Alumni

We’ve had a great diversity of trainees and visitors come through our doors and make memorable contributions. To any alumni of the Whiteman Lab, please stay in touch and share your latest with us!

Graduate Student alumni

University of Arizona graduate students

Andrew Gloss	Postdoc, University of Chicago/New York University, Assistant Professor, University of Georgia
Benjamin Goldman-Huertas	Postdoc, University of Arizona, Associate Specialist, UC Berkeley
Parris Humphrey	Postdoc, Harvard University, Staff Scientist, Myriad Genetics

University of California, Berkeley, graduate students

Nicolas Alexandre	Postdoc, UC Santa Cruz/Staff Scientist, Colossal
Tim O’Connor	Postdoc, University of Chicago/Genomics, AbbVie
Julianne Peláez	Hanna Gray Postdoc, Brandeis University
Kirsten Verster	Postdoc and Lecturer, Stanford University
Jessica Aguilar	NSF PRFB Postdoc, Stanford University
Hiromu Suzuki	Postdoc, Yale University
Diler Haji	Postdoc, Stanford University
Rebecca Tarnopol	Sander Fellow, UCSF

Postdoc Alumni

University of Arizona postdocs

Simon “Niels” Groen	Assistant Professor, UC Riverside
David Hembry	Assistant Professor, University of Texas Permian Basin
Jennifer Koop	Associate Professor, Northern Illinois University
Rick Lapoint	Staff Scientist, NCBI-SRA
Paul Nabity	Assistant Prof, UC Riverside/University of Melbourne
Anna Nelson Dittrich	Lab Manager, Boyce Thompson Institute

University of California, Berkeley, postdocs

Rebecca Duncan	Scientist, Centers for Disease Control
Marianthi Karageorgi	Postdoc, Stanford University, Lecturer, University of Melbourne
Teruyuki Matsunaga	Research Associate Professor, Tokyo University
Catherine Rushworth	Assistant Professor, Utah State University
Rebecca Tarvin	Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley
Moe Bakhtiari	Postdoc, Swiss Federal Institute WSL
Samridhi Chaturvedi	Assistant Professor, Tulane University

Lab Manager Alumni

Dan Domogala
Tim Rast	Senior Research Specialist, University of Arizona
Erika LaPlante	Graduate Student, Northern Arizona University
Susan Bernstein

Visiting Scientists

	Visit	Current institution
Anurag Agrawal	2011	Cornell University
Jennifer Thaler	2011	Cornell University
Patrick O’Grady	2014	Cornell University
Lea Flechon	2015	Université de Lille
Divya Sitaraman	2024	California State University, East Bay

Undergraduate and high school researcher alumni

Below is a mostly complete list of undergraduate students (and some high school volunteers) that have worked in the Whiteman lab. Of those we have some career information from (56%), over 40% have gone to graduate school, 22% work as technicians in academic labs, 20% are in industry jobs and 17% pursued medical degrees.

University of Arizona research alumni

Amir Abidov, Symone Ashley, Alana Augur, Ivan Salvador Ayala, Allan Castillo, Kevin Chai, Matt Cravens, Sammy Dominguez, Mitchell Feldmann, Jason Giles, Alexander Hailey, Lauren Johnston, Noel Kitchen, Robert Kupp, Sergio Antonio Matias, Claire Mirocha, Taylor Ortiz, Hoon Pyon, Julianne Ray, Sarah Caitlyn Rogan, Lindsey Schader, Martha Villalobos, Amelia Renee White and Ella Wilcox

University of California, Berkeley, research alumni

Sneha Agrawal, Saron Akalu, Zainab Ali, Roem Araujo, Michael Astourian, Timothy Barnes, Ashley Bendl, Bridget Cheng, Kelly D’Ambrogia, William Farley, Ana Gallegos Cruz, Jordan Hoff, Nayoon Kim, Eunice Kim, Natalie Kircher, Boris Korablev, Erika LaPlante, Anna Leipertz, Irene Liang, Maria Mendoza, Aruna Menon, Christina Meyer, Kevin Miao, Gillian Montross, Fareha Moulana Zada, Gillian Oaks, Chris Ochoa, Judith Okoro, Elizabeth Ordeman, Rachel Patterson, Anna Pham, Giovani Pimentel-Solorio, Justin Rigby, Esteban Rodas, Eric Rogers, Faye Romero, Easha Sagar, Marissa Sandoval, Hannah Shadmany, Malvika Singhal, Haarini Sridhar, Shivani Sundaram, Ashleigh Takemoto, Josephine Tamsil, Xiaohe “Lucy” Tian, Carolina Verona Arguelles, Jiarui Wang, George Wang, Naama Weksler, Joshua Wong, Kannagi Yashroy, Derrick Yip, Samantha Zaninelli, Caitlyn Zhu, and Shirley Zhang