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Current co-lab members

Here’s the co-lab collaborators! Emails are @uoregon.edu unless otherwise specified.

Andrew D. Kern} — Andy Kern
adkern@uo
*professor*
he/him

Peter L. Ralph} — Peter Ralph
plr@uo
*associate professor*
he/him

Anastasia Teterina} — Anastasia Teterina
teterina@uo
*postdoc with Phillips lab*
she/her

Gabrielle Coffing} — Gabrielle Coffing
gcoffing@uo
*grad student*
she/her

Clara Rehmann} — Clara Rehmann
crehmann@uo
*grad student*
she/her

Gilia Patterson} — Gilia Patterson
gpatters@uo
*grad student*
she/her

Nate Pope} — Nate Pope
natep@uo
*population geneticist*
he/him

Scott Small} — Scott Small
ssmall@uo
*Population Geneticist*
he/him

Silas Tittes} — Silas Tittes
stittes@uo
*Population Geneticist*
he/him

Alex Bangs} — Alex Bangs
abangs@uo
*undergrad researcher*
she/her

Angel Rivera-Colon} — Angel Rivera-Colon
ariverac@uo
*postdoc*
he/him

Jordan Rodriguez} — Jordan Rodriguez
jrodrig8@uo
*grad student*
she/they

Ananya Kapoor} — Ananya Kapoor
akapoor@uo
*grad student*
he/him

Kevin Korfmann} — Kevin Korfmann
kkor@uo
*postdoc*
he/him

Sonia Cebrián Camisón} — Sonia Cebrián Camisón
scamison@uo
*fulbright visiting scholar*
she/her

Thomas Forest} — Thomas Forest
tforest@uo
*postdoc*
he/him

Zach Stewart} — Zach Stewart
zstewart@uo
*undergrad researcher*
he/him

Past lab members

Jiseon Min, postdoc with Andy and Peter(2022-2025), now postdoc in Katie Lotterhos’ lab at Northeastern University
Victoria Caudill, grad student with Peter (2019-2024)
Murillo F. Rodrigues, grad student with Andy and Peter (2018-2024), now a Computational Biologist working with Don Conrad and Jeff Wall at the OHSU.
Chris Smith, postdoc with Andy and Peter (2021-2024), now Postdoctoral Associate in the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder,
Bruce Edelman, programmer with Andy and Peter (2023)
Jordan Anderson, postdoc with Andy (2022-2023), now Bioinformatics Scientist at Foresight Diagnostics
Matt Lukac, grad student with Peter (2017-2023)
Georgia Tsambos, postdoc with Peter (2023), now a Postdoc with Kelley Harris
Saurahb Belsare, postdoc with Andy and Peter (2020-2023), now Computational Biologist at PacBio
Vince Buffalo, postdoc with Andy (2019-2022), now Postdoc with Rasmus Nielsen ()
Jeff Adrion, postdoc with Andy and Peter (2018-2021), now Population Geneticist, Ancestry ()
CJ Battey, postdoc with Andy and Peter (2018-2020), now Computational Biologist, Myriad Genetics ()
Jared Galloway, Scientific Programmer with Peter and Andy (2018-2019), now Master’s student in Bioinformatics ()
Alexander Xue, postdoc with Andy (2017-2018), now Postdoc in Adam Siepel’s lab at CSHL
Dan Schrider, postdoc with Andy (2013-2018), now Assistant Professor at UNC Chapel Hill
Joshua Schiffman, grad student with Peter at USC (2013-2018), now postdoc at New York Genome Center
Erik Lundgren, grad student with Peter at USC (2013-2018), now postdoc at Los Alamos National Lab
Han Li, grad student with Peter at USC (2014-2016), now data scientist at Disqo
Jessica Crisci, postdoc with Peter and Matt Dean at USC (2013-2015), now artist in Los Angeles
Erik Lavington, postdoc with Andy (2016), now postdoc in Siobhan Duffy’s lab at Rutgers University
Alexander Shanku, grad student with Andy (2010-2016), now Machine Learning Scientist, Ford Motor Company
Shengxi Dawn Chen, undergrad researcher with Andy (2014-2015), now Graduate Student in Andy Clark’s lab at Cornell University
Elizabeth Hellen, postdoc with Andy (2013-2014), now Research Services Librarian at U. Sheffield
Daniel Hupalo, grad student with Andy (2009-2013), now Senior Computational Biologist, American Genome Center
Bryan Kolaczkowski, postdoc with Andy (2009-2010), now Associate Professor at U. of Florida
Amanda Jensen, former lab manager with Andy (2009-2011), now Surface Water Scientist, Colorado Dept. of Public Health

Kern-Ralph Co-lab

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Current co-lab members

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