Bassler Lab Alumni

Reunion

Postdoctoral Fellows

2017-2023 Ameya Mashruwala (Investigator, Stowers Institute for Medical Research)
2018-2023 Boyang Qin (Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
2017-2022 Drew Bridges (Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University)
2018-2022 Isabelle Taylor (Assistant Professor, The College of William and Mary)
2017-2021 Xiuliang Huang (Senior Scientist, Regor Therapeutics Group)
2019-2021 Jennifer S Sun (Grant Writer / Staff Scientist, New York Genome Center)
2015-2021 Matthew Jemielita (R&D Scientist, Berkeley Lights, Emeryville, CA)
2014-2020 Sampriti Mukherjee (Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, IL)
2014-2019 Jon Paczkowski (Assistant Professor, SUNY Albany, Albany, NY)
2014-2019 Jing Yan (Assistant Professor, Yale University, New Haven, CT) 
2015-2018 Nina Hoyland-Kroghsbo (Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
2010-2016 Anisa Ismail (Scientific Director, Lockwood)
2012-2015 Kai Papenfort (Professor, University of Jena, Jena, Germany)
2011-2015 Carey Nadell (Assistant Professor, Darthmouth College)
2013-2015 Christian Ventocilla (Scientist, PharmaIN, Corp.)
2010-2014 Laura Miller (Associate Professor, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA)
2011-2014 Knut Drescher (Associate Professor, University of Basel, Biozentrum, Basel, Switzerland)
2013-2014 Giancarlo Garcia-Schwarz (Senior Software Engineer, Google)
2011-2013 Kristen Werner (Director, Data Science and Engineering, Snowflake Computing)
2008-2012 Steven Rutherford (Research Scientist, Genentech Corp., San Francisco, CA)
2009-2012 Julia van Kessel (Associate Professor, University of Indiana)
2006-2012 Wai-Leung Ng (Associate Professor, Tufts University)
2009-2011 Devin Stauff (Associate Professor, Grove City College)
2007-2009 Michelle Boehm (Scientific Associate, Precept Medical Communications)
2005-2009 Lee Swem (VP, Head of Research, Federation Bio, San Francisco, CA)
2003-2008 Chris Waters (Professor, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI)
2002-2008 Mike Federle (Professor, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL)
2001-2008 Brian Hammer (Associate Professor, Georgia Tech., Atlanta, GA)
2000-2006 Karina Xavier (Principal Investigator, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Lisbon, Portugal)
1998-2002 Stephan Schauder (Research Scientist, Aventis Pharma)
 

Graduate Students

PhD, 2022 Chenyi Fei (Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT)
PhD, 2022 Olivia Duddy (Senior Consultant, Guidehouse)
PhD, 2021 Michaela Eickhoff (Postdoctoral Fellow, NJ Department of Health)
PhD, 2020 Justin Silpe (Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University)
PhD, 2019 Amelia McCready (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania)
PhD, 2017 Amanda Hurley (AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow, Washington DC)
PhD, 2017 Kevin Kim (Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University)
PhD, 2016 Alice Min (Resident Physician, Mount Sinai Hospital)
PhD, 2015 Xiaobo Ke (Senior Scientist, Dewpoint Therapeutics)
PhD, 2015 Zach Donnell (Head of Commercial Analytics, groupH, San Francisco, CA)
PhD, 2014 Lihui Feng (Assistant Professor, Fudan University, China)
PhD, 2014 Colleen O'Loughlin (Assistant Professor, Bates College)
PhD, 2013 Yi Shao (Associate Partner, McKinsey & Co., Shanghai, China)
PhD, 2012 Yunzhou Wei (Research Scientist, Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Healthcare )
PhD, 2011 Jessica Schaffer (Molecular Biologist, MicroByre San Francisco, CA)
PhD, 2010 Shu-Wen Teng (Assoc. Principal Scientist, Merck, Kenilworth, NJ)
PhD, 2009 Tao Long (Research Assistant Professor, Univ. of California, San Diego)
PhD, 2009 Audra Pompeani (Veterinarian, Stanford, CA)
PhD, 2009 Douglas Higgins (Scientist, Pivot Biology, Berkeley, CA)
PhD, 2008 Kim Tu (Medical Director, Pixacore, New York, NY)
PhD, 2008 Sine Lo Svenningsen (Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
PhD, 2006 Derrick Lenz (Director Strategy & Operations, Novartis Oncology )
PhD, 2004 Jennifer Henke (Principal Medical Writer, Novo Nordisk)
PhD, 2004 Kenny Mok (Associate Specialist, University of California, Berkeley)
PhD, 2003 Michiko Taga (Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley)
PhD, 2002 Melissa Miller (Director, Clinical Molecular Microbiology Lab, UNC Chapel Hill)
PhD, 1999 Jeremy Freeman (Senior Director, Nektar Therapeutics)
 

Undergraduate Students

James Adams '24
Evan Deturk '23
Michelle Yoon '23
Jojo Prentice '22
Bob Schofner '22
Maressa Cumbermack '21
Dorian Pousont '21
Wenjuan Du '20
Megan Ostrowski '20
Daniela Coronado '19
Dominique Summerville '19
Camille Sullivan '18
Michael Delgado '17
Deirdre Ricaurte '16
Andrew Sharo '16
Emily Wohl '16
Lynessa McGee '15
Paul Oh '14
Hana Snow '14
David Wang '14
Christine Mak '13

Sofia Quinodoz '13

Suhyun Kim '12 
Monica Banerjee '12
Alan Utria '12
Cameron Myhrvold '11
Reginald Salvant '10
Emily Witkin (Reed College '09)
Joyce Hwang '09
Bixiao Zhao '09
Ashley Wolf '08
Julie Wu '07
Andrew Beacham (Oxford University '06)
Courtney Goodwin '05
David Herman '05
Ian Monk (Oxford University '05)
Rebecca Snyder '04
Amy Tsou (Rice University '03)
Jennifer Rosenbluth '03
Alana Benjamin '02
Julia Semmelheck '01
Taylor Armstrong '00
Gregory Deirmengian '00
Kristin Egan '99
Brendan Lilley '98
Veronica Valdivieso '97
Laura Snyder '97
Andrew Keverline '96
Amy Gladfelter '96 (Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College)
 

Lab Specialist

2000-2020 Ed Kennedy