HHMI Investigator, Professor
Graduate Student, HHMI Gilliam Fellow
Graduate Student
Undergraduate Student
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Graduate Student
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Research Scholar
Undergraduate Student
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Research Scholar
Associate Research Scholar, HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow
Associate Research Scholar
Bioinformatics Analyst
Undergraduate Student
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Faculty Assistant
Undergraduate Student
Laboratory Manager
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.
Robert Jinkerson, 2014-2017 (Simons Fellow of the Life Sciences Research Foundation); now Associate Professor, U.C. Riverside.
Moshe Kafri, 2017-2023
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.
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.
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 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.
Linnea Hartz, 2022-2024
Nina Ivanova, 2012-2016; now a Registered Nurse at San Francisco VA Medical Center.
Cole Pacini, 2022-2024
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
Former Sabbatical Visitors
Cornelia Spetea Wiklund, 2019; University of Gothenburg.