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 |
| Prakash, Sharan | 2018-2023 | sprakash@alumni.caltech.edu |
| 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 |