Principal Investigator
Babak joined the department of biology at Boston College in 2015 as an Assistant Professor. He received his doctoral training in Photonics Research Group (Electrical Engineering) at Georgia Tech, where he designed and implemented compact on-chip photonic demultiplexers. He continued his work at Georgia Tech as a postdoctoral fellow to make spectrometers for biosensing applications. Intrigued by biological systems, he joined Shou lab at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and studied stability and spatial organization of microbial communities in synthetic communities.
Postdoctoral Researchers
Graduate Students
Undergraduate Researchers
- Paola Rosario Garcia
- Ethan Rappaport
- Eric Zhou
- Leo Deng
- Alina Chen
- Joey Zama-Lenfest
- Luke Maresca
- Margaret Jiang
- Lilly Adler
- Lydia Chen
- Michelle Kim
- Philip Chen
- Olivia Addeo
- Arushi Katyal
Collaborators
- Dr. Viviana Cristiglio (ILL, Grenoble, France)
- Dr. Leonardo De La Fuente (Auburn University, US)
- Dr. Luigi Genovese (CEA, Grenoble, France)
- Dr. Shin Haruta (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)
- Dr. Mehdi Javanmard (Rutgers University, US)
- Dr. Katherine Lemon (Baylor College of Medicine, US)
- Dr. Yang-Yu Liu (Harvard Medical School, US)
- Dr. Stephen Lindemann (Purdue University, US)
- Dr. Takahito Nakajima (RIKEN, Kobe, Japan)
- Dr. Laura Ratcliff (Imperial College London, UK)
- Dr. Massimo Reverberi (University of Rome, Italy)
- Dr. Yoav Soen (Weizmann Institute, Israel)听
- Dr. David Weitz (Harvard University, US)
Past Collaborators
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2023
- Caroline Bald; undergraduate researcher
- Yu Zhu; undergraduate researcher
- Sydney Sanchez Tejada; undergraduate researcher
- Alexandra Boehning; undergraduate researcher
- Jiu Lee; undergraduate researcher
- Nicole Cho; undergraduate researcher
2022
- John Kim; undergraduate researcher
- Nick Stratigakis; undergraduate researcher
- Alec Lobanov; undergraduate researcher
- Junqing 鈥淪imon鈥� Xu; undergraduate researcher
2021
- Samantha Dyckman; graduate student
- Sandra Dedrick; graduate student
- Helen Kurkjian; postdoctoral researcher
- Judy Ly; undergraduate researcher听
- Darius Russell Kish; undergraduate researcher
- Sixto Taveras; undergraduate researcher
- Laura Fan; highs chool volunteer
2020
- Luke Zabotka; undergraduate researcher
- Sophia Al-Shwauva; undergraduate researcher
- Rosie Jungquist; undergraduate researcher
- Paul Baik: undergraduate researcher
- Madelyn Coleman; undergraduate researcher
- Leena Rijhwani; undergraduate researcher
- Kyle Wiant; undergraduate researcher
- Sarah Ansari; undergraduate researcher
2019
- Chelsey Skeete; undergraduate researcher
- Deno Alkurdi; undergraduate researcher
- McKinley Croteau; undergraduate researcher
- Yuting Zhang; undergraduate researcher
- Joy Zou; undergraduate researcher
- Tianhu (Tony) Chen; undergraduate researcher听
2018
- Alli DiPietro; high school volunteer
- Javaris Hart; undergraduate researcher
- Tha铆s de Palma; visiting scholar
- Ian Boland; undergraduate researcher
- David Fu; undergraduate researcher
- Nicholas Favazza; undergraduate researcher
- Lori Niehaus; undergraduate researcher
- Kevin Chen; undergraduate researcher
- Catherine Henckel; undergraduate researcher
- Sayles Day; undergraduate researcher听
2017
- Minghoa Liu; Undergraduate Researcher, 2015-2017 (Currently: graduate student at UIUC)
- Stacy Nguyen; Graduate Student (Rotation), 2017 (Currently: graduate student at Boston College, '21)
- Suyen Espinoza; Graduate Student (Rotation), 2017 (Currently: graduate student at Boston College, '21)
- Allison Drozda; Graduate Student (Rotation), 2017 (Currently: graduate student at Boston College, '21)
- Nicole Thornton; Undergraduate Researcher (REU), 2017-2017 (Currently: undergraduate student at University of Miami, '19)
- Michael Gates; Lab Research Technician, 2015-2017 (Currently: graduate student at Northeastern University, '21)
- Raymond Lang; Undergraduate Researcher, 2016-2017
2016
- Matthew Crum; Graduate Student (Rotation), 2016 (Currently: graduate student at Boston College, '20
- Joshua Linnane; Graduate Student (Rotation), 2016 (Currently: graduate student at Boston College, Biology '20)
- Melissa Choz; Graduate Student (Rotation), 2016 (Currently: research associate at Synthetic Genomics, San Diego)
- Kaitlin Chaung; Undergraduate Researcher, 2016 (Currently: lab technician at UCSF)
- Daniel Beringer; Graduate Student (Rotation), 2016 (Currently: graduate student at Boston College, Biology '19)
- Joo Yeon (Joon) Choi; Undergraduate Researcher, 2015-2016