Former Members

Principle Investigator

Benjamin K. Mueller

Vanderbilt University
Research Assistant Professor / Post-Doctoral Fellow
September 2015 - July 2021

David Rinker

Vanderbilt University
Research Assistant Professor
August 2020 - February 2022

Brian Weiner

Vanderbilt University
Research Faculty / Post-Doctoral Fellow
August 2009 - July 2013

Christoph Selg

Leipzig University
Lecturer/ Post-Doctoral Fellow
January 2020 - February 2021

Jarrod Smith

Research Faculty

Joel Harp

Research Faculty

Laura Mizoue

Research Faculty

Alican Gulsevin

Vanderbilt University
Research Assistant Professor
August 2018 - July 2023

Benjamin Brown

Vanderbilt University
Research Assistant Professor
04/01/2024

Post-Doctoral Fellows

Rene Staritzbichler

Vanderbilt University
Post-Doctoral Fellow
2005 - 2008

Keith Henry

Vanderbilt University
Post-Doctoral Fellow
2005 - 2008

Rakesh Bhat

Vanderbilt University
Post-Doctoral Fellow
July 2006 - October 2008

Jens Krause

Vanderbilt University
Post-Doctoral Fellow
2007 - 2011

Edward Lowe

Vanderbilt University
Post-Doctoral Fellow
February 2009 - July 2011

Brian Weiner

Vanderbilt University
Post-Doctoral Fellow
August 2007 - July 2013

Gordon Lemmon

Vanderbilt University
PhD Student / Post-Doctoral Fellow
August 2005 - August 2013

David Nannemann

Vanderbilt University
PhD Student / Post-Doctoral Fellow
June 2011 - Decmber 2013

Thomas Austin

Vanderbilt University
Post-Doctoral Fellow
2011 -2015

Soumya Ganguly

Vanderbilt University
Post-Doctoral Fellow
June 2010 - May 2015

Francois Berenger

Vanderbilt University
Post-Doctoral Fellow
June 2008 - May 2017

Steven Combs

Vanderbilt University
PhD Student / Post-Doctoral Fellow
August 2013 - June 2017

Marcin Skwark

Vanderbilt University
Post-Doctoral Fellow
July 2015 - June 2017

Amandeep Sangha

Vanderbilt University
Post-Doctoral Fellow
December 2014 - November 2017

Rocco Moretti

Vanderbilt University
Post-Doctoral Fellow
October 2013 - November 2017

Marcus Nagel

Vanderbilt University
Post-Doctoral Fellow
May 2017 - June 2019

Harikrishna Jayanthan

Vanderbilt University
Post-Doctoral Fellow
April 2017 - December 2019

Natalia Barbaro

Vanderbilt University
Post-Doctoral Fellow
August 2014 - February 2021

Marion Sauer

Vanderbilt University
PhD Student / Post-Doctoral Fellow
July 2020 - July 2021

Hari Sharma

Vanderbilt University
Post-Doctoral Fellow
August 2019 - September 2021

Matthias Spanka

Leipzig University
Post-Doctoral Fellow
April 2020 - September 2021

Nina Bozhanova

Vanderbilt University
Post-Doctoral Fellow
November 2016 - October 2021

Laura Friggeri

Vanderbilt University
Post-Doctoral Fellow
March 2020 - February 2022

Eric Dawson

Post-Doctoral Fellow

Gregory Sliwoski

PhD Student

Jordan Willis

PhD Student

Kelli Kazmier

PhD Student

Mariusz Butkiewicz

PhD Student

Sandeep Kothiwale

PhD Student

Sten Heinze

PhD Student

Kortney Melancon

Vanderbilt University
Post-Doctoral Fellow
January 2021 - April 2023

Brennica Marlow

Vanderbilt University
Post-doctoral fellow
December 2022-August 2023

Robert Mann

Vanderbilt University
Graduate Student
2023

Administrators

Heather Darling

Vanderbilt University
Manager of Research Programs / Lab Manager
December 2015 - April 2021

Programmers

Jeff Mendenhall

Programmer

Research Assistants

Naveen Gokanapudi

Vanderbilt University
Research Assistant
November 2018 - November 2019

Xuan Zhang

Vanderbilt University
Research Assistant
September 2019 - March 2020

Anurag Verma

Research Assistant

Ben Kleinfelter

Research Assistant

Caitlin Heuberger

Research Assistant

Sucheta Pattanayek

Research Assistant

William Graham

Research Assistant

Dominic Schiano

Vanderbilt University
Research Assistant
February 2021 - July 2023

Christina Mercado

Vanderbilt University
Research Assistant
March 2021- August 2023

Graduate Students

Elizabeth Durham

Vanderbilt University
Master Student
2007 - 2008ate

Annalen Bleckmann

Vanderbilt University
Graduate Student
2007 - 2010

Kristian Kaufmann

Vanderbilt University
PhD Student
August 2004 - September 2010

Steffen Lindert

Vanderbilt University
PhD Student
June 2006 - March 2011

Andrew Morin

Vanderbilt University
PhD Student
September 2005 - May 2011

Ralf Mueller

Vanderbilt University
PhD Student
August 2005 - May 2011

Nils Woetzel

Vanderbilt University
PhD Student
August 2005 - December 2011

Mert Karakas

Vanderbilt University
PhD Student
August 2005 - January 2012

Julia Koehler Leman

Vanderbilt University
PhD Student
May