

Katharina Ribbeck
Principal Investigator
ribbeck@mit.edu
Principal Investigator
ribbeck@mit.edu

Nicole Billings
Post Doc
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Interests: Innovative technologies for improved transport through bacterial biofilms
Post Doc
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Interests: Innovative technologies for improved transport through bacterial biofilms

Thomas Crouzier
Post Doc
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Interests: Mucins as a building block for new biomaterials
Post Doc
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Interests: Mucins as a building block for new biomaterials

Julia Co
PhD Student
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Interests: Quorum sensing in mucus hydrogels
PhD Student
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Interests: Quorum sensing in mucus hydrogels

Nicole Kavanaugh
PhD Student
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Interests: Interactions between microbes and mucus.
PhD Student
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Interests: Interactions between microbes and mucus.

Wesley Chen
PhD Student
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Interests: Toxin-mucus interactions.
PhD Student
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Interests: Toxin-mucus interactions.

Alona Birjiniuk
MD PhD Student
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Interests: Particle tracking through biofilms
MD PhD Student
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Interests: Particle tracking through biofilms

Erica Shapiro Frenkel
DDS PhD Student
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Interests: Biofilms and salivary mucins
DDS PhD Student
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Interests: Biofilms and salivary mucins

Kathryn Blakey Dupont
Postdoc
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Interests: Biophysical characterization and glycoprofiling of cervical mucus
Postdoc
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Interests: Biophysical characterization and glycoprofiling of cervical mucus

Brad Turner
Research scientist
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Interests: Mucin Biochemistry
Research scientist
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Interests: Mucin Biochemistry

Tahoura Samad
PhD Student
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Interests: Interactions between microbes and mucin, transport in mucin
PhD Student
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Interests: Interactions between microbes and mucin, transport in mucin

Kowa Chen
Postdoc
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Interests: Mucin biomarkers and assay development
Postdoc
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Interests: Mucin biomarkers and assay development
Alumni
Oliver Lieleg (Postdoc)
Marina Caldara (Postdoc)
Ioana Vladescu (Postdoc)
Maria Ramirez Millan (Undergrad)
Grace Yao (Master's student)
Irena Jevtov (Postdoc)
Angela Zhang (Undergrad)
Troels Bo Thomsen (Visiting PhD student)
Emily Bloch (Undergrad)
Denise Neibloom (Undergrad)
Leon Li (Postdoc)