So long and thanks for all the FISH.
--- Dolphins, interpreted by Douglas Adams.

Eichler Lab

Department of Genome Sciences,
University of Washington

Former Members

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Rob Armstrong
Research Assistant I
1998

Dejan Zivkovic
Research Assistant III
1999-2000
 


Anthony Popkie
Research Assistant II
1999-2000

Meghan Smith
Research Assistant II
2000-2001

Christine O'Keefe
Research Associate
1999-2002
Current: Industry Analyst at The Freedonia Group

Jeff Bailey
Graduate Student / Research Fellow
1999-2002
Current: Mencoff Family Associate Professor of Translational Research, Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Brown University, Providence, RI

Chris Yohn
Research Assistant
2002-2004

Marla Eichler
Research Assistant
2000-2004

Cassy Gulden
Research Assistant
2001-2004

Julie Horvath
Graduate Student
1998-2003
Current: Research Associate Professor, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC & Head of the Genomics and Microbiology Research Lab at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science

Ge Liu
Research Associate
2001-2004
Current: Research Biologist, Bovine Functional Genomics Lab, Dept of Agriculture

Amy Yavor
Research Assistant II
2001-2003

Rhea Vallente (Samonte)
Research Associate
2001-2004
Last Known Position: Lab Director, PreventionGenetics, Marshfield, WI

Karen Hayden (Miga)
Masters Student
2002-2004
Current: Assistant Professor, UCSC Biomolecular Engineering Department & Associate Director, Genomics Institute, University of California Santa Cruz

Dana Bonaminio
Research Scientist I
2004-2005


Sean McGrath
Research Scientist
2003-2005


Devin Locke
Graduate Student
Research Fellow
2001-2006
Current: Senior Director, Franchise Development at Foundation Medicine, Medford, MA

Jon Bleyhl
Masters Student
2005-2006


Xinwei She
Postdoctoral Fellow
2003-2006
Current: Director of Data Science, Incendia Therapeutics, Boston, MA
James Sprague  
James Sprague
Research Scientist
2005-2007
Eray Tuzun  
Eray Tüzün
Senior Computer Specialist
2003-2007
Tera Newman
Tera Newman (-Eerkes)
Postdoctoral Fellow
2005-2007
Current: Senior Director, Clinical Operations & Development, Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp., Seattle, WA
Andy Sharp
Andy Sharp
Postdoctoral Fellow and Rosetta Fellow
2004-2007
Current: Professor, Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
Anne Morrison
Anne Morrison
Research Scientist
2004-2007



Matthew Johnson
Graduate Student/Research Associate
1999-2007
Current: Sr. Research Scientist, GENEWIZ, By Azenta Life Sciences
Kari Augustyn
Kari Augustyn
Administrative Assistant
2007-2008

Ali Seyedali
Ali Seyedali
Research Scientist Assistant
2008

Zhaoshi Jiang
Zhaoshi Jiang
Graduate Student
2003-2008
Current: President of BioMap US
Giuliana Giannuzzi
Giuliana Giannuzzi
Visiting Scientist
2008-2009
Sierra Hansen
Sierra Hansen
Masters Student
2005-2009
Current: President and Owner, Hansen Public Affairs
Ginger Cheng
Ze Cheng
Senior Computer Specialist
2004-2009

Gozde Aksay
Gozde Aksay
Computational Scientist
2007-2009

Lin Chen
Lin Chen
Senior Computational Scientist
2007-2009

Cemalettin Bekpen
Cemalettin Bekpen
Postdoctoral Fellow
2006-2009
Current: Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul, Turkey
Heather Mefford
Heather Mefford
Research Fellow
2006-2009
Current: Faculty Member, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
Phyllis Ying
Phyllis Ying
Undergraduate Assistant
2007-2010

Neil Shafer
Neil Shafer
Research Scientist Assistant
2007-2010

Jeff Kidd
Jeff Kidd
Graduate Candidate
2006-2010
Current: Professor of Human Genetics & Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Priscillia Siswara
Priscillia Siswara
Research Scientist Assistant
2007-2010

Tomas Marques
Tomas Marques
Postdoctoral Fellow
2007-2010
Current: Group Leader and Marie Curie Researcher, Institut de Biologia Evolutiva, Comparative Genomics Lab, Barcelona, Spain
Claudia Catacchio
Claudia Catacchio
Visiting Scientist
2009-2010 & 2011

Gregory Cooper
Gregory Cooper
Postdoctoral Fellow & Acting Assistant Professor
2006-2010
Current: Faculty Investigator, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama
Luis A. Pérez Jurado
Luis A. Pérez Jurado
Visiting Scholar
2009-2010

Saba Sajjadian
Saba Sajjadian
Visiting Scientist
2010-2011

Tiffany Vu
Tiffany Vu
Research Scientist/Engineer Assistant
2009-2011

Andy Itsara
Andy Itsara
Graduate Candidate
2007-2011
Current: Staff Clinician, Hematology Branch, NHLBI, NIH
Jason Luu
Jason Luu
Research Scientist Assistant
2010-2011

Can Alkan
Can Alkan
Postdoctoral Fellow & Acting Assistant Professor
2005-2011
Current: Associate Professor, Dept of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
Santhosh Girirajan
Santhosh Girirajan
Postdoctoral Fellow
2008-2012
Current: Professor of Genomics, Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology & Dept of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Samantha Badil
Samantha Badil
Research Scientist/Engineer Assistant
2012

Arthur Ko
Arthur Ko
Research Consultant
2010-2012

Karyn Meltz Steinberg
Karyn Meltz Steinberg
Postdoctoral Fellow
2009-2012
Current: Lead Genomic Data Scientist, Geisinger
Francesca Antonacci
Francesca Antonacci
Postdoctoral Fellow
2007-2012
Current: Professor, Department of Biology, University of Bari, Italy
Beth Dumont
Beth Dumont
Postdoctoral Fellow
2010-2012
Current: Associate Professor, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME
Emre Karakoc
Emre Karakoc
Postdoctoral Fellow
2009-2013
Current: Senior Principal Scientist, Artios, Cambridge, UK
Stuart Davidson
Stuart Davidson
Postdoctoral Fellow
2012-2013

Brian O'Roak
Brian O'Roak
Postdoctoral Fellow
2009-2013
Current: Professor, Oregon Health & Science University
Katie Campbell
Katie Campbell
Postdoctoral Fellow
2008-2013
Current: Director, Cancer Data Science, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Ben Nelson
Ben Nelson
Bioinformatics Specialist
2012-2013

Laura Denman
Laura Denman
Research Scientist/Engineer Assistant
2013-2014

Nik Krumm
Nik Krumm
Graduate Candidate
2011-2014
Current: Assistant Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, UW
Kali Witherspoon
Kali Witherspoon
Research Scientist/Engineer Assistant
2012-2014

Kenneth M.K. Mark
Kenneth M.K. Mark
Student Research Assistant
2012-2014

Peter Sudmant
Peter Sudmant
Graduate Candidate
2009-2014
Current: Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Laura Vives
Laura Vives
Visiting Scientist, Research Technician III
2009-2013, 2014

Kelsi Penewit
Kelsi Penewit
Research Scientist/Engineer Assistant
2014-2015

Megan Dennis
Megan Dennis
Postdoc & NRSA Fellow
2010-2015
Current: Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis
Maika Malig
Maika Malig
Research Scientist
2006-2015

Fereydoun Hormozdiari
Fereydoun Hormozdiari
Postdoctoral Fellow
2011-2015
Current: Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis
Kiana Mohajeri
Kiana Mohajeri
Research Scientist/Engineer Assistant
2012-2015

Nicolette Janke
Nicolette Janke
Research Scientist
2014-2015

Bo Xiong
Bo Xiong
Postdoctoral Fellow
2013-2015
Current: Assistant Professor in Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology at Wuhan, China
Janice Lin
Janice Lin
Research Scientist/Engineer Assistant
2015

Michael Duyzend
Michael Duyzend
Ph.D. Student & MSTP Fellow
2011-2016
Current: Attending Physician, Division of Genetics and Genomics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
Lana Harshman
Lana Harshman
Research Scientist/Engineer Assistant
2013-2016

Chris Hill
Chris Hill
Postdoctoral Fellow
2015-2016
Current: Staff Software Engineer & Tech Lead Manager, BigQuery at Google
Xander Nuttle
Xander Nuttle
Ph.D. Student & NSF Graduate Research Fellow
2011-2016
Current: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MGH and Harvard with Michael Talkowski, Boston, MA
John Huddleston
John Huddleston
Bioinformatics Specialist
2011-2016

Holly Stessman
Holly Stessman
Postdoctoral Fellow
2013-2016
Current: Assistant Professor, Creighton University, Omaha, NE
Archana Raja
Archana Raja
Bioinformatics Specialist
2013-2017

