Postdocs (Current Position):
Austin W. Reynolds (Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Baylor University)
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 at Stellenbosch University) *Co-supervised with Dr. Marlo Moller.
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. (Postdoc at Duke University, Researcher in Amy Goldberg’s Lab)
Natalie Swinford, Ph.D. in Evolutionary Anthropology and Human Population Genetics, 2022, University of California, Davis. (Population Geneticist at AncestryDNA, Ancestry.com)
Masters Students (Current Position):
Evan Sticca, M.A. in Ecology and Evolution, concentration Applied Evolution, 2014, Stony Brook University. (Bioinformatics Staff at Weill Cornell, Institute for Precision Medicine, NYC)
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. (Bioinformatics Specialist at the American Museum of Natural History)
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)
Yakov Pichkar, B.S., 2017, Stony Brook University. (Ph.D. student at Vanderbilt University)
Samantha Moy, B.S. in Human Evolutionary Biology, 2017, Stony Brook University. (Excelsior Conservation Core)
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)
Other Mentees (Current Position):
Julie Granka, Ph.D. mentee in the Feldman Lab, 2010-2012, Stanford University. (Director of Personalized Genomics at AncestryDNA, Ancestry.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, Mark Daly’s Lab)
Matt Jobin, Postdoc mentee in the Fehren-Schmitz Lab, 2017-2018, University of California, Santa Cruz. (Scientist at Arc Bio)
Haiko Schurz, Ph.D./Postdoc mentee in Moller Lab, 2017-2022, Stellenbosch University. (Postdoc at Karolinska Institutet)