About - The Bartel Lab of Whitehead Institute For Biomedical Research


Bartel Lab Alumni

Aliaa Abdelhakim Graduate Student 2002-2003 Resident, Ophthalmology
Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons  
New York, NY 10001

 

Vikram Agarwal

Graduate Student

2009-2015

Computational Biologist III
Calico Life Sciences
1170 Veterans Blvd
South San Francisco, CA 94080
vagar {at} calicolabs [dot] com

Vincent Auyeung

MD/PhD Graduate Student

2008-2012

Resident, Internal Medicine
UCSF School of Medicine
513 Parnassus Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94143-0410
vincent [dot] c [dot] auyeung {at} gmail [dot] com

 

Emir Avilés Pagán

Graduate Student

2018-2020

Scientific Analyst
Morrison and Foerster, LLC
425 Main St
San Francisco, CA 94105
eavilespagan {at} mofo [dot] com

 

Michael Axtell

Postdoctoral Fellow

2003-2006

Professor
The Pennsylvania State University
Dept. of Biology
The Huck Institute of the Life Sciences
101 Life Sciences Bldg
University Park, PA 16802-5301
mja18 {at} psu [dot] edu

 

Sarah Bagby

Graduate Student

2003-2006

Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
Case Western University
scb126 {at} case [dot] edu

 

Daehyun Baek

Postdoctoral Fellow

2007-2010

Assistant Professor
Seoul National University
Shinrim-9-dong, Gwanak-gu
Seoul, South Korea 151-921
baek {at} snu [dot] ac [dot] kr

 

Scott Baskerville

Postdoctoral Fellow

1996-2005

VP - Computational Biology | Molecular Engineering
Codexis Inc.
sbaskerville {at} gmail [dot] com

 

Nick Bergman

Graduate Student

1995-2000

Director
Battelle National Biodefense Institute
National Biodefense Analysis & Countermeasures Center
110 Thomas Johnson Drive, Suite 400
Frederick, MD 21702
nbergman {at} nbacc [dot] net

 

Anke Bill

Undergraduate Researcher

2006-2007

Research Investigator III
Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research

 

Namita Bisaria

Postdoctoral Fellow

2016-2019

Senior Scientist
Myeloid
nbisaria {at} gmail [dot] com

 

Daniel Briskin

Graduate Student

2015-2019

Scientist
Anvesana, Inc.
New York, NY
dbriskin {at} anvesana [dot] io

 

Rosaria Chiang

Graduate Student

2006-2011 

Postdoctoral Fellow
Reijo Pera lab
Stanford University
Lokey Stem Cell Building
265 Campus Drive
Stanford, CA 94305-5454
rosaria {at} stanford [dot] edu 

 

Alvin Chen

Undergraduate Student

2009-2010

Resident Physician
Stanford Hospitals & Clinics
300 Pasteur Drive
Palo Alto, CA  94305

 

Grace Chen

Graduate Student

2012-2018

Intern
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
grace_chen {at} vrtx {dot} com

 

Ed Curtis

Graduate Student

1999-2007

Junior Team Leader
Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry
Flemingovo nám. 2.
166 10 Praha 6
Czech Republic

 

Ines Anna Drinnenberg 

Graduate Student

2007-2011

Group Leader
Institut Curie - Centre de Recherche
26, rue d'Ulm
75248 PARIS Cedex 05
France

 

Alireza Edraki 

Postdoctoral Fellow

2020-2020

Curriculum Fellow in Translational and Biomedical Sciences
Curriculum Fellows Program
Gordon Hall
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA 02115
alireza_edraki {at} hms [dot] harvard [dot] edu

 

Stephen Eichhorn 

Graduate Student

2011-2017

Postdoctoral Fellow
Xiaowei Zhuang Lab
Harvard University
Mallinckrodt Chemistry Lab
12 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
stephen_eichhorn {at} fas [dot] harvard [dot] edu

 

Tim Eisen 

Graduate Student

2014-2020

Postdoctoral Fellow
John Kuriyan Lab
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
timeisen {at} berkeley [dot] edu

 

Eric Ekland

Technician

1995-1998

Senior Research Analyst
Office of Therapeutics Alliances
NYU Langone Medical Center
One Park Avenue, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10016

 

Wenwen Fang

Postdoctoral Fellow

2012-2020

Assistant Professor
RNA Therapeutics Institute
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA 01655
wenwen [dot] fang {at} umassmed [dot] edu

 

Kai-How Farh

MD/PhD Graduate Student

2004-2007

Director
Bioinformatics & Data Sciences
Illumina Inc.

