Lab Alumni
Former Postdoctoral Fellows
| First name | Last name | Current status | Where they are now |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brittany | Belin | Principal Investigator | Carnegie Institution for Science |
| Megan | Bergkessel | Principal Investigator | University of Dundee |
| Arpita | Bose | Associate Professor | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Nicky | Caiazza | Biotech Executive | Cellibre |
| Chih-Ching | Chien | Associate Professor | Yuan Ze University |
| Maureen | Coleman | Associate Professor | University of Chicago |
| Kyle | Costa | Assistant Professor | University of Minnesota |
| Kurt | Dahlstrom | Assistant Professor | University of Georgia |
| Thomas | Danhorn | Bioinformatics Analyst | University of Colorado |
| Daniel | Dar | Assistant Professor | Weizmann Institute of Science |
| Will | DePas | Assistant Professor | University of Pittsburgh |
| Lars | Dietrich | Associate Professor | Columbia University |
| David | Doughty | Biotech Scientist | Lumen Bioscience |
| Avi | Flamholz | Assistant Professor | The Rockefeller University |
| Jeff | Gralnick | Professor | University of Minnesota |
| Ryan | Hunter | Associate Professor | University at Buffalo |
| Peter | Jorth | Assistant Professor | Cedars-Sinai |
| Andreas | Kappler | Professor | University of Tübingen |
| Arash | Komeili | Professor | UC Berekley |
| Gargi | Kulkarni | Microbiology Faculty | Chabot College |
| Anthea | Lee | Manager, Technical Writing | Metropolitan Water District So. CA |
| Douglas | Lies | Biotech Scientist | GEVO |
| Zach | Lonergan | Assistant Professor | Rutgers University |
| Darcy | McRose | Assistant Professor | MIT |
| Caj | Neubauer | Research Scientist | University of Colorado |
| Shanna | Potter | Faculty | El Camino College |
| Alexandre | Poulain | Professor | University of Ottawa |
| Lisa | Racki | Assistant Professor | The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) |
| Itzel | Ramos-Solis | Biotech Scientist | Genomatica |
| Chad | Saltikov | Professor | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Roxana | Shafiee | Fellow | Harvard University |
| Nicholas | Shikuma | Associate Professor | San Diego State University |
| Melanie | Spero | Assistant Professor | University of Oregon |
| Nora | Sullivan | Faculty | Citrus College |
| Mike | Tice | Associate Professor | Texas A&M |
| Chelsey | VanDrisse | Assistant Professor | University of Georgia |
| Yun | Wang | Patent Agent | McCarter & English, LLP |
| Paula | Welander | Professor | Stanford University |
| Chia-Hung | Wu | Biotech Scientist | Renewable Energy Group |
Former Graduate Students
| First name | Last name | Current status | Where they are now |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brett | Babin | Biotech Scientist | Genentech |
| David | Basta | Resident, Clinical Pathology Program | Brigham & Women's Hospital-MA |
| Lina | Bird | Staff Scientist | U.S. Naval Research Lab |
| Tanja | Bosak | Professor | MIT |
| John | Ciemniecki | Postdoc | UGA, Jorge Escalante Lab |
| Laura | Croal | Associate Director, Global Scientific Publications and Communication | Sanofi Genzyme Rare Diseases |
| Nate | Glasser | Director of the RSI Ecology and Biosphere Engineering Facility | Director, Ecology & Biosphere Engineering Facility, Caltech |
| Mariu | Hernandez | Environmental Scientist | Barcelona, Spain |
| Yongqin | Jiao | Staff Scientist | Lawrence Livermore National Lab |
| Suzanne | Kern | Assistant Professor | Santa Fe Institute |
| Sebastian | Kopf | Assistant Professor | University of Colorado Boulder |
| Naomi | Kreamer | Biotech Scientist | Pivot Bio |
| Elin | Larsson | recently graduated, stay tuned! | |
| Davin | Malasarn | Lead Writer | Caltech Office of Strategic Communications |
| Lucas Andrade | Meirelles | Assistant Professor (Jan. 2026) | EPFL, A. Persat Lab |
| Elena | Perry | Postdoc | LBNL, A. Deutschbauer Lab |
| Alexa | Price-Whelan | Research Scientist | Columbia University |
| Sky | Rashby | Deceased | |
| Jessica | Ricci | Faculty | Sierra Canyon School |
| Tina | Salmassi | Professor | California State University, Los Angeles |
| Scott | Saunders | Postdoc | Distinguished Fellow, UTSW |
| Tracy | Teal | Executive Director | Dryad |
| Elise | Tookmanian | Scientific Communications Fellow | National Cancer Institute (NCI) |
| Lev | Tsypin | Postdoc | Stanford, E. Yeh Lab |
| Renée | Wang | Postdoc | UC Berkeley, Patrick Shih Lab and Daniel Stolper Lab |
| Steven | Wilbert | Postdoc | Johns Hopkins University, Preheim Lab |
Former Clinical Fellows
| First Name | Last name | Current status | Where they are now |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fadi | Asfour | Barbara Chatfield Endowed Chair for CF | University of Utah Health Care |
| Ajay | Kasi | Assistant Professor | Emory University School of Medicine |
| Doug | Li | Assistant Professor | UCLA |
| Kyle | McCallin | Pulmonary Doctor | Loma Linda, CA |
| Lindsey | Van Sambeek | Emergency Medicine | St. Luke's Hospital-Chesterfield |
Former Staff
| First name | Last name | Status in lab | Current status | Where they are now |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olga | Batygin | Administrative Assistant | Communications Manager | California Institute of Technology |
| Elise | Cowley | Research Technician | Graduate Student | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Flavia | Costa | Research Technician | Graduate Student | UGA |
| Michelle | Dubiel | Research Technician | Ophthalmologist | San Luis Obispo |
| Ruth | Lee | Research Technician | Graduate Student | University of Minnesota |
| Kathy | Lima | Administrative Assistant | Retired | |
| Kristy | Nguyen | Administrative Assistant | Administrative Assistant | California Institute of Technology |