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 Student
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.
Undergraduate Students
Vidyut Baraneedaran is a biochemistry major at Temple who joined the group in Spring, 2024. He is from Berwyn, PA. He is working on protein evolution to understand how gene duplication and subsequent sequence divergence lead to the divergence of pathways.
Dex Giglio is a computer science major at Temple. Originally from Cheltenham PA, he joined the group in 2023. He also likes to play drums and bass. He is currently researching evolutionary dynamics, specifically exploring operon maintenance and independently, the evolution of gene expression, with the aim of understanding genome evolution through simulations.
Sulaiman Sharief is a biochemistry major at Temple who joined the group in Spring, 2024. He is from Chesterbrook, PA. He is working on models for duplicate gene retention in genomes on population genetic timescales.
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.
