Team — Taniguchi Lab

Meet the Team

Principal Investigator

Kenichiro Taniguchi

Education:
Postdoctoral Fellowship/Research Investigator, University of Michigan Medical School
PhD, Cell Biology, University of Virginia School of Medicine
BS, Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota

Postdoctoral Fellow

Nikola Sekulovski

Nikola completed his BS from Ss. Cyril and Methodius University (Skopje, Macedonia), and studied at Southern Illinois University as a Fulbright Foreign Student scholar where he completed his PhD in 2020 investigating female reproductive biology in the laboratory of Dr. James MacLean. His major goal is to identify novel mechanosensitive molecules that drive BMP signaling, as well as BMP-dependent transcriptional machineries during amniogenesis.

PhD student

Amber Carleton

Amber started as a PhD student in 2020 after obtaining her BS from the University of Wisconsin–Parkside. She aims to understand the role of trafficking machineries during human peri-implantation development as well as organogenesis.

PhD student

Maliha Kabir

Maliha began her PhD studies in 2024. Before coming to MCW, Maliha graduated with a BS in Bioinformatics & Biotechnology from the Asian University for Women in 2023.

Graduate Student

Bailey Schultz

Bailey completed her BS from Wisconsin Lutheran College. She is the newest to join the Taniguchi lab and will be working on early amnion and brain development.

Research Associate

Linnea Taniguchi

Linnea completed her BS from Bemidji State University, and her MS in Genetics from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities.

Graduate Student

Lauren Elberfeld

Lauren completed her BS from East Carolina University. She is now enrolled as an MSTP student at the Medical College of Wisconsin. In the lab, Lauren is exploring mechanisms underlying human epiblast formation.

Former Members