Michael Burns
Principal Investigator
Shreya Bhagi
Bioinformatics MS Student
2024-25 Mulcahy Fellow
Elise Stagaman
Bioinformatics BS/MS Student
Carbon Scholar - 2023-2025
Umar Siddiqui
Bioinformatics MS Student
Dania Achmar
Undergraduate Researcher
USRE Fellow 2024
Jannah Eladl
Undergraduate Researcher
WISER Fellow - 2024
Mulcahy Fellow 2025
Delaney Rager
Undergraduate Researcher
USRE Fellow - 2024
Saima Rahman
Undergraduate Researcher
USRE Fellow - 2024
Previous Lab Members
Merjaan Ahmad
Aqsa Ahmed
Anna Ali
Zaina Anarwala - REAP
Mirza Baig
Aarifah Bandealy
Benish Baqai
Hannah Bergom
Julia Burns
Stephanie Cardenas
Hector Chapa
Jessie Chen
Sri Contractor
Claire Creighton
Kathya Delgado - CURA Scholar
Anjali Devabhaktuni
Abigail Erickson
Ramsha Essa
Cat Fujiwara
Eliot Gild
Aisha Jarad
Tera Joseph
Arsalan Kamran
Maryam Khalid
Natalia Klisch
Sophia Koziol
Emily Kring
Dawid Maciorowski
Gowtam Mannam
Sumeed Yoyo Manzoor
Gabrielle Martinez
Mylee McCool
Katherine Mediate - WISER
Emily Micklin
Moonis Nadeem
Kush Patel
Prachi Patel
Trisha Patel
Vraj Patel
Cole Pliura
Sophia Rahman
Vane Ristov
Rita Smith
Thomas Stanila
Emma Steveler
Zoe Sun
Sarah Syed
Sara Temelkova
Karthi Thiyagarajan
Fedinandas Valinskis
Former
Graduate Students
JJ Colgan - Bioinformatics MS
Sidra Sohail - Bioinformatics MS
Roza Gowan - Bioinformatics MS
Bright Asante - Bioinformatics
Gail Enriquez - Biology MS
Annemiek Doedens - Biology
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First Year Research Experience (FRYE) Students
Valerie Alvarez
Savannah Baker
Andi Beaudouin
Ann Chaney
Kacey Collins
Ismael Curiel
Isabella Gates
Adam Hidad
Mohit Jain
Ester Lageson
Elle Laurencelle
Quinn Nkwenti
Shivani Patel
Bocote Potter
Praneet Rao
Xavier Rosas
Delaney Sauer
Natalie Shamon
Anastasia Stanley
Noelle Woods
Melanie Zuniga
Interfaith America / Interfaith Youth Core Vaccine Ambassadors Program
Alexandra Brist
Kass Cambron
Claire Creighton
Anjali Devabhaktuni
Ramsha Essa
Cat Fujiwara
Sofia Khatoon
Sumerah Khatoon
Emily Kring
Dawid Maciorowski
Sohaib Mirza
Faith Moreno
Vraj Patel
Akila Raoul
Sydney Samoska
Thomas Stanila
Lama Zaioor
Augusta Zukauskas
Collaborating Research Groups
Ran Blekhman - UMN
Dan Knights - UMN
Andres Gomez - UMN
Subree Subramanian - UMN
Reuben Harris - UMN
Beth Archie - Notre Dame
Luis Barreiro - U Chicago
Francesca Luca - Wayne State
Alan Zhou - Feinberg School of Medicine
Prakasha Kempaiah - Mayo Clinic
David Largaespada - UMN
Timothy K. Starr - UMN
Joseph Vukov - LUC
Robert Morrison - LUC
Peter Jones - LUC
David Dault - LUC