{"id":22,"date":"2024-07-13T00:03:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T00:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/dunhamlab\/wordpress\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:46:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:46:56","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/dunhamlab\/people\/","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t

Current Members of the Lab<\/h3>\n

Maitreya Dunham, PI<\/h3>\n

Research Staff<\/h6>\nEmily Mitchell, Lab Manager
\nBarbara Dunn, Visiting Scientist\n
Postdocs and Grad Students<\/h6>\nJoe Armstrong, Postdoc
\nRandi Avery, Postdoc
\nSarah Heater, Postdoc, joint with Kelley Harris<\/a>
\nLeah Anderson, GS Graduate Student
\nGabby Ferra, Recently Graduated GS Graduate Student, joint with Kelley Harris<\/a>
\nRachel Powell, GS Graduate Student
\nZanny Ham, GS Graduate Student
\nMegan Taylor, GS Graduate Student\n
Undergrads (and recently graduated undergrads still in the lab)<\/h6>\nZilong Zeng, Graduated Undergraduate Researcher
\nJasmine Schoch, Graduated Undergraduate Researcher\nLauren Ackermann, Graduated Undergraduate Researcher
\nAmanda Ro, Graduated Undergraduate Researcher
\nNya Duckworth, Undergraduate Researcher
\nMaleigha Peterson, Undergraduate Researcher
\nKatya Rukhlinskaia, Undergraduate Researcher
\nNari Rusli, Undergraduate Researcher
\nSophia Weis, Undergraduate Researcher
\nTiffany Do, Student Helper\n

