The Musser Lab

  at the Texas A&M Health Science Center, Naresh K. Vashisht College of Medicine


Principal Investigator


Siegfried Musser
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


Sumangal
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
Tanmay
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


Pratibha
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
David Winski
Dr. David Winski
B.S., 2019, McMurry University, Abilene, TX
Ph.D., 2025, University of Maine, Orono, ME
email:
davidw@tamu.edu


Graduate Students


Thom
Thom Weidman
B. S., 2021, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
email:
thom_weidman@tamu.edu


Undergraduate Students







Staff




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
T
exas 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