People

Molly Hammell, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Molly received her Ph.D. in Physics & Astronomy from Dartmouth College in 2003. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Victor Ambros, where she studied gene regulation by small RNAs. She now runs a mixed computational and experimental lab here at CSHL to expand her studies of RNA mediated gene regulation with a particular focus on neurodegenerative disease. For this work, she was named a 2014 Rita Allen Foundation Scholar.

Ying Jin, Ph.D.

Computational Science Manager

Ying received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech in 2009, where she developed algorithms for predicting the genotype-phenotype relationship in single gene knockout studies. She currently works on many projects including the TEtoolkit, a software package for the analysis of transposon sequences in genomic and transcriptomic datasets.

Yuan Hao, Ph.D.

Computational Science Analyst

Yuan received her Ph.D. in Bioinformatics & Systems Biology from University College, Dublin, in 2012, where she identified factors that contribute to endocrine therapy resistance in breast cancer. She currently works on developing and applying novel computational tools for the analysis of genomic and transcriptomic data from large sequencing studies.

Kathryn O’Neill

Graduate StudentKat received her B.Sc. in Genetics and Genomics from the University of California, Davis in 2016 with a minor in neuroscience. She is currently an NSF fellow In the Watson School of Biological Sciences studying small RNA biology in neurodegenerative diseases like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Nikolay Rozhkov, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Nikolay received his Ph.D. in molecular biology from Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology (Russian Academy of Science) in 2011, where he studied small RNA mediated regulation of mobile genetic elements in Drosophila germ cells under the supervision of Prof. Michael Evgenev. He currently studies transposition events in mammalian neuronal cell types and their possible role in neurodegeneration.

Regina Shaw

Research TechnicianRegina joined Molly Hammell’s lab in early 2016 as a wet bench scientist. Her current focus is studying the role of retrotransposons in cell-based models of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).

Oliver Tam, Ph.D.

Computational Science Analyst

Oliver received his Ph.D. in molecular biology from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories in 2010. After his postdoctoral research in mammalian embryo-derived stem cells and maize small RNA biology, Oliver worked as a Clinical Variant Scientist at ARUP Laboratories, analyzing and characterizing DNA alterations identified during clinical genetic testing. He currently works on the potential impact of tranposable element transcription and regulation on neurodegenerative disorders such as Motor Neurone Disease (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis).

Miu Ki Yip

Computational Science Developer

Miu Ki recieved her B.Sc. in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics and Statistics from Stony Brook University in 2016. She is currently administrating and developing for BSR data analysis software including Galaxy.