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Sebastian Castillo Hair (postdoc)
Angela Yu (WRF postdoctocal fellow)
Ian Dowsett (postdoc)
Gun Woo Byeon (postdoc)
Alyssa LaFleur
Samantha Borje (grad)
Matthew Hirano (grad)
Sam Koplik (grad)
Chandler Petersen (grad)
Chris Yin (grad)
Quoc Tran (grad)
Cirstyn Michel (grad)
Madelyn Shelby (grad)
Georg Seelig

Alumni

Alexander Baryshev
Graduate student ECE, 2012-2022

Kerou (Carol) Zhang
Postdoc, 2022
Current position: Illumina

Alex Sabo
Undergraduate research assistant, 2019-2022

Yue Zhang
Graduate student CSE 2015-2022

Anna Kuchina
Postdoc 2014-2021
Current position: Assistant Professor, Institute for Systems Biology (Kuchina lab)

Alberto Carignano
Postdoc 2014-2021

Nikolay Burnaevskiy
Postdoc 2021
Current position: Altius Scholar, Altius Institute

Johannes Linder
Graduate student CSE 2017-2021
Current position: Postdoc in the Kundaje Lab

Nick Bogard
Postdoc 2013-2020
Current position: Patch Bio

Luana Paleologu

Undergraduate research assistant, 2018-2020
Current position: Graduate student, UW Genome Sciences


Ban Wang
Graduate student ECE 2014-2020
Current position: Postdoc in the Fraser lab

Sonya Vogeler
Undergraduate research assistant, 2018-2020
Current position: Amazon

Max Darnell
Postdoc 2018-2020

Current position: Co-founder and CEO, Modulus Therapeutics
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Sunny Rao
​Graduate student 2013-2020
Current position: Civis Analytics
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Sergii Pochekailov, 

Postdoc 2011-2019
Current position: Founder and CEO, Cartesian Robotics and Sergii Lab Supplies

Matthew Hirano
Research technician, 2018-2019
​Current position: Graduate student, UW BPSD

Alexander Rosenberg
Graduate student, 2010-2016, postdoc 2016-2019
Current position: Co-founder and CEO, Parse Biosciences

Charlie Roco
Graduate student 2015-2018
Current position: Co-founder and CTO, Parse Biosciences

Sifang Chen
Graduate student, 2013-2018
Current position: Microsoft Research

Erin Wilson
Graduate student 2018
Current position: Mary Lidstrom lab

Randolph Lopez 
Graduate student BIoE, 2013-2018 
Current position: Co-founder and CTO, A-Alpha Bio

Robyn Langevin
Undergraduate researcher, 2016-218

Alan Cabrera
Undergraduate researcher, 2016-2018
​Current position: Graduate Student, Rice

Arjun Khakar
Graduate student BioE, 2013-2018 (co-advised with Eric Klavins) 
Current position: Assistant Professor, CSU  (Arjun Lab).

Paul Sample
Postdoc, 2014-2018
Current position: Outpace Bio

Sumit Mukherjee
Graduate Student Electrical Engineering 2013-2018
Current position: Insitro

Ben Groves
Postdoc, WRF Innovation Fellow 2011-2018
Current position: Amyris
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Anna Kus
Undergraduate technician
Current position: 
Benaroya Research Institute

Gourab Chatterjee
Graduate student Bioengineering 2012-2017
Current position: Ultivue, Inc.

Yuan-Jyue Chen
Graduate student Electrical Engineering 2010-2015
Current position: Microsoft Research

Xi Sherry Chen
Graduate student Electrical Engineering 2010-2014
Current position: postdoctoral research, Zhang lab, Rice University

Richard Muscat
Postdoc, 2012-2014
Current position: Cancer Research UK

Brianna Kuypers
Lab technician 2012-2013
Current position: Graduate student Bioengineering, Rice University

Tim Strovas
Postdoc 2009-2012
Current position: Research scientist, Kraemer lab, UW medicine

David Soloveichik
Computing Innovation postdoctoral fellow 2009-2011
Current position: Associate professor Electrical & Computer Engineering, UT Austin, 

Matt Olson
Graduate student Electrical Engineering, 2009-2010


Friends and collaborators

We are working with David Baker, James Carothers, Eric Klavins, Suzie Pun, Jesse Zlatan and all the other awesome people in the UW Center for Synthetic Biology. With Eric, we are working on synthetic morphogenesis in yeast. With David, we are collaborating on applying and developing methods for characterizing protein-protein interactions.

Karin Strauss, Luis Ceze and our lab first collaborated on a novel architecture for DNA computing. More recently, they (and the MISL team) have been leading the charge on scaling up DNA storage and random access retrieval.

Jay Shendure at UW Genome Sciences helped us get started with RNA-seq and we've been collaborating on massively parallel reporter assays for splicing and more ever since. With Stanley Fields and his group (also at Genome Sciences) we have been collaborating on learning the grammar governing cis-regulation in yeast 5'UTRs using similar high-throughput methods.

We are working with Sreeram Kannan and Su-In Lee on developing novel computational tools for analyzing single-cell RNA-seq data.

I was a postdoc in Erik Winfree's lab where I also started working with David Soloveichik. Our first paper was about digital logic circuits made only from DNA. Since I left Caltech, David, Erik and I have been working on the theory and experimental implementation of DNA-based chemical reaction networks. 

David Yu Zhang and I have been working on molecular classifiers and SNP detections also going back to our time in the Winfree lab.

My group has a long-standing collaboration with Andrew Phillips, Neil Dachau and Luca Cardelli at Microsoft Research in Cambridge. We experimentally built and modeled DNA CRNs. More recently, we demonstrated that spatial organization can be used as a design principle to make DNA circuits faster and more modular.

Christoph Zechner from Mustafa Kammash's lab was visiting for a couple of weeks in 2015. The experiments he did at the UW found their way into a nice paper. Christoph is now a group leader at the Max Planck institute and in 2016-2017 I was on a sabbatical at ETH visiting Mustafa and Martin Fussenegger.

We have yet to write a paper together but I've had so many great conversation with Michael Elowitz. The Roger Federer of science was my co-supervisor and occasional tennis partner at Caltech. 

We are part of the NSF funded Molecular Programming Project.
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