The Gilbert Laboratory

Previous Lab Members

Post-Doctoral Scientists Mentored

Date	Name	Current Position
1994-1997	Jia-Riu Wu	Vice President, Shanghai University
1996-2000	Daniela Dimitrova	Research Associate, Babraham Institute, Cambridge
1996-1997	Guanhua Yu	Research Associate, McMaster University
1996-1998	Masako Izumi	Research Associate, RIKEN, Tokyo
1998-2003	Yukiko Okuno	Senior Lecturer, Kyoto University
1999-2002	Feng Li	Assistant Director, Cytogenetics Lab; Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center
2003-2005	Sunita Ramanathan	Research Associate, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
2003-2010	Ichiro Hiratani	Team Leader; RIKEN Kobe, Center for Developmental Biology, Japan
2004-2008	Tomoki Yokochi	Scientist, Chiba Cancer Center Research Institute, Japan
2007-2009	Yoav Lubelsky	Senior Intern, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
2007-2012	Shin-Ichiro Takebayashi	Assistant Professor, Mie University, Japan
2010-2018	Juan Carlos Rivera-Mulia	Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Medical School
2012-2013	Tyrone Ryba	Associate Professor, New College of Florida
2014-2015	Ben Pope	CSO and cofounder at MelliCell, Inc.
2015-2015	Ebtesam Nafie	Lecturer, City of Hope and Beckman Research Center
2017-2017	Vishnu Dileep	Post-doc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2016-2019	Claire Marchal	Founder and CEO of the bioinformatics company "In siliChrom"
2019-2021	Kyle Klein	Scientist, Allen Institute for Cell Science
2021-2022	Rani Phoolwanti	Post-doc, UC San Diego

Graduate Students Mentored

Degree Achieved	Name	Current Position
PhD 2001	Susan Keezer	Development Scientist, Cell Signaling Technology, Inc.
M.D. 2004	Latha Archibold	Outpatient Clinic Doctor, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
PhD 2004	Adrian McNairn	Senior Research Associate, Cornell University
PhD 2005	Rong Wu	Unknown
M.S. 2005	Chiharu Kumagai	Technician, University of Louisville
M.S. 2005	Seemab Shaikh	Technician, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Syracuse
PhD 2010	Junjie Lu	Scientist II Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
PhD 2010	Marjorie Kuipers	Veterinarian Officer-in-Charge; Guantanamo Bay, Veterinary Treatment Facility
M.S. 2010	Kristina Poduch	Hybridoma Specialist, Molecular Cloning Facility, Florida State University
M.S. 2011	Dana Battaglia	Pharmacist at Walgreens
PhD 2012	Tyrone Ryba	Associate Professor, New College of Florida
PhD 2014	Benjamin Pope	CSO and cofounder at MelliCell, Inc
PhD 2016	Korey Wilson	IP Senior Counsel at BlueRock Therapeutics
PhD 2017	Vishnu Dileep	Post-doc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhD 2018	Jiao Sima	Post-doc UC Berkeley
PhD 2019	Kyle Klein	Scientist, Allen Institute for Cell Science
PhD 2021	Peiyao Zhao	Scientist, Allen Institute for Cell Science
PhD 2022	Daniel Bartlett	Post-doc, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Undergraduate Research Students Mentored

