Alumni
Dr. Biki Kundu
Graduate student
Departed to the Arc Institute
Favorite scientists: Herbert W. Boyer, Walter Bishop (Fictional), Hans Krebs
Dr. Marko Chavez
Postdoctoral Fellow
email: mc1013 at princeton dot edu
Departed to Princeton
Favorite scientists: Michael Faraday, Nikola Tesla
Carlson Nguyen
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Favorite scientist: Alexander Fleming
Zoe Folarin
Lab Technician
Favorite scientist: Dr. Angela Rasmussen
Dr. Swetha Sridhar
Graduate student
Favorite scientists: David Bohm, Sir Roger Penrose, Sir C. V. Raman
Dr. Xu Zhang
Postdoctoral Fellow
email: xu.zhang at ag.tamu.edu
Departed to Texas A&M
Dr. Esther Jimenez
Graduate student
email: estherm.jimenez01 at gmail dot com
Departed to Fischer Yodel Law Firm
Favorite scientist: Jennifer Doudna and Marie Curie
Dr. Rong Cai
Postdoctoral Fellow
Departed to Anodyne Chemistries
Favorite scientist: Peidong Yang
Dr. Chiagoziem Ngwadom
Graduate student
Favorite scientist: Marie Curie
Dr. Sara Molinari
Postdoctoral Fellow
email: saramol at umd dot edu
Departed to the Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park
Favorite scientist: Rita Levi Montalcini
Alanna Stull
Masters student, graduated 2023
email: as274 at rice dot edu
Departed to the Bloom Science, Inc.
Favorite scientist: Charles Darwin
Dr. Joe Tolar
PhD student, graduated 2022
email: Joe dot G dot Tolar at rice dot edu
Departed to LevitasBio
Favorite scientist: Jennifer Doudna
Dr. Behzad Rad
Senior Engineering Associate
email: brad at lbl dot gov
Postdoctoral Fellow, LBL 2010-2014
Favorite scientists: Robert Koch
Dr. Sara Tejedor-Sanz
Postdoctoral Fellow
email: stejedorsanz at lbl dot gov
Favorite Scientists: Marie Curie, Nikola Tesla and Werner Heisenberg
Ms. Maria Orozco Hidalgo
Research Assistant, 2019-2021
Departed to Concordia University
Favorite Scientist: Marie Curie
Dr. Lin Su
Visiting Graduate Student, 2018-2020
Departed to Erwin Reisner group, Univ. of Cambridge
Ms. Ashley Bird
Graduate Student, 2019
Departed to Adam Weber’s group
Rita Garcia
NanoBio Lab Manager Extraordinare, 2009-2019
Departed to Genentech
Dr. Josh Atkinson
Visiting Graduate Student (DoE SGSR Fellow), 2017-2018
Departed to Prof. Joff Silberg’s group at Rice University
Mr. Nicholas Tjahjono
Research Assistant
email: nicholast900 at berkeley dot edu
Favorite Scientists: Josiah Willard Gibbs, Rosalind Franklin, & Albert Einstein
Dr. Francesca Manea
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2015-2018
Departed to Perfect Day
Virginia Garda
Undergraduate Researcher, 2018
Departed to Mitokinin
Lisa Yun
Undergraduate Researcher, 2018
Departed to the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Michigan State University
Dr. Moshe Baruch
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2014-2018
Departed to Prof. Jeff Tabor’s lab at Rice University
Dr. Jose Cornejo
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2015-2018
Departed to Aquacycl
Mr. Andrew Prior
Undergraduate Researcher, 2016-2017
Mr. Alexander Walczak
Undergraduate Researcher
Mr. Joshua Deng
Undergraduate Researcher, 2016
Departed to UC Berkeley
Dr. Tatsuya Fukushima
Postdoctoral Fellow 2014-2016
Departed to Fornia Solutions
email: tatsufu at gmail dot com
Ms. Annie (Jingyi) Li
Undergraduate Researcher & resident artist, 2013-2015
Departed to Dreamworks Animation
email: li.j.annie at gmail dot com
Dimitri Umpriani
Undergraduate Researcher, 2013-2015
Greg Murray
Research Associate, 2014-2015
Departed to Notre Dame University
Dr. Michaela TerAvest
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2013-2015
Departed to become an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University
email: teraves2 at msu dot edu
Dr. Rena Mizrahi
Postdoctoral Fellow 2014
Departed to GigaGen
email: rena.mizrahi at gmail dot com
Matt Hepler
Masters student 2011-2013, co-advised with Prof. Jay T. Groves
email: mhepler at berkeley dot edu
Dr. Ramya Tunuguntla
Graduate student advised by Prof. Peter Stroeve (UC Davis) and Dr. Aleksandr Noy (LLNL; UC Merced),
Departed to postdoc with Dr. Aleksandr Noy (LLNL; UC Merced)
email: rtunuguntla at ucdavis dot edu
Dr. Jenny Cappuccio
Postdoctoral Fellow 2010-2014
Departed to be an Assistant Professor at Humboldt State University
email: Jenny.Cappuccio at humboldt dot edu
Sean Stettner
Summer Undergraduate Intern 2013
Cheryl Goldbeck
Senior Engineering Associate 2008-2013
email: cpgoldbeck at lbl dot gov
Dr. Heather M Jensen
http://heathermjensen.wordpress.com/
Ph.D. Student co-advised with Prof. Jay Groves 2008-2013
Departed to Huue
Dr. Aaron Albers
E. O. Lawrence Postdoctoral Fellow 2009-2011, jointly supervised with Brett Helms & Bruce Cohen, Departed to Redwood Bioscience Inc.
aalbers at redwoodbioscience dot com
Dr. Nina Kamennaya
Postdoctoral fellow 2010-2012, jointly supervised with Christer Jansson & Trent Northen
Departed to Christer Jansson & Hoi-Ying Holman groups, LBL
nkamennaya at lbl dot gov
Nicole Beedle
Undergraduate researcher 2011-2013
email: nbeedle at berkeley dot edu
Albert Shon
Undergraduate researcher 2011-2012,
B.S. Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley, 2013
Departed to Emerson Process Management
albert.shon at gmail dot com
Mark Kokish
Undergraduate researcher 2010-11
Departed to Northwestern University
markkokish at gmail dot com
Eldon Chou
Undergraduate researcher 2011; B.S. Molecular and Cellular Biology, UC Berkeley, 2011
Departed to University of Colorado, Boulder in Amy Palmer’s group
Eldon.Chou at Colorado dot EDU
Ayumi Yu
Undergraduate researcher 2007-2010; B.A. Molecular and Cellular Biology, UC Berkeley, 2010
Departed to Leap Motion
ayu.yua at gmail dot com
Changrui Xiao
Undergraduate researcher 2007-2010, B.A. Molecular and Cellular Biology, UC Berkeley , 2010
Departed to University Medical School
changrui.xiao at duke dot edu
Yancey Appling
Undergraduate summer intern 2012
yanceya at g.clemson dot edu
Gillian Liu
Undergraduate summer intern 2011;
glui at middlebury dot edu
Jackie Quinn
Undergraduate summer intern 2011; B. S. Biomedical Engineering, Harvard University, 2012
Departed to Autodesk
jyquinn at post.harvard dot edu
Veronica Pillar
Undergraduate summer intern 2010; A. B. Physics, Princeton University, 2011
Departed to Cornell University in Sol Gruner’s group
vdp5 at cornell dot edu
Konstantin Malley
Undergraduate summer intern 2009; B.S. Biochemistry, UC Davis, 2009
Departed to St. Louis University
kmalley at slu dot edu