https://www.verzilab.org/home daily 0.75 2019-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6c1689ebfc7fba6aa8d731/1551112279542-R507BON0L2SRBGIQ0NEC/labPhoto2018.jpg Home - Lab People https://www.verzilab.org/detail-page-3 daily 1.0 2024-06-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6c1689ebfc7fba6aa8d731/1551110561426-V65ZIK5D39A4HCOFSL6S/FluorIntestineStitch.jpg Detail Page 3 We’re fascinated by all aspects of intestinal biology. Here’s a a look at a small stretch of intestine. This undulating epithelial pattern of crypts and villi repeats millions of times along the length of our small intestine. https://www.verzilab.org/detail-page-2 daily 0.75 2026-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6c1689ebfc7fba6aa8d731/1551127520343-X308F7NB2SD00AQMG4A4/labPhoto5_17_18aup.jpg Detail Page 2 Top to Bottom and Left to Right: Rohit Aita, Bailey Warder, Aditya Parthasarathy, Natalie Toke, Kevin Tong, Lei Chen, Mike Verzi, Pooja Shah, Shirley Luo, Oscar Pellon Cardenas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6c1689ebfc7fba6aa8d731/1620261226755-VR6GJE91GKLCAE86BV7Y/May5_2021.jpg Detail Page 2 May 5, 2021 as we say goodbye to Kat! Mike, Katherine Haro, Manisha Bandari, Jill Carrick, Kevin Tong, Kiran Vemuri, Lei Chen, and Meifan Zhang https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6c1689ebfc7fba6aa8d731/83ac1599-0815-448b-a924-80531ed28b7b/Picture2.jpg Detail Page 2 - Make it stand out Summer 2023, before Rohit heads to Pitt and Sohaib heads to Stanford! Jahangir Iqbal, Rohit Aita, Sohaib Hassan, Rachel Ofer, Uyen Nguyen, Kiran Vemuri, Mike Verzi, Prateeksha Rout, and Oscar Pellon Cardenas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6c1689ebfc7fba6aa8d731/155588d1-a71c-4c59-a90b-e95599466db1/20230714_153805.jpg Detail Page 2 - Make it stand out Rocking our new lab shirts in 2023 to celebrate Sohaib heading to Stanford! Heba, Sneha K2, Allie, Jahangir, Mike, Sohaib, Rachel, Kiran, Prateeksha, Oscar, Rahma, Tyler, and Sneha K1 are in on the fun! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6c1689ebfc7fba6aa8d731/d27eacd8-a21a-4930-8c1e-f29c6baf1bd4/September+2023.png Detail Page 2 - Make it stand out Uyen successfully defends in September, 2023! Uyen Nguyen, Rachel Ofer, Prateeksha Rout, Kiran Vemuri, Ping He, Xia Qiu, Winston Huang, Dennis Aldea, Allie Logerfo, and Jahangir Iqbal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6c1689ebfc7fba6aa8d731/22fa82da-7e88-41da-b0c3-4b9b888544ba/FASEB2025_3.jpg Detail Page 2 - Make it stand out The team was out in force for the GI Tract FASEB meeting in 2025! From left to right: Prateeksha, Allie, Alicia, Tyler, Rahma, Ping, Rachel, Anusha, Mike, and Xia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6c1689ebfc7fba6aa8d731/1620260991552-RF29HQ7Q9KP4SBU9H0CB/Verzi_Simpson_Version.jpg Detail Page 2 - Mike Verzi Duncan and Nancy MacMillan Chair in Cancer Genomics Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco Mike is thankful for his mentors at TCNJ (Lovett), UCSF (Black), and Dana Farber (Shivdasani). Now in the mentor role, he tries to stay out of everyone’s way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6c1689ebfc7fba6aa8d731/ee6861f2-35bb-4add-9a40-c9272dbc246e/Jahangir.png Detail Page 2 - Jahangir Iqbal AM University, Aligarh Jahangir is an expert in using mouse genetics to dissect physiological mechanisms and coordinates several projects in the lab. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6c1689ebfc7fba6aa8d731/9d73be8f-2171-4e9f-bc2f-9cb61345c529/ping.png Detail Page 2 - Ping He SUNY Stony Brook, MD, PhD Ping is a GI fellow and F32 funded scientist investigating mechanisms of intestinal repair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6c1689ebfc7fba6aa8d731/9972472c-2dfd-4576-b82f-d654898aa3d0/allie.png Detail Page 2 - Alexandra Logerfo Georgetown University NIH-funded T32 and F31 Graduate Student Allie is investigating the mechanisms of BMP signaling using complex mouse genetic models https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6c1689ebfc7fba6aa8d731/fe458faf-a1e8-48b4-babf-2e689ec09ad0/Xia.jpg Detail Page 2 - Xia Qiu Xia is picking apart the mechanisms to make the brush border, a super-cool cellular structure on the apical surface of absorptive epithelial cells https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6c1689ebfc7fba6aa8d731/b522fb81-14bc-480c-8ff9-c311a4758511/Rachel.png Detail Page 2 - Rachel Ofer NCI Fellowship Funding - Rachel is trying to define how transcription factors control the regenerative response to damage of the intestine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6c1689ebfc7fba6aa8d731/a440a7dd-e53a-412e-8f05-f7dd5128abe9/Prat.jpg Detail Page 2 - Prateeksha Rout Prateeksha is studying transcriptional mechanisms of intestinal regeneration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6c1689ebfc7fba6aa8d731/58f9f1fd-7e68-446e-918e-b74ca07bd6e6/Anusha.jpg Detail Page 2 - Merilyn Anusha Gnanapragasam Anusha is studying the role of HNF4 transcription factors in inflammatory diseases. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6c1689ebfc7fba6aa8d731/1551129911254-EQ1JAAZX2SDI76LCRIO8/undergrads.jpg Detail Page 2 - Undergraduates Rutgers University has lots of talented undergraduate students. We wish we could take more into our group…. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6c1689ebfc7fba6aa8d731/1551127884919-3MIGOFSSP78KBAWUA8UA/image-asset.jpeg Detail Page 2 https://www.verzilab.org/contact daily 0.75 2019-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6c1689ebfc7fba6aa8d731/1551214051039-52BV98SKFP1IU7P06ZM8/psycoVilli.png Contact https://www.verzilab.org/detail-page-1 daily 0.75 2026-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6c1689ebfc7fba6aa8d731/1551365344537-R37HFY4YF1JCNN9FCSAO/ValdezGradCap.jpg Detail Page 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6c1689ebfc7fba6aa8d731/1551365419098-KIEO8QC62DKU3PVLYAT3/labPhoto5_17_18b.jpeg Detail Page 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6c1689ebfc7fba6aa8d731/1551365843852-RPT2SNOU643X0O1WX7Q9/lab2017.jpg Detail Page 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6c1689ebfc7fba6aa8d731/1551365883568-CQ8DZ2NR8QVJJVEP32ND/wordle.png Detail Page 1 https://www.verzilab.org/detail-page-4 daily 0.75 2026-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6c1689ebfc7fba6aa8d731/1551301039609-6VC0WZEPG5HDLA4TTWXO/funding.png Detail Page 4 The Verzi Lab was also awarded the Grossman Innovation Award in 2025!