Former Lab Members
Postdoctoral Fellows
Christopher Adams
Current position: Associate Director of Product Management at Thermo Fisher Scientific
Jacques Cote
Current position: Canadian Research Chair and Professor, Laval University Cancer Research
Center, Quebec
Tom Owen-Hughes
Current position: Professor of Chromatin Structure and Function, Wellcome Trust Senior
Research Fellow, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, UK, Head; Centre for Gene
Regulation and Expression
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David Steger
Current position: Research Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania School
of Medicine
Xiping Niu
Current position: Research Scientist, Pioneer Hybrid International
Patrick Grant
Current position: Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics,
University of Virginia
Sam John
Current position: Technical Laboratory Manager, Laboratory of Genome Integrity, NCI, NIH
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Anton Eberharter
Current position: Group Leader, Ludwig-Maxmilians Universitat Munchen
Keiko Ikeda
Current position: Professor, Hyogo Medical University
Thomas Lechner
Current position: Oncology Sales and Marketing at Boehringer Ingelheim
LeAnn Howe
Current position: Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of
British Columbia
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Christine Brown
Current position: Associate Research Professor, City of Hope National Medical Center
Michael Carrozza
Current position: Clinical Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology, New York University
Thomas Kusch
Current position: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Molecular Biology, Rutgers University
Shigehiro Osada
Current position: Associate Professor, Nagoya University School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
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Tomasz Calikowski
Current position: European Commission Scientific Officer
Scott Galasinski
Current position: Head, Target Identification and Validation Technologies, Abbie Vie, Inc
Philippe Prochasson
Current position: Assistant Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Kansas University
Medical Center
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Courtney Thomas
Current position: Assistant Professor, Susquehanna University
Bing Li
Current position: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Molecular Biology, UT Southwestern
Cedric Clapier
Current position: Research Specialist, Huntsman Cancer Center, University of Utah
Daeyoup Lee
Current position: Associate Professor, Korean Advanced Institute of Science
and Technology
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José Leonardo Gutiérrez
Current position: Associate Professor, University de Concepcion, Chile
Kenny Lee
Current position: Technical Manager at Clinical Reference Laboratory, Olathe, Kansas
Samantha Pattenden
Current position: Research Assistant Professor, Integrative Chemical Biology and Drug
Discovery, University of North Carolina
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Jeong-Hoon Kim
Current position: Assistant Professor, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience
and Biotechnology
So Hee Kwon
Current position: Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy, Yonsei University
Vikki Weake
Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University
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Karen Smith
Current position: Associate Consultant, Scientific Communications, Oncology
Eli Lily and Company
Jamie Dyer
Current position: Assistant Professor, Rockhurst University, Kansas City
Daoyong Zhang
Current position: Assistant Professor, Institute of Cancer Biological Therapy, Xuzhou Medical
University
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Mischa Smolle
Current position: Assistant Professor, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Structural Biology
Ludwig-Maximillan University, Munich, Germany
Fu Huang
Current position: Assistant Research Fellow, Academia Sinica, Institute of Biological
Chemistry, Taiwan
Ryan Mohan
Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Missouri/Kansas City, School of Biological
Sciences
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Shanshan Li
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Hong Chen
Current position: Assistant Professor, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation,
Oklahoma City, OK
Michelle Vettese-Dadey
Current position: Operational Science Lead/Clinical Development Manager, GlaxoSmithKline,
Philadelphia, PA
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Li-Jung Juan
Current position: Research Fellow, Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Phillip Walter
Director, M. Walter Roofing, Chicago, IL
Rhea Utley
Current position: Professionnelle de recherche, Laval University, Quebec, Canada
Marissa Vignali
Current position: Sr. Project Manager at Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp.
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Ahmed Hassan
Current position: Associate Professor, UAE University
Kristen (Neely) Hurov
Current position: Investigator, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research,
Cambridge, MA
Sevinc Ercan
Current position: Assistant Professor of Biology, New York University
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Chun Ruan
Current position: Research Scientist, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Cancer Research,
Molecular Biology, Dallas, TX
Wei-Jong Shia
Current position: Research Scientist at Polaris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Mark Chandy
Current position: Cardiologist, University of Toronto
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Sebastian Guelman
Current position: Senior Scientist, Thermo Fischer Scientific
Chia-Hui Lin
Current position: Scientist, Accuragen
Visiting Scholars
Annika Wallberg
Current position: Associate professor, Cell and Molecular Biology at Karolinska Institutet,
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Stockholm, Sweden
Michael Vermeulen
Current position: Professor, Faculty of Science, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences
Michael Carey
Current position: Professor and Vice Chair, Biological Chemistry and Director, JCCC Gene
Regulation Program Area, University of California, Los Angeles
Chhabi Govind
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Current position: Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, Oakland University, Rochester, MI
Natarajan Krishnamurthy
Current position: Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi, India
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