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Banfield Laboratory
University of California, Berkeley
Former Graduate Students
Lab Alumni
Luis Valentin-Alvarado, Ph.D. 2024
Postdoc, Monash University
Jacob West-Roberts, Ph.D. 2023
Computational Biologist, Tatta Bio
Clare Lou, Ph.D. 2023
WEIS Fellow, UC Berkeley
Marcos Voutsinos, Ph.D. 2022
Postdoc, University of Queensland
Basem Al-Shayeb, Ph.D. 2022
Amber Biosciences
Alexander Jaffe, Ph.D. 2021
Postdoc, Stanford
Alexander Crits-Christoph, Ph.D. 2020
Postdoc, Johns Hopkins University
Patrick West, Ph.D. 2020
Postdoc, Stanford
Matthew Olm, Ph.D. 2019
Postdoc, Stanford
Evan Starr, Ph.D. 2019
Staff, Geneious Corp.
Sumayah Rahman, Ph.D. 2019
Apple Health
Allison Sharrar, MS. 2018
Acrigen
Tyler Arbour, Ph.D. 2017
Postdoc, Belgium
Christopher Brown, Ph.D. 2015
Program Lead, Metagenomi
Rose Kantor, Ph.D. 2016
Staff Scientist, UC Berkeley
Brandon "Bubba" Brooks, Ph.D. 2016
Computational Biologist, Singular Genomics
Alex Hernsdorf, M.S. 2016
Verily Life Sciences
David Mangiante, Ph.D. 2016
Instructor, LBNL
Karen Andrade, Ph.D. 2015
Postdoc, UC Davis
Sirine Fakra, Ph.D. 2015
Beamline Scientist, Advanced Light Source, LBNL
Nicholas Justice, Ph.D. 2013
Senior Staff Sci. Pendulum
Benjamin Legg, Ph.D. 2013
Staff Scientist, PNNL
Daniela Aliaga Goltsman, Ph.D. 2013
Scientist, Metagenomi
Christine Sun, Ph.D. 2013
Postdoc, Stanford
Joanne Emerson, Ph.D 2012
Assistant Professor, UC Davis
Alexis Yelton, Ph.D. 2012
Genvid Holdings Inc.
Claudia Jones, Ph.D. 2011
Corporate Strategy Manager, Intuit
Karelyn Cruz, Ph.D. 2009
Scientist, USAID
Christopher Belnap Ph.D., 2008
CEO, Resilient Biotics
Kenneth Williams, Ph.D. 2007
Senior Scientist, LBNL
Carmen Goodell, M.S. 2007
Environmental Project Manager, AECOM
Lis Green, Ph.D. 2006
Geologist, Maryland
Gene Tyson, Ph.D. 2006
Professor, Queensland Univ. Technology
Ian Lo, M.S. 2006
Consultant, San Francisco
John Moreau, Ph.D. 2006
Associate Professor, Melbourne U.
Clara Chan, Ph.D. 2006
Associate Professor, U. Delaware
Michael Finnegan, Ph.D. 2006
Science Education Startup, Oakland
Josh Kearns, M.S. 2005
Assistant Professor, NC State
Greg Druschel, Ph.D. 2002
Associate Professor, IUPUI
Bo Hu, Ph.D. 2002
General Electric, China
Yohey Suzuki, Ph.D. 2002
Associate Professor, U. Tokyo
Jeffrey Brownson, M.S. 2001
Associate Professor, Penn State
Tom Gihring, M.S. 2001
Medical Scientist, UW Madison Hospital
Molly McGuire, Ph.D. 2001
Johns Hopkins
Tadashi Yokoyama, MS 2001
Associate Professor, U. Kobe
Anne Taunton, MS 2000
Professor of Medicine
Katrina Edwards, Ph.D. 1999
Professor, USC, In Memorium
R. Lee Penn MS 1994, Ph.D. 1998
Professor, U. Minnesota
Magui Cardona, Ph.D. 1998
Yasuhiko Sano, MS
Masimo Nespolo, Ph.D
Associate Professor, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy
Teresa Rodgers, MS 1996
Graduate Program Manager, UC Davis
Scott Sitzman, MS 1995
Oxford Instruments
Amy Gribb, MS 1994
Business School, UW Madison
Former Postdoctoral Fellows
Petar Penev
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Eligo Bioscience
Jackie Zorz
Scientist
Daniel Gittins
Co-Founder and CEO, Tracera Biotech Inc
Marie Schoelmerich
Assitant Professor, ETH
Lin-Xing Chen
Professor, USTC China
Adair Borges
Scientist, Arcadia Institute
Ella Sieradzki
Curie Fellow, France
Hyunjin Shim
Research Professor, Ghent University
Hui Zhang
Research Scientist, KAUST
Ray Keren
Scientist, Tezza
Christine He
Scientist, Invitae
Paula Matheus Carnevali
Scientist, Metagenomi
Alex Greenlon
Bioinformatics Scientist, Sound Agriculture
Raphaël Méheust
Scientist, CEA
Sergio Romero
Scientist, IDAEA-CSIC
Michael Whittaker
Scientist, LBNL
Spencer Diamond
Principle Investigator, Innovative Genomics Institute
Rohan Sachdeva
Principle Investigator, Innovative Genomics Institute
Cindy Castelle
Scientist, Metagenomi
Nikolin Oberleitner
Senior Scientist, Ribbon Biolabs
Adi Lavi
Resilience
Ibrahim Farag
Research Scientist, University of Delaware
Christian Sieber
Principle Bioinformatics Scientist, Roche
Karthik Anantharaman
Assistant Professor, UW-Madison
David "Dudu" Burstein
Assistant Professor, University of Tel Aviv
Alex Probst
Assistant Professor, University of Duisburg-Essen
Cristina Butterfield
Scientist, Metagenomi
Chantel Tester
Scientist, Johnson & Johnson
Shufei Lei
Staff, UC Berkeley
