Our Team

  • Alison Taylor, PhD - Prinicipal Investigator

    Email: at3488[@]cumc.columbia.edu

    Twitter: @alisontaylorlab

    Alison is an Assistant Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology in the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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  • Joan Castellano Perez, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow

    Email: jc5577[@]cumc.columbia.edu

    Joan’s research focuses on how aneuploidy affects differentiation in lung cells.

  • Zeinab Amini-Farsani, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow

    Email: za2330[@]cumc.columbia.edu

  • Hunter Herriage, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow

    Email: hch2148[@]cumc.columbia.edu

    Hunter's research focuses on how aneuploidy affects nuclear structure, DNA damage response, and stem cell differentiation.

  • Samyukta Mallick, PhD

    Email: sm4922[@]cumc.columbia.edu

    Samyukta is interested in squamous cancers, including the interaction between HPV and aneuploidy. Samyukta completed her PhD at Columbia University in 2026.

  • Joanna Modi - PhD Candidate, Pathobiology Program

    Email: jnk2143[@]cumc.columbia.edu

    Joanna’s research project looks at how individual gene dosage plays a role in aneuploidy phenotypes, and how genetic ancestry correlates with specific aneuploidy events.

  • Karissa Shuck - PhD Candidate, Integrated Program

    Email: kls2250[@]cumc.columbia.edu

    Karissa is investigating consequences of chromosome aneuploidies in DNA replication and differentiation.

  • Laura Rodriguez-Bonilla - PhD Candidate, Integrated Program

    Email: lr3178[@]cumc.columbia.edu

    Laura is investigating how aneuploidy modulates immune signaling pathways and tumor–immune dynamics in cancer.

  • Kristine Nguyen - Program Coordinator

    Email: kn2700[@] cumc.columbia.edu

    Kristine supports the lab’s operations by managing administrative processes, coordinating day-to-day operations as well as long-term administrative needs.

  • Rohan Munoth - Staff Associate

    Email: rm4294[@]cumc.columbia.edu

    Rohan builds and maintains scalable bioinformatics pipelines to analyse whole-genome, transcriptomic, and single-cell sequencing data for cancer research. He focuses on using cloud platforms such as AWS to create reproducible, efficient workflows for large-scale genomic analyses.

  • Sai Ramani Choudari - Lab Tech

    Email: sc5148[@]cumc.columbia.edu

    Sai is working with Samyukta focusing on the interaction between HPV and aneuploidy. Sai supports the lab’s daily operations.

  • Gayatri Bulsara - Undergraduate Student, Barnard College

    Email: gb2861[@] barnard.edu

    Gayatri works with Joanna investigating the effects of vhl haploinsufficiency in lung and kidney cells.

  • Surya Saraf - Undergraduate Student, Barnard College

    sss2350[@]barnard.edu

Taylor Lab Alumni

Nadja Zhakula-Kostadinova - PhD candidate 2022-2026, now working in industry

Chloe Paolucci - research technician 2023-2025, now PhD student at Columbia University

Sejal Jain, MD - USF Medical Student 2020-2024, now resident at Seattle Children's Hospital

Andrew Petti - undergraduate student 2020-2022, research technician 2022-2023, now MD/PhD student @ UMass Chen Medical School

Yohanna Georgis - research technician 2020-2022, now Project Owner @ S&P Global

Laura Byron - research technician 2020-2022, now PhD student at Rutgers University

Nikhita Damaraju - masters student 2021-2022, now PhD student at the University of Washington

Undergraduate Alumni

Madeline Raquel Saavedra Bagdonas
Amber Arif
Sara Chough
Matthew Wahl
Alexandria Yao
Amit Regev
Valeria Cossich Galicia