{"id":14,"date":"2014-11-17T19:50:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T19:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/liberles\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2025-04-25T12:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T12:41:11","slug":"group-alumni","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/liberles\/group-alumni\/","title":{"rendered":"Group Alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Alumni: Please feel free to email me with updates.]<\/p>\n<p>Senior and Postdoctoral Researchers<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nick Braun\n<ul>\n<li>M.Sc., Ph.D., University of Southampton (UK)<\/li>\n<li>Worked in Group 2002-2003<\/li>\n<li>Last Known Location:\u00a0Independent Software Developer (Berlin, Germany)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Ann-Charlotte Berglund Sonnhammer\n<ul>\n<li>M.Sc. Ume\u00e5 University (Sweden); Ph.D. Danish Technical University (Denmark)<\/li>\n<li>Worked in Group 2003-2004<\/li>\n<li>Last Known Location:\u00a0Senior Support Scientist, Bioinformatics Infrastructure for Life Sciences (BILS), Vetenskapsr\u00e5det (Swedish Research Council) (Stockholm, Sweden)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Matthew Betts\n<ul>\n<li>B.Sc. York University (UK), M.Sc. Birkbeck College (UK), Ph.D. Imperial Cancer Research Fund (UK)<\/li>\n<li>Worked in Group 2003-2005<\/li>\n<li>Last Known Location:\u00a0Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, Russell Research Group, University of Heidelberg (Heidelberg, Germany)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Christian Roth\n<ul>\n<li>M.Sc. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (Switzerland), Ph.D. University of Lausanne (Switzerland)<\/li>\n<li>Worked in Group 2002-2006<\/li>\n<li>Last Known Location:\u00a0Project Coordinator, Gyllensten Research Group, Uppsala Genome Center, Uppsala University (Uppsala, Sweden)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Marie Skovgaard\n<ul>\n<li>M.Sc. University of Copenhagen (Denmark), Ph.D. Danish Technical University (Denmark)<\/li>\n<li>Worked in Group 2004-2006<\/li>\n<li>Last Known Location:\u00a0Director of Medicinal Chemistry, Zealand Pharma (Copenhagen, Denmark)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Alexander Churbanov\n<ul>\n<li>M.Sc. Urals State University (Russia), Ph.D. University of Nebraska (USA)<\/li>\n<li>Worked in Group 2006-2007<\/li>\n<li>Last Known Location:\u00a0Staff Scientist, Hammer Research Group, Division of Biotechnology, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Katharina Dittmar\n<ul>\n<li>M.Sc., D.V.M., Ph.D. University of Leipzig (Germany)<\/li>\n<li>Worked in Group 2006-2007<\/li>\n<li>Last Known Location:\u00a0Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo (Buffalo, NY, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Steven Massey\n<ul>\n<li>B.Sc. Bath University (UK), Ph.D. University of Kent (UK)<\/li>\n<li>Worked in Group 2006-2008<\/li>\n<li>Last Known Location:\u00a0Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico (Rio Piedras, PR, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Vera Brok-Volchanskaya\n<ul>\n<li>M.Sc. Voronezh State University (Russia), Ph.D. Pushchino Biological Center (Russia)<\/li>\n<li>Worked in Group 2008-2009<\/li>\n<li>Last Known Location: Research Scientist, Wilmar International (Singapore)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Grigory Kolesov\n<ul>\n<li>M.Sc. Novosibirsk State University (Russia), Ph.D. Technical University of Munich (Germany)<\/li>\n<li>Worked in Group 2007-2009<\/li>\n<li>Last Known Location:\u00a0Postdoctoral Researcher, Kaxiras Research Group, Department of Physics, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Virginia Schmit\n<ul>\n<li>B.S. California Polytechnic University, Pomona (USA), M.S. Colorado State University (USA), Ph.D. University of Wyoming (USA)<\/li>\n<li>Worked in Group 2012<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Benjamin Oswald\n<ul>\n<li>B.S. Western State Colorado University (USA), Ph.D. University of Idaho (USA)<\/li>\n<li>Worked in Group 2012-2013<\/li>\n<li>Last Known Location:\u00a0Staff Scientist, University of Idaho Bioinformatics Core (Moscow, ID, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Miguel Arenas (EMBO Fellow)\n<ul>\n<li>B.S., M.Sc. University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), Ph.D. University of Vigo (Spain)<\/li>\n<li>Worked in Group 2014<\/li>\n<li>Last Known Location: Principal Investigator, University of Vigo (Vigo, Spain)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Stephen Shank\n<ul>\n<li>B.S., Ph.D. Temple University (USA)<\/li>\n<li>Worked in Group 