Osnat Penn
Osnat Penn
Postdoctoral Fellow
2012-2017
Current: Head of Bioinformatics, RNA Therapeutics, Dexcel Pharma, Israel
Sultan Cingoz
Sultan Cingoz
Visiting Scientist
2016-2017
Zev Kronenberg
Zev Kronenberg
Postdoctoral Fellow
2015-2017
Current: Senior Manager, Bioinformatics Engineering, Pacific Biosciences, Inc.
Davide Risso
Davide Risso
Postdoctoral Fellow
2017-2017
Current: Head of Nutritioon Research, Tate & Lyle, Torino, Piedmont, Italy
Mark Chaisson
Mark Chaisson
Postdoctoral Fellow
2012-2017
Current: Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Brad Nelson
Brad Nelson
Bioinformatics Specialist
2014-2018
Stuart Cantsilieris
Stuart Cantsilieris
Postdoctoral Fellow
2014-2018
Current: Senior Project Manager, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia
AnneMarie Welch
AnneMarie Welch
Research Scientist/Engineer Assistant
2015-2018
Brad Coe
Brad Coe
Acting Instructor / Postdoctoral Fellow
2010-2018
Current: Clinical Assistant Professor, The University of British Columbia & Laboratory Scientist, Pathology Department Genome Diagnostics Lab, BC Children's and Women's Hospital and Health Centre, Vancouver, BC
Max Dougherty
Max Dougherty
Ph.D. Student & MSTP Fellow
2014-2018
Current: Resident, Internal Medicine Research Track, Icahn SOM at Mount Sinai, Manhattan, NY
Naheed Arang
Naheed Arang
Student Assistant
2016-2018
Jason Underwood
Jason Underwood
Principal Scientist
2015-2018
Hui Guo
Hui Guo
Postdoctoral Fellow
2017-2019
Current: Associate Professor, Central South University, Changsha, China
Madeleine Geisheker
Madeleine Geisheker
Ph.D. Student & MSTP Fellow
2014-2019
Current: Resident, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR
Vy Dang
Vy Dang
Research Scientist/Engineer Assistant
2015-2019
Tychele Turner
Tychele Turner
Postdoctoral Fellow
2014-2019
Current: Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine
Kristin Wear
Kristin Wear
Student Assistant
2018-2019
Amy Wilfert
Amy Wilfert
Postdoctoral Fellow
2017-2020
Current: Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Guardant Health
Carl Baker
Carl Baker
Research Scientist
2005-2020
Arvis Sulovari
Arvis Sulovari
Postdoctoral Fellow
2017-2020
Current: Principal Scientist, Cajal Neuroscience
Melanie Sorensen
Melanie Sorensen
Research Scientist
2015-2020
Peter Audano
Peter Audano
Bioinformatics Specialist
2016-2021
Shwetha Canchi Murali
Shwetha Canchi Murali
Bioinformatics Specialist
2016-2021
Maddie Gillentine
Maddie Gillentine
Postdoctoral Fellow
2018-2021
Current: Variant Scientist, Seattle Children’s Hospital
Ruiyang Li
Ruiyang Li
Student Assistant
2018-2021
Tzu-Hsueh (Stella) Huang
Tzu-Hsueh (Stella) Huang
Postdoctoral Fellow
2018-2021
Jennifer Kordosky
Jennifer Kordosky
Research Scientist
2021-2022
Barbara Henning
Barbara Henning
Bioinformatics Specialist
2021-2022
Mitchell Vollger
Mitchell Vollger
Ph.D. Student & Postdoctoral Fellow
2017-2021 & 2021-2022
Current: Postdoctoral Fellow, Andrew Stergachis Lab, UW
Alexandra Lewis
Alexandra Lewis
Research Scientist
2017-2022
Tianyun Wang
Tianyun Wang
Visiting Ph.D. Student & Postdoctoral Fellow
2014-2016 & 2017-2022
Current: Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Genetics, Peking University, Beijing, China
Yafei Mao
Yafei Mao
Postdoctoral Fellow
2019-2022
Current: Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Danny Miller
Danny Miller
Postdoctoral Fellow
2019-2022
Current: Assistant Professor at University of Washington Seattle, Washington
Miranda Galey
Miranda Galey
Research Scientist
2021-2022
Peiyao Zhao
Peiyao Zhao
Postdoctoral Fellow
2021-2022
Current: Staff Scientist, Allen Institute for Cell Science
PingHsun (Benson) Hsieh
PingHsun (Benson) Hsieh
Postdoctoral Fellow
2016-2022
Current: Assistant Professor of Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development at University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN
Aneesh Grove
Aneesh Grove
Student Assistant
2022-2022
David Gordon
David Gordon
Bioinformatics Specialist
2015-2023
Hyeonsoo Jeong
Hyeonsoo Jeong
Postdoctoral Fellow
2022-2023
Current: Computational Scientist at Altos Labs, San Francisco
Allison Rozanski
Allison Rozanski
Bioinformatics Specialist
2021-2023
Glennis Logsdon
Glennis Logsdon
Postdoctoral Fellow
2018-2023
Current: Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Jordan Knuth
Jordan Knuth
Research Technician
2022-2024
Mei Wu
Mei Wu
Bioinformatics Specialist
2022-2024
Gage Garcia
Gage Garcia
Research Technician
2022-2024