Current Alumni

Jonathan Weissman
Principal Investigator
Cristen Muresan
Admin Lab Manager
Sumita Sinha
Lab Manager
Ba Pham
Lab Assistant
Mohamed El-Brolosy
Visiting Scientist
Richard She
Postdoctoral Fellow
Luke Koblan
Postdoctoral Fellow
Zeb Levine
Postdoctoral Fellow
Yuancheng (Ryan) Lu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Katie Yost
Postdoctoral Fellow
Jaspreet Sandhu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Josh Abraham
Postdoctoral Fellow
James Xue
Postdoctoral Fellow
Jingchuan Luo
Postdoctoral Fellow
Chen Weng
Postdoctoral Fellow
Tessa Bertozzi
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ania Puszynska
Postdoctoral Fellow
Genya Frenkel
Postdoctoral Fellow
Julia Joung
Postdoctoral Fellow
Alexandra Schnell
Postdoctoral Fellow
Pu Zheng
Postdoctoral Fellow
Reuben Saunders
Graduate Student
Yi Hua Chen
Graduate Student
Gayathri Muthukumar
Graduate Student
Acer Xu
Graduate Student
Karina Smolyar
Graduate Student
Edwin Neumann
Graduate Student
Jingjie Hu
Graduate Student
William Colgan
Graduate Student
James Cameron
Research Technician
Elaine Wu
Research Technician
Arhan Kumar
Research Technician
Stuti Khandwala
Research Technician
Sichao Yu
Software Engineer
Esme Sun
Undergraduate Student

Alumni

Anne Odera
Admin Assistant
Xiaojie Qiu
Post-doc
Assistant Professor & Principal Investigator | Stanford University
Dian Yang
Post-doc
Assistant Professor of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics | Coulmbia University
Alex LeNail
Grad student
PhD Student | Heiman Lab MIT
Theo Esantsi
Technician
Medical Student | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Atharv Oak
Undergrad
Yue He
Undergrad
PhD Student | Northwestern University
Victory Yinka-Banjo
Undergrad
Scientist Intern (Cancer Diagnostics & Bioinformatics) | Illumina
Thao Nguyen
Undergrad
PhD Student | Stanford Genetics
Jacob Shapiro
Undergrad
Ally Vernich
Undergrad
Ukyeon Shin
Software Engineer
Masters Student in Robotics, Electrical and Computer Engineering | Northeastern University
Jeff Hussmann
Senior Scientist
Senior Scientist | Prime Medicine
Alina Guna
Post-doc
Postdoctoral Researcher | Rebecca Voorhees Lab at Caltech
Joseph Min
Grad student
Software Engineer | Ginkgo Bioworks
Sarah Schumacher
Technician
Data Analyst | Boston Medical Center Dept. of Infectious Disease
Matt Jones
Grad student
Postdoctoral Scholar | Howard Chang Lab at Stanford University
Lakshmi Miller-Vedam
Grad student
Scientist | Early Discovery Research
Joseph Replogle
Grad student
Medical Scientist Training Program | UCSF
Katerina Popova
Grad student
Vice President and Research Analyst | Aquilo Capital Management
Jeff Quinn
Post-doc
Associate Director of Off-Target Biology | Beam Therapeutics
Jessica Bonnar
Technician
Graduate Student | MIT Biology
Michelle Chan
Post-doc
Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and Genomics | Princeton University
Jin Chen
Post-doc
Principal Investigator | Altos Labs
Zach Cogan
Technician
PHD Candidate | University of California San Francisco
Manny DeVera
Lab Manager
DeRisi Lab Equipment Lab Manager | University of California San Francisco
Marco Hein
Post-doc
Assistant Professor & Group Leader | Max Perutz Labs & Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Kelsey Hickey
Grad student
Postdoctoral Researcher | Harper Lab at Harvard Medical School
Marco Jost
Post-doc
Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Principal Investigator | Harvard Medical School
Joan Kanter
Admin Coordinator
Retired Administrative Coordinator | Weissman Lab at HHMI/UCSF
James Nuñez
Post-doc
PI & Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology | UC Berkeley
Angela Pogson
Technician
Graduate Student in Developmental Biology | Stanford University
Matt Shurtleff
Post-doc
Senior Scientist | Lycia Therapeutics
Maxine Wang
Technician
Graduate Student | Rebecca Voorhees Lab at Caltech
Britt Adamson
Post-doc
PI & Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology | Princeton University
Ashwin Banfal
Technician
Staff Research Associate II | University of California San Francisco
Michael Bassik
Post-doc
PI & Associate Professor of Genentics | Stanford University
Arunashree Bhamidipati
Post-doc
Senior Staff Scientist & Sequencing Integration Manager | Pacific Biosciences
Alexandre Bolze
Post-doc
PI & Principal Scientist | Helix
Onn Brandman
Post-doc
PI & Associate Professor of Biochemistry | Stanford University
Gloria Ann Brar
Post-doc
PI & Associate Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology | University of California, Berkeley
David Breslow
Grad student
PI & Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology | Yale University
Dale Cameron
Post-doc
PI, Associate Professor of Biology & Chair of the Biology Department | Ursinus College
Owen Chen
Technician
Advanced Technology Exploration Scientist | Insitro
Peter Chien
Grad student
PI & Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | University of Massachusetts Amherst
Min Cho
Technician
Scientist II | Altos Labs
Clement Chu
Grad student
Senior Vice President Research Development | Natera
Stirling Churchman
Post-doc
PI & Associate Professor of Genetics | Harvard Medical School
Sean Collins
Grad student
PI & Associate Professor of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics | Univeristy of California Davis
Elizabeth (Costa) Boydston
Grad Student
Product Manager | Ginkgo Bioworks
Vlad Denic
Grad student
PI & Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology | Harvard University
Angela DePace
Grad student
PI & Associate Professor of Systems Biology | Harvard Medical School
Joshua Dunn
Grad student
Senior Director of Design and Computational Biology | Ginkgo Bioworks
Alexander Fields
Post-doc
Director of Bioinformatics and Data Science | Grail
Catherine Foo
Grad student
Senior Principal Scientific Manager | Genetech
Adam Frost
Post-doc
PI & Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics | University of California San Francisco
Sina Ghaemmaghami
Post-doc
PI, Mercer Brugler Distinguished Teaching Professor George Y. and Catherine H. Wu Professor in Chemistry, Professor of Biology, & Director of AS&E Undergraduate Research | University of Rochester
Luke Gilbert
Post-doc
PI & Associate Professor of Urology | University of California San Francisco School of Medicine
John Hawkins
Bioinformatics Research Collaborator
Computational Biologist | Hexagon Bio
Ezgi Hacisuleyman
Post-doc
Kavli & HHWF Postdoctoral Fellow | Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-Oncology at The Rockefeller University
Max Horlbeck
Grad student
Pediatrics/Medical Genetics Resident| Boston Children’s Hospital
Siew Ho-Schleyer
Post-doc
Executive Director | Kite Pharma
Julie Hollien
Post-doc
PI & Associate Professor of Biological Sciences | University of Utah
Jennifer Hood-DeGrenier
Post-doc
Professor & Chair of Biology | Worcester State University
Nicholas Ingolia
Post-doc
PI & Associate Professor of Molecular & Cell Biology | University of California Berkeley
Martin Jonikas
Grad student
PI & Associate Professor of Molecular Biology | Princeton University
Calvin Jan
Post-doc
Principal Investigator| Calico Life Sciences
Martin Kampmann
Post-doc
PI & Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics | University of California San Francisco Weill Institute for Neurosciences
Kamena Kostova
PI & Staff Associate | Department of Embryology at Carnegie Institute
Matthew Larson
Post-doc
Senior Director of Biomarker Discovery | GRAIL
Manuel Leonetti
Post-doc
Group Leader Quantitative Cell Science | Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
Gene-Wei Li
Post-doc
PI & Associate Professor of Biology | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Han Li
Technician
Medical Student | Weill Cornell Medicine
Christina Liem
Student | University of California Santa Cruz
Yi-Chang Liu
Grad Student
Founder and CEO | GlycoGenetics, Inc
Melissa Michelitsch
Grad student
Broker and Owner | Mel Selvidge Fine Homes and Investment Property
Dale Muzzey
Chief Scientific Officer | Myriad Genetics
John Newman
Post-doc
VP and Head of Digitalization | Audi AG
Tom Norman
PI & Systems Biologist | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Eugene Oh
Grad Student
PI & Assistant Professor | Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital
Lev Osherovich
Grad student
Founding Director | Tilikum Therapeutics and Tiger Hill Therapeutics
Ryan Pak
Technician
Graduate student | The Scripps Research Institute
Luu Pham
Technician
Assistant Researcher | UCSF and UC Berkeley
Christopher Reiger
Admin
Illustrator, artist, & writer fascinated by natural history, conservation, & ecology
Edwin Rodriguez
Grad Student
Postdoctoral Fellow | Max Planck Institute
Silvia Rouskin
Grad Student
PI & Assistant Professor of Microbiology | Harvard Medical School
Dan Santos
Grad Student
Scientist II | Maze Theraputics
Alex Santoso
Grad student
Founder | Neatorama
Nicki Schirle Oakdale
Post-doc
Senior Research Scientist | Gilead
Maya Schuldiner
Post-doc
PI & Incumbent of the Dr. Gilbert Omenn and Martha Darling Professorial Chair in Molecular Genetics | Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Sukrit Silas
Post-doc
Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Fellow | Bondy-Denomy Lab at UCSF
Melanie Smith
Grad Student
Rheumatologist and Basic Scientist | Hospital for Special Surgery
Helmut Sparrer
Post-doc
Associate Director & Senior Scientist | Novartis Australia & New Zealand
Mohini Sridharan Kulp
Grad student
Senior Laboratory Instructor in Chemistry | Smith College
Jacob Stern
Product Director | 10X Genomics
Noam Stern-Ginossar
Post-doc
Principal Investigator | Weizmann Institute of Science
Jacob Stewart-Ornstein
Grad Student
Off-Target work leader | Prime Medicine
Kendra Swain
Professor of Biology | Alabama State University
Motomasa Tanaka
Post-doc
Team Leader | RIKEN Brain Institute in Japan
Sandra Torres
Grad Student
Scientist II | Lycia Therapeutics
Brandon Toyama
Grad student
Senior Principal Scientist | Bristol Myers Squibb Oncogenesis TRC
Kevin Travers
Grad student
SVP Research and Development | LevitasBio
Ben Tu
Grad student
HHMI Investigator, PI & Professor of Biochemistry| University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Katherine Verges
Grad student
Associate | McKinsey Consulting
Jackie Villalta
Academic Researcher
Jue Wang
Grad student
PI & Professor of Bacteriology | University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jimena Weibezahn
Post-doc
Scientist | Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Christopher Williams
Data Scientist | Airbnb
Daisy Wong
Technician
Pharmacy Student | UCSF
Albert Xu
MD-PhD Student | UCSF School of Medicine
Meghan McKeon Zubradt
Post-doc
Director of Business Development | GSK