2015-2017<\/li>\n<li>Last Known Location: Scientific Programmer\/Staff Scientist, Kosakovsky Pond Research Group, Department of Biology, Temple University (Philadelphia, PA, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Laurel Yohe (Visiting Ph.D. student and postdoc from Stony Brook)\n<ul>\n<li>B.S. Loyola University Chicago (USA), Ph.D. Stony Brook University (USA)<\/li>\n<li>Worked in Group 2016-2017<\/li>\n<li>Last Known Location: Postdoctoral Researcher, Bhullar Research Group, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University (New Haven, CT, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Claudia Weber\n<ul>\n<li>Mbiol., Ph.D. University of Bath (UK)<\/li>\n<li>Worked in Group 2015-2018<\/li>\n<li>Last Known Location: Postdoctoral Researcher, Goldman Research Group, European Bioinformatics Institute (Hinxton, UK)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Peter Chi (Visiting Professor\/Research Assistant Professor)\n<ul>\n<li>B.S. University of Michigan (USA), M.S. Johns Hopkins University (USA), Ph.D. University of Washington (USA)<\/li>\n<li>Worked in Group 2015-2018<\/li>\n<li>Last Known Location: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Villanova University (Villanova, PA, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Andrew Ritchie\n<ul>\n<li>B.S., University of Sydney (Australia), B.L., Australian National University, Ph.D., University of Sydney (Australia)<\/li>\n<li>Worked in Group 2018-2019<\/li>\n<li>Last Known Location: Postdoctoral Researcher, Bromham Research Group, Department of Biology, Australian National University (Canberra, ACT, Australia)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Tristan Stark\n<ul>\n<li>B.S., Ph.D., University of Tasmania (Australia)<\/li>\n<li>Worked in Group 2018-2019<\/li>\n<li>Last Known Location: Postdoctoral Researcher, Holland Research Group, Department of Mathematics and Physics, University of Tasmania (Hobart, TAS, Australia)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ph.D. Students<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00c5sa (Tellgren) Tellgren-Roth\n<ul>\n<li>M.Sc. Link\u00f6ping University (Sweden), Lic. Deg. Karolinska Institute (Sweden), Ph.D. University of Bergen (Norway)<\/li>\n<li>Worked in Group 2002-2007<\/li>\n<li>First Position After Ph.D.: Postdoctoral Researcher, Uppsala University (Uppsala, Sweden)<\/li>\n<li>Last Known Location:\u00a0Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University (Stockholm, Sweden)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Timothy Hughes\n<ul>\n<li>B.Sc. London School of Economics (UK), M.Sc. Oxford University (UK), M.Sc. (Computer Science) Imperial College (UK), Ph.D. University of Bergen (Norway)<\/li>\n<li>Worked in Group 2003-2008<\/li>\n<li>First Position After Ph.D.: Postdoctoral Researcher, Aasland Research Group, Department of Biology, University of Bergen (Bergen, Norway)<\/li>\n<li>Last Known Location: Group Leader,\u00a0Department of Medical Genetics, University of Oslo (Oslo, Norway)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Shruti Rastogi\n<ul>\n<li>B.Sc. University of Lucknow (India), M.Sc. Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (India), M.Sc. (Bioinformatics) Chalmers Institute of Technology (Sweden), Ph.D. University of Bergen (Norway)<\/li>\n<li>Worked in Group 2004-2008<\/li>\n<li>First Position After Ph.D.: Postdoctoral Researcher, Rost Research Group, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University (New York, NY, USA)<\/li>\n<li>Last Known Location:\u00a0Researcher, BioCOS Life Sciences (Bangalore, India)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Johan Grahnen\n<ul>\n<li>M.Sc. Ume\u00e5 University (Sweden), Ph.D. University of Wyoming (USA)<\/li>\n<li>Worked in Group 2007-2012<\/li>\n<li>First Position After Ph.D.: Postdoctoral Researcher, Skolnick Research Group, Department of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA, USA)<\/li>\n<li>Last Known Location: Data Scientist, Microsoft Cloud and AI (Seattle, WA, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Anke Konrad\n<ul>\n<li>B.S., M.S. New Mexico State University (USA), Ph.D. University of Wyoming (USA)<\/li>\n<li>Worked in Group 2009-2014<\/li>\n<li>First Position After Ph.D.:\u00a0Postdoctoral Researcher, Katju Research Group, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM, USA)<\/li>\n<li>Last Known Location: Postdoctoral Researcher, Gordo Research Group, Gulbenkian Institute of Science (Oeiras, Portugal)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Jason Lai (jointly supervised by Prof. Jan Kubelka, University of Wyoming)\n<ul>\n<li>B.S.E. Arizona State University (USA), Ph.D. University of Wyoming (USA)<\/li>\n<li>Worked in Group 2010-2015<\/li>\n<li>First Position After Ph.D.: Postdoctoral Researcher, Barth Research Group, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, TX, USA)<\/li>\n<li>Last Known Location: Data Scientist, Tessella (Houston, TX, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Ashley Teufel\n<ul>\n<li>B.S. New Mexico State University (USA), Ph.D. University of Wyoming (USA)<\/li>\n<li>Worked in Group 2010-2015<\/li>\n<li>First Position After Ph.D.: Postdoctoral Researcher, Wilke Research Group, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas (Austin, TX, USA)<\/li>\n<li>Last Known Location: Assistant Professor, Department of Life Sciences, Texas A+M University- San Antonio (San Antonio, TX, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Alena Orlenko\n<ul>\n<li>M.S. Novosibirsk\u00a0State University (Russia), Ph.D. University of Wyoming (USA)<\/li>\n<li>Worked in Group 2011-2016<\/li>\n<li>First Position After Ph.D.: Postdoctoral Researcher, Moore\u00a0Research Group, Institute for Biomedical Informatics and Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania\u00a0(Philadelphia, PA, USA)<\/li>\n<li>Last Known Location: Research Associate, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania\u00a0(Philadelphia, PA, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Russell Hermansen\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">B.S. Brigham Young University (USA), Ph.D. University of Wyoming (USA)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Worked in Group 2010-2017<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">First Position After Ph.D.: Teach for America (Las Vegas, NV, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Amanda Wilson\n<ul>\n<li>B.S. University of Rochester (USA), Ph.D. Temple University (USA)<\/li>\n<li>Worked in Group 2018-2024<\/li>\n<li>First Position After Ph.D.: Postdoctoral Researcher, Landweber Research Group, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University (New York, NY, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Master&#8217;s Students<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cecilia Kemi\n<ul>\n<li>Last Known Location: Clinical Research Medical Advisor, Novartis Sweden (Stockholm, Sweden)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Malin Almgren\n<ul>\n<li>Last Known Location: Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institute (Stockholm, Sweden)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Alexander Roth\n<ul>\n<li>Last Known Location:\u00a0Postdoctoral Researcher, von Mering Research Group, Department of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Z\u00fcrich (Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Liang-Je (Ackila or Jay) Lin<\/li>\n<li>Arshia Rouhani<\/li>\n<li>Anna Nilsson<\/li>\n<li>Francois Beaussart<\/li>\n<li>P\u00e4r Steffansson<\/li>\n<li>Ninoa Malki\n<ul>\n<li>Last Known Location: System Developer,\u00a0Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute (Stockholm, Sweden)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Saywan Pasha<\/li>\n<li>Shruti Rastogi\n<ul>\n<li>Completed Ph.D. studies in group, see above.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Roald Rossnes<\/li>\n<li>Juan-Felipe Ortiz (joint with Jessica Siltberg, then at University of Wyoming, now at Florida International University)\n<ul>\n<li>Last Known Location:\u00a0Ph.D. Student, Rokas Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Dohyup Kim\n<ul>\n<li>Last Known Location:\u00a0Ph.D. Student, Hansen Research Group, Department of Entomology, University of California (Riverside, CA, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Komal Brahmbhatt (P.S.M. Student in Bioinformatics)<\/li>\n<li>Stephanie Coffin (P.S.M. Student in Bioinformatics, joint with Prof. Beverly Davidson, Children&#8217;s Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania)\n<ul>\n<li>Last Known Location: Ph.D. Student, Zoghbi Research Group, Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, TX, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>David Northover\n<ul>\n<li>Last Known Location: Ph.D. Student, Pennsylvania State University (State College, PA, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Rebecca Kaufman (P.S.M. Student in Bioinformatics)\n<ul>\n<li>Last Known Location: Bioinformatician, Department of Oncology, Children&#8217;s Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Taha Iqbal (P.S.M. Student in Bioinformatics)\n<ul>\n<li>Last Known Location: Bioinformatician, Aperiomics (Sterling, VA, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Westin Kosater (awaiting final thesis approval)\n<ul>\n<li>Last Known Location: Bioinformatician\/Programmer, Minn