Former Lab Members
Postdoctoral Fellows
2015-2019 |
Dr. Tessa Solomon-Lane, Integrative Biology Postdoctoral Fellow; now Assistant Professor in Keck Science Department at Claremont-McKenna Colleges |
2013-2015 |
Dr. Alex Jordan, Integrative Biology Postdoctoral Fellow; now Assistant Professor at Max Planck Institute, Konstanz (Germany) |
2012-2014 |
Dr. Bridget Nugent, Gaylord Donnelley Environmental Postdoctoral Fellow; now Research Program Lead, Office of Women's Health, U.S. Food & Drug Administration |
2009-2013 |
Dr. Peter D. Dijkstra, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (European Union); now Asst. Professor at Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant (MI) |
2006-2009 |
Dr. Michael R. Kidd, Postdoc; now Associate Professor at Texas A&M University, Laredo (TX) |
2005-2007 |
Dr. Nina Duftner, Postdoc, Erwin-Schrodinger Postdoctoral Fellow; now R&D group leader at Novartis-Sandoz |
2005-2006 |
Dr. Daphne Soares, Postdoc, NIH minority supplement; now Assistant Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology |
2003-2004 |
Dr. Brian C. Trainor, Postdoc; now Professor at UC Davis |
2002-2006 |
Dr. Nadia Aubin-Horth, Postdoc, NSERC (Canada) Postdoctoral Fellow; now Professor at Laval University, Quebec (Canada) |
2002-2006 |
Dr. Susan C.P. Renn, Postdoc, Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow; now Professor at Reed College, Portland (OR) |
Graduate Students
2013- 2021 |
Caitlin Friesen, Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution & Behavior, now postdoc with Aras Petrulis and Geert DeVries at Georgia State University |
2018- 2021 |
Kelly Wallace , Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution & Behavior, now postdoc with Aubrey Kelly at Emory University |
2014- 2020 |
Mariana Rodriguez-Santiago, Ph.D. in Neuroscience now postdoc with Kim Hoke at Colorado State University |
2012- 2017 |
Rayna Harris, Ph.D. in Cellular & Molecular Biology now postdoc with Titus Brown at UC Davis |
2010- 2017 |
Sean Maguire, Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution, & Behavior (NSF predoc fellowship); now staff scientist at New England Biolabs |
2011- 2016 |
Chelsea Weitekamp, Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution, & Behavior (NSF predoc fellowship); now ORISE Postdoctoral Fellow at the US Environmental Protection Agency |
2008- 2011 |
Anna Sessa, M.S. in EEB; now program manager at Emergency Medical Services for Children, New Hampshire |
2007- 2011 |
Lauren O’Connell, Ph.D. in Cellular & Molecular Biology; now Assistant Professor at Stanford University |
2007- 2011 |
Lin Winton (formerly Huffman), Ph.D. in Cellular & Molecular Biology; now Director, Quantitative Resource Center at Carleton College |
2007- 2011 |
Keith Whitaker, Ph.D. in Neuroscience (DoD SMART Fellowship recipient); now Scientific Project Manager for Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease-Related Dementias programs at NIH-NINDS |
2006- 2011 |
Ryan Wong, Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution, & Behavior; now Assistant Professor at the University Omaha Nebraska |
Undergraduate Students
2019-2022 |
Matthew Lee B.S. in Biology |
2019-2022 |
Karleen Wu B.S. in Biology: Neuroscience, now a research assistant in the Goldschen-Ohm lab at UT Austin |
2019-2022 |
Sherley Wang B.S. in Computer Science, now a software engineer with Apple Pay |
2019-2022 |
Asha Gomez B.S. in Biology: Bioinformatics |
2020-2022 |
Andy Zhou B.S. in Mathematics |
2020-2022 |
Yihen "Sam" Su B.S. in Computer Science |
2020-2022 |
Niharika Pakala B.S. in Biology |
2021-2022 |
Rebeca Moreno Villarreal B.S. in Biology |
2021-2022 |
Marisa Ballard B.S. in Biomedical Engineering |
2020-2021 |
Will Fynes B.S. in Biology |
2019-2022 |
Henry Unser B.S. in Biochemistry |
2019-2021 |
Yiyi (Joyce) Wang B.S. in Biology at UT Austin, now a graduate student in the Cell & Molecular Biology graduate program at UT Austin |
2020-2021 |
Marcos Bermudez, B.S. in Biology at UT Austin |
2018-2020 |
Sarah Campbell B.S. in Neuroscience at UT Austin, now a graduate student in Andy Bass' lab at Cornell University |
2018-2019 |
Emily Reed B.S. in Biology at UT Austin, now a graduate student in the Genetics graduate program at Texas A&M |
2017-2019 |
Cassidy Malone B.S. in Psychology at UT Austin, now a graduate student in Psychology at Cornell University |
2019-2020 |
Morgan Laing, B.S. in Biomedical Engineering at UT Austin |
2018-2020 |
Pragati Kore, now a graduate student in Bioinformatics at Baylor College of Medicine |
2017-2020 |
Megan Chan, working as a Bioinformatics Analyst with Adaptive Biotechnologies |
2018-2019 |
Michael Truong, pursuing a B.S. in Nutrition at UT Austin |
2018-2019 |
Kelly Lumpkin, B.S. in Biology at UT Austin |
2018-2019 |
Kavyaa Choudhary, pursuing a B.S. in Biology in the Plan II Honors program at UT Austin |
2017-2018 |
Anokhi Kashiparekh, working as a Research Technician II at Massachusetts General Hospital |
2018 |
Heather Genuise, B.S. in Biology: Marine and Freshwater Science |
2015-2018 |
Rebecca Butler, pursuing a Ph.D. in Integrative Neuroscience at the University of Chicago |
2017-2018 |
Ashley Luu, pursuing a M.Sc. in biomedical science at the University of North Texas Heath Sciences Center |
2016-2017 |
Hareem Usmani, attending medical school at UTMB in Galveston |
2016 |
Paul Tee, seeking a B.S. in Mathematics |
2015-2017 |
Savannah Clapp, pursuing a graduate degree in Coastal Environment at Duke University |
2015 |
Nupur Shambharkar, seeking a B.S. in Neuroscience |
2014-2017 |
Pamela Del Valle, B.S.A. in Neuroscience and Biology; now a graduate student at Mount Sinai's Icahn School of Medicine |
2014-2017 |
Pranav Bhamidipati, B.S. in Biochemistry, Plan II Honors; now a student in the USC-Caltech MD-PhD program |
2014-2015 |
Vyshnavi Karri, B.S. in Biology: Neuroscience |
2014-2015 |
Nathan Phu Pham, B.S. in Biochemistry |
2014-2015 |
Ranju Kar, B.S. in Biochemistry; now graduate student at UT Austin |
2014-2015 |
Linda Garrison, B.S. Biology; now a graduate student at Max Planck Research School, Konstanz (Germany) |
2013-2014 |
Sylvia Garza Reyes, B.S. Biology; now a graduate student at Max Planck Research School, Konstanz (Germany) |
2013-2014 |
Jessica Nguyen, now a MD student at UT Southwestern Medical |
2012-2014 |
Simon Yu, B.S. in Chemistry |
2012-2014 |
Erica Lynn, B.S. Biochemistry |
2012-2014 |
Esther Osuji, B.S. in Biology: Neurobiology |
2011-2013 |
Augusto Rodriguez, B.S. in Biology |
2011-2012 |
Ashley Hsu, B.S. in Biology |
2011-2012 |
My Ngoc Thi “Mimi” Tran, now at OSU College of Veterinary Medicine |
2010-2011 |
Stephanie Flores (deceased) |
2010-2011 |
Jay Falk, now a grad student with D. Rubenstein at Columbia University |
2009-2011 |
Maggie Rigney (née Mitchell), now a student advisor at UT Austin |
2009-2011 |
Julia Ding, now in medical school |
2009-2011 |
Miles Fontenot, now MD/PhD student at UT Southwestern Medical School |
2009-2011 |
Bryan Matthews, PhD, now an Associate Scientist at CAMP4 Therapeutics |
2008-2009 |
Dagan Segal (née Lavee), PhD, now a postdoctoral fellow at UT Southwestern Medical Center |
2007-2009 |
Callison Alcott, now a graduate student at Baylor College of Medicine |
2007-2008 |
Dr. Christine Chen, dentist |
2006-2008 |
Sidney Williams, BS in Biology |
2005-2007 |
