Rebecca Kirby (former undergraduate and summer post-bac). She drove work exploring the distribution of artemisinin-resistant mutation 561H in Rwanda using the Demographic Health Survey from 2014. She is currently enjoying Berlin and applying to graduate school.

Aris Paschalidis (former undergraduate and bioinformatician). He worked on MIPTools along with a variety of projects supporting the lab. His major indendent work was COIAF. Last seen at UMass Chan in Medical School

Yousef Elgodamy (former undergraduate) examined rapidly evoling genes in plasmodium aiming to understand lavernia and GARP evolution. One of our hardest projects. Currently programmer at ?

Ijeoma Meremikwu (former undergraduate) who worked on examining selection and immune pressure across the malaria genome. Last spotted at IRTA Postbac Fellow at the NIH

Deborah Chin (former technican). Deb worked on large scale MIPs and supporting collaborators. Last seen at Woods Hole working in Rosenthal Lab

Kazen Gallman (former high school - undergraduate). Worked on a variety of projects in the lab. Gifted in robotics and engineering. Last seen doing neuroscience research at Brown.

Jonathan Kpaka (former masters student) He received his masters at University of Ghana with his primary advisor Anita Ghansah with Dr. Bailey as co-research advisor. He examined the P. falcparum circumsporozoite variation and the interplay with HLA.

Savannah Lewis (former undergraduate and postbac intern). She helped to develop amplicon panels while awaiting starting her PhD at Stanford. She completed an honors project in Biology examining Methods in Population-wide Surveillance of Anitmalarial Drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum. Last seen last Standford earning her PhD

Karyna Atha (Undergraduate student) is pursuing a degree in Immunobiology at Brown University. She hails from Mumbai, India and is fascinated by Global Health research. She is currently working on her thesis project, which focuses on the serologic differentiation of Type 1 and Type 2 EBV. Last seen at oxford pursuing her MD.

Ozkan Aydemir (Instructor) has been developing molecular inversion probe (MIP) technology within the lab and applying it to multiple Plasmodium sequencing projects as well as to human copy number variation in projects related to severe malaria and Type 1 diabetes. He is at the heart of both our wet-bench and computational approaches involving MIPs. Currently Assitant Professor at UMass Chan

OJ Watson (Postdoctoral fellow) recently joined after finishing his PhD in infectious disease modelling at Imperial College London. He works primarily on malaria, developing statistical models for analysing parasite genetic sequence data.

Nick Hathaway (MD-PhD Student) is focused on developing and applying novel bioinformatics for rapid analysis of variation in mixed and polyclonal infections. He has developed SeekDeep providing single base resolution clustering of amplicons and novel local assembly method PathWeaver to explore complex regions of the genome. He is currently a medicine resident at UMass Chan. Impressively, he is still finding time to pursue research within the lab and with other collaborators.

Patrick Marsh (Laboratory Manager) Patrick drove wet bench work including initila molecular inversion probe captures and high-throughput sequencing. Last seen at 2sevety bio as Senior Associate Scientist

Peter Owuor (MA) studied the role of single nucleotide variation in the risk for Burkitt lymphoma as well as malaria genetics and was jointly mentored with Ann Moormann. He is currently a graduate student at UMMS in the Sasetti Lab

Mercedeh Javanbakht Movassagh (PhD ) focused on exploring the role of EBV across a variety of associated cancers and in the role of EBV genetic variation. She analyzed large-scale public cancer genomics data to more sensitively detect the role and influence EBV. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Haravard.

Jennifer (J) Moon (PhD Student) is primarily in the Lawrence Lab being co-mentored in bioinformatics. She is delving into the role of repetitive elements and noncoding RNA in pluripotency and Down Syndrome. Since leaving UMMS we are continuing to collaborate but no longer co-advising.

Srinivas Niranj Chandrasekaran (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-2018) extended algorithms for copy number typing using targeted sequencing.

Guang Zhao (graduate student 2012-2017) investigated the role of non coding variation in ALS. His project involves analyzing previous GWAS with more recent whole-genome sequencing and targeted genotyping and experiments to investigate the role of non-coding regions in disease susceptibility. He is now focusing on computer science.

Yasin Kaymaz (PhD student 2012-2017) and worked on transcriptome analysis of Burkitt lymphoma as well as whole genome viral sequencing of EBV. He is a lecturer ast Ege Unviersity in Turkey.

Alice Tran (Research Assistant 2014-2016) worked on optimizing the MIPs in our lab and on the genetics of Babesia microti performing whole genome sequencing and analysis. Currently, She she is pursuing her MD-PhD at Texas A & M College of Medicine

Derrick DeConti (PhD student 2010-2015) worked on characterizing segmental duplications and copy number variation within P. falciparum genome. He could also dance. He is currently a Bioinformatics Scientist at Dana-Farber Cancer Center.

Nick Blouin (Research Associate 2009-2012) worked as a technician in the lab and in addition to laboratory work pursued programming to a large degree. He is an Implementation Consultant with EAC.

Richard Lambrecht (Instructor 2009-2013) working on malaria copy number variation using array comparative genomic hybridization. He is now currently teaching at Worcester Tech.