MIT CSBi PhDs

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Name	E-mail	Class	Lab	UG Inst.	UG Major	Thesis	Personal page	Defended	Currently
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
Grace Zheng	gzheng@mit.edu	2004	Phil Sharp	University of British Columbia	Computer Science	MicroRNA in Embryonic Stem Cells		June, 2010	Postdoc at Stanford Univ
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	Postdoc at Harvard Med
Wesley Weng	ycweng@MIT.edu	2005	Scott Manalis	Cornell University	Electrical & Computer Engr	Mass Resonator Sensing of Cellular Dynamics		-
Lawrence David	ldavid@mit.edu	2005	Eric Alm	Columbia Univ.	Biomedical Eng.	Microbial genome evolutionary dynamics	Website	June, 2010	Junior Fellow at Harvard
Robin Friedman	robinf@mit.edu	2005	Chris Burge, David Bartel	UCSD	Computer Science & Bioinformatics	The specificity and evolution of gene regulatory elements		June, 2010	Postdoc at Institut Pasteur, Paris
B. Jesse Shapiro	jesse1@mit.edu	2005	Eric Alm	McGill University	Biology	Looking for signatures of natural selection in the microbial world	[1]	Sept, 2010	Postdoc at Harvard Public Health
Ramon Salsas Escat	ramon12@mit.edu	2005	Collin Stultz	Institut Quimic de Sarria (Barcelona, Spain)	Chemistry	Collagen conformational fluctuations and degradation		June, 2010	Business development at Lipotec
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
Shao Shan (Carol) Huang	shhuang@salk.edu	2005	Ernest Fraenkel	The University of British Columbia				June, 2011	Postdoc at Salk Institute
Orr Ashenberg	orr@mit.edu	2006	Amy Keating,Michael Laub	Harvard College	Chemistry and Chemical Biology	Protein Interaction Specificity in Histidine Kinases		-
Emily Miraldi	emiraldi@mit.edu	2006	Forest White	Oberlin College	Biochemistry	Network level analysis of hepatic insulin signaling under high fat diet stress		-
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		-
Surasak Chunsrivirot	fa833@mit.edu	2006	Bernhardt Trout	MIT	Chemistry	Nucleation of Pharmaceutical Ingredient: a Computational Investigation		June, 2011	Researcher at National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (Thailand)
Charles Lin	chazlin@mit.edu	2007	Chris Burge, Rick Young	Duke University	Biology and Physics	Making sense of divergent transcription		-
Michelle Chan	mwchan@mit.edu	2007	Aviv Regev	University of British Columbia	Computer Science & Microbiology	Evolution of Transcriptional Modules in Yeast		-
Jonathan Friedman	yonatanf@mit.edu	2007	Eric Alm, Daniel Rothman	Tel Aviv University	Physics & Biology	Composition of microbial communities		-
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	-
Naiyan Chen	naiyan@mit.edu	2007	Mriganka Sur,Fatih Yanik	Imperial College London	Biomedical Engineering	Cholinergic modulation in the cortex		-
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		-
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		-
Christoph Engert	christoph@mit.edu	2008	Alexander van Oudenaarden	Heidelberg University (GER)	Mol. Biotech.	Physics of Worm Development (Working Title)	more...	-
Ana Paula Leite	apleite@mit.edu	2008	Aviv Regev	University of Minho, Portugal	Mathematics	Integrative approaches for systematic reconstruction of regulatory circuits in mammals		Sept, 2012	Postdoc at Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon
Alex Robertson	alexrson@mit.edu	2008	Chris Burge	Stanford University	Chemistry	The role of pre-mRNA processing in regulation of gene expression		-
Daniel Park	dkpark@mit.edu	2008	Bonnie Berger	UC Irvine	Computer Science, Biology	Comparative analysis of protein-protein interaction networks		-
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	-
Chris Smillie	csmillie@mit.edu	2009	Eric Alm	University of Arizona	Math, Biology	Microbial evolution and community dynamics		-
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	-
Anna Podgornaia	anna2009@mit.edu	2009	Michael Laub	UC Berkeley	Biochemistry	Sequence space of the two-component signaling interface		-
Adrian Randall	arandall@mit.edu	2009	Forest White	UNC-Chapel Hill	Chemistry	Mechanisms of Tumor Adaptation		-
Zi Peng Fan	zifan@mit.edu	2009	Richard Young	Brandeis University	Biochemistry	Study of transcriptionally coherent clusters in the human embryonic stem cells		-
Nathan Cermak	cermak@mit.edu	2010	Scott Manalis, Martin Polz	University of Washington	Biochemistry, Applied Math, Sociology	Marine microbe biomass accumulation	home	-
Thomas Gurry	tg296@mit.edu	2010	Collin Stultz	Imperial College London	Biochemistry	Formation of ordered multimers in intrinsically disordered proteins		-
Leyla Isik	lisik@mit.edu	2010	Tomaso Poggio	Johns Hopkins University	Biomedical Engineering	TBD		-
Manoshi Datta	mdatta@mit.edu	2010	Jeff Gore	UC Berkeley	Bioengineering, Chemical Biology	TBD		-
Shicong (Mimi) Xie	xies@mit.edu	2010	Mark Bathe, Adam Martin	UC Berkeley	Physics, Applied Mathematics	Coordination of cellular forces for morphogensis		-
Sarah Spencer	sjspence@mit.edu	2011	TBD	Washington University in St. Louis	Biology	TBD
Boyang Zhao	bozhao@mit.edu	2011	Mike Hemann, Doug Lauffenburger	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	Biomedical Engineering	TBD	homepage
Kelly Brock	kbrock@mit.edu	2011	Jeremy England	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
Amanda Daigle	mandyjoy@mit.edu	2012	TBD	Wellesley College	Bioinformatics	TBD
Peter Freese	pfreese@mit.edu	2012	TBD	Harvard College	Applied Mathematics - Biology	TBD
Mariana Matus	mgmatus@mit.edu	2012	TBD	UNAM/Wageningen	Genomics/Biotechnology	TBD