People

 

The Blackman Lab is always on the look out for great biologists.  We have many projects that talented undergraduates can contribute to or take on for work study and academic credit. Prospective postdoctoral fellows and graduate students with interests in genetic basis of evolutionary change, gene-environment interactions, and the evolution of development are encouraged to contact us to discuss ideas and opportunities.  Drop us an e-mail!

Postdocs

Graduate Students

Former Undergraduates and High School Students

Evan Brown, Grad Student, University of Virginia

Grace Johnson, Graduate Student, MIT

Inam Jameel, Grad Student, University of Georgia

Amaro Tuninetti, Grad Student, Brown University

Gloria Marino, Grad Student, Johns Hopkins University

Katie Aracena, Grad Student, University of Chicago

Cameron Yuki, Grad Student, UC Davis

Hannah Verdonk, Grad Student, Temple University

Sara Vandenburgh, Grad Student, UC San Diego

Alice Eastman, Grad Student, Johns Hopkins University

Lane Scher, Grad Student, Duke University

Alyson Ennis, Grad Student, University of Colorado Boulder

Catie Kitrinos, Grad Student, UMass Amherst

Isaac Diaz, Grad Student, UC Riverside

Morgan Shock, Grad Student, Virginia Tech

Lauren Nalley, Grad Student, UT Austin

Haoran Xue, Grad Student, University of Toronto

Leanne Poussard, Grad Student, USM Gulf Coast Research Lab

Youlim Ha, Grad Student, Cornell University

Dania Zuniga, Grad Student, Pierre and Marie Curie University

Xinyue Fang, Masters Student, University of Pennsylvania

Will Poehlman, PhD, Sage Bionetworks

Phil Digiacomo, PhD, Qiming Venture Capital

Andrew Sanders, Research Associate, Visolis

Sean Adams, Intern, Cibus

Yuju Shin, Technician, Zouves Foundation for Reproductive Medicine

Daniel Yang, Research Associate, Agriplex Genomics

Adrian Overly, Research Associate, Synvivia

Brittnie Phan, Junior Research Specialist, UC Davis

Linnea Norton, Carbon Analyst, EP Carbon

Barbara Camacho-Garcia, Project Assistant, Alameda County Resource Conservation District

Ian Anderson, Protein and Nucleic Acid Facility Research Specialist, Stanford University

Catalina Pascualy, Biological Science Aid, USDA-ARS

Casey Lu Simon-Plumb, Research Assistant, Boston Medical Center

Alia Wofford, Research Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Nina Gutierrez, Med Student, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Andrew Fortugno, MD, Resident, University of Tennessee

Rebecca Karp, DDS, Resident, University of Virginia

Benjamin Campbell, MD. Resident, Thomas Jefferson University

Connor Graham, M.P.H. Student, Yale University

Stephanie Andersen, Med Student, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Ethan Hessl, Science Teacher, Fremont High School

Zack Whiting, Med Student, George Washington University

Isabelle Tan, Health Aid, Palo Alto VA Medical Center

Edith Lai, K-12 STEM Education and Outreach Student Assistant, Berkeley Lab

Sebastian Agramont-Justiniano, Assistant Teacher, Sierra Schools of Antioch

Samyukta Raman, Software Engineer, Marqueta

Brooke James, MBA Candidate, Duke University

Alex Ripperton, Software Developer, DCL Technologies

Michael Bellas, Business Development and Operations, SonALAsense

Tiffany Duong, Research Assistant, Salk Institute

Chloe Cho, Writer and Project Manager, The Lexicon

Skanda Setty, IAM Developer, EY

Matthew Slomka, AI Strategy & Analytics Consultant, Deloitte Consulting

Olivia Lara-Gresty, STEM Teacher, KIPP AMP

Christian Reusche, Investment Analyst, Phillips Academy

Abena Mensah, MBA Candidate, University of Virginia

Natalia Solecito, Digital Sales Specialist, IBM

Mercedes Campos-Lopez, Technician, University of Virginia

Quinn Egner, Teacher Assistant, Pacific Crest Schools

Izzy Tucker, Undergraduate, University of Virginia

Zofia Ferki, Undergraduate, University of Michigan

Sophia Durney, Undergraduate, Yale University

Marcos Ortigoza, Undergraduate, UC Merced

Aarushi Ratna, Undergraduate, University of Michigan

Joan Sandoval-Flores, Undergraduate, The College of Wooster

Grace Wei, Undergraduate, Duke University

Aurora Gaspard , Undergraduate, University of Louisiana, Lafayette

Hope Cummings

Shannon Chang

Ben Sims

Christian Yoder

Perla Corona

Dylan Ryder

Tina Li

Ana Wong

Natalie Kim

Aspen Smith

Thanassis Tetradis

Nikka Sandoval

Jimin Im

Kyra Lee

Stanley Ou

Muhammed Lehrmann

Heidi Yang

Atl Benavides

Shayne Estill

Chamden Henzler-Lhasawa

Priya Kirtley

Sam Phillips

Alex Starr

Kristen Poen

Jessica Maccaro

Olivia Goodman

Ray Chen

Katie Abbott

Taturah Byron

Rachel Boone

Sophia Krantz

Shawnette Toney

Tom Jackson

Alec Miller

Kyle Alexander

Jerry Yu

Matthew Atienza

Joseph Levinson

Former Lab Members

Nic Kooyers, Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Louisiana, Lafayette

Nathan Wales, Lecturer of Archaeology, University of York

Melis Akman, Director, Green Biome Institute, Cal State University, East Bay

Jack Colicchio, Research Scientist, Sound Agriculture

Karen Barnard-Kubow, Genomics Research Director and Education Coordinator, James Madison University

Joshua Vandenbrink, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Louisiana Tech University

Lucas Henry, Grad Student, Princeton University

Anna Greenlee, PA Student, Le Moyne University

Austin Garner, Grad Student, Harvard University

Erin Patterson, Grad Student, UMass Amherst

Kelsie Morioka, PharmD Student, UC San Francisco

Tristram Dodge, Grad Student, Stanford University

Ray Watson, Researcher, University of Minnesota

Undergraduates and High School Students

The Blackman Lab moved to the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology

at the University of California, Berkeley in January 2016

Allison Rothrock

Ambika Sharma

Chyna Robeson

Eria Wei

Camille Fang

Patrick Jacobsen

Juan Chavez

Chris Zhan


Lauren Hamm

Victor Canto-Gallo

Rebecca Park

Xinyin Lu

Yani Singer

Quan Liu

Sofia Telfer

Luis Orozco-Sanchez