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