Date	Name	Position
1995-1997	Stephanie Lawlis	SURF, NSF fellow
1996	Albert Gall	SURF
1996-1997	Lauren Brinkac	Honor’s Thesis
1998	Marisa Foehr	NSF Fellow
1998	Heidi Schwartz	SURF
1999	Mandip Singh Kalsi	Volunteer
2000	Johanna Hansen	SURF
2001	Laddaphone Douangnouanexay	Lab Course Credit
2001-2002	Douglas Weck	NSF Fellow
2001-2002	Margaret Panning	SURF, NSF Fellow
2002	Michelle Crandall	SURF
2002-2003	Anna Terry	Sandwich Student
2003	Aubrey Smartt	SURF
2003-2004	Dan Trinkaus	Lab Course Credit
2002-2004	Jessica Tranchell	NSF fellow
2003	Briana Niessen	NSF Fellow
2003-2004	Michelle Hawkins	Sandwich Student
2004-05	Jackie Magnuson	Honor’s Thesis
2004	Jeff Rubino	NSF fellow
2004-2005	Diego Motta	McNair fellow; Minority Science Fellowship
2005-2006	Chris Tarolli	Honors Thesis
2007	Gina Obmana	Directed Independent Study BSC 4900
2007-2008	Noemi LeFranc	Directed Independent Study BSC 4900
2007-2008	Clive Skinner	Sandwich Student
2007-2009	James Shirley	Directed Independent Study BSC 4900, Honors Thesis
2007-2009	Brandi Geisbert	Directed Independent Study BSC 4900
2008-2009	Guy Wiedermann	Sandwich Student
2008-2010	Karen Ritter	Directed Independent Study BSC 4900, Honors Thesis
2008-2010	Sereyvathana Ty	Computer Science Student
2009	Tiffany Green	Directed Independent Study BSC 4900
2009-2010	Vanessa Paige Hamilton	Directed Independent Study BSC 4900
2010-2011	Michael Agatstein	Directed Independent Study BSC 4900
2009	Daniel Goldenberg	Directed Independent Study BSC 4900
2009-2013	Nikkie Cox	Work-study, Lab Assistant
2010	Stephanie Figueira	Directed Independent Study BSC 4900
2010	Raven Williams	Volunteer
2011	Nick Tracy	Volunteer
2011	Justin George	Directed Independent Study BSC 4900
2012	Dean Motley	Directed Independent Study BSC 4900
2012-2013	Ornob Alam	Directed Independent Study BSC 4900, Honors Thesis
2011-2014	Caroline Davis	Directed Independent Study BSC 4900, Honors Thesis
2012-2014	Ariana Belsky	Volunteer
2013	Mariana Ramos-Rivera	Volunteer
2013-2014	Payton Barrett	Directed Independent Study BSC 4900
2013	Megan Smith	Directed Independent Study BSC 4900
2013-2014	Michael Fabian	Directed Independent Study BSC 4900
2013-2014	Jared Zimmerman	Intern
2013-2014	Blake Robinson	Directed Independent Study BSC 4900
2013-2014	Karen “Sabrina” Ariza	Directed Independent Study BSC 4900
2013-2017	Molly Gordon	(Directed Independent Study and honors thesis) Goldwater Scholar
2014-2017	Ashleigh Jaggars	Directed Independent Study BSC 4900
2015-2015	Jessica Maitland	Directed Independent Study BSC 4900
2015-2015	Nicole Cline	Directed Independent Study
2015-2015	Marcos Perez	Directed Independent Study
2015-2016	Coralin Nogues	Directed Independent Study
2015-2017	Vivek Somasundaram	Directed Independent Study and honors thesis
2016-2017	Tyler Fells	Directed Independent Study
2016-2017	Hannah Hughes	Directed Independent Study
2017-2017	Sierra Magurczek	Directed Independent Study
2018-2019	Kathleen Hagan	Directed Independent Study
2018-2019	Madelyn Dotson	Directed Independent Study
2017-2019	Nicolas Holcomb	Directed Independent Study and Honor Thesis
2018-2019	Isabel Jarmel	Directed Independent Study
2019-2020	Alexis Molina	Directed Independent
2019-2020	Ana Delgado	Work Study
2019-2020	Kristina Lynch	Directed Independent Study and Honors Thesis
2019-2020	Rob Azario	Directed Independent Study
2019-2020	Mackenzie Barakat	Directed Independent Study
2019-2020	Rita Mattar	Directed Independent Study
2019-2020	Syed Sagheer	Directed Independent Study
2019-2020	Syed Sagheer	Directed Independent Study
2020	Mariella Soto	Directed Independent Study