Robin Friedman

Graduate Student

2006-2010

Director
Research & Development
Ohana Biosciences

 

David Garcia

Graduate Student

2007-2012

Assistant Professor
University of Oregon
Institute of Molecular Biology
dmgarcia {at} uoregon [dot] edu

 

Matthew Aaron Getz

Graduate Student

2011-2020

Postdoctoral Fellow
Gaurav Gaiha Lab
Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard
Cambridge, MA
magetz {at} mgh [dot] harvard [dot] edu

 

Margy Glasner

Graduate Student

1995-2002

Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics
Texas A&M University 
103 Biochemistry/Biophysics Bldg
2128 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-2128
glasner {at} alum [dot] mit [dot] edu

 

Andrew Grimson

Postdoctoral Fellow

2004-2009

Associate Professor
Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics
Cornell University
445 Biotech
Ithaca, CY 14853
607-258-1307 
awg {at} cornell [dot] edu

 

Huili Guo

Graduate Student

2007-2012

Junior Investigator
Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology
61 Biopolis Drive
Singapore 138673
Singapore
hguo {at} imcb [dot] a-star [dot] edu [dot] sg 

 

Junjie Guo

Postdoctoral Fellow

2012-2017

Assistant Professor
Department of Neuroscience
Yale School of Medicine
295 Congress Avenue
Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine 154B
New Haven, CT 06510
junjie [dot] guo {at} yale [dot] edu

 

Katrin Heindl

Postdoctoral Fellow

2012-2016

The Boston Consulting Group 
Vienna, Austria 
heindl.katrin {at} gmail [dot] com

 

Sue-Jean Hong

Postdoctoral Fellow

2005-2015

Director of Vaccine Research and Development
Pfizer
401 N Middletown Rd
Pearl River, NY 10965

 

Calvin Jan

Graduate Student

2005-2010

Research Scientist
Calico Labs
1180 Veterans Blvd
South San Francisco, CA 94080

 

Maile Jim

Technician

2021-2023

Graduate Student
Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA 02115

 

Wendy Johnston

Technician

1997-2013

Speaker
Yoga Instructor

 

Gina Kelley

Technician

2019-2021

Physician Assistant, PA-C 
Connecticut GI: Wallingford
850 N. Main Street Ext #2
Wallingford, CT 06492
gina.m.y.kelley {at} gmail [dot] com

 

Katya Khalizeva

Undergraduate Student

2020–2021

Grraduate student 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Jin-Kuk Kim

Graduate Student

2005-2011

Research Fellow
Peter Park Lab
Harvard University

 

Narry Kim

Visiting Scientist

2011-2012

Professor, Seoul National University
Director, Center for RNA Research
Institute for Basic Science

 

Elena Ruth Kingston

Graduate Student

2016-2021

Postdoctoral Fellow
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz Lab
California Institute of Technology
kingston {at} caltech [dot] edu

 

Benjamin Kleaveland

Postdoctoral Fellow

2012-2020

Assistant Professor
Pathology and Lab Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
bek9059 {at} med [dot] cornell [dot] edu

 

David Koppstein

Graduate Student

2009-2015

Junior Group Leader
Cancer Bioinformatics and Multiomics
German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research (DKTK)
Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf
david [dot] koppstein {at} gmail [dot] com

 

Jamie Kwasnieski

Postdoctoral Fellow

2014-2019

Senior Scientist
Dyno Therapeutics
jamie.kwasnieski {at} dynotx [dot] com

 

Gina Lafkas Aumock  

Graduate Student

2006-2011

Science Teacher
Elizabeth Irwin High School (LREI)
40 Charlton St. 
New York, NY 10014

 

Michael Lam

Postdoctoral Fellow

2005-2009

Director, Drug Discovery and Translational Research
KSQ Therapeutics, Inc.
790 Memorial Drive
Suite 200
Cambridge, MA 02139

 

Nelson C. Lau

Graduate Student

2000-2004

Associate Professor
Boston University School of Medicine
Genome Science Institute Director
Dept of Biochemistry, K219
72 E. Concord St
Boston, MA 02118
nclau {at} bu [dot] edu

 

Mike Lawrence

Graduate Student

1999-2005

Assistant Professor
Harvard Medical School
Building 149, Room 7.140
Charlestown Navy Yard
Boston, MA 02129

 

David Lee

Postdoctoral Fellow

2000-2002

Director
Analytical Chemistry
Mersana Therapeutics

 

