Lab Alumni

Graduate students:

  1. Ji Li, PhD, GGD Graduate Field,  2004 - 2008 (currently a research scientist at Pharmaseq Inc.)
  2. Nicole Liachko, PhD, GGD Graduate Field, 2004 - 2009 (currently a faculty at U Washington, WA)
  3. Mami Shindo, BMCB Graduate Field,  2004 - 2005
  4. Gizem Rizki, PhD, BMCB Graduate Field,  2006 – 2011  (currently at Novartis)
  5. Terri Iwata, DVM PhD, CBS Graduate Field,  2007 – 2012  (currently at the Jackson Laboratory)
  6. Hsin-Wen (Ella) Chang, PhD, BMCB Graduate Field,  2009 – 2015 (currently at 10X Genomics)
  7. Elliot Kahem, BMCB Graduate Field, 2010 – 2013 (currently a researcher at Moffitt Cancer Center)
  8. Seth Sagulo, BMCB Graduate Field, 2013-2018
  9. Steve Pisano, MS, BMCB Graduate Field, 2015-2016 (currently a strategic partnership lead at nference)
  10. Wenke Wang, PhD, BMCB Graduate Field, 2013-2018 (currently a postdoctoral fellow at Buck Institute of Age Research)
  11. Felicity Emerson, PhD, BBS Graduate Field, 2018-2023 (currently in Genetic Counseling Master's program)

Visiting students:

Florian Melerowicz, currently a graduate student at Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing

Postdoctoral fellows:

  1. Yuqing Dong Ph.D. , Oct 2004 - June 2006  (currently an Assistant Professor at Clemson University, SC)
  2. Zhuoyu Ni Ph.D. , Feb 2005 – 2011 (currently a research scientist at GE China)
  3. Ludivine Walter Ph.D. , Jan 2006 – 2011 (currently an Assistant Professor at Lyon 1 University, France)
  4. Aiswarya Baruah Ph.D. , Jan 2010 – 2013  (currently an Assistant Professor at Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, Assam, India.)
  5. Mintie Pu, Ph.D. , Jan 2011 – July 2017 (currently an Assistant Professor at Yunnan University, China)
  6. Xiujuan Wang, Ph.D. , Jan 2011 – Dec 2012
  7. Timothy J. Cowley , Aug 2011 – March 2014
  8. Erin Jones , Feb 2012 – 2015  (Currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Claremont University, CA)
  9. Luda Shtessel, Jan 2013 – Jan 2014  (Medical Writer at EBSCO Information Services)
  10. Satheeja Velayudhan, 2016 - 2017 (currently a postdoctoral fellow at Rutgers University)
  11. Cheng-Lin Li, 2018-2021 (currently a bioinformatician at SOPHiA Genetics)

Undergraduate students – research (BIOG2990, BIOG4990):

  1. Julia Lowd , 2004
  2. Kari Haus , 2004-05
  3. Eugene Zaydfudim , 2004-05
  4. Ian Odell , 2004-05
  5. Jenny Hsieh , 2005-2008
  6. Priyadarshani Giri , '2005-2008
  7. Haoming Qiu , 2005-2007
  8. Uday Ganapathy , 2006-2008
  9. Rachel Davidowitz , 2006-2008
  10. Ammar Kassm , Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Summer 2007
  11. Carolina Vega , 2007
  12. Alice Lu , 2007
  13. Pieter Cornelis , Wageningen University, the Netherlands, 2008
  14. Kieran Sahasrabudhe ,  2008
  15. Christine Yang ,  2008-2010
  16. Heather Pace ,  2008-2009
  17. Sarah Khatibzadeh , 2008-2009 (as a collaborative project with Dr. Yves Boisclair at Dept. of Animal Sciences, Cornell)
  18. Hai (Michael) Dong ,  2009
  19. Jasmine Lin ,  2009-2010
  20. Madhu Jayahumar ,  2009
  21. Alex Ting ,  2009
  22. Charles Pereyra , 2009-2010
  23. Diana Chen, 2009-2010
  24. Colette Picard, 2009-2012
  25. Jie Yuan, 2010-2013
  26. Erik Johnson, 2010-2012
  27. Stephen Manefee, 2010-2013
  28. Meena Omar, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Summer 2011
  29. Lucas Ellison, 2011-2013
  30. Swarn Arya, 2011-2012
  31. Korie Bush, 2011-2012
  32. Sarah Walecka, 2011-2012
  33. Kevin Gaan, 2012
  34. Jennifer Chen, 2013-2015
  35. Gena Topper, 2013-2014
  36. Sarah Gordon, 2013-present
  37. Samuel Doernberg, 2013-2015
  38. Denise Levy, REU, summer 2013
  39. Serim An, 2014-2017
  40. Eric Ye, 2014
  41. Alijah O’Connor, REU, summer 2015
  42. Camilla Wang, 2015 - 2016
  43. Jennifer Zhang, 2015 - 2017
  44. Tenzin Dechen, 2015 – 2016
  45. Gillian Prinzing, 2016 – present
  46. Carlos Declet, REU, 2016
  47. Marcio de Carvalho, REU, 2016
  48. Oanh Tran, REU 2017
  49. Cao Chen, summer intern, 2017
  50. Kun Xing, 2017 – 2018
  51. Kevin Chen, 2017 -2018
  52. Becca Rodell, 2017 – 2019
  53. Yukiko Yagi, 2018-2020
  54. Rachel Diao, 2018-2019
  55. Mingxin Gu, 2018-2020
  56. Tracy Liu, 2018-2020
  57. Jeremy Juve, REU 2021
  58. Iris Bernstein, 2019-2022
  59. Caitlin Chiu, 2020-2023
  60. Laura Lin, 2020-2023
  61. John Aguilar, REU 2023

High school students - research:

  1. Lynn Tye, lynnetye@gmail.com, Ithaca High School, 2005-2006
  2. Achala Chittor, RABS student, 2010
  3. Caitlyn Oak, RABS student, 2012
  4. Lydia Zhang, RABS student, 2015

High school teacher - research:

Arti Jewett, summer 2017