Principal Investigator
JungA Alexa Woo, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology
Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine.
Dr. Alexa Woo, Assistant professor of Dept. of pathology at Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine. Dr. Woo completed her Master’s degree at Seoul National University and her PhD at USF. She became an assistant professor at USF in 2017, and later moved to CWRU. Her research focuses on the GPCR-beta arrestins signaling in multiple neurodegenerative diseases including AD, FTD, PD, and ALS. Dr. Woo’s lab also works on mitochondrial protein CHCHD2 in neurodegenerative diseases. Dr. Woo serves NIH study sections and extramural grant review panels.
Graduate Research Assistants
Teresa Kee
PhD candidate
Teresa is currently a PhD Candidate in Dr. Woo’s lab. Her work focuses on how mitochondrial dysfunction contributes to Parkinson’s disease pathology. Teresa received her B.S. in Cell and Molecular Biology from USF in 2018. She previously volunteered as an undergraduate under Dr. David Kang and Dr. Stephen Liggett. Teresa also completed a molecular biology research internship in Würzburg, Germany in the summer of 2017 as a DAAD RISE research fellow.
Ashwini Shivalinga
Collaborative Ph.D. student
Ashwini received her Master’s degree in Biological Sciences from Bangalore University in 2015. She joined the lab as a collaborative student from CSIR-Central Food Technological Institute, Mysuru, Karnataka, India. Her research focuses on understanding the effect of alkaloids on Tau aggregation inhibition and its related cellular markers of Alzheimer's disease in in-vitro and in-vivo models.
Brianna Masters
Masters Student
Brianna graduated with her B.A. in Biology and Neuroscience with a minor in Ethics from Miami University in 2022. She is currently pursuing her M.S. in Pathology (Cellular and Molecular Basis of Disease) at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. She plans to work towards a PhD in neuroscience while pursuing her hobbies of invertebrate and amphibian keeping.
Research Assistants
Weinan Du, Ph.D.
Case Western Reserve University
Dr. Du graduated from Qingdao Medical College and was a pediatrician. He received his PhD degree from Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences/Peking Union Medical College. Dr. Du joined Case Western Reserve University in 2006 and has worked in Case for 17 years. He recently joined Dr. Woo's lab for Alzheimer's Disease research.
Undergraduates
Khoi Tran
Nandita Patil
Alumni
Pamela Espinoza Gonzalez (2019-2021)