Staff

Dr. Rakesh Kumar (2021-2024) Currently research scientist at the USDA Western Regional Research Center

Andrew Deatker (2016-2019) Afterwards, research assistant at The Sainsbury Laboratory.

Dr Christian Schudoma (2016-2017) Afterwards, member of Core Bioinformatics Group, Earlham Institute.

Dr Francesca Stefanato (2015-2016) Afterwards, at the John Innes Centre.

Postdocs

Dr Wei Wei (2022-2025), Currently postdoc at UC Berkeley

Dr Lorena Parra (2020-2023), Afterwards, postdoc at UC Davis

Dr Janina Tamborski (2019-2022), Afterwards, postdoc at Stanford

Dr Elisha Thynne (2017-2020). Current position: Senior Research Fellow at University of Oxford. The Thynne lab performs research into molecular plant-fungal interactions, focussing primarily on apoplastic interactions with studies on both the activity of fungal virulence factors (effectors) and plant immune receptors.

Dr Dina Raats (2015-2018)

Dr Paul Bailey (2015-2017) Afterwards, senior bioinformatician at Kew Gardens, Darwin Tree of Life

Dr Gulay Dagdas (2015-2017)

PhD students

Dr Chandler Sutherland (2020-2026) - PhD in Plant Biology, DE in Genomics and Computational Biology, Grace Kase Fellow, after graduation post-doc at University of Washington

Dr Kyungyong Seong (2020-2025) - PhD in Microbiology, DE in Genomics and Computational Biology, Bakar Labs Graduate Fellow, after graduation post-doc at UC Davis

Dr Frances Grace Stark (2019-2025) - PhD in Microbiology, currently R&D Mycologist · Thallus Foods, headed for postdoctoral at Monika Fischer's lab at University of British Columbia

Dr Boyan Xu (2020-2024) - PhD in Mathematics, DE in Genomics and Computational Biology, DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellow, after graduation founder and CEO of Gilly Bio and Activate Fellow

Dr Pierre Joubert (2019- 2023) - PhD in Microbiology, DE in Genomics and Computational Biology, Grace Kase Fellow, after graduation post-doc at Technische Universität Dresden

Dr Erin Baggs (2016-2022) - PhD in Plant Biology, after graduation research scientist at Sound Agriculture

Rotation students

2025: Mia Denning, Abby Burtner

2024: David Yang, Max Gray

2023: Amanda Dee

2022: Marlo Hall, Antonio Chapparo

2021-2022: Ryan Kennealy

2020-2021: Yiling Fang, Dean Pettinga

2019-2020 : Lauren Hamm, Hang Xue, Brady Lee, Nathan Diplock

2018-2019 : Lorenzo Washington

Norwich Research Park, 2016-2017: Joanna Feehan

Postbacc students

Giuseppe Denora (2024) Visiting Student Researcher, Master's Student at the IDEAS Innovation Development in AgriFood Systems, University of Bari Aldo, Italy

Anne Nakamoto (2022-2023). Afterwards, PhD student in Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics at the University of California Santa Cruz

Reshi Shanmuganathan (Summer 2018). Afterwards, PhD student with Claude Becker, Gregor Mendel Institute.

Ruby O'Grady (2018). Afterwards, Science Communications Officer at John Innes Centre and The Sainsbury Laboratory

Amelie Heckmann (2016-2017). Afterwards, PhD student with Fiona Doohan, University College Dublin

Undergraduates

Riyaz Mehta (2025-2026). Molecular and Cellular Biology.

Luyang Zhang (2022-2025). Microbial Biology - Currently, Graduate student at Washington University

Brandon Vega (2023-2025). Microbial Biology

Yuting Lin (2023-2025). Microbial Biology

McCree Tang (2024). Molecular Cell Biology

Doogie Kim (2023-2024). Genetics and Plant Biology

Mari Torii-Karch (2021-2023). Microbial Biology

Griselda Ramirez-Bernardino (2023). Genetics and Plant Biology

Daven Lim (2022-2023). Computer Science

Anne Nakamoto (2020-2022). Molecular and Cell Biology (Genetics, Genomics, and Development), Computer Science Minor. Currently, Graduate student at University of California, Santa Cruz

Duke Yuvaraj (2022-2023) Molecular and Cellular Biology - Currently, Graduate student at University of Washington

Sarah Song (2021-2022) Statistics & Genetics and Plant Biology

Marcus Varni (2022) Genetics and Plant Biology & Molecular and Cell Biology.

William Cumbelich (2022) Genetics and Plant Biology

Engie Mostafa (2021) Molecular and Cellular Biology, minor in Global Studies and Public Policy

Mark Tiersma (2019-2021) Molecular and Cellular Biology - Afterwards, staff scientist at Stanford

Daniel ChoAnn (2020-2021) Molecular and Cellular Biology

Celine Bellegarda (2018-2019) Molecular Environmental Biology, minor in Chemistry - Afterwards, staff scientist at UCSF

Aman Sidhant (Fall 2018) Computer Science - Afterwards, programmer at Microsoft