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Banfield Laboratory
University of California, Berkeley
Former Graduate Students
Lab Alumni
Langlang Li, Ph.D. 2026
Postdoc, Stanford University
Luis Valentin-Alvarado, Ph.D. 2024
Postdoc, IGI
Jacob West-Roberts, Ph.D. 2023
Postdoc, IGI
Clare Lou, Ph.D. 2023
Co-Founder & CEO, Sift Biosciences
Basem Al-Shayeb, Ph.D. 2022
Founder, Stealth Startup
Alexander Jaffe, Ph.D. 2021
Research Scientist, Stanford University
Alexander Crits-Christoph, Ph.D. 2020
Computational Biologist, MIT
Patrick West, Ph.D. 2020
Bioinformatician, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Matthew Olm, Ph.D. 2019
Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
Evan Starr, Ph.D. 2019
Field Application Scientist, Dotmatics
Sumayah Rahman, Ph.D. 2019
Director, Oscar Health
Allison Sharrar, MS. 2018
Acrigen
Tyler Arbour, Ph.D. 2017
Senior Researcher, IFOAM
Christopher Brown, Ph.D. 2015
Vice President of Discovery, Metagenomi
Rose Kantor, Ph.D. 2016
Genomic Research Scientist, LLNL
Brandon "Bubba" Brooks, Ph.D. 2016
Data Wizard, TileDB
Alex Hernsdorf, M.S. 2016
Staff Software Engineer, Verily
David Mangiante, Ph.D. 2016
Instructor, LBNL
Karen Andrade, Ph.D. 2015
Director in The Audacious Project, TED Conferences
Sirine Fakra, Ph.D. 2015
Beamline Scientist, Advanced Light Source, LBNL
Nicholas Justice, Ph.D. 2013
Principal Scientist, Excelra
Benjamin Legg, Ph.D. 2013
Scientist (Geochemistry), PNNL
Daniela Aliaga Goltsman, Ph.D. 2013
Bioinformatics Scientist, UCLA
Christine Sun, Ph.D. 2013
Postdoc, Stanford
Joanne Emerson, Ph.D 2012
Professor, UC Davis
Former Postdoctoral Fellows
Elliot Weiss
Ling-Dong Shi
Assistant Professor at Peking University
Marcos Voutsinos
Veronika Kivenson
Assistant Professor, Mississippi State University
Bethany Kolody
Soil Biologist at the Soil Health Center at SIO (UCSD)
Andreja Kust
Scientist ATIGE Fellow, Genoscope - Centre National de Séquençage
Amelia Nelson
Assistant Professor of Geology, University of Southern Indiana
Petar Penev
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Eligo Bioscience
Jackie Zorz
Scientist
Daniel Gittins
Co-Founder and CEO, Tracera Biotech Inc
Marie Schoelmerich
Assitant Professor, ETH
Lin-Xing Chen
Professor, USTC China
Adair Borges
Scientist, Arcadia Institute
Ella Sieradzki
Curie Fellow, France
Hyunjin Shim
Research Professor, Ghent University
Hui Zhang
Research Scientist, KAUST
Ray Keren
Scientist, Tezza
Christine He
Scientist, Invitae
Paula Matheus Carnevali
Scientist, Metagenomi
Alex Greenlon
Bioinformatics Scientist,
Raphaël Méheust
Scientist, CEA
Sergio Romero
Scientist, IDAEA-CSIC
Michael Whittaker
Scientist, LBNL
Spencer Diamond
PI, IGI
Rohan Sachdeva
PI & Director of Computational Infrastructure, IGI
Former Staff
Kaden DiMarco
Graduate Student, Northwestern University
Nikita Gounder
Graduate Student, UCSF
LinXing Chen
Professor, USTC
Jordan Hoff
Graduate Student, MIT
Lily Law
Masters Student, SJSU
Spencer Diamond
Principal Investigator, IGI
Veronika Kivenson
Postdoctoral Fellow, Banfield Lab
Brian Thomas
CEO, Metagenomi
Allison Sharrar
Staff Research Associate, Acrigen Biosciences
Kate Lane
Graduate Student, MIT
Susan Spaulding
Audra Devoto
Data Scientist, Metagenomi
Kate Lane
Graduate Student, MIT
Brett Baker
Associate Professor, UT Austin
Vega Shah
Product Manager, Dotmatics
Sean Mullin
United States Senate
Kyle Frischkorn
Senior Editor, Springer Nature Group
Andrea Singh
Staff Software Engineer, Ad Hoc LLC
Graduate Student, MIT
Ken-ichi Ueda
Co-director, iNaturalist
Bill Barker
Associate Dean, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jonathan Giska
Current & Former Visitors
Jerome Zürcher
Marjan Ghotbi
Yuki Amano
Cathrine Frandsen
Patrick Munk
Yutaka Kawarabayasi
Michael Thelen
Tom Hessler
Livia Moura
Junji Akai
Cheryl Young
Current & Former Undergraduate Researchers
Danielle Lavitt
Margot Lavitt
Gabriel Husain
Eunice Tsang
Michael Cui
Jett Liu
Heather Henkel
Steve Smriga
Robert Butler
Sophia Riemer
Karina Soenjoyo
Patrick Northey
Artin Au-Yeung
Matt Schrenk
Chris Van der Ven
Cara Santelli
Anne Skatvold
Michelle Lutz
Some Others
Yutaka Kawarabayasi
Massimo Nespolo
T. Murakami
Steve Higgins
Molly McGuire
Seth Lindberg
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