Postdoctoral Scholar

Graduate Students

Undergraduate Students

Zhang Laboratory Alumni (Thank you. You will be missed.)

Graduate Students

Dr. John Khamo (2014/9-2019/7). Email: jkhamo2@illinois.edu. Robert L. Switzer Outstanding TA (2019), Keith Westcott Fellow (2017)
Current position: Scientist at Situ Biosciences (2021) and Neelyx lab (2022). 

Dr. Vishnu Vardhan Krishnamurthy (2014/7 – 2019/12) Email: vkrshnm2@illinois.edu Robert L. Switzer Outstanding TA (2018) Leading author of a Featured Communication and Front Cover in the Journal of Molecular Biology (2021).
Current position: Director at UIUC HTSF

Dr. Payel Mondal (2015/7-2020/5) Email: pmondal2@illinois.edu.  ASBMB Travel Award (2018), Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2019), Switzer Outstanding TA (2020). Anne A. Johnson Work Award (2021, delayed from 2020).
Current position: Postdoc at CHRISTINA TOWERS, Salk Institute, CA.

Dr. Savanna Sharum Skeeters (2016/7-2022/1)  Email: ssharum2@illinois.edu. Keith Westcott Fellow (2018), second prize in the 1st School of MCB retreat (2019), Robert L. Switzer Outstanding TA (2019). Current position: Scientist at Cyrus Biotech.

Dr. Kritika Mehta (2018/12-2024/8) Email: kritika4@illinois.edu. Charles F. Kade Fellow (2022), Robert L. Switcher Award (2022, 2023).
Current Position: Postdoc in Dr. Timothy Ryan‘s lab at Weil Cornell Medicine, NY.

Dr. Teak-Jung Oh (2019/12-2024/8) Email: tjoh2@illinois.edu. Korean Scholar Fellowship (2024), LAS Graduate Student Travel Award (2024).
Current Position: Postdoc in Kai Zhang’s lab at UIUC.

Mr. Terry Gao (2021-2022)

Technician

Tina Han (2020-2022). Email: jwhan4@illinois.edu. MCB Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (2021)

Undergraduate Students

Cara Schornak (2014/10-2015/7). Email: schorna2@illinois.edu Current position: Graduate student at Vanderbilt University.
Ellen Cho (2014/8-2016/5). Email: echo26@illinois.edu Biochemistry high distinction (2016) Current position: Loyola University Chicago.
Humza Ashraf (2015-2017) Email: hashraf2@illinois.edu  Biochemistry Summer Research Scholarship Award (2016), Biochemistry high distinction (2017). Current position: University of Colorado, Boulder.
Dil Patel (2015-2017) Email: dbpatel4@illinois.edu Current position: Advocate Condell Medical Center, Libertyville, IL
Noah Risner (2015-2017) Email: risner2@illinois.edu
Jennifer Cheng (2017-2018) Email: jzcheng2@illinois.edu. Biochemistry highest distinction (2018) Current position: Graduate student at Northwestern University. American Epilepsy Society pre-doctoral fellowship (2020, at Northwestern University)
Neeka Haack (2015-2019) Email: nhaack2@illinois.edu   
Kelly Cho  (2017-2019) Email: kcho29@illinois.edu Biochemistry High Distinction (2019). MCB Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (2021), Campus Honors Program (CHP) grant (2021, declined). Current position: Graduate Student at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago 
Max Spiro (2018-2019) Email: maxjs2@illinois.edu
Dhanan Shahdadpuri (2018-2021): dshahd2@illinois.edu
Aruniti Mawana (2021-2022): amanaw2@illinois.edu
Tristan Worley (2020-2021): tworley3@kaizkaizillinois-edu
Uma Agarwal (2021-2023) Email: umaa2@illinois.edu: Highest Distinction and the Jackson Merit Outstanding Thesis award.
Ami Patel (2021-2023): amirp2@illinois.edu
Nathan Gron (2021-2023): ngron3@illinois.edu: Highest Distinction and the Jackson Merit Outstanding Thesis award.
Nafay Abdul （2021-2024）nabdul24@illinois.edu, MCB SURF 2022, 2023
Kurt Leano (2021-2023): kleano5@illinois.edu, MCB SURF 2023
Danyi Wang (2022-2023): danyiw2@illinois.edu, MCB SURF 2023, Current position: Graduate student at Columbia University
Collin Barnes (2021-2024): Biology, Experience, Scholarship, and Training (BEST) Scholar, Highest Distinction.

High School Student

Ana Rosu (2017-2019) Email:  anarosu2@illinois.edu; arosu1@jhu.edu Current Position: Undergraduate student at Johns Hopkins University, then Cancer Engineering PhD Program at the Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSK).

First-year Rotation Graduate Students

Erik Andersen (2014/10-11) Email: microbioresearcher@gmail.com 
Eric Shinn (2015/9-10)  Email: shinn3@illinois.edu
Yeoan Youn (2015/11-12) Email: youn4@illinois.edu
Madhura Duttagupta (2016/8-9) Email:madhura2@illinois.edu
Nandan Haloi (2016/9-10) Email: nhaloi2@illinois.edu
Micca Hecht (2018/9-10) Email: miccah2@illinois.edu
Laura Suttenfield (2018/9-10) Email: lauracs2@illinois.edu
Xin Chen (2018/11-12) Email: xinc6@illinois.edu
Jessica Palalay (2020/9-10) Email: palalay2@illinois.edu
Anna Mankovich (2020/10-11) Email: annagm2@illinois.edu
Kaylee Kuzelka (2020/11-12) Email: kuzelka2@illinois.edu
Jorge Calderin (2020/11-12) Email: jorgedc2@illinois.edu
Ran Yang (2021/9-10) Email: ranyang3@illinois.edu
Anuradha Sharma (2021/9-10) Email: as110@illinois.edu
Xiangning Song (2021/10-11) Email: xs38@illinois.edu
Tanner Dean (Biophysics) (2021/11-12) Email: tjdean2@illinois.edu
Shweta Shree (2021/11-12) Email: shree3@illinois.edu
Rebecca Tang (2021/11-12) Email: rytang2@illinois.edu
Sepehr Alaeen (2022/08-09) Email: salaeen2@illinois.edu