Lab Alumni

Post-Docs

Jen Sequoia, MD, PhD, Post-Doc 2021-24, Neonatology Fellow,  Stanford LPCH

Katie Czepiel, MD, Post-Doc 2022-24, Hepatology Fellow,  Stanford LPCH

Kevin Minyoung Kim, MD, PhD, Post-Doc 2022-23, Infectious Disease Fellowship, UCSF

Maryam Hajfathalian, PhD, Post-Doc, 2020-24, Assistant Professor, NJIT

Elizabeth Burgener, MD, Post-Doc, Instructor 2016-23, Assistant Professor, USC/CHLA

Nina Pennetzdorfer, PhD, Post-Doc 2020-23, Senior Research Scientist, Gilead

Sally Demirdjian, PhD, Post-Doc 2020-22, Senior Research Scientist, Gilead

Mike Kratochvil, PhD, Post-Doc 2016-21, , Senior Research Scientist, Exponent

Christiaan de Vries, MD, PhD, Post-Doc 2018-21, Director,  Vaccine Development, Pfizer

Jonas Van Belleghem, PhD, Post-Doc 2018-21, Johnson & Johnson

Ievgen Koliesnik, PhD, Post-Doc 2018-20, Research Scientist, Synthekine

Hedwich Kuipers, PhD, Post-Doc 2014-18, Assistant Professor, U of Calgary

Xiou Cao,  PhD – Post-Doc 2018, Scientist, Global Health Drug Discovery Institute (GHDDI)

Koshika Yadava, PhD, Post-Doc 2015-17, Principle Scientist , Vector BioPharma

Andrey Malikovskiy, PhD, Post-Doc 2014-16, Research Scientist, Carnegie Institute

Ben Danielson, PhD, Post-Doc 2015-16, Senior Scientist, Merck

Derek Amanatullah, MD, PhD, 2015-18, Associate Professor, Stanford

Shannon Ruppert, PhD, Post-Doc 2013-15, Principle Scientist, Genentech

Vivekananda Sunkari, PhD, Post-Doc 2013-17, Operations Manager, Genentech

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Graduate Students:

Julie Pourtois, PhD, Graduate Student 2020-2024, Post-Doc, U of Maryland

Tejas Dhamaraj, PhD, Graduate Student 2019-2023, Medical Student, Stanford

Hunter Martinez, PhD, Graduate Student 2017-2023, Post-Doc, Genentech

Naomi Haddock, PhD, Graduate Student 2018-2023, Medical Student, UCSF

Graham Barlow, PhD, Graduate Student 2017-2022, Post-Doc, Harvard

Medeea Popescu, PhD, Graduate Student 2017-2022, Scientific Communications, BloodPac

Kevin Meng, PhD, Graduate Student 2015-2020, Senior Research Scientist, BioNTech

Carlos Medina, PhD, Graduate Student 2015 -2020, Director, Project Management, Teiko Bio

Payton Marshall, MD, PhD, Graduate Student 2015-2020, Anesthesia Resident, Stanford

Jolien Sweere, PhD, Graduate Student 2013-2018, Associate Director, Teiko Bio

Maria Birukova, Graduate Student 2014 -2016, Deceased

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Visiting Students 

Dea Muller, visiting master’s student from ETH, 2023-2024.

Arne Echterhof, visiting master’s student from University of Muenster, 2022-2024.

Fannie Dupuy, visiting master’s student from Institute Pasteur, 2023.

Dan Liu, visiting PhD student from University of Shanghai, 2019-2020.

Svenja Zihsler, visiting master’s student from University of Göttingen, 2018-2019.

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Undergraduates

Tooba Riaz, undergraduate 2023-24

Bobby Targ, undergraduate 2023, 24

Patrick Blankenberg, undergraduate 2023, 24,

Laeci Callahan, undergraduate 2022-24

Andrew Richardson,  undergraduate 2023

Zoe Evans, undergraduate 2022

Maya Somers, undergraduate 2021-22

Tony Chang, undergraduate 2022-25 – U Michigan Medical School

Katie Wu, undergraduate 2022-24, UPENN graduate school (Epidemiology)

Sammy Pickell, undergraduate 2020-2022, Columbia Medical School

Riya Goel, undergraduate 2021, Tulane Medical School

Michelle Bach, undergraduate 2017-2019, UT-Austin Medical School

Ethan Katznelson, undergraduate 2013-2016, Harvard Medical School

Jason Yang, undergraduate 2013-2015, Stanford Graduate School – Data Science

Omar Garcia, undergraduate 2014-2015, Stanford Medical School

Jasmine Edwards, undergraduate 2015, U of Miami Graduate School (Immunology)

Sonia Hasbun, undergraduate 2012, Midwestern University Medical School

Allison Arrigoni, undergraduate 2011-2012, Tulane Medical School

Jeffrey Bice, undergraduate 2010, Tulane Medical School

Brandon Teng, undergraduate 2009, U of Washington Medical School

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High School Students

Katie Kelly, 2024, Duke University

Rachael Gold, 2023, Stanford University

Jerry Wang, 2022, Cal Berkeley

Henry Barnes, 2022, USC

Janet Meng, 2021, Cal Berkeley

Sasvath Ramachandran, 2021, Cal Berkeley

Quynh Tran, 2019, Brown University

Sim Low, 2019, Johns Hopkins

Amrit Ramesh, 2018, Rutgers university

Ciara Lee, 2018, University of Rochester

Jerry Guo, 2017, Columbia University

Esther Wang, 2017, U of Chicago, Northwestern Medical School

Chloe Fishman, 2016, 2017, Georgetown, Rockefeller Graduate School

Aadyot Bhatnagar, 2015 – CalTech

Colin Lester, 2014, 2016 – U of Washington

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Research Staff

Prema Prakash, staff 2023-24

Jackson Davis, staff 2023

Nadine Nagy, staff 2014-2024

Aviv Hargil, staff 2018-2023.

Gernot Kaber, staff 2014-2024.

William Bennet, staff 2022-2023.

Alejandro Martinez, staff 2019-2021

Sarah Smith, staff 2021-2022

Dung Lam, staff 2016-2018.

Alana Persaud, staff 2017-2020.

Heather Ishak, staff 2014-2017.

Ben Falk, staff 2011-2014.

Mary Reick, staff 2012-2013

Anton Preisinger, staff 2011-2012

Melissa Pickett, staff 2010-2013

Allison Arrigoni, staff 2011-2012