Vidali Lab's Members

Luis Vidali

Professor of Biology and Biotechnology
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program

Principal Investigator - Research in plant cell polarized growth and signaling during plant-fungal interactions.


Rholee Xu

3rd year PhD student 

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program

Jointly advised by Professor Vidali and Professor Min Wu on a project involving mathematical modeling of moss cell growth

Edward J. Chocano-Coralla 

3rd year PhD student
Biology and Biotechnology 

Research polarized growth and vesicle traffic

Grace McCarthy

Undergraduate - Senior

Biology and Biotechnology major 

Lab assistant

Kate Pagano

Undergraduate - Junior -MQP

Biology and Biotechnology major 

Research Assistant

Jocelyn Hinchcliffe

Undergraduate - Junior -MQP

Biology and Biotechnology major 

Research Assistant

Isabel Sumner

Undergraduate - Junior

Biology and Biotechnology major 

Research Assistant

Carter Nakagawa

Undergraduate - Senior - MQP

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology major 


Ren Vitellaro

Undergraduate - Senior - MQP

Biology & Biotechnology and Biochemistry major 


Leah Maciel

Undergraduate - Junior- MQP

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology major 


Past and Present Collaborators

Min Wu - Assistant Professor - Mathematics - WPI


Mary Munson - Professor - University of Massachusetts - Medical School, MA


Dirk Albrecht - Associate Professor - BME - WPI


Sebastian Bednarek - Professor - UW- Madison


Erkan Tuzel - Associate Professor of Physics - Temple University, PA.


Manuel Gonzalez-Guerrero- GBGP - Madrid, Spain


Kaye Peterman - Professor - Wellesley College


David Domozych - Professor - Skidmore College


Lawrence Griffing - Professor - Texas A&M


Miguel Angel Villalobos - Investigador - IPN, Mexico


Magdalena Bezanilla - Dartmouth College, NH.