Former Members of the Lab<\/h3>\n

Seattle Era<\/h4>\n

Postdocs and Grad Students<\/h6>\nRenee Geck, Postdoc (now an assistant professor at Gonzaga University<\/a>)
\nPengyao Jiang, Postdoc, joint with Kelley Harris<\/a> (now an assistant professor at Arizona State University<\/a>)
\nTaylor Wang, MCB Graduate Student (now a postdoc with Snow Zhou at NYU<\/a>)
\nCindy Yeh, GS Graduate Student (now at GigaGen)
\nSoyeon Showman, MCB Graduate Student (now at Fred Hutch)
\nClara Amorosi, GS Graduate Student then postdoc (now working at BMS)
\nChris Large, MCB Graduate Student (now postdoc with John Murray at Penn)
\nAbby Keller, MCB Graduate Student then postdoc (now at Bio-Rad)
\nBryce Taylor, Postdoc (now a professor at Loras College)
\nAnja Ollodart, MCB Graduate Student (now at ActX)
\nElisa Wong, Postdoc (now at Deepmind, was Lead NGS R&D researcher at LabGenius)
\nCaiti Smukowski Heil, Postdoc (now a professor at NC State University<\/a>)
\nMonica Sanchez, MCB graduate student (first a postdoc with Dmitri Petrov at Stanford, now at Sandia National Laboratories)
\nElyse 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)
\nIvan Liachko, Postdoc (now co-founder of Phase Genomics<\/a>)
\nSam Lancaster, MCB graduate student (first apostdoc with Mike Snyder then Scientific Director, Metabolic Health Center at Stanford)
\nAaron Miller, GS graduate student (now at Zymergen)
\nCelia Payen, Postdoc (now at IFF\/Dupont)
\nAnna Sunshine, MSTP Student (now at UW for residency)\n
Research Staff, Undergrads, and Interns<\/h6>\nRegina Pereyra, Undergraduate Researcher\nVirginia Wang, Undergraduate Researcher
\nElinor Washington, Summer 2024 REU student
\nNoah Fredstrom, Research Staff (previously Undergraduate Researcher and Mary Gates Scholar) (now at UW School of Pharmacy)
\nOwen Burris, Student Helper
\nDennis Godin, Undergraduate Researcher
\nAnna Steed, Undergraduate Researcher (now at Auburn University)
\nSkyler Tsai, Undergraduate Researcher
\nValentina Maggi, Undergraduate Researcher
\nLiya Miksovsky, Summer REU student
\nScarlett Counihan, Student Helper
\nNaomi Moresi, Undergraduate Researcher
\nAndrea Chang, Undergraduate Researcher
\nMaya Walker, summer REU student (Iowa State, then tech at University of Wisconsin, now graduate student at Northwestern)
\nMai Frey, Student Helper
\nMargaux Walson, Undergraduate Researcher
\nAnne Sofie L\u00e6rke Hansen, visiting graduate student (DTU)
\nGrace Dy, Undergraduate Researcher
\nNick Righi, undergraduate researcher
\nOmar Kunjo, summer intern (Bowdoin, now a tech at the Hutch)
\nAngela Hickey, Undergraduate Researcher (UW, then NYU, now at Stanford)
\nAlexandra Gallegos, HHMI EXROP student (Portland State University, now at UW MCB)
\nBrenna Greaves, Student Helper
\nSamantha Dahne, Student Helper
\nKolena Dang, Undergraduate Researcher and Mary Gates Scholar (now with AmeriCorps)
\nKira Patterson, Undergraduate Researcher (Carleton, then NIH, now MIT)
\nNavinder Kamal, Undergraduate Researcher (first at Center for Infectious Disease Research, now Strategic Program Manager at Viome)
\nRebecca Pfahl, SCC Intern with Brewer\/Raghuraman lab
\nKim Huynh, Student Helper (UW)
\nAzhar Khandekar, Undergraduate Researcher (UW to NIH, now at UCSD Bioinformatics)
\nErica Alcantara, Undergraduate Researcher and Mary Gates Scholar (now at NYU Long Island)
\nMichael McGovern, SCC Intern with Brewer\/Raghuraman lab
\nApril Vande Brake, Student Helper (UW)
\nThy Dang, Student Helper (UW)
\nGiang Ong, Research Staff (now at NanoString)
\nJessica Cao, Undergraduate Researcher (UW, now at Harvard Biostatistics)
\nJamie Pogachar, Undergraduate Researcher, Mary Gates Scholar, and Research Scientist (UW, now at Alder Biopharmaceuticals)
\nMagdalia Suarez, SCC Intern with Brewer\/Raghuraman lab
\nFitsum Gebremariam, SCC Intern with Brewer\/Raghuraman lab
\nKory Kolis, Amgen Scholar (Gustavus to Rice and now at University of Montana)
\nEmily Hutchins, Volunteer
\nAnnie Young, Undergraduate Researcher and Mary Gates Scholar (now at UW Medical School)
\nAlex White, Student Helper (UW)
\nThao Nguyen, Undergraduate Researcher (now in Chemical and Biological Engineering PhD program at Princeton)
\nMei Huang, Undergraduate Researcher (first UW Pharmacy School, now Medicare Clinical Pharmacist at Premera Blue Cross)
\nBryony Lynch, Undergraduate Researcher (first at the Hutch, then University of Pittsburgh, now UW)
\nBritney Martinez, Summer Intern (UC Santa Cruz, then NYU, now PacBio)
\nRachel Peralta (Youngblood), HHMI student and Research Staff (first at UC Irvine, now at Kaiser Permanente)
\nEmma May, High School Student Researcher
\nNeha Kunwar, Student Helper (UW)
\nCara Comfort, Student Helper (UW)
\nBarry Dion, Research Staff (first at Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, now at CIBC)
\nMike Bocek, Amgen Scholar (now at Stanford)
\nLaura Hoverson, Amgen Scholar (Scripps)
\nLory Henderson, Summer Intern (UNM, now at Cornell)\n

Princeton Era<\/h4>\nChris DeSevo, Research Staff (first at UT Southwestern, then Exelixis, now at Mirati Therapeutics)
\nYufei Liu, Thesis Student, (now at Berkeley)
\nAlana Arnold, Thesis Student, (first at Tufts, then Oakland Children’s Hospital, now Medical Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Jackson North Medical Center)
\nAbram Gabriel, Visiting Professor from Rutgers
\nCheryl Tucker, Research Staff (now at Wall Township High School)
\nHarry Jenq, Thesis Student (first at Harvard\/MIT, now at JMP Securities)
\nJoe Rokicki, Undergraduate (now at University of Colorado at Boulder)
\nCara Singer, Summer Student
\nSam Leachman, Summer Student (first at UC Berkeley, now postdoc in the Netherlands)
\nDave Pai, Research Staff (first at University of Michigan, then Scripps, now at BioNano Genomics)
\nRicha Gawande, Summer Student (now at Harvard)
\nRandy Stockbridge, Thesis Student (first to UNC, then MIT, now Assistant Professor at University of Michigan)
\nDebasmita Roy, Summer Student (first at UNC, now at NYU)\n

