Kenneth Matreyek, PhD
Principal Investigator
kenneth.matreyek[at]case.edu
Kenny obtained his B.Sc. at UCLA, and a PhD in Virology from Harvard. He was an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellow in the Genome Sciences Department at the University of Washington. He started his lab at CWRU in September 2019.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9149-551X
Interests: Contemporary music. Soccer. Running. Hiking. Birding. Data analysis. Woodworking. Gardening (ie. cultivating his plant army). Hydroponics (ie. cultivating his plant… navy?). Making convoluted analogies. Finding ways to avoid the waves of existential dread stemming from the current state of the country.
Favorite Bands: Death Cab, Mitski, Jason Isbell :(, IDLES, Against Me! / Laura Jane Grace, LC!, Spacey Kacey, …
Personal website: www.visualizedlife.com
Twitter (is dead to me): @kmatreyek
Bluesky: @kmatreyek.bsky.social
Nidhi Shukla
Research Associate
nxs664[at]case.edu
Nidhi obtained her M.Sc. in Biotechnology at MSU Baroda, India and PhD in Cancer Biology at Central Drug Research Institute in Lucknow, India. She is interested in exploring the pathophysiology of chronic and viral diseases.
Interests: Gardening, crafting and cooking.
Nisha Kamath
PhD student
(Pathology [Immunology])
ndk39[at]case.edu
Nisha obtained her B.Sc. in Biotechnology from University at Buffalo, and started at CWRU in the fall of 2020. She is studying the STIM1-Orai1 pathway of store-operated Ca2+ entry.
Interests: Dance, baking and various arts and crafts.
John Snell
PhD student
(Systems Biology [SYBB])
jcs296[at]case.edu
John obtained his B.Sc. from the University of Washington, and started at CWRU in the fall of 2022. He is studying the sequence determinants of translational stop-start activities mediated by 2A-like peptide sequences.
Interests: Many musical instruments. Tabletop games.
Brent Shassberger
PhD student
(Molecular Virology)
bts73[at]case.edu
Brent obtained his B.Sc. from the University of Miami (FL), and started at CWRU in the fall of 2024. Brent is jointly mentored with Anna Bruchez.
Brian Nelson
PhD student
(Systems Biology [SYBB])
bjn52[at]case.edu
Brian obtained his B.Sc. and Masters in Applied Math from the SUNY at Stony Brook, and started at CWRU in the fall of 2024.
Anna Bruchez, PhD
Collaborator
Anna.Bruchez[at]case.edu
Anna obtained her B.Sc. at MIT, and a PhD in Virology from Harvard. She is the resident Ebola virologist and expert on viral entry mechanisms.
Twitter: @AnnaBruchez
You?
Postdoctoral researchers: Please email Kenny directly to inquire about open positions.
Graduate students: We accept students though the Case Western Biomedical Sciences Training Program and the Medical Scientist Training Program.
Undergraduate students: (Sep 2024: We are not taking additional undergraduate students at this time)
Additional staff: (Sep 2024: We are not hiring additional staff.)
^ Normally, the above would be true. Currently, due to purposeful top-down disruption of the science funding ecosystem, there are both literal and figurative hiring freezes in place,
Matreyek and Bruchez labs photos
