Former Lab Members

Postdoctoral Researchers (Current Position):

Austin W. Reynolds (Assistant Professor of Microbiology, Immunology & Genetics at The University of North Texas Health Science Center)
Laura R. Botigué (tenure-track Junior Group Leader at the Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics, Barcelona, Spain)
Elizabeth Atkinson (Assistant Professor of Molecular & Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine)
William Palmer (Data Scientist at Gencove)
Evlyn Pless (Bioinformatics Engineer at Delfi Diagnostics)


Ph.D. Students (Current Position):

Caitlin Uren, Ph.D. in Human Genetics, 2017, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. (Lecturer in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Stellenbosch University) *Co-supervised with Dr. Marlo Möller.
Meng Lin, Ph.D. in Genetics, 2017, Stony Brook University. (Lecturer at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical School)
Shyamalika Gopalan, Ph.D. in Evolution and Ecology, 2019, Stony Brook University. (Assistant Professor of Genetics & Biochemistry at Clemson University)
Natalie Swinford, Ph.D. in Evolutionary Anthropology and Human Population Genetics, 2022, University of California, Davis. (Population Geneticist at AncestryDNA, Ancestry.com)
Chelsea Cataldo-Ramirez, Ph.D. in Evolutionary Anthropology, 2024, University of California, Davis. (Postdoctoral researcher in Population & Public Health Sciences at the University of Southern California)


Master's Students (Current Position):

Evan Sticca, M.A. in Ecology and Evolution, concentration Applied Evolution, 2014, Stony Brook University. (Ph.D. program in Human Medical Genetics and Genomics/Research assistant in Dr. Chris Gignoux's lab, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical School)
Rebecca Siford, M.A. in Ecology and Evolution, concentration Applied Evolution, 2017, Stony Brook University. (Ph.D. program in Evolutionary Anthropology at Arizona State University)
Hana Asnake, M.S. in Forensic Science, 2020, University of California, Davis. (Forensic Scientist at the Department of Forensic Science, Washington DC)
Aislinn McMahon, M.A. in Evolutionary Anthropology, 2021, University of California, Davis.
Alexandra Surowiec, M.A. in Evolutionary Anthropology, 2023, University of California, Davis.


Staff Scientist (Current Position):

Dean Bobo, Staff Bioinformatician, 2013–2017, Stony Brook University. (Ph.D. program in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Columbia University)
Mira Mastoras, Staff Bioinformatician, 2020–2021, University of California, Davis. (Ph.D. program in Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics at the University of Califonia, Santa Cruz)
Jamie Saayman, Staff Scientist, 2020–2023.


Undergraduate Students (Current Position):

Angela Taravella, B.S./B.A. with honors in Biology & Anthropology, 2015, Stony Brook University. (Staff Scientist at the Translational Genomics Research Institute)
Minju Kim, B.S. in Human Evolutionary Biology, 2015, Stony Brook University. (M.S. program in Biology at New York University)
Geena Bari, B.S. in Human Evolutionary Biology, 2017, Stony Brook University. (Lab technician at Kite Pharma)
Samantha Moy, B.S. in Human Evolutionary Biology, 2017, Stony Brook University. (Excelsior Conservation Core)
Yakov Pichkar, B.S. in Biochemistry, 2018, Stony Brook University. (Postdoctoral researcher at Vanderbilt University)
Johnathan Gaige, B.S. in Human Evolutionary Biology, 2018, Stony Brook University. (Associate Scientist at the New York Genome Center)
Cole Williams, B.S. in Genetics and Genomics, 2019, University of California, Davis. (Ph.D. program in Computational Biology at Brown University)
Aleasha Jhanjar, B.A. in Psychology, 2020, University of California, Davis. (Genetic Counseling program at the University of California, San Francisco)
Anders Eckburg, B.S. in Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior, 2022, University of California, Davis. (Junior Specialist at the UC Davis Medical Center)
Brenna Gallagher, B.S./B.A. in Anthropology & French, 2021, University of California, Davis. (M.A. program in Art and Cultural Management at ICART)
Lance Dornan, B.A. in Anthropology, 2024, University of California, Davis.


Other Mentees (Current Position):

Julie Granka, Ph.D. mentee in the Feldman Lab, 2010–2012, Stanford University. (Principal Scientist in Statistical Genetics at 23andMe.com)
David Poznik, Ph.D. mentee in the Bustamante Lab, 2010–2012, Stanford University. (Scientist at 23andMe.com)
Oana Carja, Ph.D. mentee in the Feldman Lab, 2010–2012, Stanford University. (Assistant Professor of Computational Biology at Carnegie Mellon University)
Amanda Casto, M.D./Ph.D. mentee in the Feldman Lab, 2010–2011, Stanford University. (M.D. at the University of Washington, Seattle)
Alicia Martin, Ph.D. mentee in the Bustamante Lab, 2011–2017, Stanford University. (Assistant Professor at the Broad Institute & Massachusetts General Hospital)
Matt Jobin, Postdoctoral mentee in the Fehren-Schmitz Lab, 2017–2018, University of California, Santa Cruz. (Lead Bioinformatician at the University of California, San Francisco)
f, Ph.D./Postdoctoral mentee in the Möller Lab, 2017–2022, Stellenbosch University. (Postdoctoral researcher at Karolinska Institutet)