Members

Faculty

Abraham A. Palmer, PhD
Principal Investigator

Office: BRF2, Room 3A24
[email protected]

ORCID iD: 

0000-0003-3634-0747

Oksana Polesskaya, PhD
Assistant Research Scientist

Office: BRF2, Room 3A32
[email protected]

ORCID iD:

0000-0003-3024-114X

Riyan Cheng, PhD
Associate Project Scientist

Lab: BRF2, Room 3217 - Bay II
[email protected]

ORCID iD:

0000-0002-8670-795X

Postdoctoral Fellows

Joel D. Leal-Gutierrez, PhD
Postdoc

Lab: BRF2, Room 3217 - Bay II

[email protected]

ORCID iD:

0000-0002-2811-5390

Michelle R. Doyle, PhD
Postdoc

Office: Medical Teaching Facility (MTF), Room 453

[email protected]

ORCID iD:

0000-0003-4303-2478

Montana K. Lara, PhD
Postdoc

Lab: BRF2, Room 3217 - Bay GG

[email protected]

ORCID iD:

0000-0001-5810-4425

Graduate Students

Apurva S. Chitre, MS
PhD Student

Office: BRF2, 3A07-M
[email protected]

ORCID iD:

0000-0003-1709-9214

Brittany S. Leger, BS
PhD Student

Lab: BRF2, Room 3217 - Bay HH

[email protected]

ORCID iD:

0000-0002-8467-5472

Denghui Chen, BS
PhD Student

Lab: BRF2, Room 3217 - Bay HH
[email protected]

ORCID iD:

0000-0002-6541-3418

Sabrina Mi, BS
Graduate student researcher

Lab: BRF2, Room 3217 - Bay GG

[email protected]

ORCID iD:

0009-0001-7483-1734

Bioinformatics Team

Thiago Missfeldt Sanches, PhD
Bioinformatics Team Lead

Office: BRF2, Room 3A32

[email protected]

ORCID iD:

0000-0001-6962-9569

Beverly P. Peng, BS
Bioinformatician

Office: BRF2, 3A07-D/E
[email protected]

ORCID iD:

0009-0001-1511-3089

Kendra Shae Ziegler, BS
Bioinformatician

Office: BRF2, 3A07-D/E

ORCID iD:

0009-0005-6006-2996

Benjamin B. Johnson, PhD
Bioinformatician

Office: BRF2, 3A07-D/E
[email protected]

ORCID iD:

0000-0001-7269-5145

Elaine Keung, BS
Bioinformatician

Office: BRF2, 3A07-D/E
[email protected]

ORCID iD:

0009-0003-4833-4093

Genomics Team

Daniel Munro, PhD
Bioinformatician

[email protected]

ORCID iD:

0000-0002-0724-218X

Robert W. Vogel, PhD
Bioinformatician

Office: BRF2, 3A07-D/E

[email protected]

ORCID iD:

0000-0001-5400-5024

Laboratory Technicians

Khai-Minh H. Nguyen, BS
Research Assistant

Lab: BRF2, Room 3217 - Bay FF

[email protected]

ORCID iD:

0000-0003-3939-7773

Clara Ortez, BS
Lab Assistant

Lab: BRF2, Room 3217 - Bay JJ
[email protected]

ORCID iD:

0009-0000-7352-0646

Yizhi Wang, BS
Lab Assistant

Lab: BRF2, Room 3217 - Bay GG

[email protected]

ORCID iD:

0009-0004-4010-6536

Undergraduates

Sakina A. Muckadam

Undergraduate
[email protected]

ORCID iD:

0009-0002-0717-0507

Faith Okamoto

Undergraduate
[email protected]

ORCID iD:

0009-0007-4163-6928

Past Lab Members

Ishita Khatri, BS

Graduate Student Researcher/Intern

Data Science

2023

Elizabeth Alcantara, MS

Lab Technician 

2021-2023

Katarina Cohen, BA

Lab Assistant 

2021-2023

Haoyu Jia, MS

Bioinformatician

2022-2023

Gabe Barrero, BA

Bioinformatician

2021-2022

Karina Cerda, MS

Lab Assistant

2022

Zeljana Babic, MS

PhD Student

2021-2022

Milad Mortazavi, PhD

Postdoc

2019 - 2022

Amanda Barkley-Levenson, PhD

Assistant Project Scientist

2016-2022

Ariana Page, BA

Research Associate

2018-2021

Bonnie Lin, BA

Bioinformatician

2019-2021

Alison Sweet, BS

Research Associate

2019-2021

Hannah Bimschleger

Lab Manager

2017-2020

Amelie Baud, PhD

Visiting Scholar

2017-2021

Xinzhu Zhou, PhD

Grad Student

2015-2020

Sandra Sanchez-Roige, PhD

Assistant Professor

2016-2019

Yu-yu Ren, PhD

Postdoc

2016-2019

Jianjun Gao, PhD

Biostatistician

2014-2019

Alex Gileta, PhD

Grad Student

2013-2018

Celine St. Pierre, BA

Lab Manager/

Technician

2012-2017

Kayla Chase, PhD

Postdoc

2015-2017

April Williams, PhD

Postdoc

2015-2017

Natalia Gonzales, PhD

Grad Student

2011-2017

Laura Sittig, PhD

Postdoc

2012-2017

Jungkyun Seo, BA

Biostatistician

2015-2016

Katherine Johnston McMurray, PhD

Grad Student

2012-2015

Shyam Gopalakrishnan, PhD

Postdoc

2011-2015

Camila Barrios Camacho, BA

PREP Scholar

2013-2014

Peter Carbonetto, PhD

Postdoc

2013-2014

Emily Leung, BA

Lab Technician

2012-2014

Amy Hart, PhD

Grad Student

2009-2013

Clarissa Parker, PhD

Postdoc

2009-2013

Emmanuel Aryee, MD

Lab Technician

2012-2013

Camron Bryant, PhD

Postdoc

2007-2012

Garrett Birkhoff, BA

Lab Technician

2011-2012

Margaret Distler, MD

Grad Student

2008-2012

Greta Sokoloff, PhD

Research Associate

2007-2011

Michael DeMeyer, BA

Lab Technician

2009-2011

David Rosenberg, BS

Grad Student

2009-2011

Amy Yang, MD

Postdoc

2008-2010

Claudia Wing, MS

Lab Technician

2008-2009

Jackie Lim, PhD

Postdoc

2006-2008

Michaelanne Woerner (née Munoz), PhD

Lab Technician

2006-2008

Christine Ponder, PhD

Grad Student

2003-2007

Ney Alliey-Rodriguez, MD

Postdoc

2007

Past Undergraduates

Brandon Krieg

REHU Student 2023

Mika Okamoto

REHU Student 2023

Emily Cameron

Undergraduate 2022-2023

Cristina Comacchio

Undergraduate 2022-2023

Justin Park

Undergraduate 2022-2023

Won Choi

Undergraduate 2022-2023

Viet Nguyen

Undergraduate 2021-2022

Billy Santoso
Undergraduate 2022
Owen Tai
Undergraduate 2022
Alan Lin
REHU Student 2021
Sammy Myakishev-Rempel
REHU Student 2021
Cole Stromberg
Undergraduate 2021 - 2022
Alec Manzer
Undergraduate 2022
Anne Ilustrisimo
Undergraduate 2020 - 2022
Nili Farhadi
Undergraduate 2018-2021
Alejandra Nicanor

Undergraduate 2017 - 2021

Amy Lee
Undergraduate 2017-2020
Jazlene Mallari
Undergraduate 2016-2019
Frances Lagarda
Undergraduate 2017-2018
Daniel Liu
High School 2017
Fangchao He
Undergraduate 2017
John Shin
Undergraduate 2017
Nishant Mysore
Undergraduate 2017
Yuya Zhao
Undergraduate 2017
Yvette Tan
Undergraduate 2017
Elizabeth Lipschultz
Undergraduate / REHU 2015-2016
Africa McLeod
Undergraduate 2015
Alex Ho
Undergraduate 2014-2015
Alisha Ho
Undergraduate 2014-2015
Brittny Bloomenstiel
Undergraduate 2014-2015
Charissa Newkirk
Undergraduate 2014-2015
Kate Krauss
Undergraduate 2013-2015
Kyle Engel
Undergraduate 2013-2015
Liz Joyce
Undergraduate 2014-2015
Rachael MaGuire
Undergraduate 2015
Shibani Chettri
REHU Student 2015
Matt Cheung
Undergraduate 2012-2014
Miranda Scarlata
High School 2014
Phillip Stephens
Summer Student 2014
Yeonhee Park
Undergraduate 2011-2014
Emily Tixier
High School / Undergraduate 2010-2013
Naomi Gorfinkle
Undergraduate 2009-2013
Alexandra Dattilo
Undergraduate 2011-2012
Joe Davis
Undergraduate 2011-2012
Michael Guido
Undergraduate 2009-2012
Loren Kole
High School / Undergraduate 2009-2011
Marie Wu
Undergraduate 2011
Kaitlin Samocha
Undergraduate 2006-2010 Honors Thesis
Elizabeth Wagner
Undergraduate 2010
Colin Walker
High School 2010
Stacey Kirkpatrick
Undergraduate 2008-2010
Ben Chang
Undergraduate 2006-2009
Melissa Graham
Undergraduate 2006-2009 Honors Thesis
Ben Postone
High School 2008
Qian Zhang
Undergraduate 2008
Andrew Lee Chen
Undergraduate 2006-2007
Chetan Huded
Undergraduate 2006