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Tay Lab People

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Professor Savas Tay
tays@uchicago.edu
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Postdoc, Bioengineering, Stanford University
PhD, Optical Sciences, The University of Arizona
BS, Physics Education, Marmara University  

Dr. Tay is a Professor at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology, at The University of Chicago.

Savas Tay is a systems biologist and bioengineer who works at the interface of biology, physics, and engineering. His overarching goal is to understand how biological systems work from an engineer’s perspective, and use this knowledge to manipulate cells and gene pathways to help cure diseases. On the technology front, his lab develops high-throughput and high-content single-cell analysis devices by integrating microfluidics and optics


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Alicia Bearden-Mannie - Administrator

amannie@uchicago.edu

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Bianca Edozie- PhD Student

bedozie@uchicago.edu
BS, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, 2019
BA, Chemistry, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, 2019

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Bijentimala Keisham, PhD - Postdoc

bkeisham@uchicago.edu
PhD, Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois, Chicago, 2019
M. Tech, Chemical Engineering, NIT Trichy, India, 2012
B. Tech, Biotechnology, Amity University, Noida, India, 2010

 
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Olivia Laxton - PhD Student

olaxton@uchicago.edu
BS, Chemistry with Concentration in Biochemistry, Haverford College, 2020

 
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Abinash Padhi, PhD - Postdoc

abinashp@uchicago.edu
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2021
B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering, NIT Trichy, 2015

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Jonathan Matthews - MD/PhD Student

jono@uchicago.edu
MEng, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (BioEECS), MIT, 2016
BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, 2015



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Susan Okrah - PhD Student

sokrah@uchicago.edu
BS, Chemical Engineering, Hampton University, 2019


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Gabriel Mercado Vásquez, PhD - Postdoc

gabrielmv@uchicago.edu
PhD, Physical Science, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2022
BSMSc, Physical Science, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2018
BS,Physics, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2015



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Suhail Peer - Research Lab Technician

mpmsuhail@uchicago.edu
B.S., Health Sciences, Purdue University, 2021


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Emma Kenna - Research Lab Scientist

ekenna@uchicago.edu
BS, Biology, University of Richmond, 2021


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Minjun Son, PhD - Postdoc

monster@uchicago.edu
PhD, Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, 2014
BS, Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, 2008

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Research interest:
The NF-kappaB signalling governs the immune response in mammalian cells. Applying high-throughput microfluidic device and single cell analysis, I'm trying to answer how different combination or dynamic of environmental cues is interpreted by the NF-kappaB system. I'm also interested in developing high-throughput microfluidic device and image analysis.​

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Andrew Wang - MD/PhD Student

awang17@uchicago.edu
BS, Biological Chemistry, UChicago, 2017


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Yiyu Deng - PhD Student

yydeng@uchicago.edu
BS, Biological Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), 2022


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Huili Wang - Postdoc

huiliw@uchicago.edu
Postdoc, Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, School of Medicine, 2022
PhD, Tumor Biology, Tsinghua University, School of Medicine, 2020
BS, Biological Sciences, Lanzhou University, School of Life Science, 2013



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Madhumitha Prakash- PhD Student

madhu19@uchicago.edu
BS,Biological Engineering, Purdue University, 2022


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Junjie Xia- PhD Student

jjxia@uchicago.edu
BS, Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, Zhejiang University (ZJU), 2021

 

Alumni

Name
Dates in Tay Lab
Position in Tay Lab
Position After Graduation
Current Position
Nir Drayman, PhD
2016 - 2022
Postdoc
Assistant Professor, UC Irvine
Assistant Professor, UC Irvine
Luke Vistain, PhD
2017 - 2022
Postdoc
Staff Scientist, NIH/NIAID
Staff Scientist, NIH/NIAID
Sefika Ozcan, PhD
2019 - 2021
Postdoc
UChicago Department of Hematology and Oncology,Postdoctoral Scholar
UChicago Department of Hematology and Oncology,Postdoctoral ScholarD
Brooke Schuster, PhD
2016 - 2021
Graduate Student
Biotech Equity Research Associate, William Blair
Biotech Equity Research Associate, William Blair
Parthiv Patel, PhD
2016 - 2021
Graduate Student
Consultant, Simon-Kucher & Partners
Consultant, Simon-Kucher & Partners
Jing Lin, PhD
2016 - 2021
Graduate Student
Consultant, Boston Consulting Group
Consultant, Boston Consulting Group
Van Phan, PhD
2016 - 2022
Graduate Student
Bionformatician, UC San Francisco
Bionformatician, UC San Francisco
Mustafa Abasiyanik, PhD
2017 - 2021
Staff Scientist
Staff Scientist, Chevrier Lab, University of Chicago
Staff Scientist, Chevrier Lab, University of Chicago
Adil Mohamed, PhD
2020 - 2021
Postdoc
Postdoc, Chevrier Lab, University of Chicago
Postdoc, Chevrier Lab, University of Chicago
Vishnu Nair, PhD
2020 - 2021
Postdoc
Postdoc, Rice University
Postdoc, Rice University
Joshua Ziqi Jiao
2017 - 2020
Undergraduate Student
PhD student, Sloan Kettering
PhD student, Sloan Kettering
Melikhan Tanyeri, PhD
2016 - 2018
Postdoc
Assistant Professor, Duquesne University
Assistant Professor, Duquesne University
Christian Jordi, PhD
2014 - 2016
PhD Student
Scientist, Skyhawk Therapeutics
Scientist, Skyhawk Therapeutics
Bill Watterson, PhD
Nov 2017 - Aug 2020
Postdoc
Engineer, Inscripta
Engineer, Inscripta
Navid Ghorashian, PhD
Aug 2014 - Aug 2019
Postdoc
Lead Microfluidic Engineer, BiomeSense
Lead Microfluidic Engineer, BiomeSense
Alicia Kaestli, PhD
Sep 2012 - Jun 2016
PhD Student
Data Scientist at Amgen
Senior Associate at Flagship Pioneering
Michael Junkin, PhD
Jul 2011 - Aug 2017
Senior Scientist
Microfluidic Engineer at Complete Genomics
Staff Engineer at ELEGEN
​​​​Hsiung-Lin Tu, PhD
​​Mar 2014 - Jul 2017
Postdoc
​​Assistant Professor, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
​​Assistant Professor, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
​Ce Zhang, PhD
​Jul 2014 - Apr 2017
Postdoc
​​Professor, Northwest University, Xi'an, China
​Professor, Northwest University, Xi'an, China
​Tino Frank, PhD
​Jun 2012 - Jun 2016
PhD Student
​Engineer at Bosch
​SaMD Quality at Biogen
​Serap Asku, PhD
2014 - 2016
​​Postdoc
​​Assistant Professor, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
​Assistant Professor, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey
Ryan Kellogg, PhD
​​Jul 2011 - Dec 2015
​PhD Student
​​​Postdoctoral Researcher in Mike Snyder's group at Stanford University
​​Postdoctoral Researcher in Mike Snyder's group at Stanford University and RTHM, Inc., Founder/ CEO
​​Arne Wehling, MS
​​​Mar 2014 - Jun 2015​
​​MS Student​
​MPhil candidate in Computational Biology at the University of Cambridge
​Postdoctoral Researcher in the Cell Systems Dynamics Group at ETH Zurich
Cem Albayrak, PhD
​​Apr 2013 - Jun 2015
​​Postdoc
​​​Business development at Generica Pharmaceuticals
​​Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, Koc University, Turkey
​Matthias Mehling, MD
Oct 2012 - Oct 2014
​​Postdoc​
​Junior research group leader Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel
​Junior research group leader Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel
​​Chengzhe Tian
​​Sep 2013 - Jan 2014
​Research Assistant
​​PhD fellow at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen
​Postdoctoral Research Associate, Spencer Lab, University of Colorado- Boulder
​​​Zihe Zhang (Kurt)
​​Nov 2012 - Aug 2013
​​​MS Student
​​​Beginning a career in China
​​Beginning a career in China
​Onur Tidin
​Mar 2013 - Aug 2013
MS Student
​PhD student at EPFL
​​PhD student at EPFL
 

Collaborators

Kevin White
Andrey Rzhetsky
Alex Hoffmann
Roy Wollman
Arvind Murugan
Timm Schroeder
Sai Reddy
University of Chicago Medicine, Tempus
University of Chicago Medicine
UCLA
UCLA
University of Chicago Biophysics
ETH Zurich
ETH Zurich
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