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Antony M Jose
Principal Investigator
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Daphne Knudsen
Graduate Student
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Samiha Tasnim
Graduate Student
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Aishwarya Sathya
Graduate Student
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Helina Zewdu
Lab Manager
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Fu (Ben) Dong
Graduate Student
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Victoria Lowers
Graduate Student
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Jannella Esquivel
Technician
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Amber Liu
Undergraduate Researcher
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Vinashya Venkatasubramani
Graduate Student
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Dehao Zhu
Graduate Student
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Remote Data Analysts:

Pratik Patel

Farhaan Lalit

Collaborators:

Orna Cohen-Fix, NIDDK, NIH (w/ Mohammad Rahman)

Leslie Pick, Entomology, UMD (w/ Faith Kung)

Past lab members:

Postdoctoral Fellow

Yun Choi: 2013-2015, then Assistant Clinical Professor for the Transgenerational Brain Initiative stream.

Graduate Students

Julia Marré: 2012-2017, then lecturer for Cell Biology at UMD, now at Food and Drug Administration

Pravrutha Raman: 2012-2019, then postdoc with Harmit Malik, HHMI, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle

Snusha Ravikumar: 2011-2019, then postdoc with Daniel Colón-Ramos, Yale University, New Haven

Sindhuja Devanapally: 2011-2019, then postdoc with Laura Landweber, Columbia University, New York

Nathan Shugarts: 2015-2021, then postdoc with Jennifer Zallen, HHMI, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York

Mary Chey: 2018-2023, then FIRE Faculty Leader at UMD for the Gene Silencing stream

Undergraduate Students and Volunteers

Soriayah Zaghab: 2012-2014, then UMD School of Medicine Medical Student

Hai Le: 2011-2014 also as Research Technician, then Johns Hopkins University Medical Student

Yinglun Wu: 2013-2015, then UMD School of Medicine Medical Student

Aubrey DiBello: 2013-2015, then Tufts Medical School Masters Student

Andrew Blumenfeld: 2014-2015 also as Research Technician, then University of Colorado Graduate Student, now at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Samual Allgood: 2014-2015, then University of Delaware Graduate Student

Monika Looney: 2013-2016, then Johns Hopkins University Graduate Student

Rex Ledesma: 2016-2017, then software engineer at Airbnb

Farida Ettefa: 2015-2019 also as Research Technician, then MD-PhD student at New York University School of Medicine

Yixin Lin: 2017-2019, then Master of Education at UMD

Winnie Chan: 2016-2019, then Masters in Medical Sciences Boston University School of Medicine

Kyle Galford: 2017-2019, then account manager at Novogene Corporation

Matthew Chung: 2018-2019, then PhD at University of California, San Diego

Maigane Diop: 2017-2020, then MD-PhD student at Stanford University

Shavin Thomas: 2018-2020, then University of Pittsburgh medical student

Victoria Murphy: 2019-2021, then graduate student at Johns Hopkins University

Laura DeRavin: 2019-2021, then medical student at University of Maryland, School of Medicine

Andrew Yi: 2019-2021, then medical student at University of Maryland, School of Medicine

Richard Zipper: 2020-2022, then retired

Technicians and Lab Managers

Ed Traver: 2011-2013 Research Technician, then Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine Medical Student

Lanelle Edwards: 2011-2017 Lab Manager & Technician, then Technician at Balaban Lab, NHLBI, NIH

Andrew Sybing: 2014-2017 Technician, then University of Maryland School of Pharmacy

Crystal Nwachuku: 2017-2018 Lab Manager, then Patient Care Coordinator at Moore Obgyn

Nicholas Hung: 2017-2018 Technician, then Technology Development Program Associate with United Health Group

Devan Ahalt: 2018-2020 Technician, then exploring options

Eunice Cho: 2017-2020 Undergraduate researcher and Lab Manager, then George Washington University Medical Student

Beata Gelman: 2020-2022 Lab Manager

Molly Sieger: 2020-2023 Technician, then Medical Laboratory Science at Penn State Hershey

Short-term members

Rachel Maczis: 2011-2012 Rotation Student

Adam Kopp: 2012 Summer Student, an undergraduate from Brown University

Andrew Casay: 2012 Summer Student from Poolesville high school

Florian Bigot: 2012 Summer Student entering UMD as an undergraduate

Kylynn Salvetti: 2012 Fall Federal Work Study Student

Surya Sundar: 2012-2013 Rotation Student

Heather Greenberg: 2012-2013 Undergraduate Student

Youngwook Kim: 2013 Summer Student from Poolesville high school

Leora Goldbloom-Helzner: 2013 Summer Student from Montgomery Blair high school

Pallavi Bhave: 2015 Summer Student from Thomas Jefferson High school for Science and Technology

Ray An: 2015 Undergraduate Student

Jordan Aoyama: 2015-2016 Rotation Student

Molly Lutrey: 2016-2017 Undergraduate Student

Edwin Zhang: 2017 Undergraduate Student

Julianna Gross: 2018 Summer Student from Sherwood High School

Heidi Wade: 2018-2019 Rotation Student and member for two months

Rui Yin: 2019 Rotation student

Jessica Kopew: 2019 Rotation Student

Shivani Amin: 2020-2021 Federal Work Study Student

Neil Ghosh: 2021 Undergraduate Student

Carinna Householder: 2021 Rotation Student

Ravin Fisher: 2022 Rotation Student

Riley Nolan: 2022 Undergraduate Student

Nairita Faruqui: 2023 Rotation Student

Simoné Parn: 2023 Rotation Student

Wesley Demontaigny: 2024 Rotation Student