Baehrecke Lab Members
Eric H. Baehrecke, PhD
Tina Fortier
Tina obtained her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College where she conducted research in the lab of Rachel Fink. She joined the Baehrecke laboratory as a Research Associate after working in the laboratories of John Nambu, Craig Woodard, Conly Rieder, and Bill Jeffery. Tina is involved in many aspects of the laboratory, and performs all of our electron microscopy analyses.
Fei Chai, PhD
Fei received his Ph.D. from UMass Boston in the lab of Alexey Veraksa. Fei is investigating novel animal autophagy regulatory programs, including unique roles for Atg8 lipidation and other poorly characterized genes in autophagy during Drosophila intestine and stem cell development.
Guangyan Miao, PhD
Guangyan received her Ph.D. from Peking University in the lab of Yingyu Chen, and then conducted research at the Institute of Biophysics under the leadership of Hong Zhang. Guangyan will join the Baehrecke lab in February 2020.
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Lucas Restrepo Lucas received his B.S. in Biology from the Catholic University of America and is currently a student in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program. Before coming to UMass, Lucas worked in the lab of Dr. Timothy Mosca at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia where he investigated novel factors affecting synapse maturation. Lucas is currently working on new genes that regulate Vps13D-mediated mitochondrial clearance in Drosophila. |
Panagiotis (Panos) Velentzas, PhD
Panos received his Ph.D. from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens where he conducted research in the lab of L.H. Margaritis. Panos is studying the relationship between metabolism and autophagy. Specifically, Panos is investigating the role of solute carriers (SLCs), a superfamily of proteins that transport nutrients across membranes, in the regulation of autophagy.
Ruoxi Wang, PhD
Ruoxi received his Ph.D. from Central South University in Changsha, China, where he worked in the lab of Zhuohua Zhang. He joined the Baehrecke laboratory as a visiting scholar and then as a postdoctoral associate. Ruoxi is interested in investigating the genes and mechanisms that regulate selective organelle clearance, as well as crosstalk between organelle clearance pathways. Ruoxi recently joined Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in Shenzhen, China as an Assistant Professor.