MIT CSBi PhDs
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Name | Class | Lab | UG Inst. | UG Major | Thesis | Personal page | Defended | Currently | ||
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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 |