Our Team:
Faculty
Darrell Kotton, MD
David C. Seldin Professor of Medicine
Director, Center for Regenerative Medicine
dkotton at bu.edu
Konstantinos Alysandratos, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
kalysa at bu.edu
Jyh-Chang Jean, PhD
Research Assistant Professor of Medicine
Laboratory Staff
Olivia Hix
Laboratory Manager and Research Technician
Education: Wellesley College, B.A. in Biological Sciences and Japanese Language & Culture
ohix at bu.edu
Kasey Minakin
Laboratory Technician
Education: Syracuse University, B.S. in Biochemistry
kminakin at bu.edu
McKenna Montminy
Laboratory Technician
Education: Wellesley College, B.A. in Biological Sciences
mmontmin at bu.edu
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Michael Herriges, PhD
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Education: PhD, University of Pennsylania
Research Interests: Regulation of lung progenitor fates during development and after lung epithelial injuries
herriges at bu.edu
Jessie Huang, PhD
Post-Doctoral Associate
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
BSE, University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Signaling mechanisms regulating self-renewal and differentiation of alveolar type II cells
hjess at bu.edu
Sheng Si, MD
Pulmonary Fellow
Education: Residency, Washington University in Saint Louis
MD, New York University School of Medicine
BA in Neurobiology, Harvard University
Research Interests: Profiling and phenotyping Muc5B expression in iPSC derived lung epithelium
Sheng.Si at bmc.org
Andrea Alber, PhD
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Education: PhD, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Research Interests: In vitro differentiation of iPSCs towards the lung mesenchymal lineage to study lung mesenchyme development and disease
aalber at bu.edu
Alberto Posabella, MD
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Education: MD, Universita` degli studi di Pavia, Italy
Research Interests: In vitro differentiation of iPSCs towards the thyroid lineage to profile the kinetics of the entire transcriptomic program of human thyroid cells during their differentiation
aposabel at bu.edu
Hirofumi Kiyokawa, MD, PhD
Post-Doctoral Associate
Education: MD, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan
PhD, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan
Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms regulating cellular identity, plasticity and carcinogenesis of airway basal stem cells
hirofumi at bu.edu
P.J. Schnorr, MD
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Education: MD, University of Massachusetts Medical School
BA in Philosophy and Economics, Boston College
Research Interests: Macrophages role in lung injury and repair
pschnorr at bu.edu
Graduate Students
PhD Student, Program in Biomedical Sciences
Bibek Thapa
PhD student, Program in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry
Education: Colby-Sawyer College, B.A. in Biology
Research Interests: Mechanisms regulating compensatory lung regrowth in murine models following injury
brt at bu.edu