Principle InvestigatorSeth L. Robia, Ph.D.708-216-2522 (Office)
B.A. Biology, Chemistry, St. Olaf College
M.S., Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Seth joined the faculty in the Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology at Loyola University Chicago's Stritch School of Medicine in 2006. He teaches a range of subjects for medical and graduate students including Biochemistry (lipid metabolism, enzyme kinetics) Cell Biology (cell cycle, apoptosis), Biophysics (membrane transport, imaging for drug discovery), and Physiology (reproduction).
Postdoctoral FellowsJaroslava Šeflová Graduate Students Lab Technicians Ellen Choecho5@luc.eduB.S. Biochemistry, University of Illinois
Since 2016 Ellen has worked hard to maintain all of the cell cultures in the Robia Lab which are so crucial to the day-to-day experiments. She also spends time on micropeptide interactions with SERCA, a key research aim of the lab. Michael DaltonRobia Lab AlumniFormer Trainees Role Dates Subsequent Position, or Current Position Eileen M. Kelly Technician 7/06 – 1/09 Accountant, Cosco Zhihong Hu Tech/Postdoc 6/08 – 9/10 Asst. Prof., Univ. Texas HSC Houston Sebastian Mestril Undergrad Res. 6/10 – 8/10 Grad Student, UNC Chapel Hill Zachary Jones Undergrad Res. 6/10 – 8/10 Special Education teacher Paul Hale Research Assistant 6/10 – 10/10 Law School Qiujing Song Postdoc 6/08 – 6/11 Dentist, Lisle, IL Eric DeGuevara High School Res. 6/11 – 8-11 Undergrad, Univ. Il. Urbana-Champaign Edgar Gonzales High School Res. 12/11 – 5/12 College Student Philip Bidwell Grad student (PhD) 6/08 – 4/12 Research Assoc., Univ. of Minnesota Sandeep Pallikkuth Postdoc 1/10 – 5/12 Staff Scientist, Univ. New Mexico Dane Zieman Undergrad 6/10 – 9/12 Engineer, Thermo-Fisher Scientific Christian Espino High School Res. 10/12 – 5/13 Undergrad, St. Mary’s Univ., MN Christopher Stefonowicz Technician 6/12 – 7/13 Med student, Stritch School of Medicine Alex Ticho Technician 2/12 – 6/13 MD/PhD student, Univ. IL, Chicago Aimee Bueno High School Res. 6/13– 8/14 Undergrad, Univ. IL, Chicago Michael Sobieraj Postbac student 7/13 – 9/13 MD student Marsha Pribadi Technician 8/13 – 6/14 Property Consultant, Jakarta, Indonesia Surtaj Iram Postdoc 9/12 – 9/14 Assistant Professor, South Dakota State Juan Orozco High School Res. 6/14 – 8/14 Undergrad, DePaul University Berenis Calleros High School Res. 6/14 – 8/14 High School Student S. Mazurek (coadvisor) Grad student (PhD) 6/10 – 7/14 Postdoc, Northwestern Neha Abrol Grad student (PhD) 6/11 – 10/14 Assoc. Sci. Dir., PRI Healthcare Sol'ns. Zhanjia Hou, PhD Research Asst. Prof. 2/07 – 5/15 Medical Physicist, Mobile, AL Ryan Himes Grad student (PhD) 6/11 – 7/15 Asst. Professor, Olivet Nazarene Univ. Vidhya Sivakumaran Postdoc 12/13 – 8/15 Team Lead, Intelligent Medical Objects Daniel J. Blackwell Grad student (PhD) 6/11 – 7/16 Postdoc, Vanderbilt, (B. Knollman) Taylor Zak MD/PhD student 7/13 – 7-17 MD Resident, Northwestern U. John Wolf MD student 5/17-7/17 MD student, Creighton Univ. Nikolai Smolin Staff Scientist 7/12 – 11/17 Senior Data Scientist, Commerce Signals Olga Raguimova Grad Student (PhD) 6/14 – 6/18 Senior Scientist, Abbott Labs Garrett Huack Undergraduate Res 6/18 – 8/18 Undergrad, The Ohio State Univ. Deo Singh Staff Scientist 7/18 – 11/18 Staff Scientist, ABS Global, Madison, WI |