Eduardo Rosa-Molinar, PhD
Scientific Director, Professor Cell Biology & Physiology and Neuroscience
- Email: eduardor@wustl.edu
Dr. Rosa-Molinar is the WUCCI Scientific Director and a Professor of Cell Biology & Physiology and Neuroscience. He has over 40 years of experience in adopting, developing and implementing imaging methodologies in both optical and electron microscopy. Dr. Rosa-Molinar previously served as the Director of Microscopy and Analytical Imaging (MAI) Research Laboratory at the University of Kansas.
In addition, Dr. Rosa-Molinar runs a research program aimed at elucidating niche specialization of connexions in heterotypic electrical synapses found in neural microcircuits, and he utilizes optical and electron microscopy techniques to assay his research questions.
Katherine Basore, PhD
Staff Scientist, Cryo-Electron Microscopy & Structural Biology
- Phone: 314-273-8507
- Email: kbasore@wustl.edu
Instruments: Titan Krios
Hobbies: Loves rabbits, dessert, and the oxford comma
Peter Bayguinov, PhD
Assistant Director, WUCCI
- Phone: 314-273-8507
- Email: peterbayguinov@wustl.edu
Assistant Director, Washington University Center for Cellular Imaging
Assistant Professor
Departments of Neuroscience and Cell Biology & Physiology
Michael Bridge, PhD
Instructor, Cell Biology & Physiology
- Phone: 314-273-8507
- Email: bridgem@wustl.edu
Xue Wen Ng, PhD
Staff Scientist, Optical and Electron Microscopy
- Phone: 314-273-8507
- Email: xuewen.ng@wustl.edu
Dennis Oakley, MS
Research Specialist, Optical Microscopy
- Phone: 314-273-8507
- Email: oakleyd@wustl.edu
Instruments: Nikon A1R, FV1200, Zeiss AxioImager & AxioScan
Hobbies: Family, politics and renovating his house
Brad Readnour, PhD
Staff Scientist, Cryo-Electron Microscopy
- Phone: 314-273-8507
- Email: readnour@wustl.edu
Greg Strout, MS
Research Specialist, Electron Microscopy
- Phone: 314-273-8507
- Email: gstrout@wustl.edu
Instruments: JEOL TEM, Zeiss Merlin SEM
Hobbies: Restoring antique American cars
Brock Summers, PhD
Staff Scientist, Cryo-Electron Microscopy & Micro-ED
- Phone: 314-273-8507
- Email: brocks@wustl.edu
Instruments: Glacios
Hobbies: Sports, St. Louis, Blues / Cardinals, trading card games
John Wulf II
Research Technician II, Electron Microscopy
- Phone: 314-273-8507
- Email: wjohn@wustl.edu
Instruments: JEOL TEM
Hobbies: Reading and Minecraft!
WUCCI Alumni
- Robyn Roth (Instructor) – Research Associate in Mecham Lab.
- Daniel Geanon (WUSTL ’17 Biology) – Graduate Student, Karolinska Institute.
- Matt Joens (Staff Scientist) – Applications Specialist, TESCAM.
- Max Fisher (WUSTL ‘ 19 Biology | Latin American Studies) – Medical Student at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
- Tracy Rappai (WUSTL ’19 Biology | Neuroscience | Classics) – Medical Student at the University of Mississippi.
- Seena Sebt (WUSTL ’20 Biology) – Medical Student at UC Riverside.
- Ari Ettleson (WUSTL ’20 Biology) – Medical Student at George Washington University.
- Precious Faniyi (WUSTL ’20 Biomedical Engineering) – Teacher at TFA.
- Henok Getahun (WUSTL ’20 Biology) – Medical Student at WashU.
- Ben Johnston (WUSTL ’21 Biomedical Engineering) – Finishing his senior year.
- Erin Kotzbauer (Northwestern ’22 Chemical Engineering) – Merk.
- Mike Shih (Staff Scientist) – Data Scientist at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation.
- Ross Kossina (Research Technician II)- Independent research, Washington State
- Milenko Petrovic – (WUSTL ’22 Biology & Neuroscience)- Medical Student at University of Arkansas
- Yusuf Bekirov – (WUSTL ’22 Computer Science)-Firmware engineer, Aclara
- Praveen Krishnamourthy (Staff Scientist)- Genentech
- Sanja Sviben (Staff Scientist)
- Michael Rau (Staff Scientist)- Bayer Crop Science
- Liam McLaughlin (Research Technician II)- Jain Lab