Team
“Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results”
-Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha.
Emma Chory, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
PhD Chemical Engineering, Stanford University (2018)
MS Chemical Engineering, Stanford University (2014)
BS Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University (2012)
Research Interests: Our lab is broadly interested in developing biological tools, and open-sourced robotics platforms to accelerate the evolution of bio-therapeutics, and to better inform our understanding of a range of human diseases, particularly those driven by alterations to our epigenome.
Favorite activity: Graffiti-knitting at dusk
Current Lab Members
Ryan Boileau, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD Development & Stem Cell Biology, UCSF (2023)
BS Human Physiology, Biology, & Biochemistry, University of Oregon (2014)
Research Interests: I am broadly interested in using automation, synthetic biology, and sequencing technologies to perform high throughput assays of protein function. I aim to better understand the interface between chromatin and its regulators in the context of disease.
Fun-fact: I am a fan of jokes including inside jokes, bad jokes, outside jokes, etc...
Mary Jia
PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering
BS Biomedical Engineering, University of Arkansas (2023)
Research Interests: I am developing and exploring applications for continuous mammalian directed evolution approaches.
Select Awards: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Music taste: chaotic neutral
Stefan Golas
PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering
BS Chemical Engineering, UMass Amherst (2019)
Research Interests: I am interested in optimizing methods of mammalian cell culture through high-throughput robotics.
Favorite hobby: Pebble wrestling (aka rock climbing)
Qianni Ma
PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering
MS Tufts University (2021)
BS Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University (2019)
Research Interests: I am interested in exploring the integration of diverse technologies and disciplines to build a robust platform for protein engineering that can support a wide range of applications and innovations.
Favorite activities: Walking puppers & watching Wednesday
Lab Alumni
Christian Chitty
MS Student, Biomedical Engineering
BSE Biomedical Engineering, Duke University (2023)
Research Interests: I am interested in exploring the intersection of synthetic biology and gene therapy in the context of cellular therapies and the therapeutic targeting of human diseases.
Fun-fact: I am a tea connoisseur
Hanyu Fu
Research Assistant
B.S. Materials Physics, Nanjing University (2021)
Research Interests: I'm interested in developing new nanophysics tools for cell biology research.
Hobbies: cooking, skiing, video games
Benjamin Pyatski
Undergraduate Co-op Student
BS in Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Northeastern University
Research Interests: I am hoping to build a comprehensive background in biology and the applications robotics can have to ongoing research in Chory Lab.
Fun Fact: Fluent in Russian and Ukrainian, play the guitar