Omer Gokcumen (he/him/his), PI
His CV: http://bit.ly/39s4B82
Izzy Starr (they/them/their), Ph.D. Student
Microsoft Ada Lovelace Fellow
Petar Pajic (he/him/his)
Presidential Fellow
Alber Aqil (he/him/his), Ph.D. Student
Presidential Fellow (UB)
Maddie Bartz (she/her/hers), researcher
Bio Honors (UB)
Fatih Aksel (he/him/his)
Advisor for computational wizardry
ALUMNI
Ph.D. Students
- Ozgur Taskent (Ph.D. 2019) – Now a postdoctoral fellow in the Tatiana Giraud Lab at University of Paris, Sud.
- Andre Campelo Dos Santos (Visiting, Ph.D. 2020) – Currently a Ph.D. student studying Archaeology at the Federal University of Pernambuco
- Yen Lung ‘Onta’ Lin (Ph.D. 2019) – Now a postdoctoral fellow in the Barreiro Lab at the University of Chicago
- Duo ‘Erica’ Xu (Ph.D., 2018) – Now a postdoctoral fellow in the Khurana Lab at Weill Cornell
- Skyler Resendez (Ph.D. 2019) – Now a postdoctoral fellow in the Peter Elkin lab at UB.
Postdoctoral Fellows
- Eaaswarkhanth Muthukrishnan (Postdoctoral Fellow) – Group Leader at the Dasman Diabetes Institute – Kuwait
- Dr. Marie Saitou (she/her/hers) – (was an Astellas Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow). Assistant Professor at Center for Integrative Genetics at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Her lab webpage is here: https://sites.google.com/view/saitou-lab/home
Master’s Students
- John Sebastiani (M.S., 2018) – Now a Ph.D. student at the University of Miami
- Justin Bradley (M.S., EEB Program) – Now at Fisher Scientific
- Petar Pajic (M.S., 2017) – Now a tech at UB Oral Biology
- Samantha Queeno (M.A., 2016) – Now a Ph.D. Student at the University of Oregon
- Brandon Mistretta (M.A., 2015) – Ph.D. Student at University of Houston
- Megan Dwyer (B.S., 2020) – Now @ Master of Science in Genetic Counseling program at the MGH Institute of Health Professions.
- Umair Syed (B.S., 2021) – now an undergraduate researcher in the Feltri Lab at UB Med.
- Therese Wild (B.S., 2021) – Now an undergraduate researcher in the Lin chemistry lab at UB
- Kirsten Dean (B.S., 2019) – Now a Research Scientist I at AMRI in Buffalo
- Alexa Bracci (B.S., 2017) – Now a Ph.D. student at Cornell at the Amnon Koren’s Lab at Cornell
- Lauren Boehnke (B.S., 2016) – Now a Ph.D. Student at the UB graduate program in Biomedical Sciences
- Sara-Ann Fox, (B.S., 2015) – Now a Medical Student at SUNY, Upstate Medical University
- Colin Flanagan (B.S., 2015) – Now a research assistant at Rockefeller University (with Dr. Ju Chen)
- Emilie Redwood (B.S., 2016) – Now at Med. School at SUNY, Stony Brook
- Sarah Schwartz (High School Intern) – Now a UB B.S. Student studying Computer Science
