Principal Investigator

Stephen C.J. Parker, Ph.D.
Professor
Departments of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, Human Genetics, and Biostatistics

Staff

Amanda Huber, Ph.D.
Clinical Research Project Manager

Arushi Varshney, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Scientist

Ha T.H. Vu, Ph.D.
Lead Bioinformatician

Jonathan Poisson
Technical Support Manager

Lori Lin, M.S.
Research Lab Specialist Assoc

Nick Carruthers, Ph.D.
Bioinformatics Analyst

Peter Orchard, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Scientist / Bioinformatician

Postdoctoral Fellows

Adelaide Tovar, Ph.D.
NHGRI MOSAIC K99/R00 Postdoctoral Fellow (joint with the Jacob Kitzman Lab)

Cassie Robertson, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

Doctoral Students

Xiaoou (Alice) Wang, M.S.
Bioinformatics PhD Candidate

Ashley Bielawski
Bioinformatics PhD candidate

Benjamin Li
Bioinformatics PhD candidate (MSTP),
Genome Science Training Program Fellow

Christa Ventresca
Genetics and Genomics PhD Candidate,
Bioinformatics MS candidate

Cynthia Zajac
Bioinformatics PhD Candidate,
Genome Science Training Program Fellow,
Rackham Merit Fellow

Joseph Mears
Bioinformatics PhD Pre-Candidate (MSTP)

Keagan Moo
Bioinformatics PhD Candidate

Lovelyn Epelle, M.S.
Genetics and Genomics PhD candidate,
Bioinformatics MS candidate

Maya Bose
Bioinformatics PhD Candidate,
Genome Science Training Program Fellow

Master's Students

Lingxuan Zhu
Bioinformatics MS student

Undergraduates

Anna Wang
Undergraduate Student

Elena Wood
Undergraduate Student

Ellie Bloss
Undergraduate Student

Emotional Support Specialists

Dr. Gauss
Emotional support specialist

Euler
Emotional support specialist

Francis
Emotional support specialist

HDMI Cable
Emotional support specialist

Mary Jane
Emotional support specialist

Mushu
Emotional support specialist

Vicktor
Emotional support specialist

Alumni

Adrienne Niederriter
MSTP Rotation Student

Ahmed Elhossiny
Bioinformatics Rotation Student

Alexandra Weber
DCMB rotation student,
Genome Science Training Program Fellow

Anne Marie Weitzel
PIBS Rotation Student

Anya Kiseleva
Research Laboratory Tech Senior

Ashna Atukuri
Undergraduate student

Breanna McBean
Genetics and Genomics Rotation Student

Callie Swanepoel
PIBS rotation student

Camille Mumm
Genetics and Genomics Rotation Student

Catherine Keegan, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Human Genetics, University of Michigan
Visiting Scholar during 2016

Collin Wang
Summer intern from Detroit Country Day Upper School (2017-2019)
Currently Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate at Columbia.

Connor Ward
MSTP Rotation Student

Daniel (Dan) Quang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with the Yuanfang Guan Lab (2017-2019)
Currently Machine Learning/Deep Learning Scientist at DNAnexus

Elli Gasper
Undergraduate student, Biology, Health and Society (BHS)

Elysia Chou
Bioinformatics Rotation Student

Erika Curka
Research Assistant
Now Med Student at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine

Fateema Bazzi
Undergraduate student, Computer Science Major, Bioinformatics Track

Douglas (Ford) Hannum
Bioinformatics Rotation Student

Hadley VanRenterghem
Summer intern from Ann Arbor Huron High School (2015).
Currently Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate at Johns Hopkins.

Hailey McMillen
Undergraduate student, Biology, Health and Society (BHS)

Hank Wu
Bioinformatics Rotation Student

Jason Sheingold
Genetics and Genomics Rotation student

Jeff Dudley
MSTP Rotation Student

Jeremy Kaplan
Bioinformatics (AMDP Accelerated Master's Program)

Jessie Ebeling
Research Lab Specialist Associate

Jianhui (Duncan) Gong
PIBS Bioinformatics Rotation Student

John Hensley
Research Computer Specialist (2016-2018)

Keejeong Ryu
Biostatistics (joint with the Hyun Min Kang Lab)

Kevin Hu
Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics rotation student.

Kinsey Van Deynze
Bioinformatics Rotation Student

Kirsten Nishino
Undergraduate student, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB)
Now at Univerity of Chicago

Maximilian Wehner
UROP Biomedical Engineering

Nandini Manickam, Ph.D.
Research Lab Specialist Senior
Now at Scale Biosciences

Nuha Mahmood
Bioinformatics (AMDP Accelerated Master's Program)

Rachel Lopez
PIBS rotation student

Renaid Kim
MSTP Rotation Student

Renee Conway
PIBS rotation student

Ricardo D'Oliveira Albanus, Ph.D.
Bioinformatics PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, now Instructor in Neurology at WashU School of Medicine

Ronak Arun
Undergraduate student, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB)

Samir Agarwala
Undergraduate student, Engineering Computer Science

Sanjana Paye
MSTP rotation student

Sanjana Yadav
Undergraduate Student

Shuze Wang, Ph.D.
Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Master's Student, joint with the Jacob Kitzman Lab (2017-2018)
now Bioinformatics Specialist at Mass General Hospital

Stephanie Laureano
UM-SMART Summer Student
From University of Puerto Rico at Humacao (2018)
Currently in Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) at Case Western Reserve University

Stuart Castenada
Bioinformatics Rotation Student

Tao Zhang
School of Kinesiology Rotation Student

Usman Siddiqui
Undergraduate student, Biopsychology, Cognition, and Neuroscience (BCN)

Venkateswaran (Venkat) Ramamoorthi Elangovan, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow (joint with the Jacob Kitzman Lab) (2018-2020)
Currently Postdoctoral Scholar at University of Michigan

Vivek Rai, Ph.D.
Bioinformatics Candidate,
MS Candidate, Statistics
Now Principal Bioinformatics Scientist at Roche-Genentech

Vlad Dolgachev, Ph.D.
Research Lab Specialist Senior

Yasuhiro (Yoshi) Kyono, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with the Jacob Kitzman Lab (2015-2018)
now Scientist in Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology at Allen Institute