TEAM
Katrin J Svensson
Principal Investigator
Affinity Group Leader, Stanford Diabetes Research Center
Dr. Svensson is Assistant Professor of Pathology at Stanford University and one of the Affinity group leaders at the Stanford Diabetes Research Center (SDRC). She received her Ph.D. in 2012 from Lund University in Sweden and completed her postdoctoral studies at Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. She is an Associate Editor at Endocrine Reviews, and is on the Advisory Board for STAR Protocols.
Email: katrinjs(at)stanford.edu Office: R238 (Edwards) Lab: R224 (Edwards)
Gemma Zhao
Postdoctoral Fellow
Gemma received her Bachelor of Science from Beijing Normal University in 2013. She then completed her Ph.D. in Wendy Salzman's group at UC Riverside in the Department of Biology studying the metabolic and behavioral effects of parenthood in mice. Gemma is combining her expertise in animal physiology with biochemical studies to understand the mechanisms of non-classical hormone actions in the context of metabolic disease. Gemma is the recipient of the AHA postdoctoral fellow award (2021).
Laetitia Voilquin
Postdoctoral Fellow
Laetitia received her Pharm.D. from the University of Strasbourg (France) in 2018. She completed her Ph.D. in Oncology and Cell Biology in 2020 in Catherine Tomasetto's group in IGBMC (France) studying cell metabolism and cell signaling in breast cancer. She is now interested in understanding the molecular mechanisms of non-classical hormones in metabolic diseases. Laetitia is the recipient of the Dean’s School of Medicine award (2022).
Niels Banhos Danneskiold-Samsoe
Postdoctoral Fellow
Niels received his M.Sc. in Human Biology from the University of Copenhagen. He completed his Ph.D. in immunometabolism and gut microbiome at the University of Copenhagen in the laboratory of Karsten Kristiansen in 2016. Subsequently he has worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Technical University of Denmark in the laboratory of Susanne Brix and in the laboratory of Karsten Kristiansen. Niels likes to work with methods yielding multifactor datasets and he applies this passion to identify signaling pathways of novel putative hormones regulating glucose metabolism. Niels is the recipient of the Carlsberg postdoctoral fellowship (2020).
Quennie Nguyen
Undergraduate student, Stanford, BS Biology
Part-time undergraduate research assistant
Quennie is working on the discovery and functional analyses of novel, small peptides.
Isaiah Jimenez
CVI summer student 2022
Ewa Bielczyk Maczynska
Postdoctoral Fellow co-mentored with Joshua Knowles, Cardiovascular Medicine
Ewa received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, UK, in 2016. Ewa is the recipient of the Stanford Dean's Postdoctoral Fellowship (2016), the Helena Anna Henzl-Gabor Young Women in Science Fund for Postdoctoral Scholars (2018), and the American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship (2018).
Aayan Patel
Undergraduate student, Stanford, BS Biology
Part-time undergraduate research assistant
Aayan is studying the mechanism of action of Ism1 and other novel, small peptides through pathway analysis and experimental techniques.
Danielle Young
CVI summer student 2022
Lianna Wat
Postdoctoral Fellow
Lianna obtained her Ph.D. in Cell and Developmental Biology in Elizabeth Rideout’s lab at the University of British Columbia in 2021 where she studied the sex-specific regulation of fat metabolism using Drosophila as a model system. Lianna is bringing her expertise on sex differences to the lab where she is interested in understanding how non-classical hormones regulate male-female differences in energy metabolism and metabolic disease. Lianna is the recipient of the 2022 Larry Sandler award.
Bryan Romero
Undergraduate student, Stanford
Part-time undergraduate research assistant
Bryan is working on protein structure-function relationships.
Cevan Smith
Adminstrative Assistant
csmitty (at) stanford.edu
ALUMNI
2022 Alejandro Toledo, Las Assistant I.
2021-2022 Hobson Allen, Life Science Research Professional.
2019-2021 David Toomer, undergraduate student, Stanford.
2018-2021 Yunshin Jung, postdoctoral fellow.
2020-21 Shrika Paramasivam, high school student (virtual)
2021 Taylor Brown, summer intern funded by the Stanford-Meharry Summer Research Program.
2020-21 Nickeisha Cuthbert, summer intern funded by the CVI summer research program.
2020-2021 Tanushi Sahai, Life Science Research Professional. Current position: Synthego.
2018-2020 Owen Jiang, Life Science Research Professional. Current position: Graduate student, UCSF.
2019-20 Nghi Ly (Laboratory Assistant).
2019 Adam Kevin O’Regan, undergraduate student, Stanford.
2019 Barbora Davidova, undergraduate student, Stanford.
2019 Samuel Enrique-Fuentes, undergraduate student, Stanford.
2019 Pedro Gallardo, undergraduate student, Stanford.
2018-19 Allison Schwartz, undergraduate student, Stanford.
2018-19 Lajja Mani (Laboratory Assistant).
2018 Nancy Li (Rotation student, Cancer Biology).
