Who We Are
Professor
B.S., Ph.D., UCLA
Post-doctoral fellow, Washington University, St. Louis and Weill Cornell Medical School
Post-doctoral fellow
B.S., McGill University;Â Ph.D., UC Berkeley; post-doc, Harvard Medical School
Post-doctoral fellow
B.A., Saint Olaf College;Â M.S., University of Minnesota-Duluth; Ph.D., University of Iowa
Alumni
and Glitterati
Former Students
Michael Pearce, PhD, Senior Director of Facilities and Lab Operations,
Gene Therapy Program, University of Pennsylvania
Ricky Festa, PhD, VP, Research and Development, PATHNOSTICS
Xiaoshan Shirley Shi, PhD, Senior Scientist, BD, Inc.
Jordan Jastrab, MD, PhD, ID Fellow, Jon Kagan lab, Boston Children's Hospital
Samuel H. Becker, PhD, Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University
Angel (Gina) Limón, PhD
​Shoshanna Kahne, PhD, Post-Doc, Alex Meeske lab, University of Washington, Seattle
Former Post-Docs
Susan Butler-Wu, PhD, Director of Clinical Microbiology at LAC+USC Medical Center, Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology, Keck School of Medicine, USC
Dan Sinsimer, PhD
Francisca Cerda-Maira, PhD
Kristin Burns-Huang, PhD, Director, Project Management, Excelsior Sciences
Marie Samanovic-Golden, PhD, Program Director, Infectious Diseases and Immunology, NYU Langone Health
Edward Ballister, PhD, Associate Research Scientist, Tal Danino lab, Columbia University, NY
Former Research Associates
Susie Zhang, D.O., Mount Sinai
Amber Cornelius, Hexagon Bio, Menlo Park
Jin Hee Yoo, PhD student, UC Berkeley