Team

Ching-On (On) Wong, PhD

Principal Investigator

Assistant Professor
MS Program Coordinator
Department of Biological Sciences
Rutgers University – Newark

Email: chingon.wong@rutgers.edu

Postdoctoral: McGovern Medical School at UTHealth
PhD (Physiology): The Chinese University of Hong Kong
BSc (Biochemistry): The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Jagannatham Naidu Bhupana, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

PhD (Molecular and Cell Biology): Academia Sinica, Taiwan
MSc (Animal Biotechnology): University of Hyderabad, India
BSc (Biological Sciences): University of Hyderabad, India

Naidu completed his PhD training at Academia Sinica, a top research institute in Taiwan. He has years of experience in neuroscience research using cell and rodent models. With a recent publication on mitochondrial dynamics, he expands his horizon to study cell metabolism, organellar signaling, and protein trafficking in our lab.

Mohamed Asik Rajmohamed, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

PhD (Zoology): Bharathidasan University, India
MSc (Zoology): University of Madras, India
BSc (Zoology): Bharathidasan University, India

Asik joined our lab in 2024. He is working on bioenergetics using human iPSC-derived brain cells.

PhD Students

 

 

 

Angelid Pabon (PhD candidate; G-RISE trainee)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kaili Taylor

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yan (Ashley) Tong

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anwar Nakhla

MS Students

 

 

 

Alyssa Kenny

 

 

Undergraduates

Christina Mansour

Rushi Makadia

Amy Bernard

Kamila Nieves

 

Alumni 

Anita Jackson (MS student; 2021-2023)

Benjamin (Ben) Bechand (Visiting Research Scholar; 2023)

Andy Ho-Hang Leung (Postdoc; 2021-2023)

Ayikkara Drishya Nair (PhD student; 2022)

Malak Mosleh (Biology Major; 2022)

Aya Gomaa (MS student; 2021-2022)

Kayla Monterrosa (Rowan University; Rutgers Summer Undergraduate Research Institute 2022)

Yohana Da Silva (Biology Major; 2021-2022)

Sophia Stanley (Work-study; Nursing Major; 2021)

Evonny Portilla (Work-study; Biology Major; 2020)