Alumni

Name Joined lab Giraldez Lab position Subsequent or current position
Daniel Cifuentes Buira, Ph.D.
 2006 Postdoc Associate Professor of Biochemistry at Boston University
Alison Staton, Ph.D.
 2007 Ph.D. student Postdoc, Yale University
Yuichiro Mishima, Ph.D.
 2007 Postdoc Professor, Kyoto Sangyo University (Japan)
Carlos Stahlhut, Ph.D.
 2007 Ph.D. student Associate Director, BridgeBio Oncology
Nicole Allard
 2007 Research assistant Research specialist, NC State University
Carter Takacs, Ph.D.
 2008 Postdoc Assistant Professor, Quinnipiac University
Huiling Xue, Ph.D.
 2009 Postdoc Assistant Professor, Shenyang Agricultural University (China)
Heather Patnode
 2009 Research Assistant Veterinary Technician, Advanced Veterinary Care
Ellen Hoffman M.D., Ph.D.
 2009 Ph.D. Student Associate Professor, Yale Child Study Center and the Yale Department of Neuroscience
Ariel Bazzini, Ph.D.
 2010 Postdoc Associate Investigator at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Minsun Jeong, Ph.D.
 2010 Ph.D. student Team Leader, CHEY Institute for Advanced Studies (Korea)
Miler Lee, Ph.D.
 2011 Postdoc Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh
Magdalena Koziol, Ph.D.
 2011 Postdoc Principal Investigator, Chinese Institute for Brain Research
Simon Moxon, Ph.D.
 2011 Postdoc Associate Professor, University of East Anglia
Kate DiVito
 2012 Post-graduate associate and Laboratory assistant Assistant Research Professor, University of Connecticut
Stephanie Lau
 2012 Post-graduate associate Postdoctoral Fellow, Regeneron
Tim Johnstone, Ph.D.
 2012 Ph.D. student Senior Principal Computational Scientist & Cloud Architect, Shape Therapeutics
Valeria Yartseva, Ph.D.
 2012 Ph.D. student Director, Translational Biology at Kenai Therapeutics
Ashley Bonneau, Ph.D.
 2012 Ph.D. student Postdoc, Whitehead Institute
Elizabeth Fleming
 2012 Lab manager Research Lab Manager, The Jackson Laboratory
Marlon Stoeckius, Ph.D.
 2013 Postdoc Director Antigen Discovery and Computational Biology, CureVac Netherlands
Charles Vejnar, Ph.D.
 2013 Postdoc Principal Research Scientist at Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Miguel 'More' Moreno-Mateos, Ph.D.
 2013 Postdoc Principal Investigator at CABD (Seville, Spain)
Juan Pablo Fernandez Ph.D.
 2013 Postdoc Chief Scientific Officer, Giraffe Bio
Tonnie Van Den Elzen, Ph.D.
 2013 Postdoc R&D Senior Scientist, Leica Biosystems
Hiba Codore
 2013 Lab manager
Jean-Denis Beaudoin, Ph.D.
 2013 Postdoc Assistant Professor, UConn Health
Daniel Burkhardt, Ph.D.
 2015 Ph.D. student Developer Relations Manager, Multiscale Biology, NVIDIA
Cassandra Kontur, Ph.D.
 2015 Ph.D. student Scientist, Waypoint Bio
Shun Hang (Henry) Chan, Ph.D.
 2015 Ph.D. student Consultant at Health Advances
Karen Bishop
 2016 Post-graduate associate Regulatory Consultant, Kleinschmidt Associates
Mario Abdelmessih, Ph.D.
 2016 Postdoc Associate Director and Head of Translational Informatics and Integrative Biology, AstraZeneca
Valerie Tornini, Ph.D.
 2017 Postdoc Assistant Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles
Yin Tang, Ph.D.
 2017 Postdoc Scientist at CRISPR Therapeutics
Nitya Khatri
 2017 Post-graduate associate Embryologist at Pacific Fertility Center
Sarah Dube
 2017 Post-graduate associate --> Lab manager
Maria Benitez, Ph.D.
 2018 Ph.D. student
Damir Musaev, Ph.D.
 2018 Ph.D. student Science Advisor at Goodwin
Kim de Guzman
 2018 Post-graduate associate
Mark Pownall, Ph.D.
 2019 Ph.D. student Sandler Faculty Fellow, UCSF
Valeria Schmidt
 2019 Post-graduate associate Graduate Student, Harvard University
Timothy Gerson
 2020 Research Associate and Lab Manager Laboratory and Facilites Operation Manager, Bexorg, Inc.
Ugonna Nwakudu
 2021 Undergrad Medical student, University of Illinois Chicago
Scott Youlten, Ph.D.
 2022 Postdoc
Miguel Ángel Delgado Toscano
 2023 Post-graduate associate Graduate student, EMBL International PhD Programme
Ella Callahan
 2023 Post-graduate associate Technical associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology