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.