Current Members

  • Nadine Berenst (Joint Graduate Student with Miller lab)

    B.Sc. in Life Science and Technology 2018, Leiden University & TU Delft

    M.Sc. in Medical Biology 2022, Radboud University

  • Morgan Birabaharan (NIH T32 Fellow)

    B.S. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry 2015, Lehigh University


    M.D. in 2020, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

  • Varaang Bhandula (Graduate Student)

    B.A. in Molecular and Cell Biology 2021, University of California, Berkeley

  • Pavan Kumar Chodisetti (Postdoctoral Fellow)

    B.Sc. in Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biotechnology 2010, Andhra University

    M.Sc. in Biochemistry 2012, Andhra University

    Ph.D. in Life Sciences 2021, CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology with Dr. Manjula Reddy

  • Tingting Dai (Postdoctoral Fellow)

    B.S. in Chemistry 2015, University of Pittsburgh

    Ph.D. in Chemistry, Stanford University with Prof. Carolyn Bertozzi and Prof. Jianghong Rao

  • Stanislav Dikiy (Cancer Research Institute Postdoctoral Fellow)

    B.A. in Biology 2012, University of Chicago

    Ph.D. Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis 2021, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences with Prof. Alexander Rudensky

  • Natavan Dudkina (Joint George E. Hewitt Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow with Huang Lab)

    B.S. in Biochemistry 2018, University of Vermont

    Ph.D. in Chemistry 2024, Yale University with Prof. Jason Crawford

  • Kyong Fam (Postdoctoral Fellow)

    B.S. in Organic Chemistry and Natural products Chemistry 2013, University of Kyiv, Ukraine


    B.S. and M.S. in Organic Chemistry and Natural products Chemistry 2015, University of Kyiv, Ukraine


    Ph.D. in Chemical Biology 2019, University of Strasbourg, France with Prof. Andrey Klymchenko 

  • Yan-Zhu Hsieh (Graduate Student)

    B.S. in Life Science 2017, National Taiwan Normal University.

    M.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, National Taiwan University

  • Abeera Mehmood (Joint Graduate Student with Mendoza lab)

    B.A. in Biology 2018, Hiram College

  • Anh Nguyen (Graduate Student)

    B.A. in Biology 2021, Concordia College

  • Bao Anh Nguyen (Graduate Student)

    B.S. in Biology, Villanova University

  • Chongyang Wu (Graduate Student)

    B.S. in Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior 2018, University of California, Davis

    M.Sc. in Immunology, Harvard Medical School 2021

  • Xing Zhang (Postdoctoral Fellow)

    B.S. in Biological Science from Taishan University in 2013

    M.S. in Zoology from East China Normal University in 2016

    Ph.D. in Immunology 2020, Centre d’Immunologie Marseille-Luminy (CIML), Aix-Marseille Université, France with Prof. Jonathan Ewbank

  • Angela Kong (Lab Manager)

    B.S. in Resource Management with minor in Chemistry 2001, University of California, Berkeley


    M.S. in Soils and Biogeochemistry 2005, University of California, Davis


    Ph.D. in Soils and Biogeochemistry 2009, University of California, Davis

  • Elizabeth LaBlond (Lab Administrator)

Previous Members

Postdocs

Xinglin Yang (2018 - 2024) - Assistant Professor, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University.

Xiaohui Zhao (2018 - 2023) - Assistant Professor, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University.

Charles Hespen (2017 - 2022) - Scientist, Revel Therapeutics.

Matthew E. Griffin (2018 - 2022) - Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine.

Kathryn Stein (2019 - 2022) - Research Associate, Emergent BioSolutions.

Qiang Li (2017 - 2020) - Research Associate, Institute of Cancer Research, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, Shenzhen, China.

Ti-Yu Lin (2018 - 2019) - Senior Manager, HiForce Chemicals, Taiwan.

Yen-Chih Wang (2015 - 2019) - Research Scientist, Avomeen Analytical.

Byungchul Kim (2015 - 2019) - Research Associate, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.

