Principal Investigator
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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
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- 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
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- BS in Molecular Biology, Lehigh University, 2026
- In the lab: 2023-2024
Christopher Jennings
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- BS in Neuroscience, Lehigh University, 2025
- In the lab: 2023-2024
Samuel J Geathers
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- BS in Biochemistry, Cabrini College, 2024
- In the lab: Summer 2023 (BOUNDS)
Elisa Daniela In Dallo
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- BS in Biology, Lycoming College, 2024
- In the lab: Summer 2023 (BOUNDS)
- Now: Graduate student at University of Pittsburgh/Carnegie Mellon University
Mu Hu
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- BS in Biology, Lehigh University, 2023
- In the lab: 2022-2023
- Now: Graduate student at McGill University
Jueun (David) Han
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- BS in Biochemistry, Lehigh University, 2023
- In the lab: 2022-2023
- Now: EPIC
Emerald Kan
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- BS in Biochemistry, Lehigh University, 2023
- In the lab: 2021-2023
- Now: Research technician at Baylor College of Medicine
Dia Zheng
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- BS in Biochemistry with Honors, Lehigh University, 2023
- In the lab: 2021-2023
- Now: Postbac at the National Institutes of Health
Jing Guo
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- BS in Biochemistry with Honors, Lehigh University, 2022
- In the lab: 2020-2022
- Now: Graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis