I'm a paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. It’s easy. Just click “Edit Text” or double click me to add your own content and make changes to the font. I’m a great place for you to tell a story and let your users know a little more about you.
I'm a paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. It’s easy. Just click “Edit Text” or double click me to add your own content and make changes to the font. I’m a great place for you to tell a story and let your users know a little more about you.
I'm a paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. It’s easy. Just click “Edit Text” or double click me to add your own content and make changes to the font. I’m a great place for you to tell a story and let your users know a little more about you.
Miriam Toledo-Soler joined our lab in 2015 as a Post-doctoral fellow after having completed her PhD from the University of Barcelona, Spain. In the Singh lab, she worked on understanding the role of autophagy in the regulation of the liver clock. Her work (Cell Metabolism 2018) demonstrated that autophagy specifically degrades Cry 1, a core clock repressor protein and a known inhibitor of gluconeogenesis, and in this way autophagy regulates both the circadian clock and gluconeogenesis. Miriam was supported by the American Diabetes Association Post-doctoral Fellowship. She was awarded the Dennis Shields Post-doctoral Prize for her excellence in research at Albert Einstein. Miriam is now back in her native Catalunya region of Spain to continue her research work. Miriam is an avid supporter of FC Barcelona or Barca!
Ana Batista-Gonzalez joined the lab in 2015 for her PhD work and graduated in 2018. Ana is a Cuban native who is now pursuing her Post-doctoral training at the University of Santiago in Chile. While in the lab she studied the role of mTORC1 and mTORC2 signaling in fat metabolism, and the manuscript is currently under preparation for submission. Before joining our lab she spent two years doing research at the University of Turku in Finland as well as performed research in Canada. She then came to the U.S. and worked as a research technician in the microbiology lab of Dr. Arturo Casadevall. Ana loves science! She is a voracious reader of the literature and a critical thinker.
Marie Louise Aoun is a native of the Mediterranean city where parties never end and people are friendly - Beirut. She completed her medical education from the Lebanon American University in 2018, and came to the Singh lab to spend three years doing basic research on autophagy and lipid metabolism. Marie Louise is trilingual in that she can speak fluently in English, French and Arabic. Her project is looking at crosstalk between mTOR signaling and autophagy in the integrative regulation of fat metabolism. Marie Louise is hoping to start her Residency in 2021 and move into a career in Academia.
Henrietta Bains grew up in Brooklyn, New York. She majored in Biochemistry from Cornell, Ithaca, and followed that up by working as a Tech in a Neuroscience lab in Weill Cornell, New York, where she learned amongst several things, how to culture and work with primary neurons. She has since then joined the MD-PhD program at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is interested in understand the mechanisms of mTOR activation in response to lipid species in the mouse. She runs the best Western blots (although she will totally disagree!) Henrietta loves to snowboard and go to the gym, and she can't get enough of Italian food.
Christian Lavados was born in Santiago, Chile, and was brought to the United States early in his life. He earned a Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2014 and in the following years, he worked as a process development engineer for AbbVie Biotherapeutics and Clara Foods. Seeking a change of pace, he started his PhD studies at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in late 2019 and joined the Singh Lab shortly after. His scientific interests focus on the role autophagy plays in the regulation of mTOR activity, and on the circadian cycle through the turnover of CRY1. Outside of the lab, Christian has been an active Judo competitor, and notably won the California State Championships in 2017; he now trains and teaches Judo in Manhattan.
Manu Kalyani is a native of Punjab in India where rich culture meets extraordinary Indian cuisine. Manu completed her PhD work from the Miami University in Oxford in Ohio where she studied interactions between Prolactin and Hypthalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA ) axis during stress. Before joining the Singh lab she did her first postdoctoral work for two years at the University of Michigan where she studied the sex differences during cocaine addition. She brings to the Singh lab, extensive methods to study hypothalamic regulation of metabolism. Manu believes that a ‘healthy mind resides in healthy body’ therefore she is passionate about Crossfit training, weightlifting and running. During her free time she enjoys gardening, traveling, and taking tonnes of selfies.
Gillian Lam came to the Singh lab as a Pediatric Gastrointestinal Fellow in 2013. She completed her Residency in Pediatrics at Case Western, Ohio, and her Pediatric GI Fellowship at the Children's Hospitals at Montefiore, Bronx, New York. She stayed with us in the lab for two years and quickly picked up immunoblotting and immunostaining - methods that were completely new to her! She was instrumental in the setting up all protocols for the study of lipid metabolism in the jejunum. Gillian Tam grew up in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens, New York. Gillian is a hardworking and caring Physician, and she is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Pediatrics at the Oregon Health and Science University doing what she does best - treating and caring for sick children.
Jaakko Sarparanta is a native of Finland who obtained his PhD from the lab of Dr. Bjarne Udd at the University of Helsinki where he studied mechanisms of development of specific forms muscular dystrophy in a small subset of the Finnish population that carries mutations for these disorders. In the Singh lab, Jaakko studied the role of the lysosomes in driving cell signaling. He also studied the role of autophagy in the turnover of various muscle-specific structural proteins critical to the functioning of the contractile system. Jaakko is a foodie with a great interest in different cuisines and wines! Jaakko excels in making Mead - a summer Finnish drink that quickly became a hot favorite in the lab. Jaakko is now back in Finland in the lab of Dr. Bjarne Udd to continue his work on the muscle.
Marina Garcia-Macia is a native of the Asturias region of Spain. She joined our lab after completing her PhD with Dr. Ana Coto-Montes at the University of Oviedo where she studied autophagy, lipophagy, and mitophagy in the Harderian gland, an organ present in rodents. While in the Singh lab, Marina mastered the method to cannulate the mediobasal hypothalamus (MBH), which helped us with specific experiments that required rapamycin injections into the MBH (Cell Metabolism 2016). Marina is currently a Post-doctoral fellow at University of Salamanca in Spain. Marina loves cats and her hometown of Gijón, Spain!
