Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lab Members
Lab Members

Principal Investigator

Kristin Knouse, M.D., Ph.D.
knouse[at]mit.edu
Kristin is an Assistant Professor in the MIT Department of Biology and the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. She received a B.S. in biology from Duke University in 2010 and then enrolled in the Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) M.D.-Ph.D. Program, where she earned a Ph.D. through the MIT Department of Biology in 2016 and an M.D. through the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology in 2018. She conducted her doctoral research in the laboratory of Angelika Amon, where she developed tools to characterize large-scale somatic copy number alterations in mammalian tissues and then used diverse approaches to reveal the importance of tissue architecture for chromosome segregation fidelity in epithelia. In 2018, she established her independent laboratory as a Whitehead Fellow at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and was honored with the NIH Director’s Early Independence Award. In July 2021, she joined the MIT Department of Biology and Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research as an Assistant Professor.
Staff and Trainees

Judy Teixeira
Administrative Assistant
jteixeir[at]mit.edu

Joanie Mok, Ph.D.
Lab Manager
jmok[at]mit.edu

Xianyu Hao
Research Assistant
xhao[at]mit.edu

Diana Gomes, Ph.D.
SNSF Postdoctoral Fellow
dgomes[at]mit.edu

Kristina Lopez
Graduate Student
MIT Department of Biology
NASEM Ford Fellow
tlopez[at]mit.edu

Julia Van Goor
Graduate Student
MIT Department of Biology
jvangoor[at]mit.edu

Iñaki Villanueva Piedrabuena
Master's Student
Valencian International University
inakivp[at]mit.edu

Chloe Swanson
Undergraduate Student
MIT
cswan25[at]mit.edu