Principal Investigator

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

Staff

Arushi Varshney, Ph.D.
Research Investigator

Nick Carruthers, Ph.D.
Bioinformatics Analyst

Peter Orchard, Ph.D.
Bioinformatician and Computational Biologist Senior

Vlad Dolgachev, Ph.D.
Research Lab Specialist Senior

Postdoctoral Fellows

Adelaide Tovar, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow (joint with the Jacob Kitzman Lab),
Multidisciplinary Training Program in Basic Diabetes Research Fellow

Cassie Robertson, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

Doctoral Students

Alice Wang
Bioinformatics Pre-Candidate

Ben Li
MSTP Rotation Student

Christa Ventresca
Genetics and Genomics Candidate,
MS Candidate, Bioinformatics,
Genetics Training Program Fellow

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

Keagan Moo
Bioinformatics Pre-Candidate

Maya Bose
Bioinformatics Pre-Candidate,
Genome Science Training Program Fellow

Tao Zhang
School of Kinesiology Rotation Student

Master's Students

Lovelyn Epelle
Master's in Human Genetics

Undergraduates

Elli Gasper
Biology, Health and Society (BHS)

Hailey McMillen
Biology, Health and Society (BHS)

Kirsten Nishino
Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB)

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

Usman Siddiqui
Biopsychology, Cognition, and Neuroscience (BCN)

Alumni

Adrienne Niederriter
MSTP Rotation Student

Ahmed Elhossiny
Bioinformatics Rotation Student

Alexandra Weber
Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics rotation student,
Genome Science Training Program Fellow

Anne Marie Weitzel
PIBS Rotation Student

Anya Kiseleva
Research Laboratory Tech Senior

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.

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

Elysia Chou
Bioinformatics Rotation Student

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

Fateema Bazzi
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.

Hank Wu
Bioinformatics 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

Maximilian Wehner
UROP Biomedical Engineering

Nandini Manickam, Ph.D.
Research Lab Specialist Senior
Now at 10x Genomics

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, currently Postdoctoral Fellow at WashU

Samir Agarwala
Engineering Computer Science

Shuze Wang
Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Master's Student, joint with the Jacob Kitzman Lab (2017-2018)
Currently Bioinformatics PhD student at University of Michigan

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

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
Bioinformatics Candidate,
MS Candidate, Statistics
Now Scientist at Roche-Genentech

Yasuhiro (Yoshi) Kyono, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with the Jacob Kitzman Lab (2015-2018)
Currently Research Scientist at Tempus.