MEMBERS

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Mark A. Krasnow
Paul and Mildred Berg Professor of Biochemistry
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Beckman B439
650-723-7191
krasnow AT stanford DOT edu

CV

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Maria Petersen
Administrative Assistant
marilen AT stanford DOT edu
650-724-8764

GRADUATE STUDENTS

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Joshua Head
National Science Foundation Fellow
BS, Emmanuel College, Boston
Mapping output circuits of breathing and innate vocalization
Beckman B439
650-723-5871
joshhead AT stanford DOT edu

Shahadat Rahman
National Science Foundation Fellow
BS, CUNY City College of New York
Understanding the developmental trajectory of the different lung alveolar epithelial cell types
Beckman B451
650-723-5871
shahadat AT stanford DOT edu

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Timothy Wu
Stanford Medical Scientist Training Program
MS, Biomedical Informatics, Stanford University
BS, Stanford University
Identification and characterization of human alveolar stem cell
Beckman B439
650-723-5871
thsuanwu AT stanford DOT edu

Helen Zhang
Stanford Graduate Fellowship
BS, UC San Diego
Oxygen regulation of neuroendocrine stem cells
Beckman B453
650-723-5871
helen18 AT stanford DOT edu

Christine Zhou
Stanford Graduate Fellowship
BS, UC Davis
Mapping and characterizing the macrophage population in lung adenocarcinoma
Beckman B455
650-723-5871 
cstnwjzhou AT stanford DOT edu

Medical Students

Katherine Prothro
Stanford Medical Scholar 
BS, Wake Forest University
Molecular and functional mapping of lung fibroblasts
Beckman B439, 650-723-5871
kprothro AT stanford DOT edu

Postdocs & Fellows

Jalal Baruni
(joint with Liqun Luo lab)
Anesthesiology Resident and Research Fellow 
MD, PhD, Columbia University (Daniel Salzman lab)
Brain-organ interaction
Beckman B439
650-723-5871
jalal DOT baruni AT stanford DOT edu

Laura Crowley
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Fellow
PhD, Columbia University (Michael Shen Lab)
Fibroblast stem cell dynamics and epithelial interactions in homeostatis, and how they change with cancer and other diseases
Beckman B451
650-723-5871
laurac5 AT stanford DOT edu

Camille Ezran
MD, University of Rochester
MS, Stanford University School of Medicine
BS, University of California (Berkeley)
Mouse lemur as a new primate genetic model organism
650-723-5871
Beckman B439
camillee AT stanford DOT edu

Xiaoran Guo
American Cancer Society Fellow
PhD, UC Santa Barbara (Denise Montell lab)
Developing a comprehensive alveolar organlet system as a disease and drug screening model
Beckman B451
650-723-5871
xrguo AT stanford DOT edu 

Caitlin Karanewsky
France-Stanford Center Grant for Interdisciplinary Studies; Child Health Research Institute Grant & Postdoctoral Award, Stanford University
PhD, Stony Brook University (Patricia Wright lab)
A new model organism for biology and medicine 
Beckman B439
650-723-5871
ckaranew AT stanford DOT edu

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Shixuan Liu
(joint with Jim Ferrell lab)
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Inst. Interdisciplinary Scholar  
PhD, University of Toronto (Ron Kafri lab)
Seasonal rhythms of the mouse lemur
Beckman B451
650-422-9927
shixuan AT stanford DOT edu

Yingyue Zhou
Walter V. & Idun Berry Award
Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, Stanford School of Medicine
PhD, Washington University St. Louis (Marco Colonna lab)
Molecular identification of the neural circuit of innate vocalization
Beckman B439
650-723-5871
yyzhou AT stanford DOT edu

INSTRUCTOR

Stephen Chang
MD, University of Cincinnati
PhD, Stanford University
Instructor/Cardiologist, Stanford
A new genetic model organism for studying cardiovascular physiology and disease 
Beckman B439
650-723-6459

RESEARCH SPECIALIST

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Hernan Espinoza
Damon Runyon Fellowship; HHMI Research Specialist 
PhD, UCSF (David Morgan lab) 
A genome-wide analysis of gene expression in mouse lung development
Beckman B439
650-723-5871
hespinoz AT stanford DOT edu

RESEARCH ASSISTANTS

Elin Kang
BS, California Institute of Technology
Neural circuits of breathing
Beckman B455
650-723-5871
elinkang AT stanford DOT edu

Chinmay Lalgudi
BS, Stanford University
MS, Stanford University
Genomic analysis of the mouse lemur microbiome and ecological niche
Beckman B451
650-723-5871
clalgudi AT stanford DOT edu

Annie Tran Nguyen
BS, Stanford University
Neural circuit of cardiopulmonary control
Beckman B451
650-723-5871
annie999 AT stanford DOT edu

Zeph Pendleton
BS, University of North Carolina
A new genetic model organism for conservation and field biology
Beckman B439
650-723-5871
zephpen AT stanford DOT edu

Sasha Winter
BS, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
Mouse lemur niche and virome
Beckman B469
650-723-5871

ALUMNI

Greg Beitel, PhD
Postdoc until 2000
Professor, Northwestern University
http://groups.molbiosci.northwestern.edu/beitel/

Patrick Bogard, PhD
Grad Student until 2012
Director, Molecular Lab Research and Early Development, Roche
https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-bogard-02023230

Doug Brownfield, PhD
Assistant Professor, Harvard
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/douglas-brownfield
Assistant Professor, Mayo Clinic
https://www.mayo.edu/research/labs/lung-development-regeneration/overview

Andy Chang, PhD
Postdoc until 2016
Assistant Professor, UCSF
https://andychanglab.ucsf.edu  

Elizabeth Chao, MD/PhD
Grad Student until 2007
Dermatologist, Boston, MA
https://www.doximity.com/pub/elizabeth-chao-md-eb1e419c

Feng Chen, PhD
Grad Student until 2014
Principal Scientist, Novartis

Jichao Chen, PhD
Postdoc until 2011
Associate Professor, University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center
http://faculty.mdanderson.org/Jichao_Chen/

Sung-Kay Chiu, PhD
Postdoc until 2000
Associate Professor, Xi'an Jiaotong - Liverpool University
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sung-Kay-Chiu

Nam Cho, MD/PhD
Grad Student until 2002
Chair, Radiation Oncology, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
Sobrato Cancer Center

Susan Cumberledge, PhD (deceased) 
Postdoc until 1993
Associate Professor, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst

Tushar Desai, MD
Postdoc until 2011
Associate Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine
http://www.biox.stanford.edu

Patrick Devine, MD/PhD
Grad Student until 2005
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, UCSF
https://profiles.ucsf.edu/patrick.devine

Alex Diaz de Arce, PhD
Grad Student until 2021
Scientist, Encoded Therapeutics
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-diaz-de-arce-89884613a

Camille Ezran, MD
Medical Student at Univ. of Rochester until 2021
Resident Doctor, Maine Medical Center
https://www.mainehealth.org/maine-medical-center/education-research/students-residents-fellows/residencies/internal-medicine/residents

Michael Galko, PhD
Postdoc until 2005
Professor, Department of Genetics, University of Texas
http://faculty.mdanderson.org/michael_galko/

Amin Ghabrial, PhD
Postdoc until 2007
Associate Professor, Columbia University
https://www.pathology.columbia.edu/profile/amin-ghabrial-phd

Astrid Gillich, PhD
Postdoc until 2021
Principal Investigator, Calico Life Sciences
https://calicolabs.com/people/astrid-gillich-ph-d

Dan Greif, MD
Postdoc until 2010
Associate Professor of Medicine, Yale Univ. School of Medicine
http://cardio.med.yale.edu/people/daniel_greif.profile

Karen Guillemin, PhD
Grad Student until 1998
Professor, Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon
http://molbio.uoregon.edu/guillemin/

Nir Hacohen, PhD
Grad Student until 1996
Director, MGH Center for Cancer Immunotherapy
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Senior Member, Broad Institute
https://www.massgeneral.org/cancer/research/researchlab.aspx?id=1644  
https://www.broadinstitute.org/bios/nir-hacohen

Farhad Imam, MD, PhD
Grad Student until 2003
Director, Health & Life Sciences, Gates Ventures
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UC San Diego 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/farhad-imam-91988b1

SoRi Jang, PhD
Postdoc until 2022
Senior Scientist, Calico Life Sciences
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sorijang

Jill Jarecki, PhD
Postdoc until 2000
Chief Scientific Officer, Cure SMA, Treat-NMD
http://www.treat-nmd.eu/search/?search=jarecki

Lesley Jarvis, MD/PhD
Grad Student until 2002
Associate Professor of Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School
http://www.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/provider/971

Eric Johnson, PhD
Postdoc until 2001
Associate Professor, Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon
http://molbio.uoregon.edu/johnson/

F. Brad Johnson, MD/PhD
Grad Student until 1995
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Univ. of Pennsylvania
http://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g5455356/p11052

Maya Kumar, PhD
Postdoc until 2015
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford University
https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/maya-kumar

Christin Kuo, MD
Postdoc until 2016
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford University
https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/christin-kuo

Boaz Levi , PhD
Grad Student until 2006
Associate Investigator, Allen Institute for Brain Science
http://www.alleninstitute.org/our-institute/our-team/profiles/boaz-levi

Peng Li , PhD
Postdoc until 2018
Assistant Professor, Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan
https://www.lsi.umich.edu/science/our-labs/peng-li-lab

Yin Liu, PhD
Postdoc until 2021
Group Leader, Janelia Research Campus
https://www.janelia.org/lab/liu-yin-lab

Barry Lubarsky, PhD
Grad Student until 2003
Senior Director of Medical Affairs, Alkermes, Inc.

Stefan Luschnig, PhD
Postdoc until 2004
Professor, University of Muenster
https://www.uni-muenster.de/Biologie/en/Mitarbeiter/luschnig.html

Anna Lyuksyutova, PhD
Postdoc until 2012
Research Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming
https://www.uwyo.edu/molecbio/faculty-and-staff/

Gerard Manning, PhD
Grad Student until 1997
Director of Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Genentech

Ross Metzger, PhD
Grad Student until 2007
Principal Investigator, Wall Center for Pulmonary Vascular Disease, Stanford University
http://med.stanford.edu/metzgerlab/research.html

Mark Metzstein, PhD
Postdoc until 2005
Associate Professor, University of Utah
https://genetics.utah.edu/mark-metzstein/

David Micklem, PhD
Postdoc until 2000
Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer, BergenBio ASA
https://no.linkedin.com/in/dmicklem

Ahmad Nabhan, PhD
Grad Student until 2019
Postdoc, Genentech (Vishva Dixit lab)

Joe Ouadah, PhD
Grad Student until 2019
Postdoc, Caltech (David Anderson lab)

Soren Peterson, PhD
Grad Student until 2012
Associate Director of Business Development, Agios Pharmaceuticals 
https://relationshipscience.com/person/soren-peterson-231217466

Kristy Red-Horse, PhD
Postdoc until 2011
Associate Professor of Biology, Stanford University
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
https://redhorselab.stanford.edu

Emma Saffman, PhD
Grad Student until 1993
Senior Patent Agent, BCF LLP

Christos Samakovlis, PhD
Postdoc until 1994
Professor, Stockholm University
http://www.su.se/mbw/research-groups/integrative-biology/group-samakovlis

David Schneider, PhD
Postdoc until 1996
Professor and Chair of Microbiolgoy & Immunology, Stanford School of Medicine
http://schneiderlab.stanford.edu

Kathy Shim, PhD
Grad Student until 2000
Assistant Professor, Medical College of Wisconsin
SRO, National Institutes of Health

Daria Siekhaus, PhD
Grad Student until 1999 (R. Fuller Lab)
Assistant Professor, Institute of Science and Technology, Vienna
http://ist.ac.at/research/research-groups/siekhaus-group/

Krystal St. Julien
Grad Student until 2013 
Data Science Manager, Facebook

Vikram Sudarsan, PhD
Postdoc until 2011
President and CEO, Engrail Therapeutics
https://engrail.com/portfolio-item/vikram-sudarsan-phd/

David Sutherland, MD/PhD
Grad Student until 1998
Psychiatrist, UCSF 

Fraser Tan, PhD 
Grad Student until 2011 
Program Manager, Medical Brain, Google Health
https://www.linkedin.com/in/frasertan

Serena Tan, MD
Resident/Fellow until 2014
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Stanford School of Medicine
https://profiles.stanford.edu/serena-tan

Stephanie Toering Peters, PhD
Grad Student until 2003
Professor of Biology, Wartburg College
https://www.wartburg.edu/people/dr-stephanie-toering-peters/

Kyle Travaglini, PhD
Grad student until 2021
Scientist, Postdoctoral Fellow (Ed Lein group), Allen Institute for Brain Research
https://alleninstitute.org/person/kyle-travaglini/

Russ Van Gelder, MD/PhD
Grad Student until 1994
Boyd Bucey Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology, Univ. of Washington Medical School
http://www.ophthalmology.washington.edu/faculty/russell-n-van-gelder-md-phd

Avin Veerakumar, MD, PhD
MD/PhD student until 2022
Resident Physician, Brigham & Women’s Hospital

Molly Weaver, PhD
Postdoc until 2010
Maternity leave

Kevin Yackle, MD, PhD
Grad Student until 2016
Assistant Professor, University of California San Francisco
http://yacklelab.ucsf.edu

Andrea Yung, PhD
Postdoc until 2022
Principal Scientific Researcher, Genentech
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreayung