People
Principal Investigator
Martha L. Bulyk
Professor of Medicine
Professor of Pathology
Co-Chair, Harvard Biophysics Graduate Program
Email: mlbulyk [at] genetics [dot] med [dot] harvard [dot] edu
Room: 466D, Tel: (617) 525-4725
Brief professional biography
Luca Mariani
Instructor of Medicine
Sequence specificity of Pioneer Factors to nucleosomal DNA
Room: 466, Tel: (617) 525-4726
Kaia Mattioli
Postdoctoral fellow
Transcription factor misregulation in disease
Room: 466, Tel: (617) 525-4726
Shubham Khetan
Postdoctoral fellow
High-throughput analysis of protein-DNA interactions
Room: 468, Tel: (617) 525-4545
Mayuresh Nitin Dongre
Masters student in Bioinformatics, Northeastern University
Analysis of alternative isoforms in breast cancer
Ananya Prasad
Masters student in Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
Multiomic analysis of allelic series of TF missense variants
Viveka Patil
Masters student in Bioinformatics, Northeastern University
Structure-based modeling of TF-DNA interactions
ELİFSU PERSİLİOĞLU
Medical student at Bahçeşehir University in Istanbul, Turkey
DNA cyclizability analysis.
Room: 466, Tel: (617) 525-4726
Anna Berggren
Undergraduate student, Vassar College
Analysis of TF-DNA interactions.
Room: 466, Tel: (617) 525-4726
Stephen Gisselbrecht
Research Specialist
cis-regulatory elements in Drosophila
Room: 468, Tel: (617) 525-4545
Richard Fierro :
bulyk_admin [at] genetics [dot] med [dot] harvard [dot] edu
Room: 458B, Tel: (617) 525-4743
Professor of Medicine
Professor of Pathology
Co-Chair, Harvard Biophysics Graduate Program
Email: mlbulyk [at] genetics [dot] med [dot] harvard [dot] edu
Room: 466D, Tel: (617) 525-4725
Brief professional biography
Instructors
Luca Mariani
Instructor of Medicine
Sequence specificity of Pioneer Factors to nucleosomal DNA
Room: 466, Tel: (617) 525-4726
Postdoctoral Fellows
Kaia Mattioli
Postdoctoral fellow
Transcription factor misregulation in disease
Room: 466, Tel: (617) 525-4726
Shubham Khetan
Postdoctoral fellow
High-throughput analysis of protein-DNA interactions
Room: 468, Tel: (617) 525-4545
Masters Students
Mayuresh Nitin Dongre
Masters student in Bioinformatics, Northeastern University
Analysis of alternative isoforms in breast cancer
Ananya Prasad
Masters student in Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
Multiomic analysis of allelic series of TF missense variants
Viveka Patil
Masters student in Bioinformatics, Northeastern University
Structure-based modeling of TF-DNA interactions
Undergraduate Students
ELİFSU PERSİLİOĞLU
Medical student at Bahçeşehir University in Istanbul, Turkey
DNA cyclizability analysis.
Room: 466, Tel: (617) 525-4726
Anna Berggren
Undergraduate student, Vassar College
Analysis of TF-DNA interactions.
Room: 466, Tel: (617) 525-4726
Lab Staff
Stephen Gisselbrecht
Research Specialist
cis-regulatory elements in Drosophila
Room: 468, Tel: (617) 525-4545
Administrative and Operations Manager
Richard Fierro :
bulyk_admin [at] genetics [dot] med [dot] harvard [dot] edu
Room: 458B, Tel: (617) 525-4743
Recent Alumni (2025 - Current )
2022-2025 Brent Caroll, Technical research assistant; matriculated in the Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. program at University of California Irvine
2019-2025 Julian Segert, Graduate student, Harvard Biological & Biomedical Sciences (BBS) Ph.D. Program
2023-2025 Junxi Feng, Masters student in Computational Biology and Quantitative Genetics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Alumni (2020 - 2024)
Alumni (2018 - 2019)
Alumni (2015 - 2017)
Alumni (2012 - 2014)
Alumni (2008 - 2011)
Alumni (2001 - 2007)
Congratulations to the most recently graduated PhD student from our lab, Dr. Julian Segert!

Congratulations to our former research assistant, Dr. Katy Weinand!

Congratulations on graduating Dr. Raehoon Jeong!

Congratulations to Dr. Raehoon Jeong on his marvelous Ph.D. dissertation defense!

Congratulations to Dr. Kian Hong Kock on his extraordinary Ph.D. dissertation defense!

Congratulations to Dr. Colin "Beyoncé" Waters on his wonderful Ph.D. dissertation defense!
Congratulations to Alex on his fantastic Ph.D. dissertation defense!

Congratulations to Julia on her amazing Ph.D. dissertation defense!

Accidental Matching day in the Bulyk Lab!