Nathan Westcott (2012 - 2018) - Director, Beam Therapeutics.

Virginia Ahn Pedicord (2013 - 2018, joint with Mucida Lab) - Group Leader – Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Cambridge University, United Kingdom.

Emmanuelle Thinon (2014 - 2017) - Group Leader, Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie Bordeaux, France.

Tao Peng (2012 - 2016) - Associate Professor, Peking University School of Chemical Biology & Biotechnology, Shenzhen, China.

Rayshonda Hardy (2014 - 2016) - Biomedical Writer at Phase Five Communications.

Ruina He (2014 - 2016) - Senior Scientist at GenScript Inc.

Xiaonan Zhao (2013 - 2015) - Clinical Genomics Analyst at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Srinivasan Ramakrishnan (2013 - 2015) - Research Scientist at University of Georgia

Jordan RoseFigura (2010 - 2015) - Scientist Swift Biosciences, Inc

Lisa Ambrosini Vadola (2011 - 2013) - Medical Writer and Consultant, Whitsell Innovations, Inc.

Jacob Yount (2007 - 2012) - Professor, Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity, The Ohio State University.

Lun Kelvin Tsou (2007 - 2012) - Associate Director, Institute of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Research, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan

Yu-Ying Yang (2007 - 2010) - Research Scientist, Pfizer.

Anuradha Raghavan (2007 - 2009) - Research Scientist, ChemWerth.


Graduate Students

Steven Klupt (2020 - 2023) - Biotechnology Research Associate, Chardan.

Victor Chen (2017 - 2023) - Research Scientist, CRISPR Therapeutics.

Tandrila Das (2016 - 2022) - Postdoctoral fellow in Gitlin lab, Sloan Kettering Institute.

Taku Tsukidate (2016 - 2021) - Postdoctoral fellow, Merck Laboratories, New Jersey.

Juliel Espinosa (2016 - 2021) - Medical Writer, Alphabet Health.

Emma Garst (2015 - 2021) - Research Scientist, Vir Biotechnology.

Zhenrun (Jerry) Zhang (2012 – 2018) - Postdoctoral fellow in Pamer lab, University of Chicago.

Avital Percher (2012 - 2017) - AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow.

Xiaoqiu Yuan (2010 - 2016) - Life Science Specialist, L.E.K. Consulting.

Kavita Rangan (2008 - 2015) - Postdoctoral fellow in Reck-Peterson lab, University of California, San Diego.

Paul Dossa (2007 - 2013) - Associate, Venrock.

Mingzi Zhang (2007 - 2012) - Associate Investigator, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan.

Markus Grammel (2007 - 2012) - Patent Attorney, Grunecker.

Guillaume Charron (2006 - 2012) - Postdoctoral fellow in Bourgault lab, Universit. du Quebec. Montreal.

John Wilson (2006 - 2011) - Chief Executive Officer, ProtiFi.

Undergraduates and High School Students

Calise Solla (SURF Student 2024)

Isaac Witte (SURF Student 2019)

Alex Kim (SURF Student 2019)

Angelina Grebe (ChBSP Student 2018)

Sophia Shi (SURF Student 2018)

Michael Kuckyr (Bard Visiting/SURF Student 2018)

Hang Hoang (Bard Visiting Student 2017)

Aleksandra Prochera (SURF Student 2016)

Corey Model (SSRP Student 2015, 2016)

Emma Salmon-Taylor (Bard Visiting Student 2011)

Kathrin Schwinghammer (Bayer Foundation Diploma Student 2010)

Audrey Li (STRAW Student 2008, Research Assistant 2010)

Xin-Zi Emily Tang (SURF Student 2010)

Eliah Shamir (SURF Student 2007)

James Flexner (STRAW Student 2007)

Staff

Geneva Miller (Technician 2013 - 2014) - Graduate Student, University of California, Santa Barbara

Steven Chen (Technician 2013 - 2015) - Graduate Student, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Elizabeth Fitzgerald (Lab Manager 2010 - 2017) - Senior Associate, Project Engineering - ‎L3Harris Technologies