{"id":154,"date":"2023-11-21T12:18:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T20:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ehrenreich-lab-at-usc\/?page_id=154"},"modified":"2025-12-10T17:13:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T01:13:48","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ehrenreich-lab\/people\/","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":" \n\n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\n Dr. Ian Ehrenreich\n <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Principal Investigator<\/p>\n

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\n Professor of Biological Sciences\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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My research uses synthetic genomic approaches to explore fundamental questions about genome-phenotype relationships within and between species, as well as to help understand the evolutionary history of life and its diversity. Synthetic genomics is a nascent biological discipline centered on the synthesis of chromosomes and genomes. By enabling new scales and scopes of genetic manipulation,\u00a0synthetic genomics has the potential to address longstanding biological questions that might not otherwise be answerable.<\/p>\n

Email<\/em>: ian.ehrenreich@usc.edu<\/p>\n

Education: <\/em><\/p>\n

NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow – Princeton University (2008-2011)<\/p>\n

Ph.D.; Genetics – North Carolina State University (2008)<\/p>\n

B.A.; Human Biology – Stanford University (2002)<\/p>\n

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\n Current Lab Members\n <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n \n
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\n Jinye Liang (Postdoctoral Fellow)\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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I am an emerging bio-data scientist and synthetic biologist working on building the synthetic mitochondrial genome.<\/p>\n

Email:\u00a0<\/em>jinyelia@usc.edu<\/p>\n

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Ph.D.; Biology – University of Iowa (2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Cara Hull (Ph.D. Candidate)\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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I am interested in using\u00a0synthetic genomics to understand minimal gene\u00a0sets for life and organellular genetics in\u00a0Saccharomyces\u00a0cerevisiae<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Email<\/em>: chull@usc.edu<\/p>\n

Education: <\/em><\/p>\n

B.A.; Biology – Carthage College (2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Daniel Lusk (Ph.D. Candidate)\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Synthetic biology – building genomes to answer fundamental biological questions.<\/p>\n

Email<\/em>: dlusk@usc.edu<\/p>\n

Education:<\/em><\/p>\n

B.S.; Biochemistry – University of California, San Diego (2020)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Zach Krieger (Ph.D. Candidate)\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Email<\/em>: zkrieger@usc.edu<\/p>\n

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B.S.; Biological Sciences – University of Washington (2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Chris Ne Ville (Ph.D. Candidate)\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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I use synthetic biology to construct & integrate large recombinant loci, enabling functional dissection of the genetic architecture underlying polygenic traits, across multiple organisms.<\/p>\n

Email<\/em>: cjnevill@usc.edu<\/p>\n

Education<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Chaffey Community College<\/p>\n

B.S.; Biology – Cal State San Bernardino (2018)<\/p>\n

M.S. (Thesis); Biology – Cal State San Bernardino (2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Brandon Bernardo (Ph.D. Candidate)\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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I am interested in using synthetic biology to understand genetic diversity in the context of fungal persistence in mammalian cells.<\/p>\n

Email<\/em>: babernar@usc.edu<\/p>\n

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B.S.; Biological Sciences – Chapman University (2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Alexandra Christensen (Ph.D. Candidate)\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Email<\/em>: ahc15951@usc.edu<\/p>\n

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M.A.; French – Middlebury College (2023)<\/p>\n

B.S.; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, French – University of Michigan (2020)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Elizabeth Moore (Ph.D. Candidate)\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Email<\/em>: emoore13@usc.edu<\/p>\n

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B.S.; Microbiology – University of California, Davis (2020)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Justin Tian (Lab Technician)\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Email: jytian@usc.edu<\/p>\n

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B.S.; Human Biology – University of Southern California (2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Former Lab Members\n <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Jonathan Lee, Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Pfizer<\/p>\n

Robert Linder, Bioinformatics Scientist at Sanford Burnham Prebys<\/p>\n

Takeshi Matsui, Senior Scientist at BacStitch DNA<\/p>\n

Martin Mullis, Quantitative Geneticist, Calico<\/p>\n

Rachel Schell, R & D Scientist II, Neogenomics<\/p>\n

Fabian Seidl, Senior Bioinformatics Engineer, General Dynamics<\/p>\n

Matthew Taylor, Assistant Professor (tenure track), Loras College<\/p>\n

Alessandro Coradini, Scientist II, Allen Institute<\/p>\n

Joseph Hale, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan<\/p>\n

Ilan Goldstein<\/p>\n

Yunsun Eoh, M.D.-Ph.D. Student, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine<\/p>\n

Shawn Yang, Ph.D. Student, Columbia University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n \n\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-154","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPeople - Ehrenreich Genome-Phenotype Lab<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ehrenreich-lab\/people\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"People - Ehrenreich Genome-Phenotype Lab\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ehrenreich-lab\/people\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ehrenreich Genome-Phenotype Lab\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-12-11T01:13:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ehrenreich-lab\/people\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ehrenreich-lab\/people\/\",\"name\":\"People - 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