Previous LAB MEMBERS


Former Post-Docs

Mitchell Lee: Mitchell CEO & Co-Founder Ora Biomedical, Inc.

Xiaqing Zhao: Xiaqing is currently focusing on raising good humans with her sights set on data science in the biotech industry.

Adrienne Wang: Adrienne is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Western Washington University.

Jake Moorad: Jake is a Lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Edinburgh.

Subhash Rajpurohit: Subhash is an Assistant Professor, Ahmedabad University in Gujarat, India.

Ken Fedorka: Ken is a Full Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Central Florida.

Joep Burger: Joep is currently working as a statistician with Statistics Netherlands.

Lev Yampolsky: Lev is on faculty in the Department of Biological Sciences at East Tennessee State University.

Ramkumar Hariharan: Ram is a research scientist at the Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle.

Jon Burman: Sadly, Jon has passed away.

Devin Arbuthnott: Devin is currently a Policy Advisor for Agriculture Canada.


Former Graduate Students

Kelly Jin: Kelly is now a reseach scientist at the Allen Institute for Brain Science.

Vanessa-Corby Harris: Vanessa is a Research Molecular Biologist with the USDA in Tucson, AZ.

Jodell Jackson (née Linder): Jodie is currently working as a Research Technician at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

Chih-Horng Kuo: Chih-Horng is the head of a research group focused on microbial diversity and genome evolution at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan.

Amber Keyser: Amber is a science writer and novelist living in Portland, Oregon

Chrissy Spencer: Chrissy is an Academic Professional in the Department of Biology at Georgia Tech.

Nick Priest: Nick is a Lecturer in the Department of Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Bath

Paul Mack: Paul Mack is an Associate Professor at the Mississippi University for Women

Jessica Hoffman: Jessica is an Assistant Professor at Augusta University begining in Fall 2022


Former Technicians

Cecilia Fitzgerald-Cook

Segall Bloom

William Gordon

Calvin Ngo

Erin Tudor

Katie Strehler

Jake Mouser


Former Undergraduate Research Students

Laura Adang
Raheel Ahmad
Valeria Aizen
Terry Alchermes
Fatima Ali
Samia Ali
Mohammed Sohaib Ali
Gavin Andrews
Foram Ashar
Lillian Azih
Sambita Basu
Jacob Boggan
Natasha Belle
Michael Bertelsen
Amanda Berwald
Justin Bethel
Megan Blasier
Jake Boggan
Andrea Buerkle
Melissa Bugbee
Allyson Byrd
Keisha Cooper
Emily Chen
Semil Chocksi
Rene Cieszewski
Jessica Clay
Irene Cruz Talavera
Emmanuel Cuevas
Haley Dale
Nitin Desai
Haley Dixon
Yihe Dong
Larry Dougherty
Kelly Eaton
Madi Eggerding
Gabi Endicott
Fatima El-Ghazali
Chi-Chi Emerole
Nick Force
Erika Gajda
Amanda Garman
Corey Gill
Kevin Gillespie
Forrest Golic
Holly Gooding
Rebecca Graves

Mary Charlotte Guest
Sameer Gupta
Kristen Habel
Brian Hammock
Kenneth Han
Monika Helak
Elise Hoffman
Christie Howell
Annie Huang
Laurie Huang
Deirdre Ingram
Ashley Itua
Brian Inkrot
Jessica Jang
Alia Johnson
Connie Jung
Pranav Kaushish
Jackie Kerr
Rohini Kilaru
David Kim
Judy Kuhn
Vanessa Lester
Mary Maccoun
Ben Mackowiak
Meghna Manoj
Will Marek
Georgia Masologites
Catherine McElroy
David Millard
Katie Morgan
Braydon Morris
Erin Mordecai
Sharon Ornelas
Katie Owers
Rebekah Packer
Vijay Palaniswamy
Kanwar Parhar
Shreena Patel
Vanessa Paus
Natalie Pearlman
Joy Pease
Amirah Pittman
Kelly Powell
Rachael Priestley
Romeo Quach
Catherine Ramsay
Caroline Rawls
Swapna Rao

Chris Rogers
Aaron Rosen
Luis Ruiz
Ariana Samuelson
John Sands
Beth Shapiro
Whitney Sharp
Maya Shukla
Neta Simon
Dyal Singh
Rajat Singh
Jonathan Slone
Emily Smith
Shannon Smith
Meg Snoke
Sejin Song
Katie St. Germaine
Yangxi (Claudia) Sun
Philmon Tesfaye
Rupam Thakar
Arielle Star Thomas
Jjay Sukomol
Dean Tolla
Kelly Towns
Quynh Tran
Cindy Tseng
Chiemeka Ugochukwu JulieAnn Uh
Eric Vanderbilt-Mathews
Kim Vu
Matthew Whitley
Devon Wilson-Gorsuch
Kathryn Woods
Amanda Wright
Amber Wright
Paul Wright
Deborah Xi
Jennifer Yates
Pomi Yun
Chris Zabrocki
Rebekah Zaharia
Shufan Zhang
Alex Zhu



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