HHMI Investigator, Squibb Professor of Molecular Biology
Graduate Student
Graduate Student, HHMI Gilliam Fellow
Graduate Student
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Graduate Student
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Research Scholar
Associate Research Scholar, HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow
Associate Research Scholar
Bioinformatics Analyst
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Faculty Assistant
Undergraduate Student
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Physics of Biological Function Fellow
Graduate Student
Lab Alumni
Former Postdocs
Ute Armbruster, 2011-2014; (DFG Fellow); now Professor and Head of the Institute of Molecular Photosynthesis, University of Düsseldorf.
Friedrich Fauser, 2015-2017 (DAAD Fellow); now Associate Director, New Genome Engineering Technologies, Sangamo Therapeutics.
Shan He, 2016-2024; now Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Robert Jinkerson, 2014-2017 (Simons Fellow of the Life Sciences Research Foundation); now Associate Professor, U.C. Riverside.
Moshe Kafri, 2017-2023 (European Molecular Biology Organization and Human Frontiers Science Program Postdoctoral Fellow); now Head of Courses, Teaching, and Research Methods at the Miriam and Aaron Gutwirth Medical School, Weizmann Institute of Science.
Luke Mackinder, 2012-2016 (Carnegie McClintock Fellow); now Professor at the University of York.
Claire McWhite, 2020-2024 (Lewis-Sigler Institute Fellow); now Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona.
Moritz Meyer, 2017-2020; now Scientist III, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Leif Pallesen, 2011-2015; Instructor, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA; deceased.
Mia Terashima, 2011-2013 (AFRI Fellow); now Professor, Cell and Molecular Biology of Phototrophic Organisms, Berliner Hochschule fur Technik.
Xiaobo Li, 2013-2018; now Associate Professor at the Westlake Institute for Advanced Study, Hangzhou, China.
Lianyong Wang, 2017-2024; now Assistant Professor at Northeastern University.
Ru Zhang, 2010-2016; now Principal Investigator at the Donald Danforth Plant Sciences Center.
Former Ph.D. Students
Vivian Chen Wong, 2014-2016 (transferred to Gavin Sherlock lab when our lab moved to Princeton); now LLM teacher at Perplexity .
Elizabeth Freeman-Rosenzweig, 2012-2017 (ARCS Scholar); now Attorney, Morrison & Foerster LLP.
Guanhua He, 2017-2022; now Postdoc at Stanford with Will Greenleaf and Possu Huang.
Jessica Hennacy, 2018-2023; now Biologist at the Food and Drug Administration.
Alan Itakura, 2014-2016 (transferred to Dan Jarosz lab when our lab moved to Princeton); now Project Leader at DeciBio.
Matthew Prior, 2012-2017; (Joint with Wolf Frommer); now Assistant Professor at Clinton College.
Former Visiting Students
Oliver Caspari, 2013; now Junior Group Leader, Microbiology Institute, University of Bonn.
Madeline Mitchell, 2012; now Director of Agri-food at Breakthrough Victoria, Australia.
Former Undergraduate Students
Jessie Bacha, 2014.
Luke Bunday, 2020-2023.
Chris Chen, 2014-2015.
Vivian Chen, 2021-2023.
Claire Dignazio, 2023-2025.
Keenan Duggal, 2020-2023.
Xiaofei Ge, 2019.
Gillian Gomer, 2019.
Henry Harrigan, 2019-2022.
Mason Hooks, 2023-2025.
Michael Hill-Oliva, 2017.
Katie Kavanaugh, 2017.
Angelo Kayser-Browne, 2019-2022.
Kyssia Mendoza, 2015-2016.
Jason Middleton, 2013.
Matthew Millican, 2016.
Matthew Nemeth, 2016.
John Nguyen, 2013.
Toluwalase Olusola, 2018.
Jacqueline Osaki, 2016.
Charlotte Philp, 2016.
Rachel Purdon, 2012.
Arosheny Puvanenthirarajah, 2023-2025.
Matthew Rodman, 2014.
Elisabeth Schmidtmann, 2012.
Arthur Sirkejyan, 2021-2022.
Bradley Spicher, 2017.
Izabela Szymanski, 2018.
Vinh Ton, 2020-2021.
Kelly Van Baalen, 2017-2019.
Rachel Vasquez, 2014.
Colton Wang, 2022-2024
Graciela Watrous, 2012.
Alexandra Wilson, 2018-2020.
Yihua Xie, 2017-2019.
Kevin Zhang, 2021-2024
Former High School Students
Augustine Chemparathy, 2013-2014.
Zoe Friedberg, 2014.
Shriya Ghosh, 2014-2015.
Former Technicians
Jennifer Ayer, 2020-2021.
Vidalia Ariza, 2020-2021; now Food Service Worker, Princeton University.
Ana Benveniste, 2016; now Laboratory Assistant, Carnegie Institution for Science.
Sean Blum, 2011-2013; now Staff Software Engineer at Sight Machine.
Chris Chen, 2016; now General Dentist.
Spencer Gang, 2010-2012; now Assistant Professor, Colorado College.
Audrey Goh, 2016-2019; now a Ph.D. student at Princeton University.
Linnea Hartz, 2022-2024; now a Ph.D. student at Yale University.
Nina Ivanova, 2012-2016; now a Registered Nurse at San Francisco VA Medical Center.
Cole Pacini, 2022-2024; now a Ph.D. student at Weill Cornell.
Saman Parsa, 2013; Now Associate Winemaker at E. & J. Gallo Winery.
Gregory Reeves, 2013-2014; now a Ph.D. student at Cambridge University, UK.
Jacob Robertson, 2015-2017; now a Ph.D. student at UC San Diego.
Emily Singer, 2020-2022; now a Ph.D. student at Princeton University.
Alexandra Wilson, 2020-2021; now a Ph.D. student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Rebecca Yue, 2013-2015; now Emergency Department Scribe at CEP America.
Yuliya Zubak, 2021-2024; now Lab Manager and Research Specialist II, Stanford University.
Former Sabbatical Visitors
Cornelia Spetea Wiklund, 2019; Professor, University of Gothenburg.