Vakoc lab – PI, PhD students, Postdocs
Aktan Alpsoy
Postdoc
Patrick Cunniff
PhD student
Connor Fitzpatrick
PhD student
Yuan Gao
Postdoc
Yuhan Huang
Postdoc
Stella Hur
Postdoc
Vahag Kechejian
PhD student
Olaf Klingbeil
Postdoc
Cristian Lopez-Cleary
PhD student
Diogo Maia-Silva
PhD student
Sofya Polyanskaya
PhD student
Damianos Skopelitis
Research Investigator
Martyna Sroka
PhD student
Xiaoli Wu
PhD student
Zhaolin Yang
Postdoc
Toyoki Yoshimoto
Postdoc
Vakoc lab – Administration & Support Staff
Joseph Milazzo
Lab Manager
Lindsay Monaco
Scientific Administrator
Genetic Screening Core
Kenneth Chang
Research Associate Professor and
Head of the Functional Genomics Core
Osama El Demerdash
Functional Genomics Core
Bioinformatics
Kaarina Hanington
Functional Genomics Core
Research Technician
Vakoc lab alumni
Eric Wang (research technician from 2008-2015) -> PhD student at NYU
Jessica Minder (research technician from 2013-2015) -> PhD student at NYU
Anand Bhagwat (MD/PhD student from 2012-2016)- > pediatrics residents at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Junwei Shi (PhD student from 2010-2016) -> Assistant Professor at University of Pennsylvania
Anja Hohmann (PhD student from 2012-2016) ->Senior Scientist at KSQ Therapeutics
Chen Shen (PhD student from 2012-2016) -> Senior Scientist at Pfizer
Yali Xu (PhD student from 2013-2018) -> Investigator at Novartis
Shinpei Kawaoka (postdoc from 2012-2013) -> Associate Professor at Kyoto University, Japan
Jae-Seek Roe (postdoc from 2012-2018) -> Assistant Professor at Yonsei University
Yusuke Tarumoto (postdoc from 2015-2019) -> Assistant Professor at Kyoto University, Japan
Tim Somerville (postdoc 2015-2019) -> Investigator II at Novartis
Lukas Benjamin (research technician 2018-2019) -> technician at Regeneron
Bin Lu (postdoc 2015-2020) -> Research Associate at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Yiliang Wei (postdoc 2016-2020) -> Scientist II at Syros Pharmaceuticals