People

Martin JonikasAssociate Professor of Molecular Biologymjonikas@princeton.edu — **Martin Jonikas**
HHMI Investigator, Associate Professor

Michael BenderProfessor Emeritus of GeosciencesHonorary Lab Member — **Michael Bender**
Professor Emeritus of Geosciences
Honorary Lab Member

Victoria CransGradate Studentvcrans@princeton.edu — **Victoria Crans**
Graduate Student

Micah BurtonGraduate Studentmiburton@princeton.edu — **Micah Burton**
Graduate Student

**Sabrina Ergun**
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Eric FranklinGraduate Studentef8@princeton.edu — **Eric Franklin**
Graduate Student

Shan HePostdoctoral Fellowshanhe@princeton.edu — **Shan He**
Research Scholar

Moshe KafriPostdocmkafri@princeton.edu — **Moshe Kafri**
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Angelo Kayser-BrowneUndergraduateangelok@princeton.edu — **Angelo Kayser-Browne**
Research Specialist

**Aastha Garde**
Postdoctoral Research Associate

**Jessi Hennacy**
Postdoctoral Research Associate

**Katerina Kanevche**
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Alice LunardonPostdoctoral Fellowlunardon@princeton.edu — **Alice Lunardon**
Associate Research Scholar

**Linnea Lemma**
Associate Research Scholar

**Claire D. McWhite**
Associate Research Scholar

Cole Pacini

Research Specialist

Weronika PatenaBioinformatics Analystwpatena@princeton.edu — **Weronika Patena**
Bioinformatics Analyst

**Arosheny Puvanenthirarajah**
Undergraduate Student

**Ashwani Rai**
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Lianyong WangPostdoclianyong@princeton.edu — **Lianyong Wang**
Associate Research Scholar

Michelle Warren-WilliamsLaboratory Technicianmwwarren@princeton.edu — **Michelle Warren-Williams**
Laboratory Manager

**LaNell Williams**
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Kevin Zhang by the water — **Kevin Zhang**
Undergraduate Student

Lab Alumni

Former Postdocs

Ute Armbruster, 2011-2014; (DFG Fellow); now Research Group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology.
Friedrich Fauser, 2015-2017; (DAAD Fellow); now Associate Director, New Genome Engineering Technologies at Sangamo Therapeutics.
Robert Jinkerson, 2014-2017; (Simons Fellow of the Life Sciences Research Foundation); now Assistant Professor at U.C. Riverside.
Luke Mackinder, 2012-2016; (Carnegie McClintock Fellow); now Professor at the University of York.
Moritz Meyer, 2017-2020.
Leif Pallesen, 2011-2015; now Instructor, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA.
Mia Terashima, 2011-2013; (AFRI Fellow); now Professor, Cell and Molecular Biology of Phototrophic Organisms, Berliner Hochschule fur Technik.
Xiaobo Li, 2013-2018; now Assistant Professor at the Westlake Institute for Advanced Study, Hangzhou, China.
Ru Zhang, 2010-2016; now Principal Investigator at the Donald Danforth Plant Sciences Center.

Former Ph.D. Students

Vivian Chen, 2014-2016; now Ph.D. Student, Stanford (transferred labs when our lab moved).
Elizabeth Freeman-Rosenzweig, 2012-2017 (ARCS Scholar); now Associate, Morrison & Foerster LLP.
Guanhua He, 2017-2022; now Senior Scientist, Abbvie.
Jessica Hennacy, 2018-2023; now Science Disclosure Analyst in the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at the Food and Drug Administration.
Alan Itakura, 2014-2016; now Life Science Expert, DeciBio.
Matthew Prior, 2012-2017; (Joint with Wolf Frommer); Now Postdoctoral Fellow, U.C. Riverside

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.
Keenan Duggal, 2020-2023.
Xiaofei Ge, 2019.
Gillian Gomer, 2019.
Henry Harrigan, 2019-2022.
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.
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.
Graciela Watrous, 2012.
Alexandra Wilson, 2018-2020.
Yihua Xie, 2017-2019.

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 Senior Full Stack Engineer at Sight Machine.
Chris Chen, 2016; now a Research Associate at Caltech.
Spencer Gang, 2010-2012; now a postdoctoral scholar at UC Los Angeles.
Audrey Goh, 2016-2019; now a Ph.D. student at Princeton University.
Nina Ivanova, 2012-2016; now a Registered Nurse at San Francisco VA Medical Center.
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.

Former Sabbatical Visitors

Cornelia Spetea Wiklund, 2019; University of Gothenburg.