Titles
- Program Coordinator
Departments
Roles
Administration, Administrative Core Staff, NSC Administrative Core
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Rose Anderson
Lab Medicine and Pathology
Brandon Berry
Departments
Roles
Former BMHA Trainee, Former BMHA Trainee
Dr. Brandon Berry is a postdoctoral researcher in the Kaeberlein laboratory. His research focuses on how aging and metabolism are linked. Brandon is interested in how mitochondria, the powerhouses of cells, contribute to and modulate aging. He uses novel tools to precisely control mitochondria to better understand the fundamentals of healthy aging and metabolism. Brandon […]
Jason Bielas
Titles
- Associate Member, Translational Research Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
- Affiliate Association Professor, Lab Medicine and Pathology
Departments
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Lab Medicine and Pathology
Role of DNA mutation in aging and cancer Dr. Bielas is an Associate Member in the Translational Research Program at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and an Affiliate Associate Professor in the UW Department of Lab Medicine and Pathology. He has a long-standing interest in the relationships between aging, mutagenesis, and cancer. His past […]
Alessandro Bitto
Titles
- Acting Instructor of Lab Medicine and Pathology
Departments
Roles
HALO Faculty, Training Program Alumnus
Dr. Bitto is an Acting Instructor in the Department of Lab Medicine and Pathology. His research is focused on understanding the interaction between biological aging, mitochondrial function, and metabolic disease. Dr. Bitto was a BMHA post-doctoral fellow on the Genetic Approaches to Aging Training Grant from 2013-2016 and is the recipient of a post-doctoral research […]
Ellen Cravens
Anna Gillespie
Titles
- Assistant Professor
Departments
Biological Structure, Lab Medicine and Pathology
Roles
BMHA Training Faculty, HALO Faculty
The Gillespie Lab strives to understand how the neural mechanisms underlying memory processes degrade over the course of healthy aging and in the context of neurodegenerative disease. The lab uses in vivo electrophysiology to record simultaneously from hundreds of hippocampal neurons in rats as they learn and perform complex memory-dependent tasks. We use advanced computational […]
Kelly Jin
Matt Kaeberlein
Titles
- Former Director, Healthy Aging and Longevity Research Institute
- Former Director, Biological Mechanisms of Healthy Aging Training Program
- Co-Director, UW Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging
- Co-Director, Dog Aging Project
- Professor of Pathology
- Adjunct Professor of Genome Sciences
- Adjunct Professor of Oral Health Sciences
Departments
Roles
Dr. Kaeberlein’s research interests are focused on biological mechanisms of aging in order to facilitate translational interventions that promote healthspan and improve quality of life. He has published more than 200 scientific papers, has been recognized by several prestigious awards, and has Fellow status in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the […]
C. Dirk Keene
Titles
- Associate Professor of Lab Medicine and Pathology
Departments
Roles
Dr. Keene received his education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (B.S. in Cell and Molecular Biology) and at the University of Minnesota (M.D. and Ph.D. in Neuroscience). His Anatomic Pathology residency and Neuropathology fellowship were completed at the University of Washington (UW) where he earned a faculty position in Neuropathology after graduating. Dr. […]
Scott Kennedy
Titles
- Associate Professor of Lab Medicine and Pathology
Departments
Roles
BMHA Training Faculty, HALO Faculty, Training Program Alumnus
Dr. Kennedy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology. He has a strong interest in the role of the fidelity mechanisms that cells employ to maintain genetic information and the ways these mechanisms are involved in diseases of aging. Research in the Kennedy lab focuses on developing and using Next-Generation […]
Bernard Khor
Titles
- Affiliate Assistant Professor
Departments
Immunology, Lab Medicine and Pathology
Roles
BMHA Training Faculty, HALO Faculty
Dr. Khor’s lab is focused on understanding healthy aging through the lens of Down syndrome. Down syndrome is the most common chromosomal condition, and immune dysregulation significantly impairs the health of these individuals. This is manifest by predisposition to autoimmunity, susceptibility to infections and impaired vaccine response, amongst other features. Recent work in the lab […]
Michael Kiflezghi
Departments
Lab Medicine and Pathology, M3D Ph.D. Program
Roles
Former BMHA Trainee, Former BMHA Trainee
Mr. Kiflezghi is a graduate student in the M3D Ph.D. program and pre-doctoral trainee in the Biological Mechanisms of Healthy Aging Training Program. He is performing his Ph.D. thesis studies in the Kaeberlein Lab, where he has developed and applied novel technology for identifying small molecule inhibitors of the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR). As […]
Shelby Knowles
David Marcinek
Titles
- Professor of Radiology
- Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering
- Adjunct Professor of Lab Medicine and Pathology
Departments
Bioengineering, Lab Medicine and Pathology, Radiology
Roles
BMHA Co-Director, BMHA Training Faculty, HALO Faculty, Shock Center Director, Shock Center Executive Committee
Dr. Marcinek joined the UW faculty in 2006. He has over 15 years of experience developing and applying innovative tools to study mitochondrial biology in chronic disease and aging. A main focus of his laboratory is to understand how age-related changes in mitochondrial function at the biochemical and organelle levels translate to changes in in […]
