Eesha Verma
Eesha is an undergraduate junior studying biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University. She is originally from central Massachusetts, and she joined the lab in spring of 2021. In her free time, Eesha loves hiking, baking, and painting.
Kunal Gupta
Kunal Gupta, originally from Seattle, WA, graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 2021 with a degree in molecular and cellular biology. Kunal started working in the lab as an undergrad in the fall of 2018. He is researching the expression of ion transport receptors found throughout the nephron. Outside of the lab, Kunal enjoys sports, […]
Brittni Moore
Brittni graduated from Pepperdine University with a bachelor’s degree in Sports Medicine in 2016. She then worked as a Cancer Research Training Fellow with the National Institutes of Health until her matriculation into the CMP program in the fall of 2019. Brittni officially joined the Pluznick family in May of 2020. Her interests include: yoga, […]
Mackenzie Kui
Mackenzie’s first exposure to lab research began as an undergraduate at UCSB where he studied reproductive diapause in fruit flies. After earning his degree in 2018, Mackenzie transitioned into small molecule development while working at City of Hope and Oncovalent Therapeutics. Outside of the lab, you can find him rock climbing or playing beach volleyball.
Noel Getachew
Noel Getachew graduated from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2020 with a B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and joined the lab in 2021. He is currently studying how a novel receptor that affects blood pressure responds to Short-chain fatty acids produced by the gut microbiome. Outside of lab he is a quiet […]
Nathan Zaidman
Nathan earned his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 2016, where he studied ion transport in airway epithelial cells. He joined the lab in the fall of 2016 to explore the wonders of the kidney. When he’s not in the lab, he enjoys hiking, bowling and playing soccer.
Jiaojiao Xu
Jiaojiao Xu graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong with her PhD in Oct of 2017, where she studied the modulation of salty taste in human taste cells by dipeptides. She joined the lab in October of 2018.
Jennifer Pluznick, Ph.D.
Jen Pluznick received her Ph.D. in Renal Physiology from the University of Nebraska Medical Center (Omaha, NE) in 2005. She then spent five years training as a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University (New Haven, CT), where she studied both renal physiology and sensory biology systems (in particular, olfaction). Jen is interested in better understanding the […]