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Radhika Jangi is a rotation student from the Cell, Molecular, Developmental Biology & Biophysics Program. She received her B.S. in Biochemistry from Brandeis University. She was a research technician and lab manager at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. |
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Robyn Stix is a member of the Cell, Molecular, Developmental Biology & Biophysics program and NIH Graduate Partnership program. She received her B.A. in Biochemistry from from Skidmore College. She then participated in post-baccalaureate research at the National Institute of Heart, Lung and Blood at NIH in Theoretical Molecular Biophysics. She is joined by her service dog Agnes, who enjoys taking long naps under Robyn’s desk. |
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Andrew Bortvin is a rotation student from the Cell, Molecular, Developmental Biology & Biophysics PhD Program. He received his B.A. in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania and has since worked as a research technician at Princeton University and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Andrew’s rotation project focused on the application of k-mer counting methods to structural variation. |
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Joel Espinoza is an undergraduate student double-majoring in Public Health and Molecular and Cell Biology. He is the recipient of the Michael S. Applestein Scholarship and serves in leadership roles of multiple cultural and student services organizations. Joel’s research focuses on interpreting signatures of positive selection in human genomes. |
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Peter Huang is an undergraduate majoring in Biology and minoring in Computer Science. His previous research experience includes four summers split between two labs at the University of California, San Francisco, one focusing on telomeres and the other on pediatric lung function. Peter’s current research focuses on disentangling causal functional mutations from genome-wide association data. |
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Nicholas Parente is an undergraduate double-majoring in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. He is interested in practical approaches to analyzing large genomic datasets. Nick’s research examines the relationship between gene copy number and expression. |
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Jingliang Simon Zhang is a rotation student from the Cell, Molecular, Developmental Biology & Biophysics Program. He received his B.S. in Biological Sciences from Peking University, China. He was also a summer research student at University of Toronto and Duke University. |
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Sara Debić is a rotation student from the Cell, Molecular, Developmental Biology & Biophysics PhD Program. She received her B.S. from the University of Zagreb, Croatia in Molecular Biology. While obtaining her B.S., she conducted summer research at the Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, as well as the California Academy of Sciences and NASA Ames Research Center. |
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Arta Seyedian is a research technologist and Master’s student in the Bioinformatics program. Prior to his work at Hopkins, Arta obtained a B.S. in Neuroscience from George Mason University and was an Intramural Research Training Award Postbaccalaureate with the National Institute on Drug Abuse. |
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Natalie Murphy is a rotation student from the Cell, Molecular, Developmental Biology & Biophysics Program. Prior to joining the Ph.D. program, she received her B.S. in Molecular & Cellular Biology from Johns Hopkins University and was an NIH postbaccalaureate IRTA fellow at the National Institute on Aging. |
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Margaret Starostik is a rotation student from the Cell, Molecular, Developmental Biology & Biophysics Program. She received her B.S. in Biological Sciences from the State University of New York-Buffalo and her M.S. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology from Georgetown University. She was a NIH postbaccalaureate IRTA fellow at the National Eye Institute before joining the Ph.D. program at Johns Hopkins University. |
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Katie Farney was the first Ph.D. rotation student in the lab. She is a member of the Cell, Molecular, Developmental Biology & Biophysics program and NIH Graduate Partnership program. She received her bachelors degree from the University of Central Florida and then participated in postbaccalaureate research at the National Eye Institute as well as the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, both at the NIH. |