Current Liu Group Members
Mandana Arbab
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Education:
B.S., M.S., University of Amsterdam, 2012
Ph.D., Hubrecht Institute, 2016
(Thesis advisor: Niels Geijsen)
Samagya Banskota
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Education:
B.S., Penn State University, 2012
Travis Blum
Post-Doctoral Fellow
B.S., Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 2010
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2016
(Thesis advisor: Tehshik P. Yoon)
Peter Chen
Graduate Student in Chemical Biology
Education: B.S. from University of Chicago, 2016
Jonathan C. Chen
Graduate Student in Chemical Biology
Education: B.A., Princeton University, 2015
Jessie Davis
Graduate Student in Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Education: B.S., UCSD, 2017
Stephan DeCarlo
Graduate Student
Education: B.A. in Biochemistry with a minor in Mathematics from Bowdoin College, 2018
Jordan Doman
Graduate Student in Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Education:B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 2017
Kelcee Everette
Graduate Student in Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Xin (Daniel) Gao
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Education:
B.S., Northeastern University, 2011
M.S., Northwestern University, 2014
Ph.D., UMass Medical School, 2019
(Thesis advisor: Erik Sontheimer)
Apolonia Gardner
Graduate Student
Education: B.S., MIT, 2020
Colin Hemez
Graduate Student
Education: B.S., Yale University, 2018
Alvin Hsu
Graduate Student
Education: B.S., B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 2019
Tony Huang
Graduate Student
Education: B.A., Williams College, 2016
Żaneta Matuszek
Graduate Student
Julia McCreary
Graduate Student in Chemical Biology
Education: B.A., UC Berkeley, 2017
Jaron Mercer
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Education:
Shannon Miller
Graduate Student in Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Education: B.S., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2016
Beverly Mok
Graduate Student in Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Education: B.A., University of Cambridge, 2015
Mary Morrison
Graduate Student in Molecular and Cellular Biology
Education: B.S., University of Toronto, 2015
James Nelson
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Education: B.S., University of Delaware, 2007Ph.D., Yale University, 2014
(Thesis Advisor: Ronald Breaker)
Drew Nelson
Graduate Student
Education: B.S.,University of Minnesota, 2019
Monica Neugebauer
Post-Doctoral fellow
Education:
B.Sc., MIT 2014
Ph.D., UC Berkeley 2020
(Thesis advisor: Michelle Chang)
Greg Newby
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Education: B.S., Carnegie Mellon University, 2009Ph.D. MIT, 2017
(Thesis Advisor: Susan Lindquist)
Smriti Pandey
Graduate Student in Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Education: B.A., Mount Holyoke College, 2019
Alex Peterson
Graduate Student in Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Education:B.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2016
Chris Podracky
Graduate Student in Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Education: B.S., Duke University, 2015
Aditya Raguram
Graduate Student in Chemical Biology
Education: B.A., Harvard University, 2018
Peyton Randolph
Graduate Student in Chemical Biology
Education: B.S., University of Virginia, 2018
Max Shen
Graduate Student
Education: B.S., UCSD, 2015
Co-Advised by Aviv Regev
Alexander Sousa
Graduate Student in Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
Education: B.S., Northeastern University, 2016
Lily Widdup
Graduate Student
Education: BA, Wellesley College, 2020
Julian Willis
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Education:
B.A. M.Sci., University of Cambridge, 2013
Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 2018
(Thesis advisor: Jason W. Chin)
Chris Wilson
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Education: B.S., CUNY, 2011Ph.D., Brandeis University, 2017
(Thesis Advisor: Dorothee Kern)
Isaac Witte
Graduate Student
Education: B.A., UC Berkeley, 2020
Kevin Zhao
Graduate Student
Education: B.A., M.S., Northwestern University, 2016
Former Liu Group Members
Michelle Richter
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Education: B.S., Union College, 2007Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2017
(Thesis Advisor: Paul J. Hergenrother)
Andrew Anzalone
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Education:
Luke Koblan
Graduate Student in Chemical Biology
Education: B.S., MIT, 2015
Jonathan Levy
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Education: B.S., Stanford, 2006Ph.D., UCSF, 2015
(Thesis advisor: Roger Nicoll)
Wei Hsi (Ariel) Yeh
Graduate Student
Education: B.S., Johns Hopkins University, 2014
Holly Rees
Graduate Student in Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Education: B.A., University of Cambridge, 2014
