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.
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 joined the Kingston lab as a graduate student in the Chemical Biology program at Harvard in 2018, graduated in May 2024 and now receives postdoctoral training. She is interested in the role of PRC1 phase separation in gene silencing and chromatin compaction.
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.
Dunia grew up in Wayland, MA, received her MD in the Harvard/MIT HST program and completed her residency in Otolaryngology and fellowship in Neurotology/lateral skull base surgery at MEE/Harvard program. In Dr. Albert Edge’s lab (MEE) she studied inner ear hair cell biology using organoid models. In Dr. Kingston’s lab, she studies transcription factor and epigenetic regulators of inner ear hair cell regeneration, while also serving as an attending physician at MEE/MGH.
Shreyasi received her B.S. in Genetics from Bangalore University, India, and her M.S. in Neuroscience from the University of Edinburgh, UK. Afer completing her Ph.D. in Developmental Biology from the University of Cincinnati, she joined the Kingston Lab to study how polycomb complexes dictate cell fate decisions during early germ layer segregation.
Stacy grew up in South Korea and Cerritos, CA, and graduated from Brandeis University in 2024 with a major in Biology. Currently, she is pursuing her research training, working as a research assistant to Dr. Shreyasi Mukherjee.
Philipp earned his M.S. from TU Munich and his Ph.D. in Computational Biology from the Max Planck Institute in Magdeburg, Germany, with research stays in Canada and France. Since July 2022, he has been a member of the Kingston Lab, analyzing advanced sequencing data to investigate chromatin regulation and organization. His work focuses on the roles of Polycomb, cohesin, and SWI/SNF complexes in chromatin organization and regulation.
