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)
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)
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
May 2025
Cate Moore
Serah Dureus
Cristina Torres
Krystal Ramnarine
Gabriel Avila Llamas
December 2024
Avrit Tung (graduated Dec '24)
May 2024
Victoria Campobianco
Andrew Wang
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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)