Past Barrick Lab Members
Anna Grove
Krisha Chaudhari
Korin Jones
Dr. Patrick Lariviere
Dr. Dennis Mishler
Alexa Morton
Cameron Roots
Jeffrey Chuong
Kadena Cope
Sophia Lin
Olivia Soto
Jack Dwenger
Elizabeth Manriquez
Dan Deathrage
Victor Li
Matt McGuffie
Laurel Miller
Aneesa Bhakta
Braydin McReynolds
Joseph Reitman
Emmanuel Chavarria
Kate Elston
Dean Parenteau
Elizabeth Robinson
Jacob Risch
Sarah Bialik
Julie Perreau
Shireen Shah
Eleanor Young
Peng Geng
Ginny Mortensen
Spencer Hamrick
Sean Leonard
Gabriel Suarez
Grace Stark
Stratton Georgoulis
Jenna McGuffey
Dr. Simon D'Alton
Dacia Leon
Colin Brown
Xue Zhang
Michael Hammerling
Brian Renda
Jordan Monk
Craig Barnhart
Aurko Dasgupta
Lindsey Wolf
Alvaro Rodriguez
Neil Gottel
Vinicio Reynoso
Austin Meyer
Dillon Edwards
Aaron Reba
Geoff Colburn
Eric Bryan
Matt Strand
| who | what | when | last known whereabouts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anna Grove | Undergraduate Lab Technician | 07/2024 – 08/2025 | ||
| Krisha Chaudhari | Undergraduate Researcher | 01/2023 – 08/2025 | ||
| Korin Jones | Postdoctoral Fellow | 09/2023 – 08/2025 | ||
| Dr. Patrick Laviriere | Postdoctoral Fellow | 08/2021 – 08/2025 | ||
| Dr. Dennis Mishler | Postdoctoral Fellow | 04/2013 – 08/2025 | ||
| Alexa Morton | Lab Manager and Undergraduate Researcher | 01/2023 – 08/2025 | ||
| Dr. Cameron Roots | Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow | 05/2020 – 05/2025 | ||
| Jeffrey Chuong | Undergraduate Researcher | 01/2022 – 05/2025 | Stanford University, Postbacc Program | |
| Kadena Cope | Undergraduate Researcher | 01/2023 – 05/2025 | Rice University, PhD Program | |
| Sophia Lin | Undergraduate Lab Technician | 05/2024 – 05/2025 | ||
| Olivia Soto | Undergraduate Lab Technician and Researcher | 06/2022 – 12/2024 | ||
| Jack Dwenger | Lab Manager | 11/2022 – 07/2024 | Penn State University | |
| Elizabeth Manriquez | Undergraduate Researcher | 06/2023 – 05/2024 | ||
| Victor Li | Graduate Student | 05/2021 – 12/2023 | ||
| Elizbeth (Jace) Gertz | Undergraduate Researcher | 06/2022 – 08/2023 | ||
| Matthew McGuffie | Graduate Student | 05/2018 – 05/2023 | Plasmidsaurus | |
| Laurel Miller | Undergraduate Researcher | 10/2021 – 05/2023 | ||
| Aneesa Bhakta | Undergraduate Researcher | 09/2021 – 05/2023 | Washington University | |
| Kate Elston | Graduate Student | 05/2017 – 08/2022 | Canopy Biosciences | |
| Elizabeth Robinson | Research Assistant | 06/2021 – 08/2022 | DTU | |
| Joseph Reitman | Undergraduate Researcher | 01/2020 – 05/2022 | ||
| Braydin McReynolds | Undergraduate Researcher | 05/2021 – 09/2022 | ||
| Jacob Risch | Undergraduate Researcher | 11/2021 – 05/2022 | Ginkgo Bioworks | |
| Sarah Bialik | Lab Manager | 03/2019 – 02/2022 | Research Administrator (Oden Institute) | |
| Julie Perreau | Graduate Student | 05/2017 – 10/2021 | Berkeley Lights @jmaperreau |
|
| Dean Parenteau | Undergraduate Researcher | 01/2021 – 09/2021 | Rice University | |
| Eleanor Young | Undergraduate Researcher | 12/2018 – 05/2021 | Broad Institute | |
| Shireen Shah | Undergraduate Researcher | 07/2019 – 05/2021 | Museum of Fine Arts Houston | |
| Dr. Peng Geng | Postdoctoral Fellow | 11/2015 – 01/2021 | Hengrui Medicine Co. Ltd. | |
| Ginny Mortensen | Undergraduate Researcher | 01/2020 – 12/2020 | Asuragen | |
| Spencer Hamrick | Undergraduate Researcher | 08/2018 – 08/2020 | Baylor College of Medicine, PhD program | |
| Dr. Sean Leonard | CMB Graduate Student, co-advised by Nancy Moran | 05/2015 – 05/2020 | Lawrence Livermore National Lab @spleonard1 |
|
| Dr. Gabriel Suarez | CMB graduate student | 12/2012 – 01/2020 | Sartor Lab, UNC at Chapel Hill | |
| Md Hassan un-Zaman | Microbiology Graduate Student (Rotation) | 09/2019 – 11/2019 | ||
| Frances (Grace) Stark | Undergraduate Researcher | 05/2014 – 08/2018 | University of California, Berkeley, PhD program | |
| Stratton Georgoulis | Undergraduate Researcher | 01/2017 – 05/2019 | University of California, Davis, PhD program | |
| Jenna McGuffey | Undergraduate Researcher | 05/2016 – 05/2019 | Washington University, St. Louis, PhD program | |
| Dr. Simon D'Alton | Lab Manager and Research Associate | 09/2015 – 01/2019 | ||
| Dr. Dacia Leon | Microbiology Graduate Student | 05/2014 – 08/2018 | Zymergen @leondacia |
|
| Dr. Colin Brown | Postdoctoral Fellow | 06/2013 – 07/2018 | Illumina @colinwalshbrown |
|
| Dr. Xue Zhang | Postdoctoral Fellow | 01/2016 – 12/2017 | ||
| Kyle Dugan | Undergraduate Researcher | 01/2016 – 05/2017 | ||
| Stella Wang | CMB Graduate Student (Rotation) | 03/2017 – 05/2017 | ||
| Simon d'Oelsnitz | CMB Graduate Student (Rotation) | 11/2016 – 03/2017 | ||
| David Lipps | CMB Graduate Student (Rotation) | 12/2016 – 03/2017 | ||
| Eda Baykal-Caglar | Volunteer Researcher | 01/2016 – 08/2016 | ||
| Jacob Blacutt | Microbiology Graduate Student (Rotation) | 06/2015 – 09/2015 | ||
| Nick Xerri | CMB Graduate Student (Rotation) | 06/2015 – 09/2015 | ||
| Dr. Brian Renda | CMB Graduate Student (Ph.D.) | 05/2011 – 07/2016 | Ginkgo Bioworks (Boston) @barenda101 |
|
| Dr. Michael Hammerling | CMB Graduate Student (Ph.D) | 05/2011 – 07/2016 | Jewett Lab (Northwestern) @mjhammerling |
|
| Lucy Leblanc | Microbiology Graduate Student (Rotation) | 02/2015 – 05/2016 | Jonghwan Kim Lab | |
| Jordan Monk | Undergraduate Researcher | 05/2013 – 05/2016 | ||
| Catherine Mortensen | Undergraduate Researcher | 05/2013 – 12/2015 | ||
| Xun (Tina) Wang | CMB Graduate Student (Rotation) | 11/2015 – 02/2016 | Bryan Davies Lab | |
| Cindy Chan | Undergraduate Researcher | 10/2013 – 12/2015 | XBiotech | |
| Ian Hamilton | CMB Graduate Student (Rotation) | 09/2015 – 11/2015 | Rotating | |
| Aziz Al'khafaji | CMB Graduate Student (Rotation) | 9/2014 – 11/2014 | Brock Lab | |
| Ben Jack | CMB Graduate Student (Rotation) | 09/2014 – 11/2014 | Wilke Lab | |
| Craig Barnhart | Lab Manager | 01/2011 – 09/2014 | UT Austin GSAF | |
| Alex Boulgakov | CMB Graduate Student (Rotation) | 06/2014 – 09/2014 | Marcotte Lab | |
| Aurko Dasgupta | Research Assistant | 04/2011 – 06/2014 | Washington University, Ph.D. program | |
