{"id":246,"date":"2017-03-26T17:43:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T17:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?page_id=246"},"modified":"2026-07-16T09:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T13:41:13","slug":"team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/bio\/labs\/gorbunova\/team\/","title":{"rendered":"Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Dr. Vera Gorbunova<\/a><\/h3>\r\n PI<\/span>\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Dr. Andrei Seluanov<\/a><\/h3>\r\n Co-PI<\/span>\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Julia Ablaeva<\/a><\/h5>\r\n \r\n

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Seyed Ali Biashad<\/a><\/h5>\r\n \r\n

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Victoria Paige<\/a><\/h5>\r\n \r\n

Mice Technician<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

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Kelsey Klump<\/a><\/h5>\r\n \r\n

Exotic Rodents Technician<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

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Kate Strelkova<\/a><\/h5>\r\n \r\n

Lab Technician<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

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El Nakajima<\/a><\/h5>\r\n \r\n

Visiting Scientist<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

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Mila Kaplan<\/a><\/h5>\r\n \r\n

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Dr. Gregory Tombline<\/a><\/h5>\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Dr. Denis Firsanov<\/a><\/h5>\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Dr. Huiru Bai<\/a><\/h5>\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Dr. Valentin Volobaev<\/a><\/h5>\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Dr. Airat Ibragimov<\/a><\/h5>\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Dr. Domenico DiFraia<\/a><\/h5>\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Dr. Anatoly Korotkov<\/a><\/h5>\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Dr. John Martinez<\/a><\/h5>\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Francesco Morandini<\/a><\/h5>\r\n \r\n

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Fartukh Artur<\/a><\/h5>\r\n \r\n

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Undergraduates<\/h2>
  • Adrie Esguerra<\/li>
  • Bingqi Zhang<\/li>
  • Carly Erikson<\/li>
  • Elizabeth Davis<\/li>
  • Enzo Wan<\/li>
  • Jessica Wang<\/li>
  • Lerah Pfeffer<\/li>
  • Minjie Yuan<\/li>
  • Zain Shikh<\/li>
  • ZhuZhu Cai<\/li>
  • Erwan Canoglu<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Principal Investigators Dr. Vera Gorbunova PI Dr. Andrei Seluanov Co-PI Laboratory Technicians Julia Ablaeva Lab Manager Seyed Ali Biashad Lab Manager Victoria Paige Mice Technician Kelsey Klump Exotic Rodents Technician Kate Strelkova Lab Technician El Nakajima Visiting Scientist Mila Kaplan Research Technician Research Associates Dr. Gregory Tombline Dr. Denis Firsanov Postdocs Dr. Huiru Bai Dr. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-246","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/bio\/labs\/gorbunova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/bio\/labs\/gorbunova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/bio\/labs\/gorbunova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/bio\/labs\/gorbunova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/bio\/labs\/gorbunova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":233,"href":"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/bio\/labs\/gorbunova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15922,"href":"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/bio\/labs\/gorbunova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/246\/revisions\/15922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/bio\/labs\/gorbunova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}