People

Current Members of the Lab

Maitreya Dunham, PI

Research Staff

Emily Mitchell, Lab Manager
Barbara Dunn, Visiting Scientist

Postdocs and Grad Students

Joe Armstrong, Postdoc
Randi Avery, Postdoc
Leah Anderson, GS Graduate Student
Gabby Ferra, GS Graduate Student, joint with Kelley Harris
Rachel Powell, GS Graduate Student

Undergrads

Lauren Ackermann, Undergraduate Researcher
Regina Pereyra, Undergraduate Researcher
Amanda Ro, Undergraduate Researcher
Zilong Zeng, Undergraduate Researcher
Jasmine Schoch, Undergraduate Researcher
Virginia Wang, Undergraduate Researcher
Tiffany Do, Student Helper

Former Members of the Lab

Seattle Era

Postdocs and Grad Students

Renee Geck, Postdoc (now an assistant professor at Gonzaga University)
Pengyao Jiang, Postdoc, joint with Kelley Harris (now an assistant professor at Arizona State University)
Taylor Wang, MCB Graduate Student (now a postdoc with Snow Zhou at NYU)
Cindy Yeh, GS Graduate Student (now at GigaGen)
Soyeon Showman, MCB Graduate Student (now at Fred Hutch)
Clara Amorosi, GS Graduate Student then postdoc (now working at BMS)
Chris Large, MCB Graduate Student (now postdoc with John Murray at Penn)
Abby Keller, MCB Graduate Student then postdoc (now at Bio-Rad)
Bryce Taylor, Postdoc (now a professor at Loras College)
Anja Ollodart, MCB Graduate Student (now at ActX)
Elisa Wong, Postdoc (now at Deepmind, was Lead NGS R&D researcher at LabGenius)
Caiti Smukowski Heil, Postdoc (now a professor at NC State University)
Monica Sanchez, MCB graduate student (first a postdoc with Dmitri Petrov at Stanford, now at Sandia National Laboratories)
Elyse Hope, GS Graduate Student (now at Science Philanthropy Alliance, was a postdoc with Peter Stirling at Terry Fox Lab BC Cancer Agency, then Sector Manager at Genome BC)
Ivan Liachko, Postdoc (now co-founder of Phase Genomics)
Sam Lancaster, MCB graduate student (first apostdoc with Mike Snyder then Scientific Director, Metabolic Health Center at Stanford)
Aaron Miller, GS graduate student (now at Zymergen)
Celia Payen, Postdoc (now at IFF/Dupont)
Anna Sunshine, MSTP Student (now at UW for residency)

