Lab Members

Meet the Lab team members. We welcome requests for information about our work and collaboration opportunities.

Principal Investigator

Ronen Sumagin

Associate Professor in Pathology

ronen.sumagin( at )northwestern.edu

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Postdoctoral Fellows

Caroline Herrnreiter

Postdoctoral Fellow

caroline.herrnreiter( at )northwestern.edu

Laura Manzanares

laura.manzanares( at )northwestern.edu

After receiving my Ph.D. in Molecular Biomedicine in 2021, I moved to Chicago from Mexico to work in the Sumagin Lab because I am interested in the role that the immune system plays in gut inflammation and healing.

Xingsheng Ren, PhD

xsren21( at )northwestern.edu

My research focuses on macrophage and endothelial cell interactions. I am also very interested in trying to understand whether microparticles facilitate these interactions.

Graduate Students

Lenore Yalom

lenoreyalom2019( at )u.northwestern.edu

Having worked in the field of stem cell and regenerative biology, I am excited to bring my interest and passion into the lab by studying neutrophil regulation of intestinal stem cells.

Technical Staff

Anastasiia Serdiukova

anastasiia.serdiukova( at )northwestern.edu

Alumni

Triet Bui

Graduate Student

Veronika Butin-Israeli, PhD

Research Assistant Professor in Pathology

Zeinab Dehghani

Jackson DiSario

Summer Student

Carlos Samuel Galan Enriquez

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ariel Finkielsztein, PhD

Research Associate in Pathology

Joseph Lee

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Joey Lockhart

PhD

Lorraine Mascarenhas

Research Technologist I

Lindsey Mehl

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Enzo Piccolo, PhD

Jake Rehring

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Allison Rux

Summer Student

Thomas Slater

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Jessica Urbanczyk

Technical Staff

Hannah Wiesolek

Research Technologist 1

Meredith Zhou

Undergraduate Research Assistant