Kenneth Moberg, PhD
Professor and Principal investigator
Dr. Moberg received his B.S. in Biology from Haverford College in 1989. He obtained his PhD in Biology in 1998 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked in Dr. Jacqueline Lees’ lab. Dr. Moberg completed a post-doctoral fellow in Dr. Iswar Hariharan’s lab at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School in 2003. In 2003 he became an Assistant Professor of Cell Biology at Emory University School of Medicine and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2010.
Carly Lancaster, PhD (she/her)
Former IH NRSA F31 Fellow
PhD Student, Biochemistry, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Carly earned her B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from University of South Carolina in 2019. She joined the Moberg lab in May 2021. She passed her PhD defense and graduated in May 2024!
Colby Schweibenz, PhD (she/her)
Former NIH NRSA F31 Fellow
PhD Student, Biochemistry, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Colby earned her B.S. in Biochemistry from Elizabethtown College in 2018. She joined the lab in May 2019. She passed her PhD defense and graduated in May 2024!
Tori Placentra (they/them), NIH NRSA F31 Fellow
PhD Student, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Tori graduated in 2017 from University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, where they double majored with a B.A. in Chemistry and B.A. in English. Then they completed a post-baccalaureate position in Dr. Paul Doetsch’s lab at the NIH in the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIH NIEHS). Tori joined the lab in March 2022.
Jordan Goldy (she/her), NIH NRSA F31 Fellow
PhD Student, Biochemistry, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Jordan earned her B.S. in Biology from Western Carolina University in 2017. Then she completed a lab tech position at Emory University in the lab of Dr. Ann Chahroudi. Jordan joined the Moberg lab in 2022.
Chloe Wells (she/her)
Extraordinary Undergraduate Student, Biology and Chemistry Double Major
Chloe is a senior undergraduate student at Emory University, and is interested in pursuing graduate school in the future.