Collaborators, past and present<\/h4>\nJoseph Schacherer
\nBonny Brewer and Raghu
\nKelley Harris
\nPaul Rowley
\nCatherine Fox
\nNick Powell
\nJudit Villen
\nGavin Sherlock
\nSasha Levy
\nJay Shendure
\nDoug Fowler
\nAllan Rettie
\nAmy Caudy
\nDebbie Nickerson
\nDavid Hess
\nJosh Akey
\nTrisha Davis
\nStan Fields
\nMatt Kaeberlein
\nAlex Merz
\nOlga Troyanskaya
\nAngelika Amon
\nDoug Koshland
\nGeneration Biotech
\nAbram Gabriel
\nDavid Botstein
\nLeonid Kruglyak
\nYixian Zheng\n

Affiliations<\/h4>\nGenetics Society of America (Board of Directors 2021-2023)
\nUW Center for Synthetic Biology Co-director
\nSaccharomyces Genome Database Scientific Advisory Board
\nEngineering Biology Research Consortium (Board of Directors co-chair 2022-23)
\nFred Hutch\/UW Cancer Consortium
\nPharmacogenomics Research Network
\nUW Healthy Aging and Longevity Research Institute
\nBrotman Baty Institute
\nAtlas of Variant Effects Alliance\n\t

winter 2026<\/h3>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\"IMG_6002\"\n\t<\/figure>\n\t

spring 2025<\/h3>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\"IMG_9853\"\n\t<\/figure>\n\t

winter 2025<\/h3>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\"IMG_7806\"\n\t<\/figure>\n\t

fall 2024<\/h3>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\"IMG_6291\"\n\t<\/figure>\n\t

summer 2024<\/h3>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\"summer_2024\"\n\t<\/figure>\n\t

lab retreat 2024<\/h3>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\"2024_retreat_edited\"\n\t<\/figure>\n\t

spring 2024<\/h3>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\"IMG_7625\"\n\t<\/figure>\n\t

2023<\/h3>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\"23\"\n\t<\/figure>\n\t

2021<\/h3>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\"21\"\n\t<\/figure>\n\t

2020<\/h3>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\"20\"\n\t<\/figure>\n\t

2019<\/h3>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\"19\"\n\t<\/figure>\n\t

2018<\/h3>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\"18\"\n\t<\/figure>\n\t

2017<\/h3>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\"17\"\n\t<\/figure>\n\t

2016<\/h3>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\"15\"\n\t<\/figure>\n\t

2015<\/h3>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\"16\"\n\t<\/figure>\n\t

2014<\/h3>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\"OLYMPUS\n\t<\/figure>\n\t

2013<\/h3>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\"13\"\n\t<\/figure>\n\t

2012<\/h3>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\"12\"\n\t<\/figure>\n\t

2011<\/h3>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\"su11\"\n\t<\/figure>\n\t

2010<\/h3>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\"su10\"\n\t<\/figure>\n\t

summer 2009<\/h3>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\"su09\"\n\t<\/figure>\n\t

spring 2009<\/h3>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\"sp09\"\n\t<\/figure>\n\t

2007<\/h3>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\"su07\"\n\t<\/figure>\n\t

2006<\/h3>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\"su06\"\n\t<\/figure>\n\t

2005<\/h3>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\"su05\"\n\t<\/figure>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 Sarah Heater, Postdoc, joint with Kelley Harris Leah Anderson, GS Graduate Student Gabby Ferra, Recently Graduated GS Graduate Student, joint with Kelley Harris Rachel Powell, GS Graduate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/dunhamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/dunhamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/dunhamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/dunhamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/dunhamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/dunhamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/dunhamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/dunhamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}