LAB ALUMNI 

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Postdoctoral fellows/Graduate students/Research scientists

​Samuel Beck, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral fellow, 2012-2017), Associate professor, Boston University School of Medicine

Bum-Kyu Lee, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral fellow, 2012-2020), Assistant professor, SUNY-Albany

Jiwoon Lee, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral fellow, 2013-2015), Research scientist, University of Pittsburgh

Yujin Jang, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral fellow, 2017-2022), Scientific Project Associate, I Peace, Inc.

Catherine Rhee, Ph.D. (Graduate student, 2012-2016), Postdoctoral fellow, Harvard Medical School

Haewon Chung, Ph.D. (Graduate student, 2012-2017), Mammalian synthetic biologist, Asimov

Lucy LeBlanc, Ph.D. (Graduate student, 2015-2021)

Mijeong Kim, Ph.D. (Graduate student, 2017-2023), Postdoctoral fellow, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Edward Morrisey lab.

Jessica Lawshe, B.S. (Lab manager, 2011-2013), Full stack engineer, Overleaf (Writelatex Limited)

Wenwen Shen, M.S. (Lab manager/Research scientist, 2012-2016), Programmer, Texas Government

Nikita Aware, M.S. (Research scientist, 2013-2014), Research assistant, Baylor College of Medicine

Kendra R. Cook, M.S. (Lab manager, 2013-2014), Field applications scientist, Millar, Inc.

Laurie Cannon, B.S. (Lab manager/Research scientist, 2014-2016)

Nadima Uprety, M.S. (Graduate student, 2015-2016), Senior researcher, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Nereida Lewis-Ramirez, B.S. (Lab manager, 2017-2020), Admitted to Harvard Medical School (2020), MD-PhD program

Christopher Hinds, B.S. (Lab manager, 2021-2022), Admitted to Long School of Medicine, UTHSA

Grant McDaniel, B.S. (Lab manager, 2022-2023)

 

Undergraduate researchers

​Damir Ljuboja (Dean’s Scholars, 2012-2013), Admitted to Harvard Medical School (2014)

Azeen Anjum (Dean’s Scholars, 2012-2014), Admitted to Baylor College of Medicine (2015)

Elizabeth Eisenmenger (Health Science Honors, 2013-2014), Admitted to UT Medical School at Houston (2014)

Christina Lee (2013-2014), Admitted to Korea University College of Medicine (2016)

Kyle Saysana (2014), Admitted to UT Southwestern Medical School (2016)

Christine Dang (Health Science Honors, 2013-2016), Admitted to UT Southwestern Medical School (2016)

Amy Mullikin (2014-2015), McGovern Medical School at UT Houston

Byoung Ug Ryu (Biochemistry Honors, 2016-2018), Admitted to McGovern Medical School at UT Houston (2018)

Shannon Dupont (2016-2018), Admitted to Duke University, Graduate School (2018)

Andy Yu (Engineering Honors, 2015-2019), Admitted to Baylor College of Medicine (2019)

Aparna Kambhampati (Biochemistry Honors, 2017-2021), Admitted to UT Southwestern Medical School (2021)

Janice Oh (Biochemistry Honors, 2021 Spring)

Albert Son (Health Science Honors, 2019-2022), Admitted to UT Southwestern Medical School (2023), MD-PhD program

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Visiting fellows or students/Summer students/High school students/Volunteers

​Woong-Hee Lee (Visiting student, 2012), Seoul National University, Korea

Yoshiaki Tanaka, Ph.D. (Visiting fellow, Summer 2013), Yale University

Minji Kim (Liberal Arts and Science Academy, LASA) 2013-2015), Admitted to Vanderbilt University (2015)

Thomas SAF (Visiting student, 2015), Université Paris Diderot, State University of Paris VII, France

Faith Song (Westwood High School, 2016), Admitted to Drexel University (2018)

Mu-Jie (Jessie) Lu (Visiting student, 2017-2018), Admitted to UT Austin, CMB program (2018)

Justin Lee (2018), UT Austin

Kyung-Jin Min, Ph.D. (Visiting scholar/Professor, 2019), Inha University, Korea

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Rotation students

​2011-2012: Jung-Kuei Chen, Heawon Chung, Tien-Yu Huang (CMB), Catherine Rhee (MGM)      

2012-2013: Li-Ya Chiu, Jesse Cohn, Yating Chen, Thomas M Johnson

2013-2014: Jamison Miller, Sean Kang, Natalie Gath (CMB)

2014-2015: Samantha Chang, Nadima Uprety (CMB), Pallavi Kompella (Pharmacy)

2015-2016: Lucy Leblanc (MGM), Marvin Mercado (CMB)

2016-2017: Scott Tucker (CMB)

2017-2018: Milad Soleimani, Nisha Holay, Mijeong Kim, Hung-Che Kuo (CMB)

2018-2019: Xi (Chloe) Shi (CMB)

2019-2020: Hyemin Seo, Nadia Ingabire, Pablo Guaman Tipan, Pochin Chiou (CMB)

2020-2021: Cecilia L Fitzgerald, Qingqing Guo (CMB, virtual rotation), Robert A Marick (BCH),

                   Muyoung Lee (CMB)  

2021-2022: Joonhyuk Choi, Ladan Mashouri (CMB)

2022-2023: Yi-Ru Li, Aparna Calindi, Alia Segura, Dharit Doshi, Alper Genceroglu (CMB)               

2023-2024: Kangsan Kim, Jeong Ryeol Kim (CMB)