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Current Students

Varun Aggarwala

avarun at mail.med.upenn.edu
B.S. Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, 2008

Advisor: Ben Voight
Matriculated: 2011

Nathan Berkowitz

nberk at mail.med.upenn.edu
B.A. Molecular Biology, Clark University, 2002

Advisor: Brian Gregory
Matriculated:
2010

Josh Burdick

Josh Burdick

jburdick at seas.upenn.edu
B.S. Computer Science, University of Maryland, 1999
M.S. Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, 2003

Advisor: John Murray
Thesis working title:
Spatiotemporal gene expression patterns in developing C. elegans
Matriculated:
2007

Aleah Caulin

alefox at mail.med.upenn.edu
B.S. Biology, Boston College, 2008

Advisors: Shane Jensen and Carlo Maley
Matriculated:
2008

  Christel Chehoud

cchehous at mail.med.upenn.edu
B.A. Molecular Biology, Princeton University, 2011

Matriculated: 2012

  Ying Chen

ying8 at mail.med.upenn.edu
B.S. Clinical Medicine, Southeast University, 2004

Matriculated: 2012

Zhang (Eric) Chen

zhch at mail.med.upenn.edu
B.S. Biology, University of Science and Technology of China, 2008
M.S. Bioinformatics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011

Advisor: Hongzhe Li
Matriculated
: 2011

  Erik Clarke

ecl at mail.med.upenn.edu
B.S. Molecular Biology, University of California, San Diego, 2011

Matriculated: 2012

Serena Dollive

sdollive at mail.med.upenn.edu
B.Sc. Computational Biology, Brown University, 2008

Advisor: Rick Bushman
Research Description:
Currently, I am interested in high throughput characterization of micro-eukaryotic and archaeal components the human microbiome.
Matriculated
: 2008

 

Hannah Dueck

hdueck at mail.med.upenn.edu
B.A. English, Goshen College, 2001
B.S. Biochemistry, Indiana University South Bend, 2009

Advisor: Junhyong Kim
Matriculated
: 2009

Joe Glessner

jgle at mail.med.upenn.edu
B.S. Bioinformatics, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, 2006
M.S. in Bioinformatics, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, 2007

Advisor: Hakon Hakonarson
Matriculated:
2010

Brett Hannigan

Brett Hannigan

brettth at mail.med.upenn.edu
B.S. Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 1999

Advisor: Bill DeGrado
Research description:My interests lie in the field of functional genomics and protein design.  As a member of Dr. DeGrado's lab, I am currently working on algorithms to help design proteins to interact with given peptide sequences. 
Matriculated: 2007

Hannah Hutton

huttonh at mail.med.upenn.edu
B.S. Biological Sciences, Cornell University, 2009

Advisors: Sarah Tishkoff and Hongzhe Li
Matriculated:
2010

Yih-Chii Hwang

yihhwang at mail.med.upenn.edu
B.S. Computer Science, National Chengchi University, 2005
M.S. Bioinformatics, National Yang-Ming University, 2007

Advisors: Li-San Wang and Brian Gregory
Matriculated
: 2009

  Xiao Ji

jixiao at mail.med.upenn.edu
B.S. Biological Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, 2010
M.S. Biotechnology, University of Pennsylvania, 2012

Matriculated: 2012

Yuchao Jiang

yuchaoj at mail.med.upenn.edu
B.S. Biological Sciences (Computational Biology, Cornell University, 2012
B.S. Food Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2010

Matriculated: 2012

Nicholas Lahens

Nicholas Lahens

nif at mail.med.upenn.edu
B.S. Bioinformatics and Computer Science, Canisius College, 2007

Advisor: John Hogenesch
Matriculated:
2007

Fan Li

 

fanli at mail.med.upenn.edu
B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California-Berkeley, 2008

Advisors: Li-San Wang and Brian Gregory
Thesis Working Title:
Genome-wide analysis of RNA secondary structure in eukaryotes
Matriculated
: 2009

 

Jacquelyn Meisel

meiselj at mail.med.upenn.edu
B.S. Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, Baltiomore County, 2012

Matriculated: 2012

 

Ian Mellis

iamellis at mail.med.upenn.edu
B.S. Molecular Biology, Mathematics, and Biomathematics, Amherst College, 2011

Matriculated: 2012

Sarah Middleton

sarahmid at mail.med.upenn.edu
B.S. Biology and Computer Science, The College of New Jersey, 2011

Advisor: Junhyong Kim
Matriculated
: 2011

Le

Le Ba Nguyen

blnguyen at mail.med.upenn.edu
B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Texas, 1999
M.S. Software Engineering, University of St. Thomas, 2005

Advisors: John Maris and Hongzhe Li
Research Description: I am using Whole Genome computational methods to identify disease variances for Neuroblastoma, and experimental methods to validate/verify those predicted disease variances.
Matriculated : 2006

Anthony

Anthony Olarerin-George

olarerin at mail.med.upenn.edu
B.S. Bioinformatics, Ramapo College, 2005

Advisor : John Hogenesch
Research description : I am currently interested in screening for the role of functional RNAs in the circadian pathway.
Matriculated : 2005

 

Derek Oldridge

oldridge at mail.med.upenn.edu
B.A. Chemistry and Physics, Reed College, 2007

Matriculated: 2010

 

Gabriel Otte

gotte at mail.med.upenn.edu
B.A. Computational Biology, Cornell University, 2011

Matriculated: 2011

Paul Ryvkin

pry at mail.med.upenn.edu
B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Connecticut, 2006

Advisor: Li-San Wang
Research description:
My interests include using RNAseq technology to investigate the properties of noncoding RNAs across a variety of organisms. In particular, I'm looking at the transcriptomics of neurodegenerative diseases.
Matriculated:
2007

Najaf Shah

Najaf Shah

najaf at mail.med.upenn.edu
B.S. Computer Science, University of Alabama Birmingham, 2004

Advisor: Casim Sarkar
Matriculated:
2007

Scott Sherrill-Mix

shescott at mail.med.upenn.edu
B.S. Biology, Florida State University, 2002
M.S. Biology, Dalhousie University, 2007

Advisor: Rick Bushman
Matriculated
: 2009

Sameer Soi

Sameer Soi

ssoi at mail.med.upenn.edu
B.S. Life Sciences, Penn State University, 2006

Advisor: Sarah Tishkoff
Research description: Human evolution, structural genomic variation and phenotypic variation in diverse African populations.

Matriculated: 2007

Sira Sriswasdi

Sira Sriswasdi

sirasris at mail.med.upenn.edu
B.S. Mathematics, MIT, 2008

Advisor: Dave Speicher
Matriculated:
2008

Nicholas Stong

nstong at mail.med.upenn.edu
B.S. Molecular Biology and Applied Math, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2008

Advisor: Harold Riethman
Research Description:
My broad research interest is in telomeres and their role in aging and cancer development. To further this interest I am developing tools to use high throughput sequencing data to quickly evaluate telomere sequence for integrity and mutation. These tools are being developed on high throughput sequence data from normal and cancer samples.
Matriculated
: 2008

Jonathan Toung

toung at mail.med.upenn.edu
B.A. Biochemistry and Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 2010
M.S. Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 2010

Advisor: Vivian Cheung
Matriculated:
2010

Ellen Tsai

Ellen Tsai

eatsai at mail.med.upenn.edu
B.S. Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, 2008

Advisor: Nancy Spinner
Matriculated
: 2008

 

Krishna Vijayendran

kvija at mail.med.upenn.edu
B.A. Biology and Philosophy, New York University, 2006

Matriculated: 2009

 

Ray Zhang

rayzhang at mail.med.upenn.edu
B.S. Applied Mathematics and Biochemistry, SUNY at Stony Brook, 2008

Matriculated: 2009