Cole Lab

Person's Role: Graduate student

Selin Bacaksiz

Selin received her bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from Tufts University in 2024. At Tufts, she conducted research in the lab of Prof. Krishna Kumar, where she worked on developing GLP-1 peptide analogs that would constitutively activate their receptor and intein splicing inhibition of M. tuberculosis with small molecules. 

Jennifer Jiang

Jennifer received her B.Eng. in Bioengineering from McGill University in 2023, during which she conducted research in protein engineering, synthetic biology, viral vector production, and microscopy image analysis. 

Tim O’Meara

Tim received his Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Harvard (2020), where he conducted research on protein O-GlcNAcylation in the lab of Dr. Christina Woo and on the genetic and proteomic underpinnings of neurofibromatosis type 1 under the supervision of Dr. James Walker. Prior to graduate school, he developed and evaluated adjuvanted vaccines in the Precision […]

Hyojeon Kim

Hyojeon obtained her B.A. in chemistry and mathematics at Amherst College.