Leila Rieder, PhD
PI
Still squashes polytenes
Sisi Falcone
GMB graduate student
GMB T32, NICHD F31 support
Salaam Awad
Extraordinary undergraduate
Tommy O’haren, PhD
(former) GMB graduate student
GMB T32/NICHD F31 support
Nicole Roos
GMB graduate student
NICHD F31 support
Jenny chen Extraordinary undergraduate employee
Shilpi Verghese, PhD Associate Scientist fly & cat lover
Tod butenschon
GMB graduate student chromatin enthusiast
Kaitlin Koreski, PhD Associate scientist
condensate fan
Catherine Nguyen Extraordinary undergraduate
Pictures: 2019-now
Lab Alumni:
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. Soon attending UNC-Chapel Hill for his MD-PhD!
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.