| Lindsey Wolf | Microbiology Graduate Student (M.A.) | 01/2011 – 05/2014 | Synthetic Genomics | |
| Alvaro Rodriguez | Microbiology Graduate Student (M.A.) | 02/2012 – 05/2014 | X Startup Intern | |
| Ben Slater | Undergraduate Researcher | 05/2012 – 05/2014 | Yale University, Ph.D program | |
| Razan Alnahhas | Undergraduate Researcher | 05/2012 – 05/2014 | Rice University, Ph.D program | |
| Salma Omar | Undergraduate Researcher | 06/2012 – 12/2013 | ||
| Ryan Lannan | Undergraduate Researcher | 05/2013 – 05/2014 | UCSD, Ph.D program | |
| Margaret Steele | Microbiology Graduate Student (Rotation) | 09/2013 – 11/2013 | ||
| Rasha Yaghi | Biochemistry Graduate Student (Rotation) | 09/2013 – 11/2013 | Iverson Lab | |
| Prof. Pyung Cheon Lee | Visiting Scientist | 01/2013 – 12/2013 | Ajou University | |
| Charles Traverse | Microbiology Graduate Student (Rotation) | 09/2013 – 11/2013 | Ochman Lab | |
| Tyler Fields | Undergraduate Researcher | 09/2012 – 09/2013 | UT Austin, Computer Science | |
| Neil Gottel | Microbiology Graduate Student | 11/2011 – 09/2013 | ||
| Vinicio Reynoso | CMB Graduate Student | 02/2012 – 09/2013 | ||
| Paul Amador | Microbiology Graduate Student (Rotation) | 06/2013 – 09/2013 | ||
| Austin Meyer | Biochemistry Graduate Student | 05/2011 – 08/2012 | Wilke Lab / Texas Tech Medical School | |
| Pruthali Kulkarni | Undergraduate Researcher | 08/2012 – 08/2013 | ||
| Farhana Haque | Undergraduate Researcher | 12/2012 – 04/2013 | ||
| Jaimie Kepner | Undergraduate Researcher | 05/2011 – 06/2013 | UT Austin, Microbiology Graduate Program | |
| Andrew Porter | Undergraduate Researcher, Honors Thesis | 01/2013 – 05/2013 | ||
| Aaron Reba | Programmer | 10/2011 – 10/2012 | ||
| Raghuvarun Mutyala | Undergraduate Researcher | 03/2011 – 09/2012 | ||
| Jared Carlson-Stevermer | Undergraduate Researcher | 01/2012 – 06/2012 | Wilke Lab | |
| Dillon Edwards | Undergraduate Researcher | 11/2011 – 07/2012 | Sigma | |
| Matt Bourneuf | Undergraduate Researcher | 07/2011 – 08/2011 | ||
| Jananie Ramesh | Undergraduate Researcher | 07/2011 – 09/2011 | ||
| Alex Hu | Undergraduate Researcher | 06/2011 – 08/2012 | UW Seattle, Genome Sciences Ph.D. Program | |
| Jordan Borges | Undergraduate Researcher | 05/2011 – 08/2011 | ||
| Sydney Henry | Undergraduate Researcher | 05/2011 – 09/2011 | ||
| Eric Bryan | Undergraduate Researcher | 05/2011 – 05/2012 | ||
| Matt Strand | Programmer | 10/2011 – 04/2012 | ||
| Geoff Colburn | Research Scientist Assistant | 05/2011 – 09/2012 | Austin, TX | |
| Steven Sowa | Microbiology Graduate Student (Rotation) | 02/2012 – 05/2012 | Contreras-Martin Lab | |
| Thomas Wall | CMB Graduate Student (Rotation) | 11/2011 – 02/2012 | Ellington Lab | |
| Adam Hilterbrand | Microbiology Graduate Student (Rotation) | 09/2011 – 11/2011 | Upton Lab | |
| Dakota Derryberry | CMB Graduate Student (Rotation) | 03/2011 – 05/2011 | Wilke Lab | |
| Gabriel Wu | CMB Graduate Student (Rotation) | 03/2011 – 05/2011 | Marcotte Lab | |
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