Viviana I. Risca
Assistant Professor, The Rockefeller University
Ph.D. Biophysics, University of California, Berkeley, 2012
Postdoc, Depts. of Genetics & Biochemistry, Stanford University
Office: Flexner FA06
Phone: 212-327-7099
Andrew Scortea
Research Specialist, The Rockefeller University
M.S. Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, 2016
Andrew is the lab manager for the Risca Lab. His previous lab focused on Mitochondrial biology and pathology, aging, and metabolism. He is excited to begin anew in the exciting field of chromatin structure and biology!
Desk: Flexner FA26 Phone: 212-327-7304
Andrés Mansisidor
Postdoctoral Associate, The Rockefeller University
Ph.D. Biology, New York University, 2019
Andrés hearts all things DNA, but they are especially interested in understanding how chromatin organization influences the transcription and replication of episomal DNAs, including oncogenic extrachromosomal DNA circles and circular DNA viruses. Andrés is also keen on mentoring and science outreach through RockEdu.
Arnold Ou
Postdoctoral Associate, The Rockefeller University
Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Western Australia, 2020
Arnold is developing orthogonal probing techniques to RICC-seq, such as chemical cleavage, to more deeply cover selected regions of the genome. He is also helping to establish our in vitro chromatin reconstitution capabilities.
Justin Rendleman
jrendleman@rockefeller.edu
Postdoctoral Associate, Rockefeller University
Ph.D. Biology, NYU, 2021
Justin is interested in the molecular basis underlying cell-state transitions, and particularly the regulation that drives decisions made by cancer cells. He’s studying how dynamic changes in the chromatin landscape impact cells forced to exit the cell cycle and the choice between entering a state of quiescence or senescence.
Irene Duba
Graduate Fellow, David Rockefeller Graduate Program
B.A. Physics, Lewis & Clark College, 2017
Irene is the resident linker histone fan of the lab. She's interested in exploring how linker histone affects chromatin compaction, using RICC-seq and other genomic techniques. Irene is also the Risca lab tea master.
Devany West
Graduate Fellow, David Rockefeller Graduate Program
B.S. Biological Engineering, MIT, 2018
Devany is interested in using data fitting methods to connect structures from computational modeling to experimental results from RICC-seq, ATAC-seq, Micro-C and other genomic methods.
Jan
Soroczynski
Graduate Fellow, David Rockefeller Graduate Program Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD Fellow
MBiochem, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, University of Oxford, 2016
Jan is interested in understanding how SMC complexes navigate and perturb local chromatin structure to dynamically shape genomes.
Joanna Yeung
Graduate Fellow, David Rockefeller Graduate Program
B.S. Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of Toronto, 2019
Joanna is studying dynamics of the chromatin landscape through senescence. She enjoys learning the ins and outs of bioinformatics. Outside of the lab, Joanna has several hobbies, including but not limited to running, taking naps, watching anime, listening to kpop, karaoke and bribing Risca lab members with cookies.
Ariana Clerkin
abrenner@rockefeller.edu
Graduate Student, Tri-Institutional Computational Biology and Medicine Ph.D. Program
B.A. Biochemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 2016
M.S. Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 2016
Ariana is interested in developing a computational pipeline to identify heterochromatin folding patterns in repetitive regions of the genome. She is also interested in modeling chromatin dynamics.
Hera Canaj
hcanaj@rockefeller.edu
Graduate Fellow, David Rockefeller Graduate Program
B.S. Genetics, Western University, 2017
Hera is keen to investigate how the linker histone is implicated in regulating higher order nuclear organization. She's also interested in probing the role of noncoding RNAs in maintaining, or disrupting genome organization.
Lauren Anderson
landerson01@rockefeller.edu
B.S. Biology, George Washington University, 2019
Lauren is interested in chromatin-mediated transcriptional repression and linker histones role in chromatin structure.
Jerome
Jerome is a snake.
Alumni
Nicole Pagane
Research Assistant, The Rockefeller University
B.A. Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, 2019
Current position: Graduate student, MIT Computational Systems Biology