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

Dr. Sara Sawyer

Title: Professor, University of Colorado Boulder

Malik Lab member, 2003-2007, postdoctoral fellow

Dr. Scott Goeke

Dr. Scott Goeke

Title: Design researcher, Amazon Inc, Seattle, WA

Malik Lab member 2005-2007, postdoctoral fellow

Dr. Julie Bletz

Dr. Julie Bletz

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

Malik Lab member 2004-2008, postdoctoral fellow

Dr. Nels Elde

Dr. Nels Elde

Title: Associate Professor, University of Utah

Malik Lab member 2005-2011, postdoctoral fellow

Dr. Eric Smith

Dr. Eric Smith

Title: Scientist, Illumina Inc, Seattle, WA

Malik Lab member 2006-2009, postdoctoral fellow

Dr. Nitin Phadnis

Dr. Nitin Phadnis

Title: Assistant Professor, University of Utah

Malik Lab member 2008-2013, postdoctoral fellow

Dr. Marianne Bonvin-Cudappah

Dr. Marianne Bonvin-Cudappah

Title: Scientist, Swiss Science and Technology Council

Malik Lab member June-Dec 2009, postdoctoral fellow

Dr. Maulik Patel

Dr. Maulik Patel

Title: Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University

Malik Lab member 2009-2014, postdoctoral fellow

Dr. Mia Levine

Dr. Mia Levine

Title: Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Malik Lab member 2009-2015, postdoctoral fellow

Dr. Matt Daugherty

Dr. Matt Daugherty

Title: Assistant Professor, UC San Diego

Malik Lab member 2009-2016, postdoctoral fellow

Dr. SaraH Zanders

Dr. SaraH Zanders

Title: Assistant Investigator, Stowers Institute

Malik Lab member 2010-2016, postdoctoral fellow

Dr. Ines Anna Drinnenberg

Dr. Ines Anna Drinnenberg

Title: Group Leader, Marie Curie Institute

Malik Lab member 2011-2015, postdoctoral fellow

Dr. Richard McLaughlin

Dr. Richard McLaughlin

Title: Assistant Professor, Pacific Northwest Research Institute

Postdoctoral fellow 2011 - 2017

Gustavo Kuhn

Gustavo Kuhn

Title: Professor at Federal University Minas Gerais, Brazil

Sabbatical, visiting professor January 2020 - December 2020

Shirleen Soh

Shirleen Soh

Title: Damon Runyon Fellow

Postdoctoral fellow September 2015 - September 2019

Kevin Forsberg

Kevin Forsberg

Title: Assistant Professor , UT Southwestern

Postdoctoral fellow July 2015 - July 2021
Research Profile

Tera Levin

Tera Levin

Title: Assistant Professor at University of Pittsburgh

Postdoctoral fellow September 2014 - May 2020

Courtney Schroeder

Courtney Schroeder

Title: Assistant Professor , UT Southwestern

Postdoctoral fellow April 2016 - October 2021
Research Profile

Antoine Molaro

Antoine Molaro

Title: Professor at Claremont-Ferrand University

Postdoctoral fellow September 2013 - July 2020

Jeannette Tenthorey

Jeannette Tenthorey

Title: Assistant Professor, UCSF

Postdoctoral fellow October 2017 - January 2022
Research Profile


Former Graduate Students - in order of joining the lab

Dr. Joshua Bayes

Dr. Joshua Bayes

Title: Postdoctoral fellow, UC Berkeley

Malik lab member 2003-2009, graduate student

Benjamin Wiggins

Benjamin Wiggins

Title: Faculty Coordinator, UW Seattle WA

Malik Lab member 2003-2006, graduate student

Dr. Molly Ohainle

Dr. Molly Ohainle

Title: Staff scientist Emerman Lab, Fred Hutch

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

Dr. Efrim Lim

Dr. Efrim Lim

Title: Postdoctoral fellow, Washington University

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

Dr. Raymond Malfavon-Borja

Dr. Raymond Malfavon-Borja

Title: Instructor, University of Washington
Email: raymb@uw.edu

Malik Lab member 2007-2013, graduate student

Dr. Adriana Ludvig

Dr. Adriana Ludvig

Title: Postdoctoral fellow, Porto Alegre Brazil

Malik Lab member Jan-Dec 2009, Graduate exchange student

Dr. Benjamin Ross

Dr. Benjamin Ross

Title: Postdoctoral fellow, University of Washington
Email: bdross@uw.edu

Malik Lab member 2008-2014, graduate student

Dr. Patrick Mitchell

Dr. Patrick Mitchell

Title: Postdoctoral fellow, UC Berkeley

Malik Lab member 2009-2015, graduate student

Dr. Lisa Kursel

Dr. Lisa Kursel

Title: Postdoctoral fellow, University of Utah

Malik Lab member 2013 - 2018, graduate student

Dr. Rossana Colon-Thillet

Dr. Rossana Colon-Thillet

Title: former MCB Graduate Student

June 2015 - February 2019

Dr. Rini Kasinathan

Dr. Rini Kasinathan

Title: former MSTP Graduate Student

July 2015 - June 2019

Dr. Michelle Hays

Dr. Michelle Hays

Title: Postdoctoral fellow, Stanford University

June 2014 - December 2019

Killian Campbell

Killian Campbell

Title: Graduate student, University of Oregon

Malik lab Postbaccalaureate student July 2018 - July 2019

Dr. Will Henriques

Dr. Will Henriques

Title: former PhD Student - joint Wiedenheft and Malik labs

June 2021 - September 2024
Research Profile

Deanna Hausman

Deanna Hausman

Title: Graduate student, Yale University

Malik lab Postbaccalaureate student 2019 - 2020

Dr. Risa Takenaka

Dr. Risa Takenaka

Title: former MCB Graduate Student

June 2020 - July 2024
Research Profile

Dr. Caroline Langley

Dr. Caroline Langley

Title: 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

Dr. Danielle Vermaak

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

Malik Lab member 2003-2009, Staff scientist

Monica Rodriguez

Monica Rodriguez

Title: Graduate student, Stanford University

Malik Lab member 2003-2005, research technician

Mary Alice Hiatt

Mary Alice Hiatt

Title: Law School, Boston University

Malik Lab member 2005-2007, research technician

Scott Kerr

Scott Kerr

Title: Graduate student, UT Austin

Malik Lab member 2007-2009, research technician

Celia Hagan

Celia Hagan

Title: Senior specialist, Public Heath Policy Washington DC

Malik Lab member 2007-2009, research technician

Emily Baker

Emily Baker

Title: Graduate student, University of Wisconsin

Malik Lab member 2009-2012, undergraduate and reserach technician

Emily Hsieh

Emily Hsieh

Title: Graduate student, University of Washington

Malik Lab member 2009-2015, undergraduate and research technician

Michael Eickbush

Michael Eickbush

Title: Scientist, Stowers Institute

Malik Lab member 2010-2016, research technician

Aimee Littleton

Aimee Littleton

Title: Graduate student, UC Berkeley

Malik Lab member 2010-2012, research technician

Ganeshkumar Miriyala

Ganeshkumar Miriyala

Title: Computer Science

Malik Lab member 2011 - 2016, research technician

Aaron Schaller

Aaron Schaller

Title: Graduate student, UC Berkeley

Malik lab member 2012-2014, research technician

Jake Gable

Jake Gable

Title: Graduate student, Harvard University

Malik lab member 2012-2014, research technician

Helen Vander Wende

Helen Vander Wende

Title: Graduate student, UC Berkeley

Malik Lab member 2013-2015, research technician

Daniel Ramirez

Daniel Ramirez

Title: Graduate student, UC Boulder

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

Tobey Casey

Tobey Casey

Title: Graduate Student, UW

Malik Lab member 2014 - 2017, research technician

Cynthis Wong

Cynthis Wong

Title: Research Technician - University of Washington

Malik Lab member 2015 - 2017, undergraduate research student

Emily Coelho

Emily Coelho

Title: Lab Manager, University of Utah

Malik Lab member 2013 - 2017, research technician

Brian Goldspiel

Brian Goldspiel

Title: MD PhD student, UPenn

Malik Lab member 2016 - 2018, research technician

Selina Kindelay

Selina Kindelay

Title: Graduate student, Arizona State University

Malik Lab member 2017 - 2018, research technician

Ishan Bhatt

Ishan Bhatt

Title: Lab Technician

Malik Lab member 2016 - 2018, research technician

John Valenzuela

John Valenzuela

Title: Farming Management

Malik lab member 2018 - 2019

Anna Wood

Anna Wood

Title: Graduate student, Cornell University

Malik lab member 2018 - 2020

Hannah McConnell

Hannah McConnell

Title: Graduate student, University of Washington

Malik lab member 2018 - 2020

Danica Schmidtke

Danica Schmidtke

Title: Graduate student, Stanford University

Malik lab member 2019 - 2020

Candice Young

Candice Young

Title: Graduate student, University of Washington

Malik lab member 2019 - 2020

Paula Levan

Paula Levan

Title: Lab Technician

Malik lab member 2019 - September 2020

Sierra Simmerman

Sierra Simmerman

Title: Graduate student, Tulane University

Malik lab member 2019 - 2022

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Serena Del Banco

Title: Graduate student, University of Washington

Malik lab member 2020 - 2022

Elena Kahn

Elena Kahn

Title: Graduate student, University of Pennsylvania

Malik lab member 2020 - 2022

Sarah Tomlin

Sarah Tomlin

Title: Graduate student, University of Washington

Malik lab member 2019 - 2022

Gloria Shen

Gloria Shen

Title: Lab Aide - Feb-Dec 2022

February 2022 - November 2022

Amy Chen

Amy Chen

Title: Graduate student, Touro College

Malik lab member - 2019-2022

Isabel Mejia Natividad

Isabel Mejia Natividad

Title: Graduate student, University of Washington

Malik lab member April 2021 - August 2023

Damini Khera

Damini Khera

Title: Former Lab Technician

Malik lab member July 2022 - January 2024

Andrea Carroll

Andrea Carroll

Title: Graduate Student, Stanford University

Malik lab member June 2022 - June 2024

Ashlyn Anderson

Title: Graduate student, University of North Carolina

Malik lab member September 2022 - July 2024

Wendy Sun

Wendy Sun

Title: Graduate student, Duke University

Malik lab member August 2022 - July 2024

Eva Alleman

Eva Alleman

Title: Graduate student, University of Washington

Malik lab member June 2022 - September 2024