People
Gareth Morgan, PhD
Title: Research Assistant Professor
Role: I coordinate research, manage collaborations, and write manuscripts that describe our discoveries and proposals to fund our work. In the time that’s left, I work in the lab and analyze data.
Background: I was an undergraduate at Imperial College in London. I completed my PhD at the University of Sheffield with Professors Jon Waltho and Rosie Staniforth. I worked as a postdoc at the University of Leeds with Professor Sheena Radford, including a brief spell at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor with Professor Jim Bardwell. I then spent eight years working with Professor Jeff Kelly at Scripps Research in San Diego before starting at BUSM in 2018. My primary appointment is in the Department of Medicine, Section of Hematology and Medical Oncology, and I have a secondary appointment in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.
List of all publications: My NCBI bibliography
Sherry Wong, BS
Title: Research Technician
Role: Sherry carries out most of the actual experiments in the lab, from processing patient samples to measuring protein stability. She also trains visiting students and makes sure that everything is working properly.
Allison Nau, MS
Title: Research Analyst
Role: Allison is a bioinformatician, developing tools for analysis of antibody protein sequences and analyzing gene expression data. She completed her Masters Degree in BU’s Bioinformatics program, and her position in the lab was initially funded by the BU Genome Sciences Institute.
Lab alumni
Alejandra Medina Montero worked in the lab as part of the BU STaRS program in the summer of 2022, studying antibody light chain stability and aggregation
Zach Yung worked remotely as part of the BU STaRS program in the summer of 2021, studying glycosylation of light chains.
Liudmila Belonogov worked as a research technician from 2019 to 2021.
Jiaji George Chen is a graduate student in the BU PiBS program who rotated remotely in the summer of 2020, studying gene expression in myeloma.
Margaret Downs is a graduate student in the BU PiBS program who rotated in the lab in 2019, developing an assay for measuring light chain levels in blood.
Noah Grunberg is a graduate student in the BU PiBS program who rotated in the lab in 2019, studying light chain aggregation.
Madeline West worked remotely as part of the BU STaRS program in the summer of 2020, studying the aggregation of light chains.
Josh Gustine is a medical student at BU who worked in the lab in the summer of 2019.
Paris Taylor worked in the lab as part of the BU STaRS program in the summer of 2019, studying the stability of LECT2.
Collaborators
We work closely with scientists and physicians at the BU Amyloidosis Center.