Meet the Team

Faculty

Jesse Bloom

Jesse Bloom

Principal Investigator

Grad Students

Caleb Carr

Caleb Carr

Graduate Student

Caroline Kikawa

Caroline Kikawa

Graduate Student

Jenny Ahn

Jenny Ahn

Graduate Student

Lizzie Plender

Lizzie Plender

Graduate Student

Lucas Kampman

Lucas Kampman

Graduate Student

Tim Yu

Tim Yu

Graduate Student

Postdocs

Andrew Butler

Andrew Butler

Postdoctoral Fellow

Arjun Aditham

Arjun Aditham

Postdoctoral Fellow

Brendan Larsen

Brendan Larsen

Postdoctoral Fellow

Cassandra Simonich

Cassandra Simonich

Pediatric Infectious Disease Fellow

Catherine Jacob-Dolan

Catherine Jacob-Dolan

Postdoctoral Fellow

Sara Sunshine

Sara Sunshine

Postdoctoral Fellow

Sheri Harari

Sheri Harari

Postdoctoral Fellow

Wenlin Ren

Wenlin Ren

Postdoctoral Fellow

Xiaohui Ju

Xiaohui Ju

Postdoctoral Fellow

Staff

Andrea Loes

Andrea Loes

Staff Scientist/Lab Manager

Bernadeta Dadonaite

Bernadeta Dadonaite

Staff Scientist

Caelan Radford

Caelan Radford

Staff Scientist

Teagan McMahon

Teagan McMahon

Research Technician

Will Hannon

Will Hannon

Data Scientist

Alumni

Postdocs

Tal Einav
2019 - 2023
Assistant Professor at the La Jolla Institute of Immunology in San Diego
Tyler Starr
2018 - 2023
Assistant Professor at the University of Utah
Karen Barnard
2020 - 2021
Senior Medical Writer at Pfizer
Alistair Russell
2014 - 2019
Assistant Professor at UCSD Division of Biological Sciences
Shirleen Soh
2015 - 2019
Head of Academic Research at National Research Foundation, Singapore
Jeremy Roop
2016 - 2019
Scientist at Berkeley Brewing Science
Orr Ashenberg
2013 - 2017
Associate Director, Computational Biology at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Bargavi Thyagarajan
2011 - 2014
Scientific Project Manager at the Allen Institute for Brain Science

Graduate Students

Frances Welsh
2019 - 2024
Research Scientist at Amazon
David Bacsik
2017 - 2023
Finishing medical school
Lauren Gentles
2016 - 2022
Scientist III at Thermo Fisher Scientific
Allie Greaney
2016 - 2022
Internal medicine resident at UCSF
Kate Crawford
2017 - 2021
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology resident at UW
Sarah Hilton
2016 - 2020
Senior Scientist at Dyno Therapeutics
Adam Dingens
2015 - 2019
Director building a 'stealth mode' biotech company
Katherine Xue
2015 - 2019
Incoming Assistant Professor at the University of California, Irvine
Juhye Lee
2015 - 2019
Resident at Massachusetts General Hospital
Heather Machkovech
2014 - 2018
Internal Medicine resident at University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinic
Hugh Haddox
2013 - 2017
Project Manager in Erick Matsen's lab at Fred Hutch
Mike Doud
2013 - 2017
Infectious Disease Fellow at UC San Diego Health
Kathryn Hooper
2012 - 2015
Senior Scientist at Sonoma Biotherapeutics

Staff Members

Ariana Farrell
2020 - 2023
Incoming PhD student at UW Molecular and Cellular Biology
Rosario Tarabi
2020 - 2024
Business student at Franciscan University of Steubenville
Rachel Eguia
2019 - 2021
Associate Scientist at Variant Bio
Keara Malone
2019 - 2021
Teaching English in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Ian Gong
2011 - 2014
Assistant Facility Manager at Stop & Shop

Undergraduate Researchers

Jonathan Mah
2018 - 2020
Cameron Meikle
2018 - 2018
Noah Cassidy
2017 - 2018
Jacob Kowalsky
2016 - 2018
Alexandria Wilson
2017 - 2017
Jai Padmakumar
2014 - 2016
Lessane Ketema
2016 - 2016
Alex Heckert
2014 - 2015
Khrystyna Dilai
2014 - 2014
Kendra Ferrier
2014 - 2014
Brandon Pratt
2014 - 2014
Donna Leet
2012 - 2013
Ari Kaufman
2013 - 2013
Sam Schetterer
2011 - 2012