Jeff Bessen
Graduate student (G5) in chemistry and chemical biology
Education:BA, Goucher College, 2013
Ben Thuronyi
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Education: B.A., Swarthmore College, 2007Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 2015
(Thesis Advisor: Michelle Chang)
Weixin Tang
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Education: B.S., Tsinghua University, 2009Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015
(Thesis Advisor: Wilfred A. van der Donk)
Tina Wang
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Education: B.S., Caltech, 2009Ph.D., Yale University, 2015
(Thesis Advisor: David A. Spiegel)
Dmitry Usanov
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Education: Diploma, Higher Chemical College RAS, 2007M. Phil., Newcastle University, 2008
Ph.D., The University of Chicago, 2012
(Thesis advisor: Hisashi Yamamoto)
PostDoc, Harvard University, 2012-2017
(Advisor: David R. Liu)
| Name | Recent Position |
| Aaron Leconte | Assistant Professor |
| Adam Kamlet | Researcher |
| Adrian Berliner | Graduate student |
| Ahmed Badran | Fellow |
| Alix Chan | Graduate student |
| Alexis Komor | Assistant Professor |
| Allen Buskirk | Associate Professor |
| Amrita Goyal | Medcine Resident at University of Minnesota |
| Angela Landrigan | Graduate Student, Stanford |
| Basil Hubbard | Assistant Professor |
| Bill Kim | Biotech startup |
| Breehan Kelley | Associate at Bain and Company |
| Brent Dorr | Investigator |
| Brian Chaikind | Zymergen Inc. |
| Brian Le | Stanford Medical School |
| Brian McNaughton | Assistant Professor |
| Brian Tse | AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow |
| Bryan Dickinson | Assistant Professor |
| Bryan Wang | |
| Chihui An | Senior Scientist |
| Chris Green | M.D. Program |
| Nicole Gaudelli | Senior Scientist |
| Christoph Dumelin | Senior Scientist |
| Christopher Calderone | Assistant Professor |
| Courtney Yuen | Peace Corps |
| Daniel Rosenbaum | Assistant Professor |
| David Bryson | Biotech startup |
| David Gorin | Assistant Professor |
| David Thompson | Postdoc (Church Lab) |
| David Tse | Stanford Professor of Electrical Engineering |
| Diane Truong | AVP of Talent |
| Edward Curtis | Head of Junior Research Group Institute of Chemistry – Czech Rep |
| Eric Ashley | Graduate Student in Chemistry |
| Ernest Mandel | Harvard University |
| Gerald Tiu | Graduate student |
| Grace Chen | Principle Investigator at Yale Uniersity |
| Irwin Chen | Amgen Inc. |
| Isha Agarwal | Consultant at Boston Consulting Group |
| Jacob Carlson | Post-Doc at UCSF |
| James Cha | Harvard Medical School |
| James Cronican | Associate |
| Jane Liu | Assistant Professor |
| Jasmina Marjanovic | Scientist |
| Jeff Doyon | M.D. Program |
| Jennifer Heemstra | Assistant Professor |
| Jia Niu | Postdoc (Hawker Lab) |
| Jim Puckett | Graduate Student in Chemistry |
| John Chorba | |
| John Guilinger | Scientist |
| John Zuris | Scientist |
| Johnny Hu | Graduate Student |
| Jonathon Steinman | Graduate Fellow at Rockefeller University |
| Juan Pablo Maianti | Post-doctoral Fellow |
| Josh Bittker | Researcher |
| Kaori Sakurai | Associate Professor |
| Karen Ruff | Visiting Assistant Professor |
| Kathy Chang | Columbia Medical School |
| Kevin Davis | Post-doc at University of Toronto |
| Kevin Esvelt | Fellow, |
| Kevin Phillips | Postdoc (Baxter Lab) |
| Lena Afeyan | Graduate student |
| Liewei Chen | |
| Lynn McGregor | Postdoc (Shokat) |
| Maarten Geurts | Ph.D. Program |
| Margie Li | Associate Director Immuno-oncology |
| Mary Lonshteyn | NYU Medical School |
| Mary Rozenman | Vice President |
| Mathias Gruen | Jena |
| Matthew Kanan | Assistant Professor |
| Meera Atreya | Graduate student in Chemistry |
| Michael Birnbaum | Graduate student in Immunology |
| Michael Fischbach | Assistant Professor |
| Michael Packer | Biotech startup |
| Michael Sacerdote | Harvard Medical School |
| Michelle Jung | |
| Mike Lawrence | Researcher |
| Ning Sun | Senior Scientist |
| Norie Momiyama | Associate Professor |
| Pantila Vanichakarn | University of Chicago Medical School |
| Polina Kehayova | Postdoc (Maniatis Lab) |
| Ralph Kleiner | Postdoc |
| Rebecca Weisinger | Graduate Student in Chemistry |
| Richard McDonald | Senior Scientist |
| Rozalina Grubina | |
| Ryan Hili | Assistant Professor |
| Sun Chung | |
| Sun Peck | Associate Professor |
| Thomas Snyder | Postdoc (Quake Lab) |
| Tiffany Hsieh | |
| Tim Roth | |
| Vikram Pattanayak | MD/PhD Program |
| Walter Kowtoniuk | Consulting |
| Xiaoyu Li | Assistant Professor |
| Xue (Sherry) Gao | Assistant Professor |
| Ye Grace Chen | Post-Doc with Howard Chang |
| Yevgeny Brudno | Fellow |
| Yi-Ching Ong | Oxford University |
| Yinghua Shen | Associate Director/Principal Scientist at Takeda Pharmaceuticals |
| Yiyun Chen | Assistant Professor |
| Yu He | |
| Zev Gartner | Assistant Professor |
| Zhen Chen | Graduate Student |