Postdocs & Research Staff

Research Staff:

Ramachandran Lab:
Akshay Walia - Research Assistant

Istrail Group:
Alper Uzun, Ph.D. - Instuctor in Pediatrics (Research), Department of Pediatrics

Postdocs:

Dr. Patrick Flight,  PhD, Brown University
Current Projects: Ecological and evolutionary genomics of marine organisms; Mitochondrial genetics of fitness and aging in Drosophila; Mitochondrial modification of nuclear gene expression

Dr. Jim Mossman, PhD. University of Sheffield, UK
Current Projects: Nuclear-Mitochondrial epistasis for fitness effects in Drosophila; The role of mtDNA variation in sperm competition

Dr. Eugenia Villa-Cuesta, PhD., University of Madrid,
Current Projects: Mitochondrial genetics of diet restriction in Drosophila; Role of TOR signaling and rapamycin in Drosophila longevity

Dr. Lei Zhu, PhD. SUNY Stony Brook
Current Projects: Sirtuin-mitochondrial interactions the modify longevity in Drosophila; Evolutionary and biochemical genetics of mitochondrial function in Drosophila 

Dr. Scott Wylie, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego - Postdoctoral Research Associate in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology.

Dr. Austin Huang, Ph.D. Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology - Postdoctoral Fellow & Assistant Professor of Research in BioMed.  
Current Projects: Development and application of computational algorithms, modeling and statistical data analysis for understanding the cellular and molecular basis of human diseases and drug resistance. 

Dr. Eugene (Yevgeniy) Raynes, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania - Postdoctoral Research Associate - Center for Compuational Molecular Biology, Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

Dr. Rachel Soemedi, Ph.D., Newcastle University - Postdoctoral Research Associate - Center for Computational Molecular Biology, Dept. of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, & Biochemistry.