Lab members

Katja M. Taute

principal investigator

Katja studied physics at the University of Leipzig, Germany, and the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. After her doctoral work at the University of Texas at Austin, she completed a postdoc at FOM Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She has been leading a lab at the Rowland Institute at Harvard since summer 2016.

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Marianne Grognot

postdoc

Marianne joined the lab in December 2016 after defending her PhD thesis in physics at Ecole Polytechnique in France. 

Unice Yoo

undergraduate

Harvard student Unice won an MSI fellowship to conduct a summer project at our lab! 

Eric J Hepler

lab technician

Eric has been supporting the lab since late 2017.

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Alumni

Jong Woo Nam

undergraduate researcher

Jong, an REU student from Olin College of Engineering, is undertaking a computational project on high throughput 3D bacterial tracking.

Ivana Roman

lab technician

Ivana supported the lab as a wet lab technician in 2017 and is now with the RoLi lab. 

Lauren Elson

undergraduate researcher

Harvard undergrad Lauren Elson conducted experiments on the motility of bacterial colonies in spring 2017.