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

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:

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: