Varun Aggarwala

B.S. Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, 2008

Advisor: Ben Voight
Matriculated: 2011

Nathan Berkowitz

B.A. Molecular Biology, Clark University, 2002

Advisor: Brian Gregory
Matriculated: 2010

Josh Burdick

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

B.S. Biology, Boston College, 2008

Advisors: Shane Jensen and Carlo Maley
Research description: My research focuses on Peto’s Paradox: the observation that cancer incidence does not correlate with body size and lifespan across species. I use both computational and experimental techniques to investigate the evolution of cancer suppression mechanisms in large, long-lived organisms. In the future we hope to use this knowledge to improve cancer prevention in humans.
Matriculated: 2008

B.S. Clinical Medicine, Southeast University, 2004

Matriculated: 2012

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

B.S. Molecular Biology, University of California, San Diego, 2011

Matriculated: 2012

Serena Dollive

B.Sc. Computational Biology, Brown University, 2008

Advisor: Rick Bushman
Research Description: I am interested on the longitudinal effects of antibiotic use on the bacterial, eukaryotic, and archaeal communities of the gut microbiome.
Matriculated: 2008

Hannah Dueck

B.A. English, Goshen College, 2001
B.S. Biochemistry, Indiana University South Bend, 2009

Advisor: Junhyong Kim
Matriculated: 2009

Joe Glessner

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

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

B.S. Biological Sciences, Cornell University, 2009

Advisors: Sarah Tishkoff and Hongzhe Li
Matriculated: 2010

Yih-Chii Hwang

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

B.S. Biological Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, 2010
M.S. Biotechnology, University of Pennsylvania, 2012

Matriculated: 2012

B.S. Biological Sciences (Computational Biology), Cornell University, 2012
B.S. Food Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2010

Matriculated: 2012

Nicholas Lahens

B.S. Bioinformatics and Computer Science, Canisius College, 2007

Advisor: John Hogenesch
Matriculated: 2007

Fan Li

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

B.S. Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2012

Matriculated: 2012

Ian Mellis

B.S. Molecular Biology, Mathematics, and Biomathematics, Amherst College, 2011

Matriculated: 2012

Sarah Middleton

B.S. Biology and Computer Science, The College of New Jersey, 2011

Advisor: Junhyong Kim
Matriculated: 2011

Le Ba Nguyen

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 Olarerin-George

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

B.A. Computational Biology, Cornell University, 2011

Matriculated: 2011

Paul Ryvkin

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

B.S. Computer Science, University of Alabama Birmingham, 2004

Advisor: Casim Sarkar
Matriculated: 2007

Scott Sherrill-Mix

B.S. Biology, Florida State University, 2002
M.S. Biology, Dalhousie University, 2007

Advisor: Rick Bushman
Matriculated: 2009

Sameer Soi

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

B.S. Mathematics, MIT, 2008

Advisor: Dave Speicher
Matriculated: 2008

Nicholas Stong

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

B.A. Biochemistry and Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 2010
M.S. Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 2010

Advisor: Nancy Zhang and Rick Bushman
Matriculated: 2010

Ellen Tsai

B.S. Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, 2008

Advisor: Nancy Spinner
Matriculated: 2008

Krishna Vijayendran

B.A. Biology and Philosophy, New York University, 2006

Matriculated: 2009

Ray Zhang

B.S. Applied Mathematics and Biochemistry, SUNY at Stony Brook, 2008

Matriculated: 2009