Dr. Soledad Jorge, MD (Yale School of Medicine), Ob Gyn fellow, Columbia University Medical Center |
2004-2006 |
Dr. Jasmine Dowell, MD, pediatrician (U Chicago Medical School) |
2004-2005 |
Dr. Eleanor Fraser, PhD with Nirao Shah at UCSF |
2004-2005 |
Dr. Jennie Lin, MD, Nephrology fellow at U Penn Medical School |
2003-2005 |
Dr. Sarah Bahan, DVM (UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine) |
2003-2005 |
Dr. Yehoda Martei, MD (Yale School of Medicine) |
2002-2004 |
Dr. Alex Pollen, Rhodes Scholar, Ph.D. with David Kingsley at Stanford University, now Assistant Professor at UCSF |
2002-2003 |
Dr. Fiery Cushman, now Assistant Professor at Harvard University |
2001-2003 |
Dr. Seth Ament, Ph.D. with Gene Robinson, postdoc with Nathan Price, now Assistant Professor, University of Maryland Medical School |
Research Assistants
2019- 2020 |
Kendra Zwonitzer, now a graduate student in Cellular and Molecular Biology at UT Austin |
2009- 2012 |
Rayna Harris, PhD, now a postdoctoral fellow with Becca Calisi at UC Davis |
2006- 2009 |
Celeste Kidd, now a Research Associate at TAMIU |
2004- 2006 |
Jonah Larkins-Ford, now a graduate student in Bree Aldridge's lab at Tufts University |
2001- 2003 |
Josiah Altschuler, MSc, now a Senior Software Engineer at Personalis, Inc |
2001- 2006 |
Sarah Annis |
Summer Undergraduate Interns
2022 |
Nhu Nguyen (InSTInCT REU), B.S. in Biology from UT Austin |
2022 |
Paola Annayancy Macario (SUPER REU), B.S. in Biology from Southwestern Adventist University |
2021 |
Marisa Ballard (InSTInCT REU), B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from UT Austin |
2021 |
Rebeca Moreno Villarreal (InSTInCT REU), B.S. in Biology from UT Austin |
2019 |
Courtni Foster (SUPER REU), B.S. in Biology from Howard University |
2019 |
Sherley Wang, B.S. in Computer Science from UT Austin |
2018 |
Lance Henderson, B.S. in Biochemistry from UT Austin |
2012 |
Diana Guerrero Salazar, B.S. in Biology from UC Berkeley |
2010 |
Emily Fassi, now a student in the Northwestern University Graduate Program in Genetic Counseling |
2008 |
Jackie Ma, now at Moss Adams LLP, San Francisco |
2005, 2006 |
Dr. Flora Hinz, now a postdoctoral fellow in Dan Geschwind lab at UCLA |
2005 |
Dr. Kosha Soneji, now a resident at UCLA Medical School |
2002 |
Dr. Helen Liu, MD |
2002 |
Melissa Chu, high school science teacher |
High School Students
2022 |
Sydney Lee, Round Rock High School |
2022 |
Claire Payne, Liberal Arts and Science Academy High School |
2019 |
Isaac Munoz, Crockett High School |
2018 |
Mia Haraguchi, Dripping Springs High School, B.S. in biology from Yale University, now a graduate student at Rockefeller University |
2017- 2019 |
Gabriel Rocha, Crockett High School |
2016- 2017 |
Rosa Garcia, Crockett High School |
2016 |
Shivang Singh, Liberal Arts and Science Academy High School |
2015- 2016 |
Alma Romero, Crockett High School |
2015 |
Najah Hussain, Liberal Arts and Science Academy High School |
2014- 2015 |
Alyssa Trevino, Crockett High School |
2013- 2015 |
Caleb Ellington, Liberal Arts and Science Academy High School |
2013- 2014 |
Lia Steinhardt-Keely, Crockett High School |
2011- 2012 |
Jennifer Gaston, now an undergraduate at UT Austin |
2011 |
Hanna Dörnhofer, now a biology major at Reed College |
2011 |
Joshua Stevens-Stein, B.S. from University of Chicago |
2010- 2011 |
Seth Robledo, now an undergraduate at St. Edward’s University |
2009- 2010 |
Marcos Alvarez, now a biology major at Texas State University |
2009 |
Devan Gartman, B.S. in biology from Hawaii Pacific University |
2008- 2009 |
Emily Liljestrand, B.S. in biology from Rice University |
2008- 2009 |
Devon Sepeda, B.S. in physics from UT Austin |