Leila Rieder, PhD

PI

Still squashes polytenes

Kaitlin Koreski, PhD Associate scientist

condensate fan

Nicole Roos

GMB graduate student

NICHD F31 support

Catherine Nguyen Extraordinary undergraduate

Sisi Falcone

GMB graduate student

GMB T32, NICHD F31 support

Salaam Awad

Extraordinary undergraduate

Tod butenschon

GMB graduate student chromatin enthusiast

Jenny chen Extraordinary undergraduate employee

Pictures: 2019-now

Lab Alumni:

  • Shilpi Verghese: 2024-2026, Associate Scientist. Now: Patent Agent, Pabst Patent Group, LLC

  • Tommy O’Haren: 2020-2026, T32, NICHD F32. Now: Postdoc, Lempradl/Pospisilik labs, Van Andel Institute.

  • Lauren Hodkinson: 2020-2025, T32, NICHD F32, Genetics and Molecular Biology PhD student, 2022 Student Career Teaching Award, 2022 Student Mentor Award, 2020 TATTO Teaching Award. Now: Postdoc, Larschan lab, Brown University.

  • Eric Albanese: 2022-2024, Extraordinary Undergraduate, 2024 Biology research award. Now: MSTP student at UNC-Chapel Hill

  • Connor Smith: 2022-2024, Extraordinary Undergraduate, Enthusiastic Research Technician (NIH supplement; mentored by Tommy O’Haren), NSF GRFP. Now: Emory GMB PhD student.

  • Annalise Weber: 2022-2024, Extraordinary Undergraduate researcher, SURE fellow. Now: Nursing student at Emory University.

  • Casey Schmidt: 2019-2024, IRACDA Postdoctoral Fellow. Now Assistant Professor, Lafayette University.

  • Amirah Hurst: 2023-2024, Lab manager.

  • Pamela Diaz-Saldana: 2021-2023, Enthusiastic Research Technician. Now Emory Immunology and Molecular Pathogenesis PhD student.

  • Hannah Gilbonio: 2021-2023, Enthusiastic Research Technician (NIH diversity supplement). Now GATech/Emory BME PhD program, NSF GRFP.

  • Gwyn Puckett: 2019-2022, Laboratory Manager/Senior Research Specialist. Now Biology Laboratory Coordinator, Virginia Piedmont Community College.

  • Edgar Hsieh: 2021-2022, Extraordinary Undergraduate researcher, SURE fellow (mentored by Tommy O’Haren).

  • Mellisa Xie:2020-2022, Extraordinary Undergraduate researcher, SURE fellow, Highest Honors, Atwood Library research award. Recent MD from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine (mentored by Dr. Skye Comstra and Lauren Hodkinson).

  • Gregory Kimmerer: 2019-2022, Extraordinary Undergraduate researcher, Woodruff Scholar, SURE fellow, Goldwater fellow, NSF GRFP. Now attending Princeton Quantitative and Computational Biology PhD program (Gregor lab).

  • Henrik Torres: 2020-2021, Choate Rosemary Hall student and Galaxy pro. Now an undergraduate student at Harvard University.

  • Dr. Skye Comstra: 2019-2021, IRACDA FIRST postdoctoral fellow. Now Assistant Teaching Professor, Emory University Biology Department.

  • John Ali: Summer 2020, Morehouse undergraduate student and McNair Fellow (mentored by Dr. Skye Comstra). Now Computer Science and Engineering Ph.D. student at Ohio State University

  • Mary Wang: 2019-2021, Emory undergraduate student, now Biomedical Ph.D. student at NYU (mentored by Dr. Casey Schmidt).

  • Dabin Cho: 2020-2021, Emory undergraduate student, SURE fellow (mentored by Lauren Hodkinson), now medical student at Touro University.