PEOPLE

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RICHARD CARTHEW

Principal Investigator

Owen L. Coon Professor of Molecular Biosciences

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VASYL ALBA

Postdoctoral Fellow

I am interested in the evolution of complex body forms.

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KEVIN GALLAGHER

PhD Graduate Student

I am interested in ordered patterning in the Drosophila eye.

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EREN KELES

Undergraduate

I am interested in lncRNAs and development.

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HAMDI KUCUKENGIN

Research Technician

I am interested in lncRNAs and innate immunity.

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ANDREW LIU

PhD Graduate Student

I am interested in organ growth control.

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JIAHUI LIU

Postdoctoral Fellow

I am interested in planar cell polarity in epithelial tissues.

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JOE NGUYEN

Research Technician

I am interested in scRNA-seq analysis of the eye.

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KEVIN NYBERG

Postdoctoral Fellow

I am interested in lncRNAs and ovarian development.

JESSICA O'CONNELL

Research Technician

I am interested in tissue patterning.

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SHA QIAO

Postdoctoral Fellow

I am interested in the link between metabolism and developmental gene regulation.

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SANDY SIEPKA

Lab Manager

I am interested in the connection between metabolism and aging.

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KELSEY WANG

MSc QSB Student

I am interested in noise in gene expression.

Former Postdoctoral Fellows

Yanxia Bei Staff Scientist, New England Biolabs

Anna Bobrowska Analyst, Costello Medical Consulting, Cambridge UK

Dinari Harris Assistant Professor, Howard University

Takashi Hayashi Professor, National Institute of Genetics, Japan

Mamiko Isaji TAGCyx Biotechnologies, Japan

Sujatha Koduvayur Research Associate, Stevens Institute of Technology

Karen Lapidos Director of Research Advancement, University of Illinois Chicago

Young Sik Lee Professor, Korea University, Seoul

Joao Marques Professor, Federal de Minas Gerais University, Brazil

Kenji Nakahara Professor, Hokkaido University, Japan

Diana Posadas Staff Scientist, GreenLight Biosciences Inc.

Sigal Pressman Research Scientist, Rambam Healthcare, Israel

Catherine Reinke Professor, Linfield College, Oregon

Shigehiro Yamada Senior Research Specialist, Johns Hopkins University

Shinji Yamaguchi Professor, Teikyo University, Japan

Former Graduate Students

Pamela Agbu Scientific Services, PPM Advisory Group

Arlise Andress Postdoc, Washington University in St. Louis

Rachael Bakker Postdoc, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle

Jennifer Bayraktar Senior Scientist, Amresco Biotech

Sebastian Bernasek Computational Scientist, Emerald Cloud Lab LLC

Eugen Buehler Informatics Leader, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences NIH

Justin Cassidy Director of Medicine, Sg2 Consulting

Vicky Church Postdoc, Washington University in St Louis

Bryan Eder Consultant, Beghou Consulting

Stephen Fischboek Munich, Germany

Kevin Gallagher Scientist, NeoGenomics, San Francisco

Ritika Giri Postdoc in Data Science, Northwestern University

Zhengying He Senior Scientist, Sino Biologicals, Beijing

Rachele Kauffmann Education Administrator, Hilliard, Ohio

Jason Kennerdell Research Scientist, University of Pittsburgh

Kevin Kim Research Associate, Harvard University

Susan Klandy Genetic Counselor, Childrens Hospital, PA

Dan Leaman Research Associate, The Scripps Research Institute

Jay Lee Engineer, Miracom Inc.

Songhui Li Research Scientist, University of Pittsburgh

Xin Li Professor, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Siran Liu Student, University of Toronto

Nicolas Pelaez Postdoc, California Institute of Technology

Vikramaditya Singh Systems Analyst, Unisys

Yu Hsin Wan Associate Scientist, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Kelsey Wang Associate Consultant, Bain and Company, Shanghai

Stephanie Winter Manager, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Pei Hsuan Wu Assistant Professor, University of Geneva

Lucy Xu Senior Scientist, Eisai Pharmaceuticals

Gokay Yamankurt Scientific Developer, Emerald Cloud Labs

Jianjun Zhang Staff Scientist/Informatics, Genentech

Limin Zheng Law Partner, GCA Law LLC

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