Alumni

Yu Liu (Sunny)
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Position: Assistant Professor at Fox Chase

Snehal Sambare
Bioinformatician II
MS in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, George Mason University, USA
BE in Computer Science, Ramdeobaba Collage of Engineering and Management, India
Research Focus: Data Analysis of chromosome conformation capture based methods

Anne-Laure Valton
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD in Molecular Biology, University Paris Diderot (Paris 7), France
Research Focus:  Molecular Mechanisms of Topologically Associating Domain (TAD) formation

George Spracklin
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD in Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison WI
Research Focus: Epigenetics, chromosome conformation, and technology development

Erica Hildebrand
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD, Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
BA, Biological Sciences, Connecticut College, New London, CT, USA
Research Focus:  Molecular mechanisms required for interphase chromosome conformation establishment and maintenance.

Davood Norouzi
Staff Scientist (Computational Biology)
PhD, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences and John Hopkins University
Postdoctoral fellow, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
Research Focus: Computer modeling of chromatin folding and dynamics

Betul Akgol Oksuz
PhD Student
BSc in Mathematics, Balikesir University, Turkey
Research Focus: Developing algorithms to analyze 3C-based methods

Marlies Oomen
PhD Student
MS in Medical and Pharmaceutical Drug Innovation, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
BSc in Molecular cell biology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Research Focus: Chromosome conformation and epigenetics in mitosis

Kristin Abramo
PhD Student
BSc in Genetics, University of Rochester, New York, USA
Research Focus:  Analyzing 3D chromatin organization during transition from mitosis into interphase and determining the role of different factors in this transition

Houda Belaghzal
Former Graduate Student

Ankita Nand
Former Bioinformatician II

Hakan Ozadam
Former Bioinformatician III
Current Position: Research Scientist at the University of Texas at Austin

Filipe Tavares-Cadete
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Lisbon, Portugal

Noam Kaplan
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Position: Principal Investigator, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Bryan R. Lajoie
Former Bioinformatician II
Current Position: Bioinformatics Scientist II, Illumina, San Diego, California

Gaurav Jain
Former Bioinformatician
Current Position: Bioinformatics Research Scientist at DZNE, Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany

Jon-Matthew Belton
Former Graduate Student
Current Position: Reseach Scientist at Cibus US LLC, Greater San Diego Area

Rachel Patton McCord
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Position: Assistant Professor at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee

Natalia Naumova
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Position: Scientist at Epinomics, San Francisco Bay Area

Jennifer E. Phillips-Cremins
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Position: Principal Investigator, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Amartya Sanyal
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Position: Principal Investigator, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Emily Smith
Former Graduate Student
Current Position: Assistant Professor at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana

Rasim Barutcu
Former Graduate Student
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Josee Dostie
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Nele Gheldof
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Position: Human Genetics Specialist at Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences, Lausanne Area, Switzerland

Adriana Geldart
Former Graduate Student
Current Position: Sample Prep Support Manager, Roche, Greater Boston Area

Tomoko Tabuchi Morin
Former Research Associate
Current Position: Assistant Project Scientist at UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California

Nynke van Berkum
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Position: Projectmanager Microbiology and Systems Biology, TNO, Utrecht Area, The Netherlands