Alumni

Name Joined lab Giraldez Lab position Subsequent or current position
Haochen Wang, Ph.D.
2024 Postdoc Postdoc in the Liu Lab, Yale University
Odelya Kaufman, M.D., Ph.D.
2023 Postdoc Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Clinical Genetics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Liyun Miao, Ph.D.
2017 Postdoc Assistant Professor, Florida State University
Ethan Strayer, Ph.D.
2019 Ph.D. student Postdoc in the Rissland Lab, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Scott Youlten, Ph.D.
2022 Postdoc Consultant and data analyst, Compbiosphere
Ella Callahan
2023 Post-graduate associate Technical associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Miguel Ángel Delgado Toscano
2023 Post-graduate associate Graduate student, EMBL International PhD Programme
Damir Musaev, Ph.D.
2018 Ph.D. student Science Advisor at Goodwin
Valerie Tornini, Ph.D.
2017 Postdoc Assistant Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles
Maria Benitez, Ph.D.
2018 Ph.D. student
Mark Pownall, Ph.D.
2019 Ph.D. student Sandler Faculty Fellow, UCSF
Ugonna Nwakudu
2021 Undergrad Medical student, University of Illinois Chicago
Charles Vejnar, Ph.D.
2013 Postdoc Principal Research Scientist at Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Timothy Gerson
2020 Research Associate and Lab Manager Laboratory and Facilites Operation Manager, Bexorg, Inc.
Valeria Schmidt
2019 Post-graduate associate Graduate Student, Harvard University
Kim de Guzman
2018 Post-graduate associate
Sarah Dube
2017 Post-graduate associate --> Lab manager
Nitya Khatri
2017 Post-graduate associate Embryologist at Pacific Fertility Center
Yin Tang, Ph.D.
2017 Postdoc Scientist at CRISPR Therapeutics
Mario Abdelmessih, Ph.D.
2016 Postdoc Associate Director and Head of Translational Informatics and Integrative Biology, AstraZeneca
Karen Bishop
2016 Post-graduate associate Regulatory Consultant, Kleinschmidt Associates
Shun Hang (Henry) Chan, Ph.D.
2015 Ph.D. student Consultant at Health Advances
Cassandra Kontur, Ph.D.
2015 Ph.D. student Scientist, Waypoint Bio
Daniel Burkhardt, Ph.D.
2015 Ph.D. student Developer Relations Manager, Multiscale Biology, NVIDIA
Jean-Denis Beaudoin, Ph.D.
2013 Postdoc Assistant Professor, UConn Health
Hiba Codore
2013 Lab manager
Tonnie Van Den Elzen, Ph.D.
2013 Postdoc R&D Senior Scientist, Leica Biosystems
Juan Pablo Fernandez Ph.D.
2013 Postdoc Chief Scientific Officer, Giraffe Bio
Miguel 'More' Moreno-Mateos, Ph.D.
2013 Postdoc Principal Investigator at CABD (Seville, Spain)
Marlon Stoeckius, Ph.D.
2013 Postdoc Director Antigen Discovery and Computational Biology, CureVac Netherlands
Elizabeth Fleming
2012 Lab manager Research Lab Manager, The Jackson Laboratory
Ashley Bonneau, Ph.D.
2012 Ph.D. student Postdoc, Whitehead Institute
Valeria Yartseva, Ph.D.
2012 Ph.D. student Director, Translational Biology at Kenai Therapeutics
Tim Johnstone, Ph.D.
2012 Ph.D. student Senior Principal Computational Scientist & Cloud Architect, Shape Therapeutics
Stephanie Lau
2012 Post-graduate associate Postdoctoral Fellow, Regeneron
Kate DiVito
2012 Post-graduate associate and Laboratory assistant Assistant Research Professor, University of Connecticut
Simon Moxon, Ph.D.
2011 Postdoc Associate Professor, University of East Anglia
Magdalena Koziol, Ph.D.
2011 Postdoc Principal Investigator, Chinese Institute for Brain Research
Miler Lee, Ph.D.
2011 Postdoc Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh
Minsun Jeong, Ph.D.
2010 Ph.D. student Team Leader, CHEY Institute for Advanced Studies (Korea)
Ariel Bazzini, Ph.D.
2010 Postdoc Associate Investigator at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Ellen Hoffman M.D., Ph.D.
2009 Ph.D. Student Associate Professor, Yale Child Study Center and the Yale Department of Neuroscience
Heather Patnode
2009 Research Assistant Veterinary Technician, Advanced Veterinary Care
Huiling Xue, Ph.D.
2009 Postdoc Assistant Professor, Shenyang Agricultural University (China)
Carter Takacs, Ph.D.
2008 Postdoc Assistant Professor, Quinnipiac University
Nicole Allard
2007 Research assistant Research specialist, NC State University
Carlos Stahlhut, Ph.D.
2007 Ph.D. student Associate Director, BridgeBio Oncology
Yuichiro Mishima, Ph.D.
2007 Postdoc Professor, Kyoto Sangyo University (Japan)
Alison Staton, Ph.D.
2007 Ph.D. student Postdoc, Yale University
Daniel Cifuentes Buira, Ph.D.
2006 Postdoc Associate Professor of Biochemistry at Boston University