The Group
Sean Crosson
Aretha Fiebig
Postdocs
David Hershey
Ben Stein
Patrick McLaughlin
Abhishek Dubey
Grad Students
Lydia Varesio
Thomas Kim
Sergio Hernandez-Ortiz
Hunter North
Esther Chen
Alumni
Postdoc
Melissa Marks (2007-2011)
Current Location: Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Willamette University, Salem, OR.
Neeta Jain (2012-2013)
Current Location: Ecolab Life Sciences, Greensboro, NC.
Hye-Sook Kim (2009-2014)
Current Location: National Institutes of Health, NCCIH, Bethesda, MD.
Jonathan Willett (2013-2016)
Current Location: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fayetteville, AR.
Daniel Czyż (2014-2016)
Current Location: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Microbiology & Cell Science. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Kristy Hentchel (2015-2017)
Current Location: Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA.
Justin Luebke (2015-2018)
Current Location: BioFire Diagnostics, Salt Lake City, UT
Julien Herrou (2009-2018)
Current Location: Chargé de recherche, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne, Marseille, France.
Grad students
Dan Siegal (Ph.D., Physics, 2008)
Current Location: Senior Scientist, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU-APL). Baltimore, MD.
Erin Purcell (Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, 2011)
Current Location: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA.
Cara Boutte (Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, 2011)
Current Location: Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Texas-Arlington, Arlington, TX.
Brook Heaton (Ph.D., Microbiology, 2012)
Current Location: Research Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University, Durham, NC.
Rob Foreman (Ph.D., Microbiology, 2012)
Current Location: Northwestern University-ORS, Chicago, IL.
Musetta Steinbach (2011-2012)
Milena Lewanczyk (M.S., Biology, University of Gdańsk, 2013, Ph.D. University of Liverpool, 2017)
Current Location: University of Liverpool, England.
Jon Henry (Ph.D., Microbiology, 2013, M.D., 2015)
Current Location: Medical Director, Addiction Treatment Program. Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Chicago, IL.
Ola Fergin (M.S. Biotechnology, Politechnika Warszawska, 2015)
Current Location: PhD candidate, ETH-Zürich, Switzerland.
Kasia Gebicka (M.S. University of Warsaw, 2016)
Matthew Tien (Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, 2018)
Current Location: Postdoc, Li Lab, MIT.
Leila Reyes Ruiz (PhD., Genetics, Genomics and Systems Biology, 2019)
Current Location: Postdoc, Tamayo Lab, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
PREP post-bac students
Cyd-Marie Castro Rojas (2008-2009)
Current Location: Postdoc, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH.
Leila Reyes Ruiz (2013-2014)
Current Location: Postdoc, Tamayo Lab, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Xiomarie Alejandro-Navarreto (2015-2016)
Current Location: PhD candidate, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago. Chicago, IL.
Undergrads
Dave Rawling (2006-2007; PhD 2015, Yale University, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry)
Current Location: Principal Scientist, Inflammatix, Mountain View, CA.
Andrew Martens (Summer 2006, PhD 2017, Johns Hopkins University, Biophysics)
Current Location: Postdoctoral Fellow, Paulsson Lab, Harvard University.
Kevin Dalton (2006-2010; PhD 2016, Stanford University, Biophysics)
Current Location: Postdoctoral Fellow, Hekstra Lab, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Rachel Applefield (Summer 2007)
Current Location: Research coordinator, Ortopedia Clinicizzata, Milan, Italy.
Michelle Crane (Summer 2008)
Current Location: Physician, Aurora Healthcare, Milwaukee, WI.
Adam Strick (Summer 2009)
Current Location: Gameplay Engineer, InXile Entertainment. Orange County, CA.
Grant Rotskoff (2011-2013; PhD 2016, University of California-Berkeley, Biophysics)
Current Location: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
Jacob Clementi (Summer 2011)
Current Location: Software Developer, Networked Insights, Chicago, IL.
Tyehimba Turner (Summer 2012)
Current Location: Community Engagement Manager, UNICEF USA, Chicago, IL.
Isaac Larkin (2012-2014)
Current Location: PhD candidate, Biological Sciences, Mirkin Lab, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
Daniel Eaton (2014-2017)
Current Location: PhD Candidate, Department of Systems Biology, Paulsson Lab, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Olivia Stovicek (2015-2017)
Current Location: Research Technician, Patrick Wilson Lab, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Averill Clapp (2016-2017)
Current Location: M.D. Candidate, Columbia University, New York, NY.
Miette Hennessy (Summer 2019)
Current Location: Earlham College '22
High School
Tori Valadez (John Hersey High School) (Summer 2012)
Vanderbilt University '18
Miette Hennessy (Whitney M. Young High School) (Summer 2014-2016)
Earlham College '22
