Principal Investigator
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Dr. Siegfried Musser,
Professor A.B., 1990, University of California, Berkeley, CA Ph.D., 1996, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA Postdoc, 1996-1999, University of California, Davis, CA Postdoc, 1999-2001, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA email: smusser@tamu.edu |
Assistant Research
Scientists
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Dr. Sumangal
Roychowdhury B. Sc., 2009, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India M. Sc., 2011, Presidency College, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India Ph.D., 2024, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India 2025-2026, Postdoctoral Fellow, Texas A&M University Health Science Center email: sumangalrc@tamu.edu |
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Dr. Tanmay
Chatterjee B.Sc., 2008, University of Burdwan, Burdwan, India M.Sc., 2010, University of Burdwan, Burdwan, India Ph.D., 2016, Indian Institute of Science, Kolkata, India 2016-2017, Research Associate, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, India 2017-2023, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan 2023-2025, Senior Research Lab Specialist, University of Michigan email: tanmaychat@tamu.edu |
Postdoctoral Research Associates
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Dr. Pratibha Agarwala B. Sc., 2016, Central University of Punjab, Punjab, India M. Sc., 2018, Central University of Punjab, Punjab, India Ph.D., 2025, Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, India email: pratibha.1@tamu.edu |
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Dr. David Winski B.S., 2019, McMurry University, Abilene, TX Ph.D., 2025, University of Maine, Orono, ME email: davidw@tamu.edu |
Graduate Students
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Thom
Weidman B. S., 2021, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA email: thom_weidman@tamu.edu |
Undergraduate Students
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Staff
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Former Lab Members
| Research Scientist: Umesh Bageshwar Abhishek Sau |
Last known or current position: National Center for Therapeutics Manufacturing (Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station) Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India |
| Postdocs: Chiho Kataoka (formerly Hamai) Weidong Yang Kaori Watanabe Changxia ("Walter") Sun Jorg Wissler Guo Fu Shruthi Hamsanathan Rajdeep Chowdhury Sandeep Dave Debolina Bandyopadhyay |
Last known or current position: National Institute for Materials Science (Tsukuba, Japan) Professor, Temple University University of Southern California Associate VP, Assistant General Patent Counsel at Eli Lilly and Company Texas A&M University, Department of Biology Flagship Pioneering Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen Texas A&M University, Department of Microbial Pathology and Immunology Thermo Fisher Scientific |
| Graduate Students: Fu-Cheng Liang Neal Whitaker Li-Chun Tu Na Wang Burkely Pettijohn Ankith Sharma |
Associate Professor, Midwestern State University Spark Therapeutics, Inc. Assistant Professor, Ohio State University Postdoc, Harvard Medical School |
| Undergraduates: Jason Wang (Honors Research Student) Dustin Herschap Kristen Cargill Lindsay Fowler Kendra Wheeler Meena Manivannan Antara (Preetha) Dattagupta |
Cook Children's Medical Center (Ft. Worth); formerly, Pathology Resident, Emory University School of Medicine continued undergraduate training continued undergraduate training Baylor College of Medicine UT Southwestern Medical School Texas A&M Medical School |
| High School Summer Students: Ankur Annapareddy Antara (Preetha) Dattagupta Raaghav Bageshwar |
University of Texas, Austin Texas A&M University Texas A&M University |
| Technicians: Kelly Soltysiak Meng Chen Anita Pokharel Dilsher Dhillon |
Texas A&M University Genetics Program Monsanto (St. Louis) Bioo Scientific Corporation MD Anderson Cancer Center |





