Graduate Students

Sabrina Solley (Co-advised with Britt Adamson) (she/her) NRSA Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) Research Interests: Signaling dynamics, gene regulation [email protected]

Qinhao Cao (he/him) Research Interests: [email protected]

Yang Gao (she/her) Research Interests: [email protected]

Beena Lad (they/she) Research Interests: [email protected]

Harrison Oatman (co-advised with Stas Shvartsman) Research Interests: [email protected]

Aileen Kauffman  Research Interests: tool development, protein engineering [email protected]

Undergraduates

Alison Araten '25 Research Interests: [email protected]

Luke Barrett '25 Research Interests: [email protected]

Maia Weatherly '25 Research Interests: [email protected]

Parth Rana '26 Research Interests: [email protected]

Administrative Assistant

Ellen Brindle-Clark Faculty Assistant [email protected]

Alumni

Former Postdocs

Max Wilson, Ph.D. 2015-2018 (Now: Assistant Professor at University of California, Santa Barbara) 
Agnieska Gil, Ph.D. 2016-2020 (Now: Senior Scientist in Protein Engineering Group at Merck) Email.
Heath Johnson, Ph.D. 2015-2020 (Now: Assistant Professor at The University of Hong Kong
Rebecca Kim-Yip, Ph.D. 2018-2022 (Now: Postdoctoral Scholar in Posfai Lab at Princeton)
Ellen Brumbaugh-Reed, Ph.D. 2020-2024 (Now: Senior Scientist at FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific)
Harry McNamara, Ph.D. 2021-2024 (Now: Assistant Professor at Yale University)
Beatrice Ramm, Ph.D. 2021-2024 (Now: Research Group Leader at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, Tübingen, Germany)
Chetan Aditya, Ph.D. 2023-2025 (Now: Postdoctoral Scholar in Calderon Lab at UCSF) 

Former Graduate Students

Whitney Warren, 2016-2018
Evan Zhao, Ph.D. 2015-2019 (Now: Postdoc at MIT)
Alexander Goglia, M.D./Ph.D. 2015-2019 (Now: Research Pathway Resident at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)
Elliot "Flex" Dine, Ph.D. 2015-2020 (Now: Postdoc in Youle Lab at NIH)
Sidu Jena, Ph.D. 2016-2021 (Now: Postdoc in Buenrostro Lab at Harvard/Broad Institute)
Sarah McFann, Ph.D. 2016-2022 (Now: Principal Scientist at Novartis)
Ping Wu, Ph.D. 2016-2022
Payam Farahani, Ph.D. 2017-2023 (Now: Scientist at InduPro)
Emily Mesev, Ph.D. 2017-2023 (Now: Senior Copywriter, Heartbeat)
Liyuan Zhu, Ph.D. 2019-2024 (Now: Protein Engineering Scientist at Life Edit Therapeutics)
Evan Underhill, Ph.D. 2019-2024
Richard Thornton, Ph.D. 2019-2025

Former Undergraduates

Daniel DiGiorno '16
Jennifer Lee '17 (Now: Microsoft)
Jillian Silbert '18 (Now: The Hadar Institute, NY)
Joshua Kim '18
Danielle Isakov '19 (Now: Sloan-Kettering Memorial)
Kirit Limperis '19 (Now: Graduate Student at Columbia University)
Annan Timon '19
Giselle Uribe '20
Haeun Jung '20
Pavithran Ravindran '19, 2015-2021 (Now: MD/Ph.D Student at UPenn)
Linda Nie '21
Catherine Yu '21
Kaylan Fomby '22
Jack Hariri '22
Dev Patel '23 
Rachel Hsu '23 
Eric Lee '24

Former Lab Managers

Nicole Pannucci, M.D., Ph.D.

Former Visiting Students

Brittany Williams, Summer 2018 (From: University of Arizona)
Haruko Miura, Fall 2018 (From: Kyoto University, Japan)
Qinhao Cao, Summer 2019 (From: Zhejiang University)