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B.S., İstanbul University, Turkey, 1994
Ph.D., U.Mass Medical School, USA, 2007

`,memberLink:{text:`linkedin.com/in/erbayyigit`,url:`https://www.linkedin.com/in/erbayyigit/`,target:`_blank`}},{memberDescription:`Liz joined the lab as a postdoc in 2007 to continue her strong interest in intracellular bacteria. She characterized the first transcription factors and regulation of the type IV secretion system and riboflavin biosynthesis in the Wolbachia endosymbiont in filarial parasites. Liz continues to focus on basic and applied research on Wolbachia, neglected tropical diseases, and tick-borne and viral infections. She is currently pursuing genomic and transcriptomic approaches to increase our understanding of the Wolbachia-host relationship and using the latest advances in nucleic acid amplification technologies to develop new diagnostics for infectious diseases, including microRNA detection for filariasis, LAMP and qPCR assays for tick-borne diseases, bacteriophage, SARS-CoV-2 and Eastern Equine Encephalitis. Outside the lab, Liz enjoys hiking, yoga and audiobooks.`,memberName:`Zhiru (Liz) Li`,memberTitle:`Research Scientist III`,mediaSrc:`https://media.neb.com/asset/c1353446-48d5-4e8f-acf6-5558d8d24188/thumbnail/webimage-Liz_Li_Lab`,memberEducation:`

B.Sc., Nankai University, China, 1996
Ph.D., Tufts University, USA, 2007

`,memberLink:{text:``,url:null,target:null}},{memberDescription:`Amit Sinha joined NEB as a postdoctoral researcher in 2017, where he focused on genome and transcriptome analysis of filarial parasites, their Wolbachia endosymbionts, and tick-borne microbes and pathogens. In 2020, he transitioned to the role of Research Scientist.
Amit’s research centers on Neglected Tropical Diseases, with a particular emphasis on bioinformatics-driven approaches to genome assembly and annotation from complex metagenomic and clinical samples. His work spans comparative genomics and phylogenomics to elucidate evolutionary relationships, and genome mining to develop species-specific, sensitive diagnostic biomarkers.
Recent projects include the development of colorimetric LAMP assays for detecting infections with filarial parasites Mansonella perstans and Mansonella ozzardi, LAMP-based diagnostics for Mpox virus, discovery and sequencing of novel Wolbachia genomes, identification of tick-borne single-stranded RNA viruses using Cappable-seq for metatranscriptomic analysis, and genome sequencing of the beech leaf disease nematode Litylenchus crenatae mccannii.
Outside the lab, Amit enjoys traveling, hiking, and spending time outdoors. Indoors, he’s an avid reader of popular science, history, and fiction.`,memberName:`Amit Sinha`,memberTitle:`Research Scientist II`,mediaSrc:`/en-us/-/media/nebus/page-images/research-labs/carlow-lab/carlow---processed/employees/amit_sinha.jpg?rev=0eb45c6095274fb1bb875ff24b552d27&hash=781477F010463260D0CEA1B4A52EA2E9`,memberEducation:`B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, India, 2002
M. Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, India, 2007
Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany, 2012
`,memberLink:{text:`linkedin.com/in/amit-sinha`,url:`https://www.linkedin.com/in/amit-sinha-7b4b7a5/`,target:`_blank`}},{memberDescription:`I was born in Guangdong, China. My family moved to the US when I was fifteen. I majored in biomedical engineering at the City College of New York, and I became interested in biology as I started doing research there. After college, to gain more experience in biology research, I worked as a research associate at Mount Sinai Medical School in New York City for ~2 years. Then I pursued my Ph.D. in Biological Sciences at Columbia University. For my Ph.D., I studied two non-canonical isoforms of the human polyadenylation factor WDR33. I showed that these two isoforms are functionally completely unrelated to the canonical protein, and that their production is regulated by a complex interplay between mRNA splicing and polyadenylation.`,memberName:`Lizhi Liu`,memberTitle:`Research Scientist I`,mediaSrc:`https://media.neb.com/m/79f42b8ad8065b0d/webimage-Lizhi_Liu.png`,memberEducation:`B. Eng, University of New York, USA, 2013
Ph.D., Columbia University, USA, 2023

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