1997

Philip is originally from Ukraine, got his undergraduate and masters degrees in medicine from Moscow State University, and his PhD at University of New Hampshire. As a postdoc, he did groundbreaking work on TFIID TAFs, and together with Eun-Jung Cho, showed that changing RNA pol II CTD phosphorylation patterns during elongation recruited different RNA processing factors. After leaving the lab, Philip went to the MIT Sloan School for his MBA, and since then has been working in Boston's biotech sector.

Noon is from Thailand, and grew up in an academic family. Her undergraduate major is dentistry, and she came to Harvard Dental School for her PhD. Her thesis work was on Bdf1, a yeast bromodomain protein involved in gene expression. After graduation, she did postdoctoral work at MIT and then joined the faculty at Chulalongkorn University back home in Thailand.

Vlad was a plant scientist in Russia before moving to the US. He was an invaluable member of our lab for many, many years. He's currently enjoying spending his retirement with his grandchildren.