Research Group, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Kathryn Piper (P.S.M. Student in Bioinformatics)\n<ul>\n<li>Last Known Location: Ph.D. Student, Department of Biological Sciences, SUNY-Albany (Albany, NY, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>John Miraszek\n<ul>\n<li>Last Known Location: Ph.D. Student, Decker Research Group, Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri (Columbia, MO, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Nick McCloskey (P.S.M. Student in Bioinformatics)<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Williams (P.S.M. Student in Bioinformatics)<\/li>\n<li>Jamie Bregman (P.S.M. Student in Bioinformatics)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Visiting Ph.D. students<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Benedikt Zacher, Technical University of Munich (Germany)<\/li>\n<li>Nadia Bykova, Moscow State University (Russia)<\/li>\n<li>Laurel Yohe, Stony Brook University; subsequently visiting postdoctoral researcher in group<\/li>\n<li>Catherine Browne, University of Tasmania (Australia)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Undergraduate Students in the Lab at Temple Who Worked for An Extended Period<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Quentin Altemose, Ursinus College<\/li>\n<li>Katherine Porter, Ursinus College<\/li>\n<li>Yuying Rong, Haverford College\n<ul>\n<li>Last Known Location: Graduate Student, University of Groningen (The Netherlands)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Irfan Jamil, Johns Hopkins University<\/li>\n<li>Declan O&#8217;Sullivan, Temple University\n<ul>\n<li>Last Known Location: M.S. Student, Emel Research Group, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (Indiana, PA, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Heather Blaney, Temple University<\/li>\n<li>Maria Maltepes, Temple University\n<ul>\n<li>Last Known Location: Ph.D. student, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Nick Henry, Temple University<\/li>\n<li>Claire Probst, Temple University<\/li>\n<li>Ayna Mammedova, Temple University<\/li>\n<li>Laura McDonnell, Temple University\n<ul>\n<li>Last Known Location: Ph.D. student, Joint Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology, Carnegie-Mellon University\/University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Cara Virgin, Temple University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Frances Velay Fellows at Temple<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Emma Hutchinson, summer 2021<\/li>\n<li>Kelandra Murphy, summer 2021<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Undergraduate Honors Students and Other Students at University of Wyoming Who&#8217;ve Continued in Academics<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dietric Hennings\n<ul>\n<li>Last Known Location: Resident, Department of Surgery, Tulane University (New Orleans, LA, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Chandra Thompson\n<ul>\n<li>Last Known Location: Forensic Biologist II, Erie County Central Police (Buffalo, NY, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Katherine (Harris) Amrine\n<ul>\n<li>Last Known Location: Data Scientist, Facebook (Mountain View, CA, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Makayla Tisdell\n<ul>\n<li>Last Known Location: Physician (Internal Medicine) (Temple, TX, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Stephen Michel\n<ul>\n<li>Last Known Location: Bioinformatician, University of Minnesota Academic Health Science Center (Minneapolis, MN, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>University of Wyoming Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Bioinformatics Students<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brendan Veeneman, Oberlin College, summer 2007<\/li>\n<li>Sanaa Ahmed, Hunter College, CUNY, summer 2008<\/li>\n<li>Kelsey Klemm, Utah State University, summer 2009<\/li>\n<li>Hallie Rane, University of New Mexico, summer 2009<\/li>\n<li>Kelly Coughlin, Penn State University, summer 2010<\/li>\n<li>Priyanka Nandakumar, Carnegie Mellon University, summer 2010<\/li>\n<li>Juan Felipe Ortiz, National University of Colombia, summer 2011<\/li>\n<li>Edwin Suh, Middlebury College, summer 2011<\/li>\n<li>Katharine Korunes, University of Georgia, summer 2013<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Alumni: Please feel free to email me with updates.] Senior and Postdoctoral Researchers Nick Braun M.Sc., Ph.D., University of Southampton (UK) Worked in Group 2002-2003 Last Known Location:\u00a0Independent Software Developer (Berlin, Germany) Ann-Charlotte Berglund Sonnhammer M.Sc. 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