Joey Zemke

Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Current advisor: Celeste M. Karch, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Washington, 2019

Enrollment year: 2021

Research summary
Utilizing stem cell derived neuron, astrocytes and microglia to investigate long non coding RNAs role in neurodegeneration

Graduate publications
Fischer LA, Meyer B, Reyes M, Zemke JE, Harrison JK, Park KM, Wang T, Jüppner H, Dietmann S, Theunissen TW. 2025 Tracking and mitigating imprint erasure during induction of naive human pluripotency at single-cell resolution. Stem Cell Reports, 20(3):102419. PMCID:

Yoon EJ, Beltcheva M, Ali SS, Fu S, Yang A, Dong C, Zemke JE, Karvas RM, Chang CT, Fischer LA, Gontarz P, Zhang B, Dietmann S, Theunissen TW, Solnica-Krezel L. 2025 Manifold roles of the chemokine G-protein-coupled receptor CCR7 in differentiation of human trophoblast into extravillous and syncytiotrophoblast lineages. Development, 152(17):dev204309. PMCID:

Morey R, Bui T, Cheung VC, Dong C, Zemke JE, Requena D, Arora H, Jackson MG, Pizzo D, Theunissen TW, Horii M. 2024 iPSC-based modeling of preeclampsia identifies epigenetic defects in extravillous trophoblast differentiation. iScience, 27(4):109569. PMCID: PMC11016801

Karvas RM, Zemke JE, Ali SS, Upton E, Sane E, Fischer LA, Dong C, Park KM, Wang F, Park K, Hao S, Chew B, Meyer B, Zhou C, Dietmann S, Theunissen TW. 2023 3D-cultured blastoids model human embryogenesis from pre-implantation to early gastrulation stages. Cell Stem Cell, 30(9):1148-1165.e7. PMCID: