Yin Group Alumni

 

DOCTORAL STUDENTS (past and present)

1. Drew Endy, BS, MS Lehigh University, Training: 1994-1997, Intracellular Kinetics of Bacteriophage T7, Current position: Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering, Stanford

2. Lingchong You, BE Chendgu Univ. Science & Tech 1994; Training: 1997-2002, Project: Extension, Application and Generalization of a Phage T7 Intracellular Growth Model, Current position: Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University

3. Elizabeth Endler, BS U. South Carolina, 1998, Training: 1998-2003, Project: Characterization of Viral Propagation on Chemically Patterned Surfaces. Current position: Research Engineering, Dow Chemical Company, Freeport, TX

4. Vy Lam, BS, Northwestern U., 1998-2005, Project: Monitoring viral spread and the development of cellular defensive responses to Vesicular Stomatitis Virus infections in vitro, Current position: Post-doctoral Fellow, Medical College of Wisconsin

5. Eric Haseltine, BS Clemson University 1999, 1999-2005, Project: Image-guided modeling of virus growth and spread, Current Position: Systems biologist, Vertex Pharmaceuticals (MA)

6. Hwijin Kim, BS Pohang University of Science and Technology 1996, Training: 2001-2005, Project: Robust Growth of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1), Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School.

7. Kwang-il Lim, BS Pohang University of Science and Technology, 1993, Training: 2000-2005, Project: Intracellular Dynamics of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus, Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, UC-Berkeley

8. Jason Middleton, BS Wayne State U, 1998, Training 1998-2003, Project: Intracellular Kinetics of Reovirus, Current Position: Research Scientist, Battelle Memorial Research Institute, Columbus, Ohio

9.Patrick Suthers, BS Tennessee Tech 1998, Training: 2000-2005, Project: Modeling and analysis of ribosomal RNA transcription and ribosome synthesis in Escherichia coli, Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Penn State U.

10. Kristen Stauffer Thompson, BS Michigan Tech U 1996, Training: 2003-2008, Project: Quantitative Effects of Defective Interfering Virus-like Particles on the Growth and Population Behavior of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus, Current Position: Adjunct Faculty of Physics and Engineering, Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa.

11. Ying Zhu, BS Shandong Medical U. 2003, Training: 2003-2008, Project: New methods to quantify virus growth and infection spread, Current Position: Engineer, Abbott Labs.

12. Stephen Lindsay, BS Brigham Young University 2007, Training 2007- date, Project: Flow-enhanced characterization of virus infections. Support: NIH-Biotechnology Training Program.

13. Rishi Srivastava, BS India Institute of Technology (IIT), Training 2007- date, Project: Hybrid Stochastic-Deterministic Modeling of Virus Intracellular Growth. Support: NIH. (co-advisor: James B. Rawlings, CBE)

14. Emily Voigt, BS Kansas State University, Training 2008-date, Project: Measures and models of innate immune activation, Support: National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship, National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellowship.

15. Collin Timm, BS Colorado School of Mines, Training 2008-date, Project: Measures and models of viral intracellular kinetics, Support: NIH.

16. Andrea Timm, BS University of Missouri, Training 2008-date, Project: Mechanisms and dynamics of spreading virus infections, Support: NIH

17. Ankur Gupta, BS India Institute of Technology (IIT), Training 2008- date, Project: Modeling of Influenza A Virus Intracellular Growth. Support: NIH. (co-advisor: James B. Rawlings, CBE)

18. Adam Swick, BS Middlebury College, Training 2008-date, Project: Quantitative effects of interferon-mediated cell-cell communication on the spread of vesicular stomatitis virus. Support: NIH.

19. Fulya Akpinar, BS Middle East Tech. Univ, 2009-date. Project: Single-particle quantification of virus and virus-like particles

20. Ashley Baltes, BS Univ. of Nebraska, 2010-date.

21. Bahar Inankur, BS, MS, Middle East Tech. Univ, 2010-date.

 

POST-DOCTORAL STUDENTS

1. Yih Lee, Rice U 1994, Training: 1994-1996, Research Project: Quantitative Imaging of Virus Infection Spread, Current Position: Associate Director of Clinical Trials, Millenium Pharmaceuticals

2. Karen Duca, Brandeis PhD 1997, Training 1997-2000, Research Project: Quantifying Viral Propagation in Vitro, Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

3. Ranjan Srivastava, BS 1993 Washington University, St Louis, Training: 2000-2002, Intracellular Dynamics of Duck Hepatitis B Virus in Primary Hepatocyte Culture, Current Position: Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Univ. Connecticut-Storrs.

4. Musarat Ishaq, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, 2001, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan, College of Life Sciences; MSc (honors), 2004, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, PhD, Molecular Virology, 2008, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, P.R.China. Training: 2008-date.

 

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