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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,
Raphaël Méheust
Scientist, CEA
Sergio Romero
Scientist, IDAEA-CSIC
Michael Whittaker
Scientist, LBNL
Spencer Diamond
PI, IGI
Rohan Sachdeva
PI & Director of Computational Infrastructure, IGI
Cindy Castelle
Scientist, Metagenomi
Nikolin Oberleitner
Senior Scientist, Ribbon Biolabs
Keith Bouma-Gregson
Postdoctoral Fellow
Adi Lavi
Resilience
Ibrahim Farag
Research Scientist, University of Delaware
Christian Sieber
Principle Bioinformatics Scientist, Roche
Karthik Anantharaman
Assistant Professor, 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
Spencer Diamond
Principal Investigator, IGI
Veronika Kivenson
Postdoctoral Fellow, Banfield Lab
Brian Thomas
CEO, Metagenomi
Allison Sharrar
Staff Research Associate, Acrigen Biosciences
Kate Lane
Graduate Student, MIT
Susan Spaulding
Audra Devoto
Data Scientist, Metagenomi
Kate Lane
Graduate Student, MIT
Brett Baker
Associate Professor, UT Austin
Vega Shah
Product Manager, Dotmatics
Sean Mullin
United States Senate
Kyle Frischkorn
Senior Editor, Springer Nature Group
Andrea Singh
Staff Software Engineer, Ad Hoc LLC
Graduate Student, MIT
Ken-ichi Ueda
Co-director, iNaturalist
Bill Barker
Associate Dean, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jonathan Giska
Current & Former Visitors
Jerome Zürcher
Marjan Ghotbi
Yuki Amano
Cathrine Frandsen
Patrick Munk
Yutaka Kawarabayasi
Michael Thelen
Tom Hessler
Livia Moura
Junji Akai
Cheryl Young
Current & Former Undergraduate Researchers
Danielle Lavitt
Margot Lavitt
Gabriel Husain
Eunice Tsang
Michael Cui
Jett Liu
Heather Henkel
Steve Smriga
Robert Butler
Sophia Riemer
Karina Soenjoyo
Patrick Northey
Artin Au-Yeung
Matt Schrenk
Chris Van der Ven
Cara Santelli
Anne Skatvold
Michelle Lutz
Some Others
Yutaka Kawarabayasi
Massimo Nespolo
T. Murakami
Steve Higgins
Molly McGuire
Seth Lindberg
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