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
Caelan Radford
B.S. in Biology, Georgia Tech
Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Washington
Originally from Powder Springs, Georgia
Will Hannon
B.A. in Biochemistry from Case Western Reserve University
Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Washington
Originally from Huntington, 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
Brendan Larsen
B.A. in Biology, Lewis & Clark College
Ph.D. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona
Originally from Anchorage, Alaska
Sheri Harari
B.Sc. in Biology, Oranim college, Haifa University
M.Sc. in Genetics, Tel Aviv University
Ph.D. in Bioinformatics, Tel Aviv University
Originally from Israel
Xiaohui Ju
B.S. in Biology, Ocean University of China
Ph.D. in Biology, Tsinghua University
Originally from China
Sara Sunshine
B.S. in Cell and Molecular Biology, Binghamton University
Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences, UCSF
Originally from Brooklyn, New York
Wenlin Ren
B.S. in Biology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
Ph.D. in Basic Medicine, Tsinghua University
Originally from China
Cassandra Simonich
B.A. in Biology, University of Montana-Missoula
M.D., Ph.D., University of Washington
Originally from Hobson, Montana
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
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
Originally from Denver, Colorado
Tim Yu
UW Molecular & Cellular Biology Program
B.S. in Bioengineering, UCLA
Originally from Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
Jenny Ahn
UW Microbiology
B.S. in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics from UCLA
Originally from Seattle, Washington
Lucas Kampman
UW Molecular & Cellular Biology Program
B.A. Molecular & Cell Biology and German Studies, UC Berkeley
Originally from Berkeley, CA
Teagan McMahon
BA in Environmental Science, Pitzer College
Originally from Falmouth, Maine
Former Lab Members
Postdocs
- Tal Einav: Postdoc from 2019 - 2023, now an Assistant Professor at the La Jolla Institute of Immunology in San Diego
- Tyler Starr: Postdoc from 2018 -2023, now an Assistant Professor at the University of Utah
- 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
- Frances Welsh: Graduate Student from 2019-2024; now at Amazon.
- David Bacsik: Graduate Student (MSTP and Genome Sciences) from 2017 to 2023, now completing the medical portion of his degree.
- 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
- Ariana Farrell: Research Technicia, 2020-2023
- 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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