Alumni

Gone but not forgotten, especially when we are looking for their notebooks! We have included what they set off to do after leaving the lab or sometimes their most recent position.

Former Postdoctoral fellows | Former Graduate students | Former Staff

Former Postdoctoral Fellows - in order of joining the lab

Dr. Sara Sawyer

Professor, University of Colorado Boulder

Malik Lab member, 2003-2007, postdoctoral fellow

Dr. Scott Goeke

Design researcher, Amazon Inc, Seattle, WA

Malik Lab member 2005-2007, postdoctoral fellow

Dr. Julie Bletz

Senior Program Manager, ISB Seattle and Science writer at ScienceWise Consulting Inc

Malik Lab member 2004-2008, postdoctoral fellow

Dr. Nels Elde

Associate Professor, University of Utah

Malik Lab member 2005-2011, postdoctoral fellow

Dr. Eric Smith

Scientist, Illumina Inc, Seattle, WA

Malik Lab member 2006-2009, postdoctoral fellow

Dr. Nitin Phadnis

Assistant Professor, University of Utah

Malik Lab member 2008-2013, postdoctoral fellow

Dr. Marianne Bonvin-Cudappah

Scientist, Swiss Science and Technology Council

Malik Lab member June-Dec 2009, postdoctoral fellow

Dr. Maulik Patel

Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University

Malik Lab member 2009-2014, postdoctoral fellow

Dr. Mia Levine

Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Malik Lab member 2009-2015, postdoctoral fellow

Dr. Matt Daugherty

Assistant Professor, UC San Diego

Malik Lab member 2009-2016, postdoctoral fellow

Dr. SaraH Zanders

Assistant Investigator, Stowers Institute

Malik Lab member 2010-2016, postdoctoral fellow

Dr. Ines Anna Drinnenberg

Group Leader, Marie Curie Institute

Malik Lab member 2011-2015, postdoctoral fellow

Dr. Richard McLaughlin

Assistant Professor, Pacific Northwest Research Institute

Postdoctoral fellow 2011 - 2017

Gustavo Kuhn

Professor at Federal University Minas Gerais, Brazil

Sabbatical, visiting professor January 2020 - December 2020

Shirleen Soh

Damon Runyon Fellow

Postdoctoral fellow September 2015 - September 2019

Kevin Forsberg

Assistant Professor , UT Southwestern

Postdoctoral fellow July 2015 - July 2021
Research Profile

Tera Levin

Assistant Professor at University of Pittsburgh

Postdoctoral fellow September 2014 - May 2020

Courtney Schroeder

Assistant Professor , UT Southwestern

Postdoctoral fellow April 2016 - October 2021
Research Profile

Antoine Molaro

Professor at Claremont-Ferrand University

Postdoctoral fellow September 2013 - July 2020

Jeannette Tenthorey

Assistant Professor, UCSF

Postdoctoral fellow October 2017 - January 2022
Research Profile

Former Graduate Students - in order of joining the lab

Dr. Joshua Bayes

Postdoctoral fellow, UC Berkeley

Malik lab member 2003-2009, graduate student

Benjamin Wiggins

Faculty Coordinator, UW Seattle WA

Malik Lab member 2003-2006, graduate student

Dr. Molly Ohainle

Staff scientist Emerman Lab, Fred Hutch

2003-2007, graduate student, dual mentor with Dr. Michael Emerman

Dr. Efrim Lim

Postdoctoral fellow, Washington University

FHCRC 2007-2012, graduate student, dual mentor with Dr. Michael Emerman

Dr. Raymond Malfavon-Borja

Instructor, University of Washington

Malik Lab member 2007-2013, graduate student

Dr. Adriana Ludvig

Postdoctoral fellow, Porto Alegre Brazil

Malik Lab member Jan-Dec 2009, Graduate exchange student

Dr. Benjamin Ross

Postdoctoral fellow, University of Washington

Malik Lab member 2008-2014, graduate student

Dr. Patrick Mitchell

Postdoctoral fellow, UC Berkeley

Malik Lab member 2009-2015, graduate student

Dr. Lisa Kursel

Postdoctoral fellow, University of Utah

Malik Lab member 2013 - 2018, graduate student

Dr. Rossana Colon-Thillet

former MCB Graduate Student

June 2015 - February 2019

Dr. Rini Kasinathan

former MSTP Graduate Student

July 2015 - June 2019

Dr. Michelle Hays

Postdoctoral fellow, Stanford University

June 2014 - December 2019

Killian Campbell

Graduate student, University of Oregon

Malik lab Postbaccalaureate student July 2018 - July 2019

Dr. Will Henriques

former PhD Student - joint Wiedenheft and Malik labs

June 2021 - September 2024
Research Profile

Deanna Hausman

Graduate student, Yale University

Malik lab Postbaccalaureate student 2019 - 2020

Dr. Risa Takenaka

former MCB Graduate Student

June 2020 - July 2024
Research Profile

Dr. Caroline Langley

former MCB Graduate Student - joint Emerman and Malik labs

June 2020 - July 2024
Research Profile

Former Staff - in order of joining the lab

Dr. Danielle Vermaak

Science Teacher, Seattle Public Schools and Science writer at ScienceWise Counsulting Inc

Malik Lab member 2003-2009, Staff scientist

Monica Rodriguez

Graduate student, Stanford University

Malik Lab member 2003-2005, research technician

Mary Alice Hiatt

Law School, Boston University

Malik Lab member 2005-2007, research technician

Scott Kerr

Graduate student, UT Austin

Malik Lab member 2007-2009, research technician

Celia Hagan

Senior specialist, Public Heath Policy Washington DC

Malik Lab member 2007-2009, research technician

Emily Baker

Graduate student, University of Wisconsin

Malik Lab member 2009-2012, undergraduate and reserach technician

Emily Hsieh

Graduate student, University of Washington

Malik Lab member 2009-2015, undergraduate and research technician

Michael Eickbush

Scientist, Stowers Institute

Malik Lab member 2010-2016, research technician

Aimee Littleton

Graduate student, UC Berkeley

Malik Lab member 2010-2012, research technician

Ganeshkumar Miriyala

Computer Science

Malik Lab member 2011 - 2016, research technician

Aaron Schaller

Graduate student, UC Berkeley

Malik lab member 2012-2014, research technician

Jake Gable

Graduate student, Harvard University

Malik lab member 2012-2014, research technician

Helen Vander Wende

Graduate student, UC Berkeley

Malik Lab member 2013-2015, research technician

Daniel Ramirez

Graduate student, UC Boulder

Malik Lab member 2013-2016, exchange undergraduate student and research technician

Tobey Casey

Graduate Student, UW

Malik Lab member 2014 - 2017, research technician

Cynthis Wong

Research Technician - University of Washington

Malik Lab member 2015 - 2017, undergraduate research student

Emily Coelho

Lab Manager, University of Utah

Malik Lab member 2013 - 2017, research technician

Brian Goldspiel

MD PhD student, UPenn

Malik Lab member 2016 - 2018, research technician

Selina Kindelay

Graduate student, Arizona State University

Malik Lab member 2017 - 2018, research technician

Ishan Bhatt

Lab Technician

Malik Lab member 2016 - 2018, research technician

John Valenzuela

Farming Management

Malik lab member 2018 - 2019

Anna Wood

Graduate student, Cornell University

Malik lab member 2018 - 2020

Hannah McConnell

Graduate student, University of Washington

Malik lab member 2018 - 2020

Danica Schmidtke

Graduate student, Stanford University

Malik lab member 2019 - 2020

Candice Young

Graduate student, University of Washington

Malik lab member 2019 - 2020

Paula Levan

Lab Technician

Malik lab member 2019 - September 2020

Sierra Simmerman

Graduate student, Tulane University

Malik lab member 2019 - 2022

Serena Del Banco

Graduate student, University of Washington

Malik lab member 2020 - 2022

Elena Kahn

Graduate student, University of Pennsylvania

Malik lab member 2020 - 2022

Sarah Tomlin

Graduate student, University of Washington

Malik lab member 2019 - 2022

Gloria Shen

Lab Aide - Feb-Dec 2022

February 2022 - November 2022

Amy Chen

Graduate student, Touro College

Malik lab member - 2019-2022

Isabel Mejia Natividad

Graduate student, University of Washington

Malik lab member April 2021 - August 2023

Damini Khera

Former Lab Technician

Malik lab member July 2022 - January 2024

Andrea Carroll

Graduate Student, Stanford University

Malik lab member June 2022 - June 2024

Ashlyn Anderson

Graduate student, University of North Carolina

Malik lab member September 2022 - July 2024

Wendy Sun

Graduate student, Duke University

Malik lab member August 2022 - July 2024

Eva Alleman

Graduate student, University of Washington

Malik lab member June 2022 - September 2024