The Pierce Lab

Lab Retreat, September 2007
group photo of lab members
Joe, Peng, Jon, Harry, Melinda, Colby, Joann, Suvir, Fabian, Max, Wes, Lisa, Niles, Ma'ayan

Lab Members

Principal Investigator

Postdoctoral Scholars

Graduate Students

  • Lisa Hochrein x8875 Chemical Engineering
  • Ma'ayan Schwarzkopf x8875 Biology
  • Jonathan Sternberg x8839 Bioengineering
  • Brian Wolfe x8835 Bioengineering

Undergraduates

  • Fei Chen Electrical Engineering and Biology

Staff

  • x8834 Administrative Assistant
  • Colby Calvert x8839 Senior Research Technician
  • Sean Chen x8839 Research Technician
  • Dr. Conrad Steenberg x8836 NUPACK Software Engineer

Alumni

Postdoctoral Scholars

  • Dr. Peng Yin 2005-09 Currently: Assistant Professor, Harvard Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
  • Dr. Justin Bois 2007 Currently: Postdoctoral Scholar, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems and Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
  • Dr. Jennifer Padilla 2004-07 Currently: Masters candidate in Mathematics, UCLA
  • Dr. Robert Dirks 2005-06 Currently: Research Scientist, DE Shaw Research
  • Dr. Jong-Shik Shin 2002-06 Currently: Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Yonsei University, South Korea

Graduate Students

  • Joe Zadeh PhD, Bioengineering, 2010 Currently: Senior Software Engineer, Intuit
  • Dr. Harry Choi PhD, Bioengineering, 2009 Currently: Postdoctoral Scholar
  • Dr. Suvir Venkataraman PhD, Bioengineering, 2009 Currently: Postdoctoral Scholar
  • Dr. Jon Othmer PhD, Applied & Computational Mathematics, 2008 Currently: Research Associate, Morgan Stanley
  • Dr. Justin Bois PhD, Chemical Engineering, 2007 Currently: Postdoctoral Scholar, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems and Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
  • Dr. Robert Dirks PhD, Chemistry, 2005 Currently: Research Scientist, DE Shaw Research

Undergraduates

  • Asif Khan 2009 Electrical Engineering
  • Alex Hudson 2008 Applied Physics
  • Connie Gao 2008 Chemical Engineering
  • Sarah Hunt 2008 Chemical Engineering
  • Fabian Dias 2007,2008 Mathematics
  • Max Grazier G'Sell 2007 Physics
  • Jiaqi Guo 2007 Applied Physics
  • Cole Johnson 2006 Biomedical Engineering, Tulane
  • Baixue Zheng 2005
  • Timothy Wannier 2003, 2004 Biology, U Penn
  • Isaac See 2002
  • Milo Lin 2002
  • Ryan Simkovsky 2000

Research Technicians

  • Joann Chang 2007-09 Currently UCI medical school
  • Wesley Lin 2007-08 Currently medical school
A memorably early hike, June 2007
group photo of lab members
Niles, Justin, Joe, Jon, Jennifer, Colby, Max, Joann, Harry, Peng, Fabian, Suvir
Big Lebowski bowling night, July 2007
group photo of lab members
Max, Peng, Niles, Jon, Suvir, Justin, Drew, Joe, Colby, Ma'ayan, Fabian, Joann, Lisa, Melinda