Lab Members
Angela Atwood-Moore, Lab Manager
Soon after receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology from Reed College, Angela moved to the Washington DC area, to join the Levin Lab, where she has been the Lab Manager since 1993. She is currently focused on the S. pombe Sap1 protein, attempting to better characterize its tight association with the Tf1 Integrase protein, and to identify other S. pombe proteins that might be in complex at preferred Tf1 integration sites.
Hyo Won Ahn, Postdoc
Hyo Won graduated with a Ph.D. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology in 2018 from the University of Georgia. Hyo Won joined the Levin lab in spring 2019. Her project focuses on studying the impact of retrotransposons in neurological diseases in humans.
Feng Li, Postdoc
Feng Li received his Ph.D. in molecular biology and biochemistry at Wuhan University in China. He focused on the function of histone demethylase Rhp1 in DNA damage response in budding yeast. Feng joined the Levin Lab as a postdoc in the summer of 2017 and has been working on identifying and investigating DNA repair factors responsible for the gap repair after Tf1 integration in fission yeast.
Abhishek Anand, Postdoc
Abhishek Anand graduated with a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology in 2017 from International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India. Abhishek joined the Levin lab in spring 2020. His project focuses on studying the mechanism behind truncation of LINE1 retrotransposons in humans.
Rebecca John, Postbac
Rebecca graduated with a B.S. in Biology from University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2023. Rebecca joined the Levin Lab as a postbac in August 2024. Her project focuses on understanding the binding specificity of LEDGF/p75 to chromatin, which is crucial for HIV-1 integration.
SePil Lee, Postdoc
SePil Lee received his Ph.D. from the Laboratory of Stem Cell Pathology in the Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences at Osaka University in Japan. His research background is in spermatogenesis, piRNA, DNA repeats, and epigenetics. He joined the Levin lab in 2023 and is currently studying the 5' truncated pattern of Long Interspersed Nuclear Element-1 (LINE-1) repeats in human genomic DNA.
Sonali Parida, Postdoc
Sonali Parida received her Ph.D. in Microbiology and Molecular Immunology at the Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture, Utkal University, where she functionally characterized various antioxidant genes in aquatic species. Sonali will join Dr. Levin’s lab in late winter 2025 as a postdoctoral fellow. Her work will focus on understanding the role of LTR-retrotransposons in gene expression and cell growth in S. pombe.
Alapani Mitra, Postdoc
Alapani Mitra received her Ph.D. in Molecular Virology at the National Centre for Cell Science, Pune, India where she characterized isoform-specific functions of Heat Shock Protein 90 in HIV-1 infection. Dr. Mitra joined Dr. Levin’s lab in 2025 as a postdoctoral fellow. Her work will focus on understanding how LEDGF/p75 directs HIV-1 integration into actively transcribed regions on human chromosome.
Alumni
- Paul Atkins, Postdoc
- Taeen Jidaan
- Rakesh Pathak, Postdoc
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