Dr.Keith Latham
Dr.Keith Latham obtained his BS degree from the University of Kentucky in 1978, and his PhD degree from the University of Virginia. His postdoctoral research was conducted in the laboratory of Davor Solter at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, where he was trained in microsurgery by Dr. James McGrath. The overall research focus is aimed at understanding the molecular controls governing preimplantation development.

Bela Patel
Bela Patel has two degrees in Psychology and Law from the University of Gujarat in India. She has been working in the lab since its first beginnings, almost 13 years ago. She maintains the PREGER collection, as well as the mouse gene expression resource. She is mostly involved in molecular biology, the QADB method and in the organization of the laboratory.

Dr.Namdori Rachel Mtango
Namdori is a postdoctoral scientist with a PhD in Veterinary Sciences from Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan. During her graduate studies, she focused on in vitro fertilization, vitrification and somatic cell nuclear transfer in bovine and porcine embryos. Namdori has worked as a project scientist at Danish Institute of Agricultural sciences, Denmark. She joined KL laboratory in Dec, 2004. Her main interests are research in mammalian embryology especially defining molecular basis of the interaction between oocyte an sperm during activation of embryonic genome. Namdori is presently working on factors which controls embryo fragmentation, as well as gene expression of non human primate embryos (PREGER).

Dr.Yong Cheng
Dr. Cheng got his Ph.D. at China Agricultural University in 2000, majored in reproductive endocrinology and oocyte maturation mechanism. Then, he expanded his interest to the fertilization biology and animal cloning as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. From 2003 to 2005, he continued his interests on the derivation of germline stem cells in the process of oogenesis and spermatogenesis in the University of Pennsylvania. Since the beginning of 2006, Dr. Cheng joined Dr. Keith Latham's laboratory to study the biology of normal embryos and cloned embryos.

Dr.Lanping Hao
Dr. Lanping Hao obtained his PhD in Genetics and Molecular Biology at Southampton University in England. Her postdoctal research was conducted at Carmen Sapienza’s lab focusing on studying genetic and epigenetic machanisms on a polar, preimplantation-lethal phenotype known as “DDK syndrome”. She recently joined Dr. Keith Latham’s lab to focus on studying mechanisms of nuclear-cytoplasmic interactions in the early cloned and fertilized mouse embryos.

Dr.Amarnath Dasari
Amarnath is an Associate Scientist with a Ph.D in Reproductive biology. His doctoral research was focused on ‘differential reprogramming of donor cell by SCNT in cattle’ under the supervision of Dr. Yukio Tsunoda at Kinki University, Japan. Before taking up the current job, he worked as a Research Fellow with Dr. Keith Campbell at The University of Nottingham, UK, focusing on ‘Feasibility of inter-species nuclear transfer approach for producing autologous stem cells for therapeutic purposes’ in mouse model. His current research is focused on molecular and phenotypic effects of modulating expression of transcription factors involved in somatic cell nuclear reprogramming. .

Edward Romasko
Edward Romasko is a doctoral student in the Molecular Biology and Genetics department working in Dr. Keith Latham's laboratory. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Bioinformatics from the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia in 2009, and his advisor was Dr. James Pierce. After completing his undergraduate degree, he began at Temple University in Fall 2009 and joined Dr. Latham's lab in May 2009. His current research focuses on the translational control of spindle function in oocytes and early embryos, as well as cloned embryos.