Meet our lab alumni
Mennatallah (Menna) Albarqi, Ph.D.
Graduate Student, 2016-2021, Post-doctoral fellow with Stephen Artandi at Stanford
Katianna Antkowiak
Research Associate, 2016-2021, Research Associate at Velocity Sciences
Carina Clingman, Ph.D.
Graduate Student, 2009-2014, Business Owner / Entrepreneur, Recruitomics.
Brian Farley, Ph.D.
Graduate Student, 2006-2012, Completed an NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship with Kathy Collins, UC Berkeley. Currently the Director of Scientific Computing at Twist Bioscience.
Ebru Kaymak, Ph.D.
Graduate Student, 2009-2016, Currently a post-doc with Ollie Rando at UMass Chan Medical School.
Suparna Laha, Ph.D.
Graduate Student, 2015, Currently a faculty member at Yenepoya University, Mangalore, India.
Lisa McCoig
Research Associate, 2005-2008, Lisa left my lab to become a graduate student at UNC Chapel Hill. She left graduate school before finishing due to health reasons. She worked as a research technician at Duke before she ultimately succumbed to Crohn’s disease. We miss her dearly.
John Pagano, Ph.D.
Graduate Student, 2006-2010, Completed an ACS Postdoctoral Fellowship with John Lis, Cornell University. Currently a Senior Manager of Biologics Clinical External Manufacturing at Bristol Myers Squibb
Cara Weismann, Ph.D.
Postdoc, 2014-2016, Completed a AAAS-sponsored science policy fellowship at the NIH. Currently the Director of the Program of Excellence in MPS Diseases, Orphan Disease Center, Gene Therapy Program, University of Pennsylvania
Ruth Zearfoss, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist, 2006-2014, Currently the Editor-In-Chief at Cell Reports Methods.
Former Interns
David Moquin: Undergraduate Intern, WPI, MQP Research, 2006-2007
Kingsley Essien: Undergraduate Intern, Providence College, 2007-2010
Samantha Hay: Undergraduate Intern / Research Technician, Syracuse University, 2010-2012
Alyssa Donohue: Undergraduate Intern, WPI, MQP research, 2013-2014
Cedric Lawrenz: Undergraduate Intern, U. Minnesota, Summer 2014
Cole Roberts: High School Intern, Doherty, Worcester, MA, Summer 2014
Rachel Prescott: Undergraduate Intern, WPI, MQP Research, 2015-2016
Kevin Fortier: Undergraduate Intern, Framingham State, 2015-2016
Michelle Heeney: Undergraduate Intern, UMass Amherst, 2016-2017
Rick Metters: Undergraduate Intern, WPI, Summer 2017
Hannah Snell: Undergraduate Intern, Hampshire College, Summer 2018
Desiree Coughlin: High School Intern, Worcester Tech, 2024