About - The Bartel Lab of Whitehead Institute For Biomedical Research


Bartel Lab Alumni

Aliaa Abdelhakim Graduate Student 2002-2003 Vitreoretinal Disease Specialist
Opthamology
Columbia University Irving Medical School

 

Vikram Agarwal

Graduate Student

2009-2015

Head of mRNA Platform Design Data Science
mRNA Center of Excellence
Sanofi
vikram [dot] agarwal {at} sanofi [dot] com

Vincent Auyeung

MD/PhD Graduate Student

2008-2012

Assistant Professor
Medicine
UCSF School of Medicine
vincent [dot] auyeung {at} ucsf [dot] edu

 

Emir Avilés Pagán

Graduate Student

2018-2020

Patent Agent
Greenberg Traurig
San Diego, CA
emir [dot] avilespagan {at} gtlaw [dot] com

 

Michael Axtell

Postdoctoral Fellow

2003-2006

Professor of Biology
Louis and Hedwig Sternberg Chair in Plant Biology
Eberly College of Sciences
Penn State University
mja18 {at} psu [dot] edu

 

Sarah Bagby

Graduate Student

2003-2006

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

 

Daehyun Baek

Postdoctoral Fellow

2007-2010

Professor
Computational Biology/Bioinformatics
Laboratory of Computational Biology
Seoul National University
Seoul, South Korea
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

Laboratory Director
National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center
Frederick, MD
nbergman {at} nbacc [dot] net

 

Anke Bill

Undergraduate Researcher

2006-2007

Senior Investigator
Oncology Drug Discovery
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
Basel, Switzerland

 

Namita Bisaria

Postdoctoral Fellow

2016-2019

Head of Research Strategy and Operations
AIRNA
Cambridge, MA
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 

Senior Data Science Manager
Natera
Redwood City, CA 

 

Alvin Chen

Undergraduate Student

2009-2010

Cardiologist
Sutter Health
Palo Alto Medical Foundation
Mountain View, CA

 

Grace Chen

Graduate Student

2012-2018

Senior Scientist
Platform Research
NewCo
Cambridge, MA
original [dot] grace [chen] {at} gmail {dot} com

 

Ed Curtis

Graduate Student

1999-2007

Senior Group Leader
Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry
Prague, Czech Republic
edward [dot] curtis {at} uochb [dot] cas [dot] cz

 

Ines Anna Drinnenberg 

Graduate Student

2007-2011

Director of Research
CNRS
Team Leader
Institut Curie
UMR3664
Paris, France
ines [dot] drinnenberg {at} curie [dot] fr

 

Alireza Edraki 

Postdoctoral Fellow

2020-2020

Director of Strategic Relationships
MPM BioImpact
Boston, MA

 

Stephen Eichhorn 

Graduate Student

2011-2017

Director
Head of Computational and Molecular Biology
Alltrna
Boston, MA

 

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

Co-Founder
President and CEO
Anvesana, Inc.
Princeton Junction, NJ

 

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

 

Kyle Kai-How Farh

MD/PhD Graduate Student

2004-2007

VP and Distinguished Scientist
Illumina Artificial Intelligence Lab
San Francisco, CA
kfarh {at} illumina [dot] com

Robin Friedman

Graduate Student

2006-2010

Vice President
Quantitative Sciences
Merida Biosciences
Cambridge, MA

 

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

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

Senior Research Scientist
RNA Biology Lab
National University of Singapore
huili95 {at} gmail [dot] com 

 

Junjie Guo

Postdoctoral Fellow

2012-2017

Associate 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

 

Matthew Hall

Graduate Student

2022-2026

Scientist
RNAi Biology
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
mahall {at} alnylam [dot] com 

 

Katrin Heindl

Postdoctoral Fellow

2012-2016

Industry Manager
Google
Austria, Vienna 
heindl [dot ]katrin {at} gmail [dot] com

 

Sue-Jean Hong

Postdoctoral Fellow

2005-2015

Director
mRNA Vaccines and Technologies
Pfizer
Pearl River, New York
sjhong07 {at} gmail [dot] com

 

Calvin Jan

Graduate Student

2005-2010

Principal Investigator
Calico Labs
1180 Veterans Blvd
South San Francisco, CA 94080
cjan {at} calicolabs [dot] com

 

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

Graduate Student
Cheeseman Lab
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
katya {at} wi [dot] mit [dot] edu

 

Jin-Kuk Kim

Graduate Student

2005-2011

Associate Professor
Graduate School of Medical Science and Technology
KAIST
jinkuk {at} kaist [dot] ac [dot] kr

 

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

Senior Scientist I
Sail Biomedicines
Cambridge, MA

 

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

Group Lead
CNS Design
Dyno Therapeutics
Watertown, MA
jamie [dot] kwasnieski {at} dynotx [dot] com

 

Gina Lafkas Aumock  

Graduate Student

2006-2011

Upper School Science Department Co-Chair
Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences
Los Angeles, CA

 

Michael Lam

Postdoctoral Fellow

2005-2009

Principal Consultant
Bio-Iterativ Consulting
Cambridge, MA

 

Nelson C. Lau

Graduate Student

2000-2004

Associate Professor
Director
Genome Sciences Institute
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

Group Leader
Computational Biology
Broad Institute
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Harvard Medical School
Assistant Geneticist
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
lawrence {at} broadinstitute [dot] org

 

David Lee

Postdoctoral Fellow

2000-2002

Executive Director
Analytical Chemistry
Mersana Therapeutics
Cambridge, MA
davidlee [dot] phd {at} gmail [dot] com

 

Benjamin Lewis

Graduate Student

2004-2007


 

Lee Lim

Joint PostDoc with Burge Lab

2000-2002

Biotech Start-Up Advisor
Kirkland, WA

 

Kathy Lin

Graduate Student

2015-2019

Director
Dyno Therapeutics
Watertown, MA
kathy.lin {at} dynotx [dot] com

 

Allison Mallory

Postdoctoral Fellow

2003-2006

Senior Director
Reagent and Kit Product Development
DNA Script
Paris, France
allisoncmallory {at} gmail [dot] com

 

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

Retired 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

Scientific Co-Founder
Senior Scientist
NewCo
Cambridge, MA

 

Ulrich Muller

Postdoctoral Fellow

2001-2006

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

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

Assistant Professor
Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Wageningen University
The Netherlands

 

Craig Peebles

Visiting Scientist

1999-2000

Professor Emeritus
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

Associate Principal
IQVIA
Basel, Switzerland

 

Matthew Jones-Rhoades

Graduate Student

2001-2005

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

 

Olivia Rissland

Postdoctoral Fellow

2008-2014

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

 

James Graham Ruby

Graduate Student

2002-2008

Principal Investigator
Calico Labs
1180 Veterans Blvd
South San Francisco, CA 94080

 

Pardis Sabeti

Undergraduate Student

1994-1996

Core Member
Broad Institute
Professor
Center for Systems Biology
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard Medical School
Professor
Department of Immunology and Infectious Disesase
Harvard H.T. Chan School of Public Health
Investigator, HHMI
sabeti {at} oeb [dot] harvard [dot] edu 

 

Lori Schoenfeld

Lab Manager

2006-2012

Retired Research Associate
Dunlap/Loros lab
Dartmouth Medical School
schoenfeldlori {at} gmail [dot] com

 

Erik Schultes

Postdoctoral Fellow

1997-2005

Researcher
Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research
Leiden University
The Netherlands
e [dot] a [dot] schultes {at} lacdr [dot] leidenuniv [dot] nl

 

David Shechner

Graduate Student

2000-2010

Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmacology
University of Washington
shechner {at} uw [dot] edu

 

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

Managing Director and Portfolio Manager
Eventide Asset Management

 

Chanseok Shin

Postdoctoral Fellow

2004-2009

Professor
CALS, Building #200, Room #7121
Seoul National University
Shinrim-9-dong, Gwanak-gu
Seoul, South Korea 151-921
02-880-4643
cshin {at} snu [dot] ac [dot] kr

 

Alena Shkumatava

Postdoctoral Fellow

2006-2012

Principal Investigator
Department of Biological Sciences
The University of Edinburgh
Scotland
alena [dot] shkumatava {at} ed [dot] ac [dot] uk

 

Jarrett Smith

Postdoctoral Fellow

2018-2025

Neubauer Family Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology
University of Chicago
929 E 57th St.
GCIS W522
Chicago, IL 60637
jarrettsmith {at} uchicago [dot] edu

 

Noah Spies

Graduate Student

2007-2012

Director
Computational Biology
Caris Life Science
Cambridge, MA

 

Joanna Stefano

Research Lab Manager

2012-2025

 

Michael Stubna

Graduate Student

2019-2024

Postdoctoral Fellow 
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Human Biology Division
Alice Berger Lab
1100 Fairview Ave N, C2-023
Seattle, WA 98109
mstubna2 {at} fredhutch [dot] org

 

Alexander Subtelny

Graduate Student

2009-2014

Associate Pathologist
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Postdoctoral Researcher
Elledge Lab
Harvard Medical School
asubtelny {at} mgb [dot] org

Jung Hwan Sung

Visiting Scientist

2006-2007

asteriskos {at} gmail [dot] com

 

Jerry Trejo

Undergraduate Student

2007

Physician
Good Samaritan Hospital
West Islip, New York

 

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

Professor
Deparment of Molecular Neuroscience
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
igor [dot] ulitsky {at} weizmann [dot] ac [dot] il

 

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

Senior Scientist
Jean-Pierre Bourgin Institute
INRAE Centre IdF
Versaille-Saclay, France
vauchere {at} versailles [dot] inra [dot] f

 

Peter Wang

Graduate Student

2019-2025

Postdoctoral Fellow 
Jennifer Doudna Lab
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
pywang {at} berkeley [dot] edu

 

David Weinberg

Graduate Student

2008-2013

Co-Founder and CEO
Parcel Bio
San Francisco, CA

Earl Weinstein

Graduate Student

1997-2002

Associate Director of Business Development
Business Development and Tech Transfer Group
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90024-1406
egw {at} alum [dot] mit [dot] edu 
eweinstein {at} tdg [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

 

Kehui (Coffee) Xiang

Postdoctoral Fellow

2014-2025

Assistant Professor
ZJU Center for RNA Medicine
International Institutes of Medicine
The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of the School of Medicine
Zhejiang University
coffeexiang {at} zju [dot] edu [dot] cn

 

Kathy Xie

Undergraduate Student

2006-2009

Principal Scientist II
Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research
Cambridge, MA

 

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
Director of Academic Research
Harvard Growth Lab
Harvard University

Phil Zamore

Postdoctoral Fellow

1996-1999

Chair and Priofessor
RNA Therapeutics Institute
Investigator
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA 01655
phillip [dot] zamore {at} umassmed [dot] edu

 


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