Fotini Gounari

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Fotini earned her Ph.D. in Genetics from the Imperial College of Science and Technology in the United Kingdom. She performed postdoctoral work at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Germany and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. She joined the faculty at TUFTS University in Boston in 2003 and moved to the University of Chicago at 2007.

Md Abu Osman

STAFF SCIENTIST

Abu Osman received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Rajshahi University in Bangladesh. He earned his Ph.D. in Medical Sciences from Kumamoto University in Japan. He has been a postdoctoral fellow and then senior post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Immunology at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. He joined the Gounari lab as a staff scientist to study how Tcf-1 and HEB co-operate to regulate Treg identity and function. His second project investigates how microbiota regulate immune cells in colon cancer.

Stephen Arnovitz

Graduate student 

Stephen Arnovitz is a graduate student in the Committee on Cancer Biology, Biological Sciences Division. Stephen received his B.A. at Northwestern University. His current project is focused on DNA damage responses and altered replication programs in Brca1-deficient hematopoietic tissues and the molecular mechanisms driving genomic instability and malignant transformation.

Greer Gurewitz

 Graduate student 

Greer Gurewitz is a graduate student in the Committee on Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology. She earned her B.A. in Biochemistry along with a minor in writing at Washington University in St. Louis, working in the lab of Eugene Oltz during her undergraduate studies. Her current project focuses on understanding how chromatin conformation in 3D space and the associated promotor-enhancer interactions and transcription factor interactions influence DP thymocyte development.

Francis Albert Apolinario

Research Technician

Francis earned his B.S. in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at the University of California Santa Cruz.  In 2018 He joined the Winston Lab at Harvard Medical School at to study the transcription factor Spt5 and the histone chaperone HIRA in S. pombe.  In 2020 he joined the Gounari lab to study how transcription affects T-cell development.

Melissa Tracy

Undergraduate Student Researcher

Melissa Tracy is an undergraduate student at the University of Chicago pursuing a degree in Biological Sciences with a specialization in Cancer Biology. She currently working toward an understanding of the genomic instability of TALL and potential treatment options.