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Many of our lab members go on to academia or industry. Below are the current academic positions from some of our most recent graduate students and postdocs.

Name Current position Current institute
Sujit Datta Professor California Institute of Technology
Elaine Hsiao Associate Professor and Director of the UCLA Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center UCLA
Alexandre Persat Associate Professor École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
James Boedicker Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Center of Excellence in Nano Imaging University of Southern California
Christian Kastrup Professor ; Affiliate Professor ; Senior Investigator Medical College of Wisconsin ; University of British Columbia ; Versiti Blood Research Institute
Jesus Rodriguez-Manzano Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director of the Centre for Antimicrobial Optimisation (CAMO) Imperial College London
Yanran Li Associate Professor University of California, San Diego
Wenbin Du Professor Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ying Liu Professor and College of Engineering Interim Associate Dean of Research University of Illinois, Chicago
Rebecca Pompano Associate Professor University of Virginia
Feng Shen Associate Professor Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Hung-Wing Li Associate Professor The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Takuji Hatakeyama Professor Kyoto University
Jang-Wook Choi Professor Seoul National University
Annela Seddon Professor and Associate Pro Vice Chancellor (Research & Innovation) University of Bristol
Yu-Hsiang Hsu Assistant Professor National Taiwan University
Stephanie McCalla Associate Professor Montana State University
Sharon Neufeldt Associate Professor Montana State University
Myung-Ji Seo Professor Incheon National University
Janmejay Pandey Assistant Professor Central University of Rajasthan
Travis Schlappi Assistant Teaching Professor Arizona State University
Bo Zheng Senior Principal Investigator Shenzhen Bay Laboratory
Hyun Jung Kim Principal Investigator Cleveland Clinic
Jason Kreutz Senior Research Scientist ; Director of Microtechnology University of Washington ; Lamprogen, Inc. / DPlexBio, Inc.
Said Bogatyrev Postdoctoral Scientist Cedars-Sinai
Justin Rolando Postdoctoral Fellow ; Research Fellow Wyss Institute ; Brigham & Women's Hospital
Songzi Kou Associate Research Fellow Shenzhen Bay Laboratory
Jungwoo (Jake) Kim Associate Research Fellow Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning (KISTEP)

Former Graduate Students

Ji Hwan Lee (MSc) 2001-2004 LinkedIn
Helen (Song) Baca 2001-2006 LinkedIn
L. Spencer Roach 2002-2006
Cory Gerdts 2002-2007 LinkedIn
Elena Lucchetta 2002-2007 LinkedIn
Matthew Runyon 2002-2007 LinkedIn
Christian Kastrup 2003-2008 UBC; MCW
Delai Chen 2003-2009 LinkedIn
James Boedicker 2004-2010 University of Southern California
Liang Li 2004-2010 LinkedIn
Feng Shen 2005-2010 Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Meghan (Vincent) Bush 2005-2011
Jason E. Kreutz 2005-2011 LinkedIn
Rebecca Pompano 2005-2011 University of Virginia
Weishan Liu 2006-2012 LinkedIn
Toan Huynh 2007-2011  LinkedIn
Liang Ma 2007-2013 LinkedIn
Bing Sun 2008-2014 LinkedIn
Qichao Pan (MSc) 2010-2012 LinkedIn
Renee McVay 2011-2012 LinkedIn
Jungwoo Jake Kim (MSc) 2011-2013 LinkedIn
David Selck 2011-2016 LinkedIn
Travis Schlappi 2012-2017 Arizona State University
Matthew Curtis 2013-2018 LinkedIn
Justin C. Rolando 2011-2019 LinkedIn
Said Bogatyrev 2012-2019 Cedars-Sinai
Tahmineh Khazaei 2012-2019 LinkedIn
Asher Preska Steinberg 2013-2019 LinkedIn
Nathan G. Schoepp 2015-2019 LinkedIn
Roberta Poceviciute 2013-2020 LinkedIn
Dmitriy Zhukov 2013-2020 LinkedIn
Erik Jue 2014-2020 LinkedIn
Mary Arrastia 2015-2021 LinkedIn
Jacob Barlow 2017-2021 LinkedIn
Emily Savela 2017-2021 LinkedIn
Eric Liaw (MSTP) 2017-2022 UCLA
Sarah Simon 2019-2022 LinkedIn
Michael Porter 2018-2024 LinkedIn

Former Undergraduate Research Assistants

Slava Butkovich (PhD candidate at Northwestern)
Kevin Winzey LinkedIn
Jenny Ji (PhD candidate at Stanford)

Former Lab Technicians

Matt Cooper (Current PhD candidate in Ismagilov Lab)
Alyssa Carter (PhD candidate at Stanford)

Former Postdoctoral Scholars

Bo Zheng 2003-2005 Shenzhen Bay Laboratory
Matt Munson 2004-2005 LinkedIn
Takuji Hatakeyama 2005 Kyoto University
Hung-Wing Li 2005-2006 Chinese University of Hong Kong
Xiajing Zhang 2005-2006
Emory Chan 2007 LinkedIn
Myung-Ji Seo 2007 Incheon National University
Qiang Fu 2005-2008 LinkedIn
Jang-Wook Choi 2007-2008 LinkedIn
Timothy Kline 2007-2008 LinkedIn
Ying Liu 2007-2008 University of Illinois, Chicago
Annela Seddon 2007-2008 University of Bristol
Hyun Jung Kim 2007-2009 Cleveland Clinic
Matthias Meier 2008-2009 Helmholtz Munich
Elena Lucchetta 2007-2010 LinkedIn
Kevin Nichols 2009-2010 LinkedIn
Janmejay Pandey 2009-2010 LinkedIn
Wenbin Du 2007-2011 Chinese Academy of Sciences
Liang Li 2010-2011 LinkedIn
Feng Shen 2010-2011 Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Yanran Li 2012-2013 UCSD
Sharon Neufeldt 2013 Montana State University
Yu-Hsiang Hsu 2011-2014 LinkedIn
Songzi Kou 2011-2014 LinkedIn
Alex Tucker-Schwartz 2011-2014 LinkedIn
Stephanie McCalla 2012-2014 Montana State University
Stefano Begolo 2011-2015 LinkedIn
Shencheng Ge 2011-2015 LinkedIn
Weishan Liu 2012-2014 LinkedIn
Elaine Hsiao 2013-2014 UCLA
Jesus Rodriguez Manzano 2013-16 Imperial College London
Liang Ma 2014-2016 LinkedIn
Alexandre Persat 2015-2016 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Sujit Datta 2013-2017 Caltech
Daan Witters 2013-2018 LinkedIn
Joong Hwan Bahng 2017-2018 LinkedIn
Eugenia Khorosheva 2013-2020 LinkedIn
Octavio Mondragon-Palomino 2015-2020 LinkedIn
Joanne Lau 2017-2020 LinkedIn
Said Bogatyrev 2019-2020 LinkedIn
Justin C. Rolando 2019-2020 LinkedIn
Roberta Poceviciute 2020-2021 LinkedIn

Former Study Coordinators

Jessica Reyes LinkedIn
Noah Schlenker (Med student at KCU)
Hannah Davich LinkedIn
Saharai Caldera LinkedIn