Team
Our team is composed of a diverse group of scientists and researchers specializing in computational genomics. With a strong emphasis on integrating computational methods with genomics research, our lab team includes bioinformaticians, geneticists, data scientists, and research technicians.
Current Lab Members
Lab Alumni
Junior faculty
Mark Applebaum, MD Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. https://pediatrics.uchicago.edu/faculty/mark-applebaum-md
Postdoctoral Fellows
Kimberly Dobrinski, PhD Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Tampa, Tampa, FL. https://www.ut.edu/directory/dobrinski-kimberly-p
Towfique Raj, PhD Current Position: Associate Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY. https://rajlab.org/team.html
Patrick Evans, PhD. Current Position: Research Instructor, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN. https://medicine.vumc.org/department-directory/Patrick-Evans
Wenndy Hernandez, PhD Current Position: Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. https://www.publichealth.pitt.edu/directory/wenndy-hernandez
Ekaterina Khramtsova, PhD Current Position: Associate Director of AI/ML, Didactic.AI, Seattle, WA. https://didactic.ai/, Previously Senior Scientist at Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Philadelphia, PA.
Meritxell Oliva PhD Current Position: Senior Researcher, Abbvie Pharmaceuticals, North Chicago, IL. https://www.abbvie.com/
Graduate students
Charles Czysz, M.S. Current Position: Senior Bioinformatics Scientist at Center for Translational Data Science, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. https://ctds.uchicago.edu/
Post-baccalaureate Fellows
Daisy Castillo Guzman, PhD Current Position: Scientist II, Altos Labs, San Francisco, CA. https://www.altoslabs.com/
Edgar (Andy) Rivera Munoz Current Position: PhD Candidate, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX. https://www.bcm.edu/people-search/edgar-rivera-munoz-29328
Undergraduate researchers
Joseph M. Replogle, MD, PhD Current Position: Resident Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Adam Gruenbaum, B.A. Current Position: Software Engineer at Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Seattle, WA
Catherine Ludwig, MD Current Position: Resident Physician, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Raphael Heldman Current Position: PhD Candidate, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, Jupiter, FL
Elizabeth Lipschultz, MS Current Position: Software Engineer, CancerLinQ, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT.
Christina Andreou, BA Current Position: Medical Student at Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY.
Evan Beiter, MD, MBA Current Position: Resident Physician, Stanford Medicine, Palo Alto, CA.
Dahlia Walters, BS Current Position: APHL-CDC Public Health Laboratory Infectious Disease Fellow, Washington State Department of Health, Seattle, WA.
Jordyne Prussak, BA Current Position: Engineering and Applied Sciences MBA Candidate at Columbia Business School and MA at Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science (Dual MBA x MA), Columbia University, New York, NY
Lab staff
Lorenzo L. Pesce, PhD. Current position: Research Assistant Professor, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Ariel Halle, BA. Current position: Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Corey Holgren, BA: Current position: Senior Research Technologist, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Alec D. Victorsen, MS. Current position: Researcher, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Mary Kasparian, MS. Current position: Web Developer & UX/UI Designer, Chicago, IL https://www.marykasparian.com/
Marian Fernando, MS. Current Position: Regulatory Affairs Manager, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
William Buggele, PhD. Current Position: Principal Scientist, Ethicon, Inc., Cincinnati, OH.
Ian J. Begeman Current Position: PhD Candidate, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Caroline Linke Ewart, MS. Current Position: Genetic Counselor, Clinical Coordinator, St. Elizabeth Healthcare, Edgewood, KY
Gerardo Alcantara, DPM. Current Position: Surgical Resident, Kent State University College of Podiatric Medicine, Independence, OH
Andrew Skol, PhD Current Position: Bioinformatics Scientist, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital, Chicago, IL
Dahlia Walters, BS Current Position: APHL-CDC Public Health Laboratory Infectious Disease Fellow, Washington State Department of Health, Seattle, WA.