Lab Members
Jesse Bloom
B.S. in Biochemistry, University of Chicago
MPhil in Theoretical Chemistry, Cambridge
Ph.D. in Chemistry, Caltech
Postdoc in Biology, Caltech
Originally from Corvallis, Montana
Andrea Loes
B.S. in Microbiology and Biochemistry, Arizona State University
M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Oregon
Originally from Phoenix, Arizona
Bernadeta Dadonaite
B.A. in Microbiology, Imperial College, London
M.S. in Science Media Production, Imperial College, London
Ph.D. in Infection, Immunology, and Translational Medicine, University of Oxford
Originally from Vilnuis, Lithuania
Ariana Ghez Farrell
B.A. in English, Columbia University
B.S. in Biology, University of Washington
Originally from New York, New York
Arjun Aditham
B.S., Bioengineering, UC Berkeley
Ph.D., Bioengineering, Stanford University
Originally from Cupertino, CA
Andrew Butler
B.S. in Biology, University of Texas
Ph.D. in Biology, New York University
Originally from Austin, Texas
Tal Einav
B.S. in Physics and Math, Rice University
Ph.D. in Physics, Caltech
Originally from Austin, Texas
Brendan Larsen
B.A. in Biology, Lewis & Clark College
Ph.D. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona
Originally from Anchorage, Alaska
Tyler Starr
Joint advised by Erick Matsen.
B.A. in Biology and Biochemistry, Williamette University
Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, University of Chicago
Originally from Hopkins, Minnesota
David Bacsik
UW Medical Scientist Training Program &
UW Genome Sciences Program
B.A. in Biology from New College of Florida
Originally from Cambridge, Wisconsin
Phil Burke
UW Microbiology Program; joint advised by Rasi Subramaniam
B.S. in Genetics, University of New Hampshire
Originally from Lancaster, New Hampshire
Caleb Carr
UW Medical Scientist Training Program & UW Genome Sciences Program
B.S. in Biochemistry & B.S. in Computer Science, UMass - Amherst
Originally from Hardwick, Massachusetts
Will Hannon
UW Molecular and Cellular Biology Program
B.A. in Biochemistry from Case Western Reserve University
Originally from Huntington, New York
Caroline Kikawa
UW Medical Scientist Training Program; joint advised by Leslie Goo
B.A. in Cellular and Molecular Biology, Barnard College
Originally from Seattle, WA
Lizzie Plender
UW Genome Sciences Program; joint advised by Evan Eichler
B.S., Honors in Biology, Regis University
Ph.D., Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine
Caelan Radford
UW Molecular and Cellular Biology Program
B.S. in Biology, Georgia Tech
Originally from Powder Springs, Georgia
Frances Welsh
UW Molecular & Cellular Biology Program
B.S. in Molecular & Cellular Biology from University of Puget Sound
Originally from San Carlos, California
Tim Yu
UW Molecular & Cellular Biology Program
B.S. in Bioengineering, UCLA
Originally from Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
Rosario Tarabi
Current undergraduate in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology at the University of Washington
Originally from Covington, WA
Postdocs
- Karen Barnard: Postdoc from 2020-2021, now a Medical Writer at Seagen
- Alistair Rusell: Postdoc from 2014-2019, now an Assistant Professor at UC San Diego.
- Shirleen Soh: Postdoc from 2015-2019, now a Senior Scientist at Merck in Singapore.
- Jeremy Roop: Postdoc from 2016-2019, now a Scientist at Berkeley Brewing Science.
- Orr Ashenberg: Postdoc from 2013-2017, now a Computational Biologist at the Klarman Cell Observatory of the Broad Institute.
- Bargavi Thyagarajan: Postdoc from 2011-2014, now a Scientific Officer at the HIV Vaccine Enterprise.
Graduate students
- Lauren Gentles: Graduate Student from 2016 – 2022, now a Scientist III at Thermo Fisher Scientific, Cell Biology R&D
- Allie Greaney: Graduate Student from 2016 - 2022, UW Medical Scientist Training Program & UW Genome Sciences Training Program
- Kate Crawford: Graduate Student (Genome Sciences and Medical Scientist Training programs), full-time lab member from 2017-2021, now completing the MD portion of her dual degree.
- Sarah Hilton: Graduate Student (Genome Sciences program), full-time lab member from 2016-2020, now a Data Scientist at bluebird bio.
- Adam Dingens: Research Scientist from 2019-2020, previously a Graduate Student in the Bloom Lab from 2015-2019, now a Scientist in AAV Engineering at Shape Therapeutics.
- Katherine Xue: Graduate Student (Genome Sciences program), full-time lab member from 2015-2019, now a James S. McDonnell Foundation Fellow at Stanford working with Dmitri Petrov and David Relman.
- Juhye Lee: MD/PhD Student (Genome Sciences program), full-time lab member from 2015-2019, now completing the MD portion of her dual degree.
- Heather Machkovech: MD/PhD Student (Genome Sciences program), full-time lab member from 2014-2018, now completing the MD portion of her dual degree.
- Hugh Haddox: Graduate Student (MCB program), full-time lab member from 2013-2017, now a postdoc with David Baker at the University of Washington.
- Mike Doud: MD/PhD Student (Genome Sciences Program), full-time lab member from 2013-2017, now doing his residency / fellowship at UC San Diego.
- Katie Hooper: Graduate Student (MCB program), full-time lab member from 2012-2015, now a Scientist in Translational Development at Sonoma Biotherapeutics.
Lab staff
- Rachel Eguia: Research Technician, currently an Associate Scientist at Century Therapeutics, 2019-2021
- Keara Malone: Research Technician, currently teaching English in Japan, 2019-2021
- Cathy Lin: Research Administrator, currently working at NOAA, 2019-2021
- Ian Gong: Research Technician and Lab Manager, 2011-2014
Undergraduates
- Jonathan Mah: 2018-2020. Now in the Bioinformatics PhD program at UCLA.
- Keara Malone: 2018. Moved on to become a technician in the Bloom Lab.
- Cameron Meikle: 2018
- Noah Cassidy: 2017-2018. Moved on to become a technician in Julie Overbaugh's lab.
- Jacob Kowalsky: 2016-2018. Moved on to become a technician in the David Fredricks lab.
- Alexandria Wilson: 2017. Moved on to completing her undergrad degree at Oregon State.
- Jai Padmakumar: 2014-2016. Moved on to become a graduate student in MIT's Microbiology program.
- Lessane Ketema: 2016
- Alec Heckert: 2014-2015. Moved on to become a graduate student in Berkeley's MCB program.
- Khrystyna Dilai: 2014. Moved on to become a graduate student in the University of Washington's Genome Sciences program.
- Kendra Ferrier: 2014
- Brandon Pratt: 2014
- Donna Leet: 2012-2013. Moved on to become a medical student in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences Technology program.
- Ari Kaufman: 2013
- Sam Schetterer: 2011-2012
High-school students
· Libanos Redda: 2012
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