Alexander Mendenhall
Titles
- Assistant Professor of Lab Medicine and Pathology
Departments
Roles
BMHA Training Faculty, HALO Faculty, Invertebrate Core Faculty, NSC Development Core, Shock Center Executive Committee
Dr. Mendenhall’s laboratory utilizes the nematode C. elegans to understand how and why genetically identical populations of cells and animals in the same environment age differently. How much and what kind of physiological variation is intrinsic/chance based, or is programmed and heritable? The lab takes the approach of directly observing events inside of living cells […]
Daniel Promislow
Titles
- Professor of Lab Medicine and Pathology
- Professor of Biology
Departments
Biology, Lab Medicine and Pathology
Roles
BMHA Training Faculty, HALO Executive Committee, HALO Faculty, Metabolomics Core Director, Shock Center Executive Committee
Dr. Promislow studies natural genetic variation in aging and reproduction. His research is focused on aging in several systems – the fruit fly, companion dogs, and humans. He uses a diversity of approaches in his lab, including molecular and quantitative genetics, evolutionary theory, and systems biology to construct and analyze genetic and metabolomic networks. Among […]
Peter Rabinovitch
Titles
- Professor, Department of Lab Medicine and Pathology
- Joint Full Member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Departments
Roles
HALO Faculty, Shock Center Executive Committee
Mitochondrial function and healthspan Peter Rabinovitch has served on the faculty of the Department of Lab Medicine and Pathology since 1983. He has been an active investigator in the biology of aging throughout his career, is the author of over 290 peer-reviewed publications, and is the founding director of the UW Nathan Shock Center of […]
Shane Rea
Titles
- Associate Professor of Lab Medicine and Pathology
Departments
C. elegans aging and healthspan extension Dr. Rea is an Associate Professor of Lab Medicine and Pathology. His laboratory utilizes the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to probe the fundamental mechanisms of aging and mitochondrial dysfunction in humans. His research spanning three decades has revealed that nematode lifespan is controlled by a roughly equal mix of genetics, […]
Rosana Risques
Titles
- Associate Professor of Lab Medicine and Pathology
Departments
Roles
BMHA Executive Committee, BMHA Training Faculty, HALO Faculty
Genomic instability, cancer and aging The main focus of Dr. Risques’ research is the study of the molecular mechanisms that link genomic instability and aging. The main molecular alterations that her lab studies are telomere shortening, mitochondrial dysfunction, and age-related accumulation of somatic mutations. She has published on comparative analyses of aging relating telomere length […]
Ryan Rossner
Departments
Lab Medicine and Pathology, M3D Ph.D. Program
Roles
Mr. Rossner is a graduate student in the M3D Ph.D. program studying the role of flavin-containing monooxygenase proteins in aging. He is performing his Ph.D. thesis under the mentorship of Dr. Kaeberlein. He was awarded a position on the Genetic Approaches of Aging Training Grant in 2016 and is currently a pre-doctoral trainee in the […]
Shabnam Salimi
Titles
- Acting Instructor
Departments
Roles
Shabnam Salimi is a multidisciplinary scientist studying the mechanism of health span and lifespan. She uses clinical and laboratory tools to define health and multimorbidity as the rate of aging and functional decline and response to stress. Her works evolved around determining clinically and biologically meaningful algorithms that measure the rate of aging, “omics” that track healthspan […]
Mariya Sweetwyne
Titles
- Assistant Professor
Departments
Roles
BMHA Training Faculty, HALO Faculty
Dr. Mariya Sweetwyne (she/her) is a Cell Biologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology (DLMP) in the UW School of Medicine. She earned a B.S. in Zoology and a B.S. in Cell and Molecular Biology from the University of Washington, followed by a Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology from the University […]
Paul Valdmanis
Titles
- Associate Professor, Medical Genetics
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Genome Sciences
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Lab Medicine and Pathology
Departments
Genome Sciences, Lab Medicine and Pathology, Medical Genetics
Roles
BMHA Training Faculty, HALO Faculty
Age-associated changes in synaptic non-coding RNAs Dr. Valdmanis joined the University of Washington as an Assistant Professor in 2017. His lab studies genetic risk factors for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and gene therapy methods for therapeutic intervention. Through a series of studies focusing on long-read sequencing of the genome […]
Jeremy Whitson
Departments
Roles
Dr. Whitson was a post-doctoral fellow in the Genetic Approaches to Aging Training Program from 2017-2019. He is currently a post-doctoral scientist in Dr. Rabinovitch’s laboratory. […]
Jessica Young
Titles
- Assistant Professor of Lab Medicine and Pathology
Departments
Roles
BMHA Co-Director, BMHA Training Faculty, Development Core Director, HALO Director, HALO Faculty, Shock Center Director, Shock Center Executive Committee, Training Program Alumnus
Dr. Young joined the UW faculty in 2016 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Lab Medicine and Pathology. Her research goal is to understand the molecular and biochemical mechanisms underlying age-related disorders, with a particular focus on neurodegenerative disorders. She has developed human stem cell models to further this line of research, as […]
