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Lab members

Swamy Rakesh Adapa

Researcher / Engineer / Lab manager

Engineer, genome pipeline builder, and curious experimenter
swamyrakesh @ usf.edu

Charley (ChengQi) Wang PhD

Research Associate

Machine learning enthusiast; genome algorithm programmer
ChengQi @ usf.edu

Justin Gibbons

Postdoc associate

Computational biologist. Working on pathogen drug resistance and other computational genomics projects
JGibbon1 @ usf.edu

Amy Conway

Engineer

With expertise in microengieering, having extensive experience in microfluidics. With collaboration with Dr. Kyle lab
ajconway @ usf.edu

Gregory Hunter

Research Associate / Lab manager of Ferreira lab

Biochemical analysis of cell metabolisms. High-resolution studies of iron and heme metabolisms at single cell resolutions.
ghunter@ usf.edu

Other lab members

Current

Samira Jahangiri (Master student)

Computational biology of epigenome analysis and molecular structure simulations.


Mohamad (Rudwan) Soukieh (Joint master student with Dr. Ferreira lab)

Single cell biology of erythroid development and cancer metabolisms.


Thomas Nuhfer (Joint master student with Dr. Ferreira lab)

Interdisciplinary biology from micro-engineering, cell biology to computational biology


Saeed Sinan (Joint master student with Dr. Ferreira lab)

Single cell biology of erythroid development and cancer metabolisms.


Christopher Marinescu (Master student)

Facilitating our genomics chip patent application with technical reviewing and report writing. Also performing single molecule RNAseq experiments as MSPH thesis.



Past

Sai BharadwajSai Bharadwaj (Engineer)

Using electronics to power cutting-edge single cell genomics. Currently Phd candidate working on speech detection related to neurodegenerative disorders at College of Engineering.


Zaib Latif-Jangda (Joint master student with Dr. Ferreira lab)

Interdisciplinary biology from micro-engineering, cell biology to computational biology


Kelsey Sinclair (Joint master student with Dr. Ferreira lab)

Interdisciplinary biology from micro-engineering, cell biology to computational biology


Tyler Cook (Joint master student with Dr. Ferreira lab)

Interdisciplinary biology from micro-engineering, cell biology to computational biology


Dwight Philip (Joint master student with Dr. Ferreira lab)

Interdisciplinary biology from micro-engineering, cell biology to computational biology


Renee Fonseca (Master student)

Human genetic variation analysis


Eleana Estrella (Joint master student with Dr. Ferreira lab)

Human genetic variation analysis


Yount (Parker) Scott (Master student)

Facilitating microengineering work on micro-patterned cell culture devices. And performing primary human cell culture.


Priscilla Cavill (Master student)

Facilitating microengineering work on micro-patterned cell culture devices. And performing primary human cell culture.


Andrea Ball (Master student)

Facilitating microengineering work on micro-patterned cell culture devices. And performing primary human cell culture.


Ankita Kadlag (Master student)

Performing ex vivo erythropoiesis related molecular and bioinformatics characterizations.


Dylan Barfield (Master student)

Functional network analysis of high-throughput CRISPR loss-of-function screens


Mark Moussa (Undergrad, computer science)

Interface and algorithm design for computational genomics


Phillip Cualing (Joint master student with Dr. Ferreira lab)

Investigation of heme synthesis with single cell genomics in human primary hepatocytes


Linggih Saputro (Master Bioinformatics student)

Facilitating algorithm implementation for computational genomics


Shelli Jensen (MPH Student)

Facilitating molecular biology experiments in 3rd generation sequencing


Richard Tannenbaum (Master Microbiology/Molecular biology Student)

3rd generation sequencing library construction and sequencing experiments


Maxwell Pietsch (Senior Undergrad, computer science)

Designing fast and efficient RNA-seq pipelines for analyzing large amount of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data


Stephanie Volpe (MPH student)

Isolating single clones of P. falciparum RNA metabolism mutants


Reis Fitzsimmons (Master Bioinformatics student)

Searching novel anti-malaria compounds by identifying molecular mimetic metabolites


Rachel O'Reggio (MPH student)

Literature research of human liver polymorphisms related to pathogen infections


Komi Mati (MPH student)

Computational analysis of transcriptomes of primary hepatocyte 3D culture


Stephan Sutton (MPH student)

Developed a statistical method for 3D genome structure analysis based on Hi-C data