Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Chief of Department of Molecular Biology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Sharon received her B.S. in Microbiology from the University of Oklahoma and a PhD in Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology from Cornell University. She worked as a lab manager at the University of California at Berkeley and then at Brandeis University before joining the Kingston lab. In her free time when she is not purifying SWI/SNF, she is interested in the biochemical analysis of PRC1 domains required for nucleosome compaction in vitro.
Stefan received his B.S. in Physics from TU Munich. After obtaining his Ph.D. in Biophysics from UCSF, he joined the Kingston lab in January 2021 to study the dynamics of polycomb-mediated chromatin compaction. He is interested in determining how chromatin accessibility is achieved by the competition between activating and repressive complexes.
Jongmin received his B.S. in Life Sciences from POSTECH, South Korea, and obtained his Ph.D. in Chemical and Systems Biology from Stanford University. He joined the Kingston Lab in March of 2016 as a research fellow. He is interested in the chromatin structure regulation by CBX2 in the male germ line of mouse.
Christos is a postdoctoral fellow interested in the molecular mechanisms of chromatin remodeling. He obtained a B.A. in Biology from Cornell, PhD in Biology from MIT, M.D. from Harvard University, and completed residency and fellowship training in gastrointestinal pathology at UCSF before joining the Kingston laboratory in 2017.
Theresa received her B.S. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University in 2015. Afterwards, she worked on developing genome editing tools at MIT in Feng Zhang's lab as a research associate. She is currently a graduate student in the Chemical Biology program at Harvard and joined the Kingston lab in May of 2018. She is interested in the role of PRC1 phase separation in gene silencing and chromatin compaction.
MacKenzie received her B.A. in Biochemistry and Biology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2019. She is currently a graduate student in Harvard's Biological and Biomedical Sciences program, and she joined the Kingston lab in August of 2020. She is interested in the role of phase separation in PcG-mediated epigenetic memory and the redundancy of CBX subunits in canonical PRC1.
Philipp received his M.S. from TU Munich and completed his Ph.D. in Computational Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems with stays in Canada and France. He joined the Kingston Lab in July 2022 to analyze NGS experiments on chromatin remodeling and PcG-mediated gene regulation.
