POSITIONS AVAILABLE 2022-2023
1 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
1 GRADUATE STUDENT
Please send:
1) a cover letter briefly summarizing your research interests and career goals
2) your CV
3) contact information for two referees
to jybella@utexas.edu with “[POSTDOC] - your name” in the subject line.
CURRENT MEMBERS
GRANT MCDANIEL
Research Scientist
Lab Manager
MIJEONG KIM PH.D.
Graduate Student
QINGQING GUO M.S.
Graduate Student
MUYOUNG LEE M.S.
Graduate Student
Co-mentor: Dr. Edward Marcotte
JOONHYUK CHOI
Graduate Student
NIKITA A KAKKAD
Undergraduate Researcher
Biomedical Engineering
Forty Acres Scholar
ABIGAIL B ROLAND
Undergraduate Researcher
Dean's Scholars Honors
LAB ALUMNI (2011-2022)
LAB ALUMNI
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)
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)
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)
Christopher Hinds, B.S. (Lab manager, 2021-2022), Admitted to Long School of Medicine, UTHSA
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), UT Southwestern Medical School
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
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)