Our team is a community, and we expect community members to contribute to a friendly, safe, equitable, and welcoming environment. Everyone agrees to (1) maintain a collaborative atmosphere and learn from one another, (2) treat one another with respect, combat discrimination, and ensure that people of (including but not limited to) all races, gender-identities, national origins, ethnicities, religions, citizen statuses, ages, sexual orientations, ability statuses, physical appearances, and socioeconomic statuses are and feel equally welcome and valued, and (3) stand up for one another in the face of bias, harassment, discrimination. We agree to communicate about failures in these commitments, either directly and/or through ASU’s reporting mechanism.
Noah’s job is to help everyone on his team achieve their goals. His research focuses on how the social and physical environment shapes the way we age, intergrating genomics, immunology, and field-based behavioral observations. He is committed to an equitable and inclusive research environment.
Beth ensures that the lab runs smoothly, assisting with safety training, ordering, equipment maintenance, and developing/improving lab protocols. Her background is in evolutionary biology and population genetics.
Ashlee helps carry out lab experiments and maintains lab equipment. She is passionate about contributing to research that explores the molecular mechanisms of aging and longevity.
Blaise is a molecular geroscientist interested in unraveling the how and why we age differently–focusing on the genetic and environmental modifiers of aging in the epigenome and transcriptome.
Baptiste is interested in the evolutionary underpinnings of aging, and more specifically in understanding variation in the pace of epigenetic and physiological aging within and across individuals.
Elliot is studying if and how aging impacts cell composition and cell-specific gene regulation in the brain using single-nucleus RNA sequencing.
Kelsi is studying what factors affect how brains age at the molecular level–leveraging single-nucleus RNA sequencing data.
Cam is working on understanding how environmental and social factors influence aging and healthspan in nonhuman primates.
Brooklynn is studying the population genetics of gelada monkeys in order to understand the evolution of novel karyotypes and uncover mechanisms of high altitude adaptation.
A wildlife ecologist focusing on the disease ecology and population dynamics of the critically endangered Walia Ibex in Ethiopia, advised by Dr. India Schneider-Crease and Dr. Snyder-Mackler.
| Who | What | When | Where are they now? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brianah McCoy | PhD Student | 2020-2025 | Postdoc @ the Carolina Population Center |
| Christine Adjangba | Research Technician | 2022-2024 | Researcher, Columbia University |
| Kenny Chiou | Postdoc | 2017-2024 | Asst. Prof, Biology, UAB |
| Mitchell Sanchez Rosado | PhD Student | 2018-2024 | Researcher, Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals |
| Layla Brassington | MSc Student | 2020-2023 | PhD student in the Lea Lab @ Vanderbilt |
| Sarah van Dijk | Research Technician | 2022-2023 | PhD student in Immunology @ UCSD |
| Corbin Johnson | PhD Student | 2017-2022 | Postdoc in the Jayadev Lab @ UW |
| Marina Watowich | PhD Student | 2017-2022 | Postdoc in the Lea Lab @ Vanderbilt |
| Alice Baniel | Postdoc | 2017-2022 | Researcher at Montpellier, France |
| India Schneider-Crease | Postdoc | 2017-2022 | Asst. Prof. @ ASU https://wildworms.org/ |
| Trisha Zintel | Postdoc | 2020-2022 | Bioinformatics Engineer @ Sage Bionetworks |
| Marta Koperska | Research Technician | 2022 | PhD Student @ Wake Forest University |
| Sarah Ford | Research Scientist | 2020-2022 | Lab Manager, Shapiro Lab, UCSC |
| Viktoria Usova | Lab Technician | 2019-2020 | |
| Sierra Sams | Lab Manager | 2017-2019 | Associate Genomics Solutions Specialist; Roche |
| Arianne Mercer | Lab Technician | 2019 | |
| Grace DeCastro | Lab Technician | 2018-2019 | Research Techician at Benaroya Research Institute |