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
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  • 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)