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Sternberg Lab Alumni

PhD Students

Name Time in Lab Current Role
Akagi, Allison 2011 - 2017 Chemistry Teacher, Mayfield Senior School, Pasadena, CA
Angeles, David 2014 - 2019 Computational Biologist, eGenesis, Inc.
Aroian, Raffi 1987 - 1991 Professor, UMass Medical School
Beltrame, Eduardo 2019 - 2021 Scientist, Retro Biosciences
Brown, Keith 1993 - 2001 Private Life
Brugman, Katherine 2012 - 2020 R&D Consultant, Genofax
Bui, Yen Kim 1997 - 2003 Pediatric Cardiologist, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA
Chai, Cynthia 2015 - 2022 Postdoctoral Fellow, HHMI-Janelia and HHMI/Columbia Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute
Chamberlin, Helen 1988 - 1994 Professor, Ohio State University
Chang, Chieh 1995 - 2000 Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
Chen, Wen 2012 - 2019 Biotech, China
Choe, Andrea 2006 - 2011 CEO, Holoclara
Cho, Julie 2007 - 2012 USC School of Medicine MD Program
Chow, Elly 2010 - 2014 Scientific Advisor, Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati
Clandinin, Thomas 1992 - 1998 Professor of Neurobiology, Stanford University
Cohen, Sarah 2016 - 2021 Patent Agent, Wilson, Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Dillman, Adler 2007 - 2012 Assistant Professor, University of California Riverside
Fernandes, Jolene S. 2003 - 2007 Associate, Foley & Lardner LLP
Ghosh, Srimoyee 2009 - 2015 Director, Wellness Plans at VCA Animal Hospitals
Gonzalez-Srricchio, Aidyl 1993 - 2000 Instructor, The Buckley School
Green, Jennifer 2002 - 2008 Director, Clinical Biomarkers at Takeda
Hill, Russell 1987 - 1994 Private Life
Ho, Margaret 2009 - 2015 Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University
Holman, Elizabeth 2016 - 2021 Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford
Huang, Linda 1988 - 1995 Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Jiang, Lily 1993 - 1999 Vice President of Operations and Investigator, Texas Research Center
Jongeward, Gregg 1987 - 1993 Senior Associate Dean and Associate Professor, University of the Pacific
Kirouac, Martha 1997 - 2002 Science Educator, Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Garden
Kuntz, Steven 2003 - 2010 Sr. Scientist at Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Lacencere, Chris* 1990 switched to Steve Quake's lab; now attorney
Lee, James 2011 - 2019 Postoctoral Fellow, Rockefeller Universtiy
Lee, Junho 1990 - 1994 Professor, Seoul National University, South Korea
Leighton, Daniel 2010 - 2016 Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA
Lesa, Giovanni 1991 - 1998 Group Leader, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London
Liu, Jing 1991 - 1997 Managing Director, MIDAS, University of Michigan
Liu, Jonathan 2013 - 2019 Department of Pediatrics, LAC+USC Medical Center
Liu, Katherine 1988 - 1995 Formerly SUNY Stony Brook
Minor, Paul 2006 - 2013 Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University Hopkins Marine Station
Mori, Hiro* 1991 - 1993 [Left Program/Lab] Deceased.
Narayan, Anusha 2003 - 2010 VP Strategic Marketing, Evidation Health
Nath, Ravi 2013 - 2018 Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Universtiy
Quintero, Porfirio 2014 - 2020 Biological and Computational Scientist, Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc.
Quitt, Marissa* 2009 - 2011 [Left Program/Lab]
Ririe, Ted 2002 - 2009 Associate, Stoel Rives LLP
Schaedel, Oren 2006 - 2012 Data Scientist, Versal
Seah, Adeline 2002 - 2009 Consultant, Singapore Center for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering
Shih, Pei 2011 - 2019 Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University
Wang, Minqin 1994 - 2000 Partner, Kirkland & Ellis, LLP
Wong, Wan Rong Sandy 2014 - 2021 Scientist 1, Illumina, Inc.
Yoon, Charles 1992 - 1998 Instructor in Surgery, HMS and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Yu, Hui 1999 - 2005 Clinical Genomic Scientist, Invitae
Yuet, Kai (with Professor Tirrell) 2009 - 2016 Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University

