She is studying how Polyaneuploid cancer cells generate progeny at metastatic sites as well as after cancer treatment.
Chi-Ju Kim is a postdoctoral fellow in the Cancer Ecology Center. He is working on the nuclear structure of PACCs, the life history of PACCs, and the role of extracellular vesicles (EVs) in tumorigenesis.
Laurie Kostecka: Laurie is a graduate student in Cellular and Molecular Medicine (CMM) and is pursuing her PhD in the Cancer Ecology Center. She is working on understanding the role of Poly-aneuploid cancer cells in tumorigenesis.
Diane LaBuda is our Cancer Ecology Center administrator. She keeps everything running smoothly! Contact her at dlabuda@jhmi.edu
Bryan Lee is a post-doctoral fellow in the Cancer Ecology Center. He is studying the control of RNA expression in cancer cells that are in the PACC state.
Melvin Li is a graduate student in the Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences Program. He is studying the role of the PACC state in cancer cell survival of stress.
Luke Loftus is a graduate student in the Cellular and Molecular Medicine Program. He is developing therapeutic strategies to eliminate Polyaneuploid Cancer Cells
Michael Loycano is a Cellular and Molecular Medicine graduate student. He is studying the cell cycle regulation and the biology of the Poly-Aneuploid Cancer Cell state.
Mikaela Mallin is a graduate student in the Cellular and Molecular Medicine Program. She is studying the role of Poly-Aneuploid Cancer Cells as actuators of cancer resistance and metastasis.
Sabrina Mendez is a technician in the Cancer Ecology Center who is studying the role of hypoxia in inducing PACC formation.
Shilpa Nair is a technician in the laboratory, supporting the graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in developing targets for polyaneuploid cancer cell state directed therapy.
Kevin Truskowski is a graduate student in the Cellular and Molecular Medicine Program. He is studying the mechanisms by which Polyaneuploid Cancer Cells stay dormant to hide from stress.
Maggie Yang is an undergraduate student at Johns Hopkins University. She is studying the role of c1orf116 in prostate cancer tumorigenesis and metastasis.