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Team

 

Current Members

Rui Yi

Rui Yi, PhD, Professor

Dongmei Wang

Dongmei Wang, PhD, Research Assistant Professor

Haimin Li

Haimin Li, PhD, Research Associate

Anumeha Singh

Anumeha Singh, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate

Ed Li

Ed Li, MD/PhD Dermatology Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow

Steve Li

Steve Li, MD/PhD Dermatology Postdoctoral Fellow

Jimin Han

Jimin Han, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate

Yuanyuan Liu

Yuanyuan Liu, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate

Lauren Walter

Lauren Walter, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate

Arpan Das

Arpan Das, DGP Graduate Student

Cady Fu

Cady Fu, DGP Graduate Student, Data Science Fellow/TGS Fellow

Adrian Carcamo

Adrian Carcamo, DGP Graduate Student, Carcinogenesis T32 Fellow

Chris Stephens

Chris Stephens, DGP Graduate Student

Carolynn Gonzalez

Carolynn Gonzalez, DGP Graduate Student

Meredith Klay

Meredith Klay, Research Technologist/Lab Manager

Ned Yu

Ned Yu, Undergraduate student at Northwestern University

Megan Wong

Megan Wong, Undergraduate student at Northwestern University

Lab Alumni

  • Postdoctoral Fellows
    • Jerome Lee, Ph.D. American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow 2012-2016. Position: Associate Technical Director at Invitae
    • Xiying Fan, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate 2011-2018. Position: Assistant Professor at University of Colorado School of Medicine
    • Alfonso Garrido-Lecca, Ph.D. Anna and John J. Sie Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow/NIH T32 Postdoctoral Fellow 2014-2020. Position: Co-Founder/CSO at TUMI Genomics
    • Glen Bjerke, Ph.D. American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow 2015-2020. Position:  Scientist at Invitae
    • Jingjing Wang, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate/Research Associate 2016-2024. Position: Assistant Professor at Southeast University, Nanjing China
  • Graduate Students
    • Zhaojie Zhang, Ph.D. Graduate Student 2009-2013. Position: Director of Oncology Clinical & Translational Bioinformatics at Moderna
    • Kent Riemondy, Ph.D. Graduate Student 2009-2015. Position: Senior Instructor, University of Colorado School of Medicine
    • Li Wang, Ph.D. Graduate Student 2010-2015. Position: Senior Scientist at ArsenalBio
    • Christopher Bennett, Ph.D. Graduate Student 2012-2016. Position: Bioinformatics Scientist at Ambry Genetics
    • Jaimee Hoefert, Ph.D. Graduate Student 2012-2017. Position: Scientific writer
    • Chi Zhang, Ph.D. Graduate Student 2017-2022. Position: F99/K00 Postdoctoral Fellow at Dana-Farber
  • Lab Managers & Technicians
    • Evan O’Loughlin 2008-2011. Position: Graduate Student at Harvard Medical School
    • Loren Greiner 2009-2013. Position: retired
    • Emily Beans 2011-2014. Position: MD Student at Indiana University School of Medicine
    • Andrew Fink 2014. Position: Master Student at Stanford University Environmental Engineering & Science
    • Lisa Kormendi 2014-2017. Position: MD Student at University of Colorado School of Medicine
    • Jeremy Burgmaier 2017-2018. Position: Audi brand specialist
    • Gaelle Blanvillain 2018-2019. Position: Graduate Student at Virginia Tech
    • Kestrel Green 2019-2021. Position: Regional Account Executive at StemExpress
    • Michael Sande 2021-2023. Position: Graduate Student at University of Wisconsin – Madison
    • Eric Mao 2023-2024. Position: MD Student at University of Virginia School of Medicine
    • Ayasa Michii 2022-2024. Position: Graduate Student at Harvard University
    • Sophie Chang 2023-2024. Position: MD Student at University of California San Diego
  • Undergraduates
    • Sarah Jackson, Honors Student 2009-2011, Summa Cum Laude
    • Emily Shangraw, Honors Student 2009-2011, Summa Cum Laude
    • Sarah Ha, Honors Student 2010-2013, Summa Cum Laude, position: MD student at University of Colorado School of Medicine
    • Meaghan Flagg, Honors Student 2010-2013, Summa Cum Laude, position: Graduate student at Harvard Medical School
    • Lara Janiszewski, Honors Student 2014-2015, Summa Cum Laude, position: Graduate student at CU Boulder
    • Valerie Gao 2014-2015
    • Ziqi Liu 2014-2016
    • Rachel Hall 2015-2016
    • Chloe Yan 2015-2016
    • Jeremy Burgmaier, Honors Student 2016-2017, Summa Cum Laude 
    • Isabella Shelby, Honors Student 2019-2020, Summa Cum Laude, position: MD student at UT Southwestern
    • Andy Zhong, visiting student from UC Berkeley 2019, position: Graduate student at Duke University
    • Anna Che, 2022-2023, position: Acorn Biolabs
    • Junda Chen, 2023, Visiting student from Tsinghua University, position: Graduate student at Cornell University
    • Neerav Ravirala, 2024.
  •  High School Students
    • Larry Zhang 2011-2013. Fairview High School. Position: Undergraduate at MIT
    • Anisha Kolambe 2023 – 2024. Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. Position: Undergraduate at Harvard University
    • Aidan Yang 2024. Mercersburg Academy.