Postdoctoral Fellows

Name Time in Lab Current Role
Apfeld, Javier 1999 - 2000 Instructor in Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
Barber, Leslie 1987 - 1987 Professor, Great Bay Community College, Portsmouth/Rochester
Barr, Maureen 1995 - 2000 Professor, Rutgers University
Bastiani, Carol A. 1996 - 2002
Baugh, L. Ryan 2004 - 2008 Assistant Professor, Duke Universtiy
Boorstein, William 1990 - 1992
Carta, Lynn 1989 - 1996 Research Plant Pathologist, Nematoloy Lab, USDA-ARS
Cao, Mengyi 2017 - 2023 Principal Investigator, Division of Biosphere Sciences and Engineering, Carnegie Institute for Science
Chen, Chun-Hao 2018 - 2020 Assistant Professor, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, National Taiwan University
Chen, Wen 2019 - 2021
Choe, Andrea 2014 - 2017 CEO, Holoclara
Ciche, Todd A. 2003 - 2005 Bayer Pharmaceuticals
Doma, Meenakshi 2007 - 2013 Genomics Lead, Cell & Gene Therapies, Genentech
Felix, Marie-Anne 1994 - 1997 Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
Garcia, Luis Rene 1997 - 2002 Professor, HHMI, Texas A&M University
Girard, Lisa 1999 - 2003
Golden, Andy 1990 - 1994 Investigator, NIDDK, NIH
Gupta, Bhagwati 1997 - 2003 Associate Professor, McMaster University, Canada
Hallem, Elissa 2005 - 2011 Assistant Professor, UCLA
Han, Min 1988 - 1991 Professor, HHMI, University of Colorado at Boulder
Hopper, Niel 1994 - 1998 Statistician, Office for National Statistics
Huseh, Yen-Ping 2010 - 2015 Assistant Reseach Fellow, IMB, Academia Sinica
Hwang, Byung Joon 1998 - 2004 Assistant Professor, Scripps, Korea Antibody Institute
Jin, Yan 2019 - 2023 Postdoc, UCLA
Kadam, Snehalata 2005 - 2011 Assistant Teaching Professor, Worchester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
Karbowski, Jan 2003 - 2008 Computational Neuroscientist, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Kato, Mihoko 2003 - 2018 Visiting Assistant Professor, Pomona College
Katz, Wendy 1989 - 1995 Research Associate, University of Kentucky
Kayne, Paul 1988 - 1995 Director, Genomics, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
Levchenko, Andre 1998 - 2001 John C. Malone Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Director of Yale Systems Biology Institute at Yale University
Moghal, Nadeem 1998 - 2003 Principle Investigator, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR)
Mortazavi, Ali 2004 - 2008 Assistant Professor, UC Irvine
Newman, Anna 1991 - 1996 Assistant Professor, University of Houston
Palmer, Robert "Bino" 1992 - 1997 Deceased
Saldana, Alok 2003 - 2006 IT/Business Analyst, Novartis
Sapir, Amir 2008 - 2014 Lecturer, University of Haifa
Sherwood, David 1999 - 2005 Associate Professor, Duke
Shinya, Ryoji 2012 - 2017 Senior Assistant Professor, Meiji University
Sommer, Ralf 1993 - 1995 Director, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
Srinivasan, Jagan 2004 - 2010 Professor, Department of Biology and Biotechnology, Worcester Polytechnic Institue
Takao, Inoue 2003 - 2006 Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore
Tietze, Kyria 1992 - 1993 Seattle
Van Buskirk, Cheryl 2002 - 2009 Assistant Professor, California State University Northridge
Wang, Han 2014 - 2020 Assistant Professor, U Madison
Whittaker, Allyson 2000 - 2006 Technical Applications Scientist at Arima Genomics
Xu, Xian-Zhong Shawn 2001 - 2005 Professor, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Zaslaver, Alon 2007 - 2012 Assistant Professor, Hebrew University Jerusalem
Zhong, Weiwei 2003 - 2009 Associate Director at Bristol Myers Squibb

Research Staff

Name Time in Lab Current Role
Antoshechkin, Igor 2003 - 2009 Director, Millard and Muriel Jacobs Genetics and Genomics Laboratory, Caltech
Cronin, Christopher 2001 - 2017 Fluidics and Mechanical Engineer, Cai Lab, Caltech
De Modena, John "Demo" 1998 - 2016 Bon vivant, freelance biologist, raconteur and photographer
Diep, Tammy 2019 - 2019
Doma, Meenakshi 2013 - 2015 RNA Specialist, Transcriptic
Done, James 2012 - 2016 UCLA
Fang, Ruihua 2007 - 2011 Senior Machne Learning Scientist, Huma.AI
Hajdu-Cronin, Yvonne 1989 - 1989 Self Employed
Harrison, Marie-Claire 2018 - 2019 Graduate Student, Vanderbilt University
Holboke, Andrea 1987 - 1989
Jaffery, Josh 2006 - 2006 Liason, California Department of Transportation
Jauhal Ettington, April 2017 - 2018 Laboratory Researcher, University of Auckland
Kadam, Snehalata 2012 - 2012 Assistant Teaching Professor, Worchester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
Kenny, Eimear 2001 - 2005 Director, Center for Genomic Health at Ichan School of Medicne at Mount Sinai
Lee, Yongkyun 2018 - 2019 Software Engineer Intern, Onclusive
Li, Yuling 2010 - 2016 Staff Sofware Development Engineer, Fortinet
Maher, Shayda 2017 - 2018 Research Associate II, Rady Children's Hospital
Medina, Gladys 1992 - 2016 Retired
Moseley Tuli, Mary Ann 2013 - 2017 Data Editor, GigaDB
Nava, Stephanie 2019-2023 Lab Manager, University of Missouri
Oh, Daniel Jun Young 2017 - 2019 Graduate Student, Northwestern University
Petcherski, Andrei 2001 - 2009 Self Employed
Rangarajan, Arun 2006 - 2011 Senior Data Engineer/Scientist, Slower.AI
Schwarz, Erich 2000 - 2012 Assistant Research Professor, Cornell University
Srinivasan, Jagan 2010 - 2012 Professor, Department of Biology and Biotechnology, Worcester Polytechnic Institue
Tan, Minyi 2018 - 2020 Research Specialist, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Tzou, Phoebe 1989 - 1993, 1998
Van Buskirk, Cheryl 2010 - 2012 Associate Professor, California State University Northridge
Wang, Xiaodong 2006 - 2016 Ciphergene
Whittaker, Allyson 2006 - 2010 Scientist at Dart NeuroScience

Sabbatical/Visiting Faculty

Name Time in Lab Current Role
Bargmann, Cori 2003 - 2003 Professor, Rockefeller University
Costhek Abilio, Vanessa 2023 Professor, Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Glater, Elizabeth 2017 - 2018 Associate Professor, Pomona College
Hart, Anne 2020 Professor, Brown University
Li, Ye 2018 Associate Professor, Capital Medical University, Beijing
Lopez-Vetrone, Sylvia 2014 - 2016 Associate Professor of Biology, Whittier College
Wang, YuJi 2018 Professor, Capital Medical University, Beijing
Wong, Garry 2014