MIT CSBi PhDs

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Name	E-mail	Class	Lab	UG Inst.	UG Major	Thesis	Personal page	Defended	Currently
Katherine Romer	kromer@mit.edu	2008	David Page	MIT	Computer Science, Biology	Regulation of sperm production in the mouse		-
Christopher Negron	cnegron@mit.edu	2008	Amy Keating	The City College of New York	Physics	Design of coiled-coil interaction networks		-
Orr Ashenberg	orr@mit.edu	2006	Amy Keating;Michael Laub	Harvard College	Chemistry and Chemical Biology	Protein Interaction Specificity in Histidine Kinases		-
Sabrina Spencer	spencers@mit.edu	2004	Peter Sorger	The George Washington Univ	Biology & French Literature	Cell-to-cell variability in apoptosis	website	May, 2009	Postdoc at Stanford Univ
Lawrence David	ldavid@mit.edu	2005	Eric Alm	Columbia Univ.	Biomedical Eng.	Microbial genome evolutionary dynamics	blog	June, 2010	Junior Fellow @ Harvard
Robin Friedman	robinf@mit.edu	2005	Chris Burge and David Bartel	UCSD	Computer Science & Bioinformatics	The specificity and evolution of gene regulatory elements	-	June, 2010	Postdoc at Institut Pasteur, Paris
Chris Smillie	csmillie@mit.edu	2009	Eric Alm	University of Arizona	Math, Biology	Microbial evolution and community dynamics	-	-
Michelle Chan	mwchan@mit.edu	2007	Aviv Regev	University of British Columbia	Computer Science & Microbiology	Evolution of Transcriptional Modules in Yeast	-	-
Wesley Weng	ycweng@MIT.edu	2005	Scott Manalis	Cornell University	Electrical & Computer Engr	Mass Resonator Sensing of Cellular Dynamics		-
Christoph Engert	christoph@mit.edu	2008	Alexander van Oudenaarden	Heidelberg University (GER)	Mol. Biotech.	Physics of Worm Development (Working Title)	more...	-
Albert W. Cheng	awcheng@mit.edu	2007	Chris Burge;Rudolf Jaenisch	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)	Biochemistry	Gene regulation during cancer metastasis, early embryogenesis and somatic cell reprogramming	homepage	-
Emily Miraldi	emiraldi@mit.edu	2006	Forest White	Oberlin College	Biochemistry	Network level analysis of hepatic insulin signaling under high fat diet stress		-
Ana Paula Leite	apleite@mit.edu	2008	Aviv Regev	University of Minho (Portugal)	Mathematics	Reconstruction of temporal regulatory networks	homepage	-
Naiyan Chen	naiyan@mit.edu	2007	Mriganka Sur;Fatih Yanik	Imperial College London	Biomedical Engineering	Cholinergic modulation in the cortex		-
B. Jesse Shapiro	jesse1@mit.edu	2005	Eric Alm	McGill University	Biology	Looking for signatures of natural selection in the microbial world	[1]	September, 2010
Charles Lin	chazlin@mit.edu	2006	Chris Burge and Rick Young	Duke University	Biology and Physics	Making sense of divergent transcription		-
Yuchun Guo	yguo@mit.edu	2006	David Gifford	Tsinghua University (China)	Materials Science & Computer Science	Transcriptional regulation in development of motor neurons from embryonic stem cells		-
Vikram Agarwal	vagarwal@mit.edu	2009	David Bartel	University of Texas at Austin	Biology	Improving quantitative models of animal miRNA target prediction		-
Xuebing Wu	wuxbl@mit.edu	2009	Phil Sharp	Tsinghua University (China)	Computer Science & Bioinformatics	High throughput mapping of RNA-RNA interactions	homepage	-
Ramon Salsas Escat	ramon12@mit.edu	2005	Collin Stultz	Institut Quimic de Sarria (Barcelona, Spain)	Chemistry	Collagen conformational fluctuations and degradation		June, 2010
Anna Podgornaia	anna2009@mit.edu	2009	Michael Laub	UC Berkeley	Biochemistry	Sequence space of the two-component signaling interface		-
Grace Zheng	gzheng@mit.edu	2004	Phil Sharp	University of British Columbia	Computer Science	MicroRNA in Embryonic Stem Cells		June, 2010
Adrian Randall	arandall@mit.edu	2009	Forest White	UNC-Chapel Hill	Chemistry	Mechanisms of Tumor Adaptation		-
Chandni Valiathan	chandni@mit.edu	2005	Leona Samson	Brandeis University	Computer Science and Math	Gene expression signatures for cell death or survival after DNA damage		June, 2011
Yuanyuan Cui	cuiyy@mit.edu	2007	Bruce Tidor	Tsinghua University (China)	Biology	Construction and utilization of a Kronecker model for E.coli central carbon metabolic network		-
Alex Robertson	alexrson@mit.edu	2008	Chris Burge	Stanford University	Chemistry	The role of pre-mRNA processing in regulation of gene expression		-
Laura Kleiman	sontag@mit.edu	2004	Peter Sorger, Doug Lauffenburger	Rutgers University	Biomathematics	Experimental and computational analysis of EGFR pathway phosphorylation and dephosphorylation dynamics	homepage	April 9, 2010
Jonathan Rameseder	johnny@mit.edu	2008	Mike Yaffe	Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences	Bioinformatics	An Informatics Platform for RNAi Analysis Using High-Throughput Microscopy and Functional Readouts to Build and Explore Signal Transduction Networks	CV and contact info	-
Zi Peng Fan	zifan@mit.edu	2009	TBD	Brandeis University	Biochemistry	TBD		-
Nathan Cermak	cermak@mit.edu	2010	Scott Manalis, Martin Polz	University of Washington	Biochemistry, Applied Math, Sociology	Marine microbe biomass accumulation	home	-
Daniel Park	dkpark@mit.edu	2008	Bonnie Berger	UC Irvine	Computer Science, Biology	Protein-protein interaction network inference, prediction of intrinsic protein disorder		-
Surasak Chunsrivirot	fa833@mit.edu	2006	Bernhardt Trout	MIT	Chemistry	Nucleation of Pharmaceutical Ingredient: a Computational Investigation		June, 2011
Thomas Gurry	tg296@mit.edu	2010	Collin Stultz	Imperial College London	Biochemistry	TBD		-
Leyla Isik	lisik@mit.edu	2010	Tomaso Poggio	Johns Hopkins University	Biomedical Engineering	TBD		-
Manoshi Datta	mdatta@mit.edu	2010	Jeff Gore, Susan Lindquist	UC Berkeley	Bioengineering, Chemical Biology	How prion-based epigenetic factors shape evolutionary dynamics		-
Shicong (Mimi) Xie	xies@mit.edu	2010	Mark Bathe, Adam Martin	UC Berkeley	Physics, Applied Mathematics	Coordination of cellular forces for morphogensis		-
Shao Shan (Carol) Huang	-	-	-	-	-			June, 2011
Sarah Spencer	sjspence@mit.edu	2011	TBD	Washington University in St. Louis	Biology	TBD
Boyang Zhao	bozhao@mit.edu	2011	TBD	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	Biomedical Engineering	TBD	homepage
Kelly Brock	kbrock@mit.edu	2011	TBD	Harvard University	Engineering Sciences	TBD
Maxim Wolf	mywolf@mit.edu	2011	TBD	University of Maryland	Biology, Chemistry, Physics	TBD
Thomas Willems	twillems@mit.edu	2011	TBD	University of California-Berkeley	Chemical Engineering	TBD
Asa Adadey	aadadey@mit.edu	2011	TBD	University of Maryland Baltimore County	Bioinformatics & Computational Biology	TBD
Derrick Sund	dtsund@mit.edu	2011	TBD	University of Arizona	Mathematics, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics	TBD