Lab Alumni
Postdocs
Jonathan Wells, Postdoc, ('19-'24),
Smitha Srinivasachar-Badarinaryan, Postdoc ('22-'23)
Clément Goubert, Postdoc ('16-'20), Current position: Research Associate, Guillaume Bourque lab, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada goubert.clement@gmail.com
Jainy Thomas, Postdoc (with L. Jorde, '16-'20), Current position: Principal Scientist, Tessera Therapeutics, Boston MA jainyt@genetics.utah.edu
Alesia McKeown, Postdoc, Damon Runyon Fellow (with N. Elde '15-'19) Current position: Scientific Partner, Medical and Scientific Affairs, Roche, Salt Lake City, UT anmckeown@gmail.edu
Claudio Casola (with E. Betran, '06-'07) Current Position: Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX claudio.casola@ag.tamu.edu
Ed Chuong, Postdoc, Jane Coffin Childs Fund/HHMI Fellow (with N. Elde ’13-'18), Current position: Assistant Professor, MCDB Department, University of Colorado at Boulder, Edward.Chuong@Colorado.edu
Ray Malfavon-Borja, Postdoc, ('13-'15), Current position: McNair Assistant Director, Student Success, California State University, San Marcos, rmalfavonbor@csusm.edu
Aurélie Kapusta, Postdoc ('11-'16), Current position: Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Illumina, Salt Lake City, UT aureliek@genetics.utah.edu
Sun Cheng, Postdoc (with E. Pritham, '09-'10), Current Position: Professor, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China. suncheng@caas.cn
Sarah Schaack, Postdoc (with E. Pritham, '09-'10) Current Position: Professor of Biology (tenured), Department of Biology, Reed College, Portland, OR schaackmobile@reed.edu
Clement Gilbert, Postdoc (’08-’11) Current position: Principal Investigator (tenured), CNRS, Gif sur Yvette, France clement.gilbert1@universite-paris-saclay.fr
Min-Jin Han, Visiting Professor, SouthWest University (China)
PhD Students
Ni-Chen 'Sylvia' Chang, PhD student ('17-'23), Current postdoc, Feng Zhang lab, Broad Institute, Boston, MA nc499@cornell.edu
Julius Judd, PhD student ('18-'22) Current position: Scientist, Tessera Therapeutics, Boston, MA. jaj256@cornell.edu
Manvendra Singh, PhD student, Cornell Presidential Fellow ('19-'22), Current position: Assistant Professor Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Germany, ms3559@cornell.edu
Tommy Carter, PhD student ('15-'21) Current position: Scientist, Tessera Therapeutics, Boston, MA tc643@cornell.edu
John Frank, PhD student('16-'20) Current: postdoc, Akiko Iwasaki lab , Dept of Immunobioogy, Yale University. john.frank@yale.edu
Rachel Cosby, PhD student ('14-'19), Current postdoc, Todd Macfarlan lab, NICHD, rachellcosby@gmail.com
Katie Gordon – Rotation PhD Student (Summer 2018)
Alexa Bracci – Rotation PhD Student (Summer 2018)
Frances Clark – Rotation PhD Student (Spring 2018)
Xiaoyu Zhuo – PhD Student (’10-’16) Current position: Instructor of Genetics, Ting Wang lab, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO. xzhuo@wustl.edu
Qi Wang – Ph.D Student, Biology (’07-’10)
John Pace – Ph.D Student, Biology (’05-’09)
Graduate Students
Victoria Campobianco
Andrew Wang
Peniella Irakoze, REU, (summer '23)
Helen Li
Mriganka Nerkar
James Shaul
Nornubari Bagia
Jaden Ombres
Elisabeth Korn
Nicolas Arce Zevallos
Alan Zhong
Hyoann Choi
Mitchell Lokey – Lab Tech/Manager (’16-’18): Current Cornell PhD student
Hayley Buchman – UROP Undergrad Researcher (’13-’15)
Marcel Guibotsy – Undergrad, Biomedical Engineering
Diwash Jangam – Undergrad, Biology
Maria Dao – Undergrad, Honor’s College ('10)
Sharon Hernandez – Undergrad, McNair Scholar (’09-’10)
Brandon Lopez – Undergrad (’09)
David Maxfield – Undergrad, Junior, Honor’s College (’08)
Daniel Moore – Undergrad, Senior
Marlena Clark – Undergrad, UNT
Stephanie Ethofer – Undergrad, Sophmore, Biology
Jeff Lucas – Undergrad, Junior, Biology
Ashlea Denton
Marguerite Shaffer
Rebekah Campbell
Ahmad Gaber
Zeina Abdallah
Rebecca Hafer
Joe Jacocks
Tasneem Pultiwala
Swalpa Udit
Perry Xu ('23)
Xijia Wang (’18)
John McCormick – Masters Student/Researcher (’09-’17)
Mahima Varma – M.S. Student, Biology (’08-’11)
Daniel Szalay – MSc., Student, Biology (with Esther Betran) (’08-’10)
Umeshkumar Keswani - MSc., ('07-'08)
Don Hucks – MSc. (’05-’08)
Nirmal Ranganathan: MSc. ('04-'05), Current Position at Rackspace Technology, Austin, TX
Undergraduates
High School Students
Christopher Lu – High school Student (RABS Program)
Ethan Cordes – High school Student (RABS Program)
Anant Sriram – Undergraduate Student (’18)
Jaime Flores – Lamar High School, Arlington, Texas (’10)