Tali Raveh-Sadka
Director of Computational Biology, Immunai
Laura Hug
Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo
Itai Sharon
Assistant Professor, MIDAL Research Institute
Anders Norman
Postdoc, Technical University of Denmark
Birgit Luef
Research Scientist, Leiden University
David Paez
Mammoth Biosciences, Ancilia Biosciences
Kelly Wrighton
Assistant Professor, Ohio State University
Annika Mosier
Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, Denver
Menquiang (Mike) Zhu
Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming
Adam Wallace
Assistant Professor, University of Delaware
Kim Handley
Associate Professor, University of Aukland
Chris Miller
Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, Denver
Shufen Ma
Lecturer, UC Berkeley
Ryan Muller
Assistant Professor, Oregon State University
Vincent Denef
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
Curt Fischer
Octant
Knud Dideriksen
Assistant Professor, Copenhagen University
Paul Wilmes
Assistant Professor, University of Luxembourg
Asmeret Berhe
Professor, UC Merced (leads DOE Office of Science)
Dino Spagnoli
Senior Lecturer, University of Western Australia
Sheri Simmons
Vice President of Discovery, Seed Health
Mike Wilkins
Assistant Professor, Ohio State University
Gregory Dick
Professor, University of Michigan
Linda Kalnejais
Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire
Bin Chen
Professor, HP Star
Anders Andersson
Associate Professor, Karolinska Institute
Cathrine Frandsen
Professor, Technical University of Denmark
Blake Suttle
Assistant Professor, Imperial College, London
Rachel Whitaker
Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Katherine Dunphy Guzman
Scientist, Sandia National Lab
Qusheng Jin
Professor, University of Oregon
Eric Allen
Professor, Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Anna Rosling
Associate Professor, Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet
Rachna Ram
Associate, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
Javiera Cervini-Silva
Professor, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Judith Flanagan
Conjoint Associate Professor, University of New South Wales
Benjamin Gilbert
Senior Scientist, LBNL
Christopher Kim
Professor, Chapman University
Philip Hugenholtz
Professor, University of Queensland
Young Do
Scientist, University of Idaho
Forrest Huang
Professor, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter
Mike Zach,
Senior Scientist, Oak Ridge National Lab
Jennifer Macalady
Professor, Penn State University
Larry Croft
Bioinformatician, Charles River labs
Maria Nesterova
Idaho National Laboratory
Matthias Labrenz
Professor, Leibniz-Institute for Baltic Sea Research
David Fowle
Professor, Kansas University
Philip Bond
Professor, University of Queensland
Brett Goebel
Scientist, Australian Magnesium Corporation
Hengzhong Zhang
Professor, HP Star
Susan Welch
Research Scientist, Ohio State University
Dawn Janney
Materials Engineer, Idaho National Laboratory
Bill Barker
Associate Dean, UW-Madison
Former Staff
Kaden DiMarco
Graduate Student, Northwestern University
Nikita Gounder
Graduate Student, UCSF
LinXing Chen
Professor, USTC
Jordan Hoff
Graduate Student, MIT
Lily Law
Masters Student, SJSU
Allison Sharrar
Staff Research Associate, Acrigen Biosciences
Kate Lane
Graduate Student, MIT
Brian Thomas
CEO, Metagenomi
Audra Devoto
Data Scientist, Metagenomi
David Geller-McGrath
Graduate Student, MIT
Susan Spaulding
Andrea Singh
Staff Software Engineer, Ad Hoc LLC
Kyle Frischkorn
Senior Editor, Springer Nature Group
Sean Mullin
United States Senate
Ken-ichi Ueda
Co-director, iNaturalist
Vega Shah
Product Manager, Dotmatics
Brett Baker
Associate Professor, UT Austin
Bill Barker
Associate Dean, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jonathan Giska
Former Visitors
Yutaka Kawarabayasi
Michael Thelen
Cathrine Frandsen
Patrick Munk
Yuki Amano
Tom Hessler
Livia Moura
Junji. Akai
Cheryl Young
Former Undergraduate Researchers
Heather Henkel
Matt Schrenk
Chris Van der Ven
Cara Santelli
Steve Smriga
Anne Skatvold
Michelle Lutz
Robert Butler
Karina Soenjoyo
Sophia Riemer
Patrick Northey
Artin Au-Yeung
Some Others
Yutaka Kawarabayasi
Massimo Nespolo
T. Murakami
Steve Higgins
Molly McGuire
Seth Lindberg
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