Former Members


Former Graduate Students

Andres Abin-Fuentes ’13, Graduate 2006-2013, Synlogic, Inc.
Himanshu Dhamankar
 ’13, Graduate 2007-2013, Greenlight Biosciences
Bernardo Cervantes ’20, Concerto Biosciences
Christina Dinh ’19,  Ginkgo Bioworks
Stephanie Doong ’19,  Vertex
Lisa Guay ’19, Corning
Apoorv Gupta ’17, MIT Sloan
Pooya Iranpour MS ’06
Aditya Kunjapur ’15, Graduate 2010-2015, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware
Collin Martin ’09, Graduate 2004-2009, DuPont
Tae Seok Moon ’09, Graduate 2005-2009, Associate Professor at Washington University in St. Louis
Neidi Miller MS ’12
Irene Brockman Reizman ’15, Graduate 2010-2015, Assistant Professor, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Diana (Bower) Ritz ’12Graduate 2007-2012, GlaxoSmithKline
Micah Sheppard ’14, Graduate 2008-2014, Ginkgo Bioworks
Eric Shiue
 ’13, Graduate 2008-2013, Berkeley Lights
Kevin Solomon ’12, Graduate 2007-2012, Assistant Professor, University of Delaware
Sue Zanne Tan ’17, NIBR Cambridge
Yekaterina Tarasova ’16, Graduate 2011-2016, Broad Institute
Hsien-Chung Tseng ’11, Graduate 2007-2011, Manus Biosynthesis

Former Post Doctoral Fellows

Lisa Anderson, Amrys, Emeryville, CA
Jason Boock, Assistant Professor, Miami University, OH
Adam Freedman, Boost Biomes
Kristina Haslinger, Assistant Professor, University of Groningen, NL
Michael Hicks, Illumina, Inc, San Diego, CA
Shawn Finney-Manchester, Zymergen, Emeryville, CA
M. Ahsanul Islam, Assistant Professor, Bio/Chemical Engineering, Loughborough University, UK
Effendi Leonard, Provivi
Wesley Marques, DuPont Nutrition and Biosciences, France
Matt McMahon, Ginkgo Bioworks, Boston, MA
David Nielsen, Assistant Professor, ASU
Christopher Reisch, Assistant Professor, UFL
Sang Hwal Yoon

Former MIT-Portugal Students

Claudia Amorim, January-October 2017
Geisa Lopes Goncalves, April-October 2010 & January-October 2011
Fabiana Fernandes, June-November 2011
Joana Rodrigues, May-August 2013
Michaela Simcikova, October 2011-May 2012
Ana Vila-Santa, April 2017-April 2018

Former Visiting Students

Danhui (Kiki) Cheng (Hong Kong), Fulbright, September 2013-March 2014
Léa Poinssot (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland), March 2018 – August 2018

Former Undergraduates

Lauren Allen ’13, UROP Spring 2011
Gihan S Amarasiriwardena ’11, UROP
Angel Asante (UC Berkeley ’13), MSRP 2011
Megan Bumgarner, UROP Summer/Fall 2013
U’Kevia Bell, (Prairie View A+M Univ.), MSRP 2010
Kali Benavides
 ’15, UROP Summer 2013
Bernardo Cervantes
 (UC Berkeley ’14) MSRP Summer 2013
Wei Chan ’06, UROP Summer 2006
Alice Chang ’10, UROP Summer 2007
Angela Chen (Ohio State ’15), MSRP Summer 2014
(Mary-Jane) Tsang Hui Ching ’10, UROP
Alexis Courtney (Bay Path College ’13) MSRP Summer 2012
Theresa Salazar Dinio (UC Berkeley), MSRP 2008
Hannah Dotson ’15, (Caltech) SURF Program Summer 2013
Dawn Eriksen
 (UMass-Amherst ’08), MSRP 2006
Ilyssa Evans (UC Berkeley ’16) , MSRP Summer 2014
Catherine Fan
 ’14UROP Summer/Fall 2012, Spring/Fall 2013
Aziza Glass
 (Prairie View A+M Univ.), MSRP 2008
Catey Harwell ’11, UROP Summer & Fall 2009
Jane He ’15, UROP Spring 2012
Paul Heyse ’14UROP Spring 2014
Alvin Jeon 
’14UROP Summer/Fall 2013
Nina Jreige
 ’13, UROP Spring 2013
Ha-young Kang ’15 UROP Summer 2012
Nikita Khlystov ’14, UROP Fall 2012, Spring 2013/Fall 2013
Chad Kiggins ’15 UROP Spring 2013
Charlotte Kirk ’14, UROP IAP, Spring, Summer, & Fall 2011
Viniece Kirksey, (Prairie View A+M Univ.), MSRP 2009
Amanda Lanza ’08, UROP 2006-2008
Claire Lamneck Tufts Undergraduate Summer 2013
Chamille LeScott
 ’16, UROP Spring 2014
Brian Ma (California Institute of Technology ’12), Caltech SURF 2011
Anudha Mittal (UMass-Amherst ’08), MSRP 2007
Matt Metlitz ’14, UROP IAP/Spring 2011
Rene Padilla ’07, UROP Summer 2006
Joe Roy-Mayhew ’08, UROP Spring/Summer 2008
Christopher Omahan ’15 UROP Spring/Summer 2013
David Poberejsky ’20, MIT, Chemical Engineering, Spring/Summer 2017
Radames V. Rios-Gonzalez, (Univ. of Puerto Rico) MSRP Summer 2013
Tarielle Sanders (Norfolk State University ’12), Amgen Scholar 2011
Luis Sandoval ’19, MIT, Chemical Engineering, Summer 2016 and 2017
Kathryn Schumacher ’09, UROP Summer/Fall 2006
Garielle Stiggers (Prairie View A&M University ’13), MSRP 2011
Michelle Teplensky ’14, UROP Spring 2012, Spring 2013
Shan Tie ’14, UROP IAP/Spring 2010
Jessica Wang ’15, UROP Spring 2013
Asmamaw Wassie ’13, UROP Spring 2013
Zachary Waxman ’11 UROP Summer/Fall 2010
Spencer Wenck ’15, UROP Sp/Sum/F 2012, Sp/F 2013, Sp 2014
Alexandra Westbrook ’13, Summer/Fall 2012, Spring 2013
Shanita Wilburn (Tuskegee University ’09), MSRP 2007
Danyi Wu ’11, UROP 2007-2009
Clara Yuan ’09, UROP 2008-2009
Ken (Quan) Zhou ’09, UROP Summer 2007
Neil Zimmerman ’09, UROP IAP/Spring 2006
Emma Valentine ’17, UROP Summer 2014
Amita Gupta ’15, UROP Spring/Summer/Fall 2014, Spring 2015
Ashley E. Masucci ’18, UROP Summer 2015
Ayse Muniz ’16, University of New Mexico, MSRP 2015
Camille Stubbe ’18, UROP Summer 2015
Cheli Arussy ’16, Univ Maryland – Baltimore County, MSRP 2015
Jason Hyun ’17, UROP Summer/Fall 2014, Spring 2015
Reva Butensky ’18, UROP MITei Fellowship, Summer 2015

Former High School Students

Jessica Shah, Fox Lane High School, Research Volunteer