Roy Lab
University of Maryland
Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics
Our Team
Sougata Roy
Associate Professor
Email: sougata@umd.edu
Phone: 301.405.6158 (Office)
301.405.2318 (Lab)
PhD: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Post-doc: University of California, San Francisco
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Yuki Taira
Post-doctoral associate
(2025-current)
PhD: Kobe University, Hyogo, Japan
Jyoti Singh
Post-doctoral associate
(2026-current)
PhD: Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
Graduate Student
Stephen Stanio
(2022-current)
Undergraduate researchers and lab managers
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Elise Huang
Elizabeth Sills
Past Members
Dr. Lijuan Du
Post-doctoral fellow and Assistant Research Scientist
(2015-2022)
Current position: Senior Scientist, AstraZeneca
Dr. Ruofan Wang
(Research Scientist)
Current position:
Scientist, Charles River Laboratories
Alex Sohr
Ph.D student and post-doctoral fellow
Current position: Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Akshay Patel
Ph.D student and research scientist
Current position: Post-doc at the National Institute of Health
Ge Yan
Lab manager
Yujia Li
Ph.D student
Current position: post-doc
at the CSHL
Hind Hitti
Ph.D student
Past Undergraduate Students
Joanna Chang (2024-2026)
Priyanka Srinath (2024-2026)
Nithya Nuvvala (2024-2026)
Justin Shi (2021-2022)
Stephen Lyons (2022)
Molly Maranto (2019-2022)
Vidhi K (2021-2022)
Yoshi Chetri (2023)
Amy Zhou (2015-2017)
Mishal Rao (2015-2018)
Akshay Patel (2015-2018)
Anjik Ghosh (2017-2018)
Abel Kwong (2017-2018)
Sanjana Chimaladinne (2023-2025)
Maria Bottino (2024-2025)
Angela Nnabue (2023-2024)
Ketki Shah (2023-2024)
Kayla Bleich (2023-2024)
Durga Singh (2023-2024)
Chitrine Biswas (2018)
Kelsey Anderson (2016-2017)
Heather Groves (2014-2016)
Neil Patel (2018-2019)
McCauley Brown (2020-2021)