Spotlight on Alumni
Current Positions Held by Selected Program Alumni (Ph.D. unless noted)

1985
Daniel Davison, Associate Professor, University of Houston

1986
Cathy Wedeen, Assistant Professor, New York Medical College

1988
Scott Cameron, Post-doctoral Fellow,
MIT/Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Paul Chomet, Research Scientist, DeKalb Plant Science
Gregory Prelich, Assistant Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

1989
Robert Booher, Associate Scientist, Onyx Pharmaceuticals
Leonardo Brizuela, Senior Scientist, Mitotix, Inc., MA
Brian Ondek, Research Scientist, University of California at San Diego
Marielba Zerlin, Scientist, Columbia University

1990
Moon-Gyo Kim, Post-doctoral Fellow, NIH, NIDDKD
Kathryn Lionetti, Teacher, High School
Sanford Madigan, Senior Director, Xceptor Therapeutics
Elisa Stone, Academic Coordinator, Science and Health Education Partnership, UCSF

1992
Joseph Fondell, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Gary Horvath, Post-doctoral Fellow, University of South Carolina
Eunhee Lee, Assistant Professor, Korean Institute of Technology
Christine Mitchell, Post-doctoral Fellow, Einstein University
Yi-Lu Yuan, Research Scientist, AlphaGene

1993
Ella Bossy-Wetzel, Scientist, Pasteur Inst. (France)
Jiann-Shiu Lai, Assistant Professor, Taiwan University
MaryAnn LaMantia, Post-doctoral Associate, HHMI, UCSD
Nancy Morvillo, Assistant Professor, Florida Southern College
William Richards, Research Scientist, Amgen
Zuzana Zachar, Research Assistant Professor, University at Stony Brook

1994
Louis Alexander, Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Benhao Dong, Research Fellow, Downtown New York Hospital
P. Beth Elliot, Post-doctoral Fellow, Mt. Sinai
James Harber, Instructor, Moorpark College
Lea Harrington, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Melissa Pepling, Post-doctoral Associate, Carnegie Institute, Washington DC
Michael Sheldon, Post-doctoral, St. Jude’s Hospital
Yun Wang, Post-doctoral, National Institutes of Health

1995
Lisa Esterling (Keith), Guest Researcher,
NIMH, National Institutes of Health
Kimberly Gilmour, Staff Scientist, Great Ormond St. Hospital
for Children, NHS Trust, England
John Ryan, Post-doctoral, NIH
Matthew Schmidt, Asstistant Professor, SUNY Empire State
College, and Adjunct Lecturer, University at Stony Brook
Mark Swanson, Post-doctoral Fellow, NIH, MD
George Tokiwa, Post-doctoral, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
James Wells, Post-doctoral Fellow, Harvard University

1996
Xing Zhang, Research Assistant Professor, Emory University
Tao Zhong, Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital
Charles DiComo, Post-doctoral Associate, Columbia University
Andrea Doseff, Research Scientist, Ohio State University
Daniel Pereira, Post-doctoral Fellow, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, NY
Deborah Taylor, Post-doctoral Associate, HHMI, USC

1997
Jack Ballantyne, Associate Professor, University of Central Florida
Chin-Fu Chin, Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
W. Cliff Colley, Instructor, University of Southern Mississippi
Richard Freiman, Post-doctoral Fellow, University of California at Berkeley
Kim Gavin, Editor, Genes and Development, CSHL Press
Chong Huang, Post-doctoral Fellow, Mass General Hospital/Harvard University
Jennifer Schisa, Post-doctoral Fellow, Fred Hutch Cancer Center
Qinghong Yang, Post-doctoral Fellow, University of California at Los Angeles

1998
Luther Davis, Post-doctoral Fellow, Fred Hutch Cancer Center
Ethan Ford, Post-doctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gregory Golling, Post-doctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Andrew Settles, Post-doctoral Fellow, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Tzu-ling Tseng, Post-doctoral Fellow, NIH, Lab Population Genetics

1999
Robert Babb, Post-doctoral Fellow, Novartis Pharmaceuticals
Grace Chen, Medical Student, University Michigan
William Tracey, Post-doctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology

2000
Daniel Hoeppner, Post-doctoral Fellow, NIH, NINDS
Matthew Sims, Resident, Internal Medicine, University Hospital, Stony Brook
Hermann Wijnen, Post-doctoral Fellow, Rockefeller University
Mary Wines, Post-doctoral Fellow, NIH, NINDS
Xiaohong Yang, Scientist, Introgen Therapeutics, Inc.

2001
James Moore, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Zurich
Michael Stebbins, Assistant Editor, Nature Genetics

2002
Joseph Landry, Postdoctoral Fellow, National Cancer Institute, NIH
Flavio Kamenetz, Medical Student, Stony Brook University
Kim So Young, Postdoctoral Fellow, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel Switzerland

2003
John Mignone, Medical Student, Duke University
Christine Vander Zwan, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania,


2004
Ashkan Javaherian Postdoctoral Scholar, UCSF
Chengyu Liang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Melissa Gilbert Postdoctoral Fellow, Emory University
Michelle Juarez, Postdoctoral Fellow, UCSD
Manpreet Katari, Postdoctoral Fellow, New York University
Joseph Janda, Intern, Technology Transfer Office, Stony Brook University
Jessica Connelly, Postdoctoral Fellow, Duke University

2005
Greg Banninger, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Colorado
Michelle Carmell, Postdoctoral Fellow, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Madhuri Bhasin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemocentrix Inc.
John Dasilva, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Virginia
Johannes “Yogi” Jaeger, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge, England

2006
Jill Hemish, Postdoctoral Fellow, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Stewart Morgan, Veterinary Student, Cornell University
Nihal Okan, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stony Brook University

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