Benjamin Lewis

Graduate Student

2004-2007


 

Lee Lim

Joint PostDoc with Burge Lab

2000-2002

Co-founder and CTO 
Resolution Bio
2023 120th Ave NE
Bellevue, WA 98005

 

Kathy Lin

Graduate Student

2015-2019

Computational Biologist
Dyno Therapeutics
kathy.lin {at} dynotx [dot] com

 

Allison Mallory

Postdoctoral Fellow

2003-2006

Director of Molecular Biology R&D
Stilla Technologies
(+33) 09 82 29 50 50
allison [dot] mallory {at} stilla [dot] fr

 

Christine Mayr

Postdoctoral Fellow

2005-2009

Associate Professor
Cancer Biology and Genetics
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
1275 York Avenue, Box 526
New York, NY 10065 
646-888-3115 
mayrc {at} mskcc [dot] org

 

Sean McGeary

Graduate Student

2012-2021

Postdoctoral Fellow
Allon Klein Lab
Harvard Medical School
200 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
sean_mcgeary {at} hms [dot] harvard [dot] edu

 

Chuck Merryman

Postdoctoral Fellow

1996-2000

Senior Scientist/Assistant Professor
J. Craig Venter Institute
9704 Medical Center Dr.
3rd Floor
Rockville, MD 20850
240-268-2681 
cmerryman {at} venterinstitute [dot] org

 

Jeff Morgan

Graduate Student

2013-2018

Postdoctoral Fellow
Rutter Lab
University of Utah
Biochemistry Department
15 N Medical Drive East RM 4100 
Salt Lake City, UT 84112 
jeff [dot] morgan {at} biochem [dot] utah [dot] edu

 

Ulrich Muller

Postdoctoral Fellow

2001-2006

Associate Professor
University of California, San Diego
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
5218 Urey Hall
9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0356
La Jolla, CA 92093-0356
ufmuller {at} ucsd [dot] edu

 

Jin-Wu Nam

Postdoctoral Fellow

2008-2012

Associate Professor
Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering
Dept. of Biomedical Science
College of Medicine
Dept. of Personalized Genome Medicine
Hanyang University
222 Wangshimni-ro
Seongdong-Gu, Seoul, Korea.
jwnam {at} hanyang [dot] ac [dot] kr

 

Sherry Nyeo

Undergraduate Student

2021-2023

Graduate student 
Tri-Institutional PhD Program in Computational Biology & Medicine
New York, New York 10065

 

Michael Nodine

Postdoctoral Fellow

2007-2012

Group Leader
Gregor Mendel Institutes for Molecular Plant Biology
Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3
1030 Vienna
Austria

 

Craig Peebles

Visiting Scientist

1999-2000

Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Pittsburgh
357A Crawford Hall, 4249 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

 

Ramya Rajagopalan

Graduate Student

2003-2007

Research Associate
Life Sciences Foundation
Greater San Diego Area
ramya {at} biotechhistory [dot] org

 

Brenda Reinhart

Postdoctoral Fellow

2000-2002

Consultant
Real-World Evidence Solutions
IMS Health 
Switzerland

 

Matthew Jones-Rhoades

Graduate Student

2001-2005

Associate Professor
Knox College
Biology Department 
Galesburg, IL 61401
mjrhoade {at} knox [dot] edu

 

Olivia Rissland

Postdoctoral Fellow

2008-2014

Assistant Professor
RNA Bioscience Initiative
University of Colorado, Denver
olivia [dot] rissland {at} ucdenver [dot] edu

 

James Graham Ruby

Graduate Student

2002-2008

Research Scientist
Calico Labs
1180 Veterans Blvd
South San Francisco, CA 94080

 

Pardis Sabeti

Undergraduate Student

1994-1996

Associate Professor
Harvard FAS Center for Systems Biology, Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology
7 Divinity Avenue
Camrbidge, MA 02138

Broad Institute
7 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142
sabeti {at} oeb [dot] harvard [dot] edu 

 

Lori Schoenfeld

Lab Manager

2006-2012

Research Associate
Dunlap/Loros lab
Dartmouth Medical School
Lori.Schoenfeld {at} Dartmouth [dot] edu

 

Erik Schultes

Postdoctoral Fellow

1997-2005

Researcher
Leiden Institute for Advanced Computer Science
Leiden University
2300 RA Leiden
The Netherlands
e [dot] a [dot] schultes {at} liacs [dot] leidenuniv [dot] nl

 

David Shechner

Graduate Student

2000-2010

Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmacology
University of Washington

 

Charlie Shi

Graduate Student

2015-2023

Postdoctoral Fellow
Michael Greenberg Lab
Department of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School
charlie_shi {at} hms [dot] harvard [dot] edu

 

I-hung Shih

Postdoctoral Fellow

2002-2005

Biotech Analyst
T. Rowe Price
Baltimore, Maryland

 

Chanseok Shin

Postdoctoral Fellow

2004-2009

Associate Professor
CALS, Building #200, Room #7121
Seoul National University
Shinrim-9-dong, Gwanak-gu
Seoul, South Korea 151-921
02-880-4643

 

Alena Shkumatava

Postdoctoral Fellow

2006-2012

Group Leader
Developmental Biology and Genetics Unit
Institut Curie - Centre de Recherche
26, rue d'Ulm
75248 PARIS Cedex 05
France
alena.shkumatava {at} curie [dot] fr

 

Alexander Subtelny

Graduate Student

2009-2014

Harvard Medical School, MD/PhD Program
Resident, Pathology
Massachusetts General Hospital

Noah Spies

Graduate Student

2007-2012

Postdoctoral Fellow
Sidow Lab
Stanford University
300 Pasteur Drive
Stanford, CA 94305
nspies {at} stanford [dot] edu

 

Jung Hwan Sung

Visiting Scientist

2006-2007

asteriskos {at} gmail [dot] com

 

Jerry Trejo

Undergraduate Student

2007

Medical student 
Yale University School of Medicine
gerardo [dot] trejo {at} yale [dot] edu

 

Tom Tuschl

Postdoctoral Fellow

1995-1999

Professor
Investigator, HHMI
Laboratory of RNA Molecular Biology Rockefeller University
1230 York Ave, Box #1
New York, NY 10021, USA 
thomas [dot] tuschl {at} rockefeller [dot] edu

 

Igor Ulitsky

Postdoctoral Fellow

2009-2013

Igor Ulitsky
Senior Scientist
Department of Biological Regulation
Candiotty Building (rm. 218)
Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot, 76100, Israel
Phone: +972-8-9346421
igor.ulitsky@weizmann.ac.il
ulitskyi@gmail.com

 

Peter Unrau

Postdoctoral Fellow

1997-2000

Professor
Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, RoomSSB 6114, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Dr., Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6
(604) 291-3448
punrau {at} sfu [dot] ca

 

Hervé Vaucheret

Visiting Scientist

2003-2006

Principal Investigator
Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire
INRA Centre de Versailles 
78026 Versailles Cedex, France
vauchere {at} versailles [dot] inra [dot] f

 

David Weinberg

Graduate Student

2008-2013

Faculty Fellow
Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology
University of California, San Francisco
600 16th Street, Genentech Hall S572F
Campus Box 2280
San Francisco, CA 94143
David.Weinberg {at} ucsf [dot] edu

Earl Weinstein

Graduate Student

1997-2002

Associate Director
Technology Transfer Office
University of California, Los Angeles 
10920 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1200
Los Angeles, CA 90024-1406
egw {at} alum [dot] mit [dot] edu 
eweinstein {at} resadmin [dot] ucla [dot] edu

 

Kelly Williams

Postdoctoral Fellow

1995-1998

Principal Investigator
Sandia National Laboratories
Livermore CA 94551
tel:(925) 294-4730
kpwilli {at} sandia {dot} gov

 

Xuebing Wu

Postdoctoral Fellow

2014-2018

Assistant Professor
Departments of Medicine and Systems Biology
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
xw2629 {at} cumc [dot] columbia [dot] edu

 

Kathy Xie

Undergraduate Student

2006-2009

Postdoctoral Fellow
Pellman lab 
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
450 Brookline Ave
Boston, MA 02215
kathleent_xie {at} dfci [dot] harvard [dot] edu

 

Soraya Yekta

Graduate Student

2002-2008

soy {at}alum [dot] mit [dot] edu

 

Catherine Yen

Graduate Student

1998-2002

Housewife/Family Archivist
Denpasar Area, Bali
Indonesia

 

Muhammed Yildirim

Postdoctoral Fellow

2009-2010

Assistant Professor, Koç University
Istanbul, Turkey

Phil Zamore

Postdoctoral Fellow

1996-1999

Professor
Investigator, HHMI
Dept of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
University of Massachusetts Medical School
55 Lake Avenue North
Worcester, MA 01655
phillip [dot] zamore {at} umassmed [dot] edu

 


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