People

Principal Investigator

Oriana S. Fisher

Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Wesleyan University

Email: ofisher@wesleyan.edu

Office: Hall-Atwater, Room 228

Prior Professional Appointments

  • Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Lehigh University, 2019-2024
  • NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University, 2015-2019

Education

  • PhD in Pharmacology, Yale University, 2015
  • BS/MS in Biochemistry, BA in English and American Literature, Brandeis University, 2009

Funding and Awards

  • NIH R35 MIRA Award, 2023-2028
  • NSF LEAPS-MPS Award, 2021-2024
  • NIH Ruth L. Kirchstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-2019
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellow, 2010-2015

Current Lab Members

We are currently recruiting at all levels!

Prospective undergraduates should contact Prof. Fisher at ofisher@wesleyan.edu.

Prospective graduate students should apply to the PhD program in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry.

Prospective postdoctoral fellows should contact Prof. Fisher at ofisher@wesleyan.edu.

Fisher Lab Alumni

Postdoctoral alumni

Yuri Rafael de Oliveira Silva

  • PhD in Genetics and Molecular Biology, UNICAMP
  • In the lab: 2022-2024
  • Now: Postdoc, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania

Undergraduate alumni

Nina Bautista

  • BS in Biochemistry, Lehigh University, 2024
  • In the lab: 2024

Hailey Price

  • BS in Molecular Biology, Lehigh University, 2026
  • In the lab: 2023-2024

Christopher Jennings

  • BS in Neuroscience, Lehigh University, 2025
  • In the lab: 2023-2024

Samuel J Geathers

  • BS in Biochemistry, Cabrini College, 2024
  • In the lab: Summer 2023 (BOUNDS)

Elisa Daniela In Dallo

  • BS in Biology, Lycoming College, 2024
  • In the lab: Summer 2023 (BOUNDS)
  • Now: Graduate student at University of Pittsburgh/Carnegie Mellon University

Mu Hu

  • BS in Biology, Lehigh University, 2023
  • In the lab: 2022-2023
  • Now: Graduate student at McGill University

Jueun (David) Han

  • BS in Biochemistry, Lehigh University, 2023
  • In the lab: 2022-2023
  • Now: EPIC

Emerald Kan

  • BS in Biochemistry, Lehigh University, 2023
  • In the lab: 2021-2023
  • Now: Research technician at Baylor College of Medicine

Dia Zheng

  • BS in Biochemistry with Honors, Lehigh University, 2023
  • In the lab: 2021-2023
  • Now: Postbac at the National Institutes of Health

Jing Guo

  • BS in Biochemistry with Honors, Lehigh University, 2022
  • In the lab: 2020-2022
  • Now: Graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis