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\n Postdoctoral Researchers\n <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Sarah Signor<\/strong>, Assistant Professor, North Dakota State University.<\/p>\n

Wendy Vu<\/strong>, Senior Product Analyst, N26.<\/p>\n

Brad Foley<\/strong>, Product Manager for Central Analytics, Jam City, co-advisor Paul Marjoram.<\/p>\n

Matilde Cordeiro<\/strong>, Teacher, Lisboa, Portugal.<\/p>\n

Yerbol Kurmangaliev<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Biology, Brandeis University.<\/p>\n

Vitaly Gursky<\/strong>, Senior Scientist, Ioffe Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia.<\/p>\n

Julia Saltz<\/strong>, Associate Professor Rice University, Houston.<\/p>\n

Matt Solomon<\/strong>, Principal Investigator, John Wayne Cancer Institute in Santa Monica, co-advisor, advisor Paul Marjoram.<\/p>\n

Andrew Womack<\/strong>, Consulting Statistician, Lecturer at Rice University, co-mentor with Simon Tavare, Paul Marjoram, David Conti.<\/p>\n

Sibon Li<\/strong>, Staff Research Engineer, DeepMind.<\/p>\n

Daniel Campo<\/strong>, Director of the Genome Core Facility, Park Campus, USC.<\/p>\n

Maren Friesen<\/strong>, Associate Professor, Washington State University.<\/p>\n

John Masley<\/strong>, Associate Director for the School of Biological Sciences, University of Oklahoma, NRSA co-sponsor, sponsor Michelle Arbeitman.<\/p>\n

Eric von Wettberg<\/strong>, Associate Professor University of Vermont, NRSA sponsor, co-sponsor Maureen Stanton.<\/p>\n

Aaron Tarone<\/strong>, Professor\/Director of the Forensic and Investigative Sciences Program\/Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Education, Texas A&M Univ.<\/p>\n

Anne Genissel<\/strong>, Senior Researcher, INRAE, Toulouse, France.<\/p>\n

Ryan Bickel<\/strong>, Associate Professor of Instruction\/Assistant Director of the Undergraduate Program in Biology and Medicine, University Rochester.<\/p>\n

Jennifer Brisson<\/strong>, Professor University Rochester, NRSA sponsor, K99 mentor.<\/p>\n

Jason Mesey<\/strong>, Professor, Cornell University.<\/p>\n

Lisa Horth<\/strong>, co-advisors with Artyom Kopp; Professor Old Dominion University, Norfolk.<\/p>\n

Hsiao-Pei Yang<\/strong>, Senior Research Associate, Cornell University.<\/p>\n

David Pot<\/strong>, Project Leader, CIRAD, Montpelier, France.<\/p>\n

Oleg Lazebniy<\/strong>, Senior Researcher, Institute of Biology of Development, Moscow.<\/p>\n

Maria Servedio<\/strong>, co-advisor, advisor Michael Turelli.; Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill<\/p>\n

Brett Holland<\/strong>, Professor, California State University, Sacramento.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n \n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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\n Ph.D. Students\n <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Luke Genutis<\/strong>, USC, Molecular Biology.<\/p>\n

Rachel Hua<\/strong>, USC, Molecular Biology.<\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 Diesel<\/strong>, USC, Molecular Biology; Bioinformatics Analyst, MDxHealth.<\/p>\n

Melisa Osborne<\/strong>, USC, Molecular Biology; Associate, McKinsey & Company.<\/p>\n

Gary Molano<\/strong>, USC, Molecular Biology; co-founder and CEO, MacroBreed<\/p>\n

Anupam Singh<\/strong>, USC, Molecular Biology; Bioinformatic Scientist, Thermo Fisher Scientific Genetic Sciences Group.<\/p>\n

Ariel Levi Simons<\/strong>, USC, Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography; Postdoc, University of California Santa Cruz.<\/p>\n

Nathan Churches<\/strong>, USC, Molecular Biology; Chief Scientist, Holdfast LLC.<\/p>\n

Min-Gyoung Shin<\/strong>, USC, Computational Biology, co-advisor, advisor Paul Marjoram; Bioinformatician III, Gladstone Institutes.<\/p>\n

Asif Zubair<\/strong>, USC, Comp. Biol, advisor, co-advisor Paul Marjoram; Bioinformatics Engineer, Invitae.<\/p>\n

Josh Schiffman<\/strong>, USC, Molecular Biology, co-advisor, advisor Peter Ralph, Post Doc, New York Genome Center.<\/p>\n

Hamdi Kitapci<\/strong>, USC, Computational Biology; Bioinformatics Scientist II, Ambry Genetics.<\/p>\n

Mohammad Abbasi<\/strong>, USC, Computational Biology, co-advisor with Paul Marjoram, advisor Simon Tavare; Associate Director, Exact Sciences.<\/p>\n

Hossein Asgharian<\/strong>, USC, Molecular Biology; Principal Bioinformatics Scientist II, Roche.<\/p>\n

Wendy Vu<\/strong>, USC, Molecular Biology; Senior Product Analyst, N26.<\/p>\n

Joseph Dunham<\/strong>, USC, Molecular Biology; Chief Scientist, Seqonce LLC, Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Joyce Kao<\/strong>, USC, Computational Biology; Senior Project Manager, Uniklinik RWTH Aachen.<\/p>\n

Brad Main<\/strong>, USC; Bioinformatics Staff Scientist, Thermo Fisher Scientific.<\/p>\n

Julia Saltz<\/strong>, UCD, co-sponsor, advisor Andy Sih; Associate \u00adProfessor, Rice University.<\/p>\n

Maren Freisen<\/strong>, UCD; Associate Professor, Washington State University.<\/p>\n

Lindy McBride<\/strong>, UCD, co-advisor Michael Turelli; Associate Professor, Princeton University.<\/p>\n

Thomas Turner<\/strong>, UCD; Associate Professor, University Calif. Santa Barbara.<\/p>\n

Rita Graze<\/strong>, UCD; Professor, Auburn University<\/p>\n

Teresa Leonardo<\/strong>, UCD, advisor, co-advisor Jay Rosenheim; Director, Citizen Science & Special Projects, National Geographic Society.<\/p>\n

Dmitry Filatov<\/strong>, IMG, co-advisor, advisor Elena Pasyukova, Candidate Sc.; Professor, University of Oxford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n \n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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\n Long(er) Term Lab Visitors\n <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Filippo Nicolini<\/strong>, Visiting Grad. Student, EVO \u00b7 COM, University of Bologna, Italy (6 months).<\/p>\n

Jessica G\u00f6rne<\/strong>, Visiting Grad. Student, Humbolt University, Berlin, Germany (6 months).<\/p>\n

Svetlana Surkova<\/strong>, Senior Scientist, St. Petersburg State Polytech. University Russia (4 times * 2 months).<\/p>\n

Alina Chernova<\/strong>, Visiting Grad. Student, Skol Tech, Moscow, Russia (1 month, 2 months).<\/p>\n

Jin-Ye Zhang<\/strong>, Research Fellow, Life Sciences, Chongqing Normal University, China (1 year).<\/p>\n

Yulia Karabicina<\/strong>, Graduate Student, Vavilov Institute for Plant Resources, St. Petersburg, Russia (2 months).<\/p>\n

Marina Lebedeva<\/strong>, Visiting Grad. Student, Vavilov Institute for Plant Resources, St. Petersburg, \u00a0Russia (2 months).<\/p>\n

Pavel Ulianich<\/strong>, Visiting Grad. Student, Vavilov Institute for Plant Resources, St. Petersburg, Russia (2 months).<\/p>\n

Nadezhda Struppul<\/strong>, Senior Scientist, Far East Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia (3 months).<\/p>\n

Noha Osman<\/strong>, Visiting Grad. Student, National Research Center, Dokki, Giza, Egypt (2 years).<\/p>\n

Mariangela Iannello<\/strong>, Visiting Grad. Student, Universitata’ Di Bologna, Italy (3 months).<\/p>\n

Fabrizio Ghizelli,<\/strong>\u00a0Visiting Grad. Student, then Postdoc, then Principle Investigator, Universitata’ Di Bologna, Italy (5 times * 3 months).<\/p>\n

Liliana Milani<\/strong>, Visiting Grad. Student, then Postdoc, then Principal Investigator, Universitata’ Di Bologna, Italy (4 times * 3 months).<\/p>\n

Panyu Hua<\/strong>, Visiting Assistant Professor, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, China (1 year).<\/p>\n

Ana Marta Mu\u00f1oz-Colmenero<\/strong>, Visiting Grad. Student, University Oviedo, Spain (3 months).<\/p>\n

Alyona Sokolkova<\/strong>, Visiting Grad. Student, St. Petersburg State Polytech. University Russia (2 months).<\/p>\n

Laurent Gentzbittel<\/strong>, Professor Sabbatical, ECOLAB, CNRS-INP-UPS, Toulouse, France (6 months).<\/p>\n

Cecile Ben<\/strong>, Associate Professor Sabbatical, ECOLAB, CNRS-INP-UPS, Toulouse, France (6 months).<\/p>\n

Victoria Pankova<\/strong>, Visiting Postdoc, Inst. Biology of Sea, Vladivostok, Russia (3 months).<\/p>\n

David Wild<\/strong>, Professor Sabbatical, Warwick Inst. Systems Biology, U.K. (6 months).<\/p>\n

Sergey Lysenkov<\/strong>, Visiting Grad. Student, Moscow State University, Russia (3 months).<\/p>\n

Kirsten Jalvingh<\/strong>, Visiting Grad. Student, Groningen University, Netherlands (3 months).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n \n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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