Research Staff, Undergrads, and Interns

Elinor Washington, Summer 2024 REU student
Noah Fredstrom, Research Staff (previously Undergraduate Researcher and Mary Gates Scholar) (now at UW School of Pharmacy)
Owen Burris, Student Helper
Dennis Godin, Undergraduate Researcher
Anna Steed, Undergraduate Researcher (now at Auburn University)
Skyler Tsai, Undergraduate Researcher
Valentina Maggi, Undergraduate Researcher
Liya Miksovsky, Summer REU student
Scarlett Counihan, Student Helper
Naomi Moresi, Undergraduate Researcher
Andrea Chang, Undergraduate Researcher
Maya Walker, summer REU student (Iowa State, then tech at University of Wisconsin, now graduate student at Northwestern)
Mai Frey, Student Helper
Margaux Walson, Undergraduate Researcher
Anne Sofie Lærke Hansen, visiting graduate student (DTU)
Grace Dy, Undergraduate Researcher
Nick Righi, undergraduate researcher
Omar Kunjo, summer intern (Bowdoin, now a tech at the Hutch)
Angela Hickey, Undergraduate Researcher (UW, then NYU, now at Stanford)
Alexandra Gallegos, HHMI EXROP student (Portland State University, now at UW MCB)
Brenna Greaves, Student Helper
Samantha Dahne, Student Helper
Kolena Dang, Undergraduate Researcher and Mary Gates Scholar (now with AmeriCorps)
Kira Patterson, Undergraduate Researcher (Carleton, then NIH, now MIT)
Navinder Kamal, Undergraduate Researcher (first at Center for Infectious Disease Research, now Strategic Program Manager at Viome)
Rebecca Pfahl, SCC Intern with Brewer/Raghuraman lab
Kim Huynh, Student Helper (UW)
Azhar Khandekar, Undergraduate Researcher (UW to NIH, now at UCSD Bioinformatics)
Erica Alcantara, Undergraduate Researcher and Mary Gates Scholar (now at NYU Long Island)
Michael McGovern, SCC Intern with Brewer/Raghuraman lab
April Vande Brake, Student Helper (UW)
Thy Dang, Student Helper (UW)
Giang Ong, Research Staff (now at NanoString)
Jessica Cao, Undergraduate Researcher (UW, now at Harvard Biostatistics)
Jamie Pogachar, Undergraduate Researcher, Mary Gates Scholar, and Research Scientist (UW, now at Alder Biopharmaceuticals)
Magdalia Suarez, SCC Intern with Brewer/Raghuraman lab
Fitsum Gebremariam, SCC Intern with Brewer/Raghuraman lab
Kory Kolis, Amgen Scholar (Gustavus to Rice and now at University of Montana)
Emily Hutchins, Volunteer
Annie Young, Undergraduate Researcher and Mary Gates Scholar (now at UW Medical School)
Alex White, Student Helper (UW)
Thao Nguyen, Undergraduate Researcher (now in Chemical and Biological Engineering PhD program at Princeton)
Mei Huang, Undergraduate Researcher (first UW Pharmacy School, now Medicare Clinical Pharmacist at Premera Blue Cross)
Bryony Lynch, Undergraduate Researcher (first at the Hutch, then University of Pittsburgh, now UW)
Britney Martinez, Summer Intern (UC Santa Cruz, then NYU, now PacBio)
Rachel Peralta (Youngblood), HHMI student and Research Staff (first at UC Irvine, now at Kaiser Permanente)
Emma May, High School Student Researcher
Neha Kunwar, Student Helper (UW)
Cara Comfort, Student Helper (UW)
Barry Dion, Research Staff (first at Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, now at CIBC)
Mike Bocek, Amgen Scholar (now at Stanford)
Laura Hoverson, Amgen Scholar (Scripps)
Lory Henderson, Summer Intern (UNM, now at Cornell)

Princeton Era

Chris DeSevo, Research Staff (first at UT Southwestern, then Exelixis, now at Mirati Therapeutics)
Yufei Liu, Thesis Student, (now at Berkeley)
Alana Arnold, Thesis Student, (first at Tufts, then Oakland Children's Hospital, now Medical Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Jackson North Medical Center)
Abram Gabriel, Visiting Professor from Rutgers
Cheryl Tucker, Research Staff (now at Wall Township High School)
Harry Jenq, Thesis Student (first at Harvard/MIT, now at JMP Securities)
Joe Rokicki, Undergraduate (now at University of Colorado at Boulder)
Cara Singer, Summer Student
Sam Leachman, Summer Student (first at UC Berkeley, now postdoc in the Netherlands)
Dave Pai, Research Staff (first at University of Michigan, then Scripps, now at BioNano Genomics)
Richa Gawande, Summer Student (now at Harvard)
Randy Stockbridge, Thesis Student (first to UNC, then MIT, now Assistant Professor at University of Michigan)
Debasmita Roy, Summer Student (first at UNC, now at NYU)

Collaborators, past and present

Joseph Schacherer
Bonny Brewer and Raghu
Kelley Harris
Paul Rowley
Catherine Fox
Nick Powell
Judit Villen
Gavin Sherlock
Sasha Levy
Jay Shendure
Doug Fowler
Allan Rettie
Amy Caudy
Debbie Nickerson
David Hess
Josh Akey
Trisha Davis
Stan Fields
Matt Kaeberlein
Alex Merz
Olga Troyanskaya
Angelika Amon
Doug Koshland
Generation Biotech
Abram Gabriel
David Botstein
Leonid Kruglyak
Yixian Zheng

Affiliations

Genetics Society of America (Board of Directors 2021-2023)
UW Center for Synthetic Biology Co-director
Saccharomyces Genome Database Scientific Advisory Board
Engineering Biology Research Consortium Steering Committee
Fred Hutch/UW Cancer Consortium
Pharmacogenomics Research Network
UW Healthy Aging and Longevity Research Institute
Brotman Baty Institute
Atlas of Variant Effects Alliance