Principal Investigator:

Portrait photo of Dr. Anisa Shaker, the principal investigator of the lab.
Anisa Shaker, MD

Anisa Shaker is physician-scientist with a lab investigating mechanisms of esophageal injury, repair, and inflammation in benign and malignant states.  Clinically she sees patients with GERD, eosinophilic esophagitis, and swallowing and esophageal motility disorders. She earned her medical degree from Medical College of Wisconsin, followed by residency at Brown University-Rhode  Island Hospital, and a Gastroenterology Fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine-Barnes Jewish Hospital. https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/anisa-shaker/ 

Research Associate: Tao Li, PhD. Tao has over 10 years of experience in molecular biology research. The research fields that he was involved in included host-fungus, bacterium-bacteriophage and brain-gut interactions. His expertise in high throughput sequencing and application of statistical and computational methods helps to extend the knowledge in these fields.

Outside collaborators:

  • Ibrahim Abboud, BS
  • Chloe Tom, MD

Prior members:

  • Joshua Castle, BS.
  • Atousa Khalatbari, MD, MS
  • Diana Segura, BS
  • Madhura Patankar, PhD
  • Liping Hu, MS
  • Chunying Zhang, MD
  • Chao Niu, PhD
  • Matthew Gargus, BS