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Ligon Lab - Personalized Medicine and Brain Tumor Research

Ligon Lab
PERSONALIZED MEDICINE AND BRAIN TUMOR RESEARCH

Our People

Principal Investigator

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Keith L. Ligon, MD, PhD
Born in Austin, TX
Hobbies: Cooking, eating, hiking
Favorite Lab Technique: Whole mount in situ hybridization
Favorite Band: Spoon


Post-Doctoral Fellows

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Cecile Rouleau
Research Fellow
Born in Chartres, France
Hobbies: Walking on the beach with my dogs and sipping wine with my friends
Favorite Lab Technique: Western Blotting
Favorite Band: ABYS

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Yu Zeng
Research Fellow
Born in China
Hobbies: Mountain Climbing, Table Tennis
Favorite Lab Technique: Western Blot
Favorite Band: Beyond

Collaborating Clinical Research Investigators

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Mehdi Touat, MD
​Visiting Assistant Professor, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Department of Neurology and Pathology, Harvard Medical School
​Assistant Professor of Neurooncology/Pathology, Gustave Roussy/Marie Curie Institute/Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital


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Sanda Alexandrescu, MD
Assistant Professor, HMS, Boston Children’s Hospital
Mentored COG Pathologist Young Investigator/Clinical Research Investigator




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Matthew Wood, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Oregon Health Sciences University
Mentored COG Pathologist Young Investigator/Clinical Research Investigator




Staff

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​Kristine Pelton
Lab Manager
Born in Boston, MA
Hobbies: Skiing, hiking
Favorite Lab Technique: Immunofluorescence
Favorite Band: Pearl Jam

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​Jack Geduldig
Clinical Research Coordinator
Born in Harrisburg, PA
Hobbies: Fishing, Hiking
Favorite Lab Technique: Consenting Patients
Favorite Band: Dave Matthews Band

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Seth Malinowski
Research Technician
​Born in Burlington, VT
Hobbies: Video games, Hockey
Favorite Lab Technique: SMR

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Rachel Schneider
Clinical Research Coordinator
Born in Boston, MA
Hobbies: Running, Going to the beach
Favorite Lab Technique: Consenting Patients
Favorite Band: The 1975

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Léon Taquet
Research Technician
​Born in San Diego, CA
Hobbies: Watching the Boston Celtics and running
Favorite Lab Technique: Cell Culture
Favorite Band: Queen

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​Ross Giglio
Research Technician
Born in Manassass, VA
Hobbies: Watching shows/movies/sports, Running
Favorite Lab Technique: Western Blotting
Favorite Band: Mumford and Sons

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Will Pisano
Clinical Research Coordinator
Born in Clearwater, FL
Hobbies: Cooking, Baseball
Favorite Lab Technique: Single Cell RNAseq
Favorite Band: Fleetwood Mac
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​Kate Schoolcraft
Research Technician
Born in Hartford, CT
Hobbies: Cooking, Yoga
Favorite Lab Technique: Immunohistochemistry
Favorite Band: Fun

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Jayne Vogelzang
Clinical Research Coordinator
Born in Boston, MA
Hobbies: Swimming, Painting
Favorite Lab Technique: Consenting Patients
Favorite Band: Ben Rector

Administrative

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​Abbie Ossip
Administrative Support Specialist
Born in Ohio
Hobbies: Reading, Knitting/Sewing
Favorite Lab Technique: iLab ordering
Favorite Band: HaMadregot

Past Members

Post-Doctoral Fellows

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Malak Abedalthagafi, MBBS
​Post-Doctoral Fellow 2014-2015

Assistant Research Professor, King Abdulaziz University for Science and Technology; Director, Saudi Human Genome Lab,King Fahad Medical University

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Frederik De Smet, PhD
Post-Doctoral Fellow 2015-2016
​Assistant Professor, Translational and Tissue Research, Department of Pathology, Katholieke Universitet Leuven, Flanders, Belgium

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Cecile Maire, PhD
​Post-doctoral Fellow 2008-2014
Staff Scientist, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany​

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Shak Ramkissoon, MD, PhD
​Post-Doctoral Fellow 2008-2014
Associate Medical Director, Foundation Medicine, Raleigh, NC​

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Yongji Tian, MD
Post-doctoral Fellow 2009-2010
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tian Tian Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China​

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Wenyu Song, PhD
Post-doctoral Fellow 2009-2016
Instructor in Informatics, Harvard Medical School​

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Anne-Florence Blandin
Post-doctoral Fellow 2017-2019


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Ahmed Idbaih MD, PhD 
Post-Doctoral Fellow 
2007-2009
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Marie Curie Institute, Paris, France​​​

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Lori Ramkissoon, PhD
​Post-Doctoral Fellow 2010-2016
Fellow in Cytogenomics, University of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC​

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Ben Rich, PhD

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Mehdi Touat, MD
Post-doctoral Fellow 2017-2019
​Assistant Professor of Neurooncology/Pathology, Gustave Roussy/Marie Curie Institute/Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital


Clinical Research Fellows

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Sandro Santagata MD, PhD
Associate Pathologist in Neuropathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Department of Pathology; Associate Professor in Pathology, Harvard Medical School


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Brian Alexander MD, MPH
Chief Medical Officer, Foundation Medicine, Raleigh, NC



Clinical Research Coordinators

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​Shawna Bilton
Clinical Research Coordinator 2017-2019


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Loreal Brown
Clinical Research Coordinator 2012-2015
Nursing School: University of New Hampshire
Staff Nurse at Brigham and Women's Hospital


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Michaela Haller
Clinical Research Coordinator 2017

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Lauren Logan
​Clinical Research Coordinator 2015-2017
Medical School: Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine

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Claire Sinai
​Clinical Research Coordinator
​ ​2015-2017
Clinical Research Coordinator, Center for Patient Derived Models, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

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Sarah Becker
Clinical Research Coordinator 2017-2019
Clinical Research Coordinator at University of Massachusetts Medical School


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Sarah K. Charbonneau
Clinical Research Coordinator 2015-2017
Graduate School: University of Connecticut, School Psychology

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Bob Jones
Clinical Research Coordinator 2017-2019


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Hayley Malkin
Clinical Research Coordinator 2013-2015
Medical School: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Medicine


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Fiona Watkinson
Clinical Research Coordinator 2017-2019
Graduate School: Imperial College London, Master of Public Health


Students

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​Charlotte Bellamy
Graduate Student 2019
​Research Associate/ Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital


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Wenshin Lee
Graduate Student 2011-2013
Clinical Assistant Professor, Opthalmology, Stanford Medicine​

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​Juliana Bonardi
Co-op Student 2018

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Karl Holmberg Olausson
Graduate Student, 2008-2014
Postdoctoral Researcher, Uppsala University, Sweden ​

Technicians and Administrative

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Yun Jee Kang
Research Technician

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Emily Learner
​Research Technician

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Jason Ling
​Research Technician 
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Alice Meng
​Research Technician
PhD Candidate, Rios Lab, Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology Program, Tufts University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences


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Sam Haidar
Technician and Neuropathology Core technologist

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Marilyn Hayes
Administrative Assistant


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David Knoff
Research Technician

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​Matthew Theisen, MS
Technician and lead scientist, DFCI Living Tissue Bank

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