Postdoctoral Scientist
Maeva Perez is a remote post-doctoral researcher based at Hong-Kong Baptist University. She obtained her Ph.D. from Université de Montréal in September 2023. She grew up in France, Ivory Coast, and Canada, and has been living in Asia since 2020. She is interested in the ecology and evolution of deep-sea organisms. Maeva joined the group through the SMBE mentoring program in 2023 and is modeling the evolutionary dynamics of bacterial symbionts jointly supervised from Hong Kong (Jianwen Qiu) and in the Liberles Group.
Master’s Degree Students
Katherine Hurm is a +1 PSM student in bioinformatics at Temple who is completing an undergraduate Genomic Medicine major at Temple. Originally from Souderton, PA, she joined the group in February, 2024.
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Manasi Phadke is a bioinformatics PSM student at Temple. She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in microbiology from University of Mumbai (India). She joined the group in September, 2024.
Undergraduate Students
Anna Duffy is a biochemistry major at Temple originally from Warrington, PA. She joined the group in September, 2024. She is working on different models to understand the effects of dosage balance on gene duplication.
Mia Elkind is a genomic medicine major at Temple from Yardley, PA. She joined the group in September, 2024. She is working on modeling the mechanisms of gene expression evolution.
Leah Kaplunovich is an Applied Mathematics major at Temple who joined the group in September, 2024. She is from Rockville, Maryland. She is working on several problems at the interface of mathematics and genomics.
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Ewa Kraynak is a biology major at Temple University originally from Lansdale, PA. She joined the group in September, 2024. She is working on bioinformatic pipelines to study gene duplication.
Katie Le is a biology major at Temple University originally from Norristown, PA. She joined the group in September, 2024. She is working on problems in protein evolution.
Lauren Leiker is a biochemistry major at Temple originally from Edina, MN. She joined the group in September, 2024. She is working on bioinformatic pipelines to examine gene duplication in the group.
Mazen Rukhsar is a genomic medicine major at Temple from Upper Darby, PA. He joined the group in September, 2024. Mazen is working on bioinformatic pipelines in the group.
Alexis Tang is a genomic medicine major at Temple who joined the group in September, 2024. She is from Chester Springs, PA. Alexis is working on pathway evolution in the group.
Cara Virgin is a genomic medicine major at Temple who joined the group in 2023. She is from Sweden but grew up mostly in Parkland, FL. She is working on the evolutionary processes leading to the stable maintenance of operons in the group.
Older group pictures:
And here is a picture from spring, 2000, my first ever group photo from when I just started my research group at Stockholm University (Sweden). A lot happened between this photo below and those above from after I moved to Temple University. Below from left to right: Wagied Davids, David Liberles, Malin Almgren.
