Lab Alumni

Andrew Knappenberger, Postdoctoral Associate
Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, 2017-19. Currently a Scientist, Pfizer Inc., La Jolla, California.

Jack Atwater, Undergraduate Student, Class of 2019
Post-Baccalaureate Researcher

Martin Peverelli, Postdoctoral Associate
Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, 2016-19. Currently a Scientist II, FujiFilm Diosynth Biotechnologies, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

Chad Torgerson, Ph.D. and Postdoctoral Associate
Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, 2013-19. Currently a Scientist, Arbor Biotechnologies, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Caroline Reiss, Ph.D. and Postdoctoral Associate
Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, 2012-19. Currently a Developmental Scientist, Casebia Therapeutics, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Katherine Launer-Felty, Postdoctoral Associate
Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, 2014-18. Currently a Visiting Assistant Professor, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut.

Jonah Pearl, Undergradute Student, Class of 2018
Currently a Fellow at National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland.

Tetyana (Tanya) Berbasova, Postdoctoral Associate
Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, 2014-17. Currently a Senior Scientist at AlloThera, New Haven, Connecticut.

Taylor L. Sells,  M.S.
Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, 2015-17. Currently a Senior Medical Writer for Springer Nature, New York, New York.

Michelle Legaspi Hutchings,  Ph.D.
Chemistry, Yale University, 2016. Currently an Associate Director of Academic Affairs at Yale Young Global Scholars, Office of International Affairs, New Haven, Connecticut.

Robert Meehan, Ph.D.
Chemistry, Yale University, 2015. Currently a Director of Production at Ponysaurus Brewing Company, Durham, North Carolina.

Patricia B. Gordon, M.S., Research Assistant
Yale University, 2003-2015. Currently a Research Technician at Fred Hutchinson Research Center in Dan Gottschling’s lab, Seattle, WA.

Katie Smith, PhD
Chemistry, Yale University, 2011. Currently a Senior Research Scientist at Arvinas, New Haven, Connecticut.

Brian Dunican, Ph.D.
Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, 2015. Currently an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company.

Cambria Alpha, Ph.D.
Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, 2014. Currently a Patent Agenta at Momenta Pharmaceuticals.

Nina Siragusa, Ph.D.
University of Tuebingen, 2008. Postdoctoral Researcher, 2012-2014. Currently a Junior Research Scientist at uniQure GmbH in Heidelberg, Germany.

Daniel Spakowicz, Ph.D.
Yale University, 2013. Currently a Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.

Jeff Shaw, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2009. Post-doctoral Associate 2009-2014. Currently a Senior Scientist at Promega.

Kaury Kucera, Ph.D.
Yale University, 2010. Science Education Postdoctoral Fellow, 2010-2014. Currently an Associate Research Scientist in Pharmacology at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

Linda Zhou, B.S./M.S.
Department of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, 2010-2014. Currently an M.D./Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania.

Meghan (Griffin) DeWitt, Ph.D.
Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, 2013. Currently a Development Scientist at Alexion Pharmaceuticals, New Haven, Connecticut.

Jose Guedes de Sena Filho, Ph.D.
Federal University of Paraiba State-Brazil, 2009. Visiting Scientist, 2012-2013. Currently a Lab Analyst in the Soil microbiology lab at Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria (EMBRAPA), Tabuleiros Costeiros, Aracaju-SE, Brazil.

Jared Davis, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007. NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, 2007-2013. Currently a Development Scientist at Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Cheshire, Connecticut.

Carly Shanahan, Ph.D.
Chemistry, Yale University, 2012. Currently an Associate at Panitch, Schwarze, Belisario & Nadel, Philadelphia, PA.

Kate Szigety, B.S./M.S.
Department of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, 2008-2012. Currently an M.D./Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania.

Alicia Darnell, B.S.
Department of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, 2008-2012. PhD at Harvard University in Chemical Biology. Currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Nicolas Carrasco, Ph.D.
The City University of New York, 2005. Postdoctoral Associate, 2005-2011. Currently Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Qu
innipiac University, Hamden, Connecticut.

Thanh Vu Erion, Ph.D.
Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, 2011. Currently a Director, Biologics Intellectual Property at ImmunoGen Inc.

Ethan Butler, Ph.D.
Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, 2010. Currently Postdoctoral Associate in Ming Tan’s lab at the USA Mitchell Cancer Institute, Mobile, Alabama

Jonathan Russell, B.S.
Department of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, 2007-2011. Currently a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University in Chemical Biology.

David Kingery, Ph.D.
Yale University, MB&B Program, 2005-2010. Currently, Postdoctoral associate at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD.

Aline Simon
visiting student in the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, 2010. Currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Oxford, UK.

Emily Moore
2007-2010. Yale University, B.S. 2009. Currently a medical student at University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA.

Blair Benham-Pyle, B.S/M.S.
joint degree in the Depart. Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, 2008-2010. Currently a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

Sarah Lipchock, Ph.D.
Yale University, Biophycial Chemistry Program, 2005-2010. Currently, Postdoctoral associate at Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA.

Tara Gianoulis, Ph.D.
Yale University, MB&B Program, 2009, Mark Gerstein and Michael Snyde. Postdoctoral Associate, 2009-2009. Currently, Postdoctoral Associate in the George Church’s Lab at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

Lori-Ann Boulanger, Ph.D.
Brandeis University, 2006, Melissa J. Moore. Postdoctoral Associate, 2007-2010. Currently Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Buzzards Bay, MA.

Alison Livingston, Ph.D.
University of Utah, 2006, Sheila S. David. NIH Postdoctoral Fellow 2008-2010. Currently Math and Science Teacher at the Waterford School, South Sandy, UT.

Vipender Singh, Ph.D.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 2006. James Hudson Brown-Alexander Brown Coxe Fellowship 2006-2010. Currently Postdoctoral Associate in the John Essigmann’s Lab at MIT, Cambridge, MA.

Alexandra Antonioli
Yale University Undergraduate 2004-2007 and Research Assistant 2007-2009. Currently a medical student in the University of Colorado’s Medical Scientist Training Program, Denver, CO.

Ian Suydam, Ph.D.
Stanford University, 2005, Steven Boxer. NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, 2006-2009. Currently Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemistry, Seattle University, Seattle, WA.

Mary Stahley, PhD
Yale University, MB&B Ph.D. Student, 2003-2008.

Jesse Cochrane, PhD
Yale Universtiy, MB&B Ph.D. Student, 2001-2007.

Rebecca Voorhees
Yale University, 2007. Undergraduate-Master Research Student, 2005-2007.

Miyun Kwon, Ph.D.
Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Jaehoon Yu. Postdoctoral Associate, 2004-2007.

Minghong Zhong, Ph.D.
Brigham Young University, Morris Robins. Postdoctoral Associate, 2004-2007.

Joshua Weinger
(MB&B Ph.D. Student, 2000-2006, NSF pre-doctoral fellow).

Kevin Huang
(Ph.D., University California Davis, Mark Kurth). Postdoctoral Associate, 2002-2006, National Institute of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Emmanuel Pfund
(Ph.D., Caen University, France, Serge Masson). Postdoctoral Associate, 2004-2006.

Michelle Gill
(MB&B Ph.D. Student, 2001-2006, NSF pre-doctoral fellow).

Rachel Anderson
(MB&B Ph.D. Student, 1999-2006).

Peter Adams
(Ph.D., University of Oxford, David Stuart). Postdoctoral Associate, 2002-2005.

Soumitra Basu
(Ph.D.,Thomas Jefferson University, Eric Wickstrom). Postdoctoral Associate, 1996-2000.

Li Chen
(Ph.D., Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry, Youxin Jin). Postdoctoral Associate, 2000-2001.

Ashley Eversole
(Ph.D., Yale University, Nancy Maizels). Postdoctoral Associate, 2001-2003, Anderson Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Fatima Jones
(MB&B Ph.D. Student, 1999-2003). National Institutes of Health, National Research Service Award.

Gregory Muth
(Ph.D., University of Montana, Walter Hill). Postdoctoral Associate, 1999-2002, American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Kensuke Okuda
(Ph.D. Tokyo University). Postdoctoral Associate, 2001-2004.

Adegboyega Oyelere
(Ph.D., Brown University, John Oliver). Postdoctoral Associate, 1998-2001, Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Kenneth Parnell
(MB&B Ph.D. Student, 1999-2004).

Sean Ryder
(MB&B Ph.D. Student, 1996-2001).

Amy Seila
(Yale University, Department of Genetics, Ph.D. Student, 1999-2004).

Juliane Soukup
(Ph.D., University of Nebraska Medical Center, James Maher III). Postdoctoral Associate, 1997-2000, National Institute of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Darren Stoub
(Ph.D., University of Rochester, Joshua Goodman). Postdoctoral Associate, 1998-1999, James Hudson Brown-Alexander B. Coxe Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Alexander A. Szewczak
(Ph.D., Yale University, Peter Moore). Postdoctoral Associate, 1997-2001, Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow.

Lara Weinstein
(Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder, Thomas Cech). Postdoctoral Associate, 1997-2004, National Institute of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship.