Maresca Lab

Thomas J. Maresca

Professor

  • 2006-2010 Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • 2005 Ph.D., The University of California at Berkeley
  • 1999 B.S., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

tmaresca@bio.umass.edu

Biology department page

 

Thomas Laskarzewski

MCB Graduate Student, BTP Fellow

  • 2021 B.S., University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • 2022 M.S., University of Massachusetts Amherst

tlaskarzewsk@umass.edu

Yiwen Yang

MCB Graduate Student

  • 2024, M.S., Brown University
  • 2022, B.S., Michigan State University

yiwenyang@umass.edu

Devanshee Sanghvi

Undergraduate Researcher

  • 2025 B.S., University of Massachusetts Amherst

devansheepra@umass.edu

Savanah Freidus

Undergraduate Researcher

  • Expected B.S. 2026, University of Massachusetts Amherst

sfreidus@umass.edu

 

Charlotte Diamond

Maresca Lab Technician, Undergraduate Researcher

  • 2025 B.S., University of Massachusetts Amherst

cdiamond@umass.edu

Lab Alumni

Jenna

The best lab security ever

Parsa Masomi

  • 2025 B.S., University of Massachusetts Amherst

Christian Donlon

  • 2025 B.S., University of Massachusetts Amherst

Carla Botros 

  • 2025 B.S., University of Massachusetts Amherst

Riley Moore

  • B.S. 2024 - University of Massachusetts Amherst

Vikash Verma

  • 2012 Ph.D., Max Planck Society
  • Maresca Lab Postdoctoral Researcher 2016 - 2024
  • Now a postdoc in the Katz Lab at the University of Massachusetts Amherst 

Jess McGory

  • Ph.D. 2024. University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Now working at Merck Pharmaceuticals

Dylan Barcelos

  • B.S. 2022 - University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Now a PhD candidate at Rockefeller University

 

Jennifer Le

  • B.S. 2021 - University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • M.S. 2022 - University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • 2018-2022 Maresca Lab Technician
  • Now a Senior Associate Scientist at Merck EMD Serono 

Margaux Audett

  • 2021 Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Now a Scientist II at Orbital Therapeutics

Liron Burstein 

  • B.S. 2019- University of Massachusetts Amherst 

Colleen Castellani

  • B.S. 2019 - University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Now a Research Fellow in the Injury Reduction and Bone Health Group at USARIEM Military Performance Division

Erin Johnson

  • B.S. 2017 - University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Now a Research Assistant at Brigham and Women's Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders

Alexander Pratt

  • B.S. 2017 - University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • 2017-2018 Maresca Lab Technician

Adil Khan

  • 2017 M.S., University of Massachusetts Amherst

Anna Ye

  • 2017 Ph.D., The University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Now a Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of California at Berkeley

Chris Hoel

  • B.S. 2014 - University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • 2014-2016 Maresca lab technician extraordinaire
     
  • Now an associate in Flagship Pioneering

Stuart Cane

Ph.D. 2016 - University of Massachusetts Amherst

Ayana (Yani) Suber

M.S. 2015 - University of Massachusetts Amherst

Now a Research Technician at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center RNAi Core

Arzice Chua

B.S. 2015 - University of Massachusetts Amherst

Now a Labor & Delivery Clinical Research Coordinator at UPenn Medical Hospital

Cheerleader for the Philadelphia Eagles

Jaap van Krugten

Visiting Masters Student (Utrecht Univeristy) in Summer 2015

Now a PhD student at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam with Dr. Erwin Peterman

Julia Torabi

B.S. 2015 - University of Massachusetts Amherst

Commonwealth Honors College thesis

Now a research technician in Dr. Juelg's lab at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard

Matriculating medical student at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Jay Sanghvi

B.S. 2015 - University of Massachusetts Amherst

Commonwealth Honors College thesis

Bernadette Ojukwu

B.S. 2014 - University of Massachusetts Amherst

Now a Ph.D. student in the CUNY Graduate Center program in Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences

Ju Dechanupong

B.S. 2014 - University of Massachusetts Amherst

Philip T. McGilvray

B.S. 2013 - University of Massachusetts Amherst

Now a Ph.D. student in Dr. Keenan's lab, department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, at the University of Chicago.

Jeffery D. Salemi

B.S. 2013 - University of Massachusetts Amherst

Now a M.D. student at the University of Massachusetts Medical School

Andrew Schultz

B.S. 2013 - University of Massachusetts Amherst

Matriculating medical student at Albany Medical College

Molly Dorson

B.S. 2013 - University of Massachusetts Amherst

Sasha Luks-Morgan

Technician in the Maresca lab from 2011-2013.

Now a Ph.D. student in the Neuroscience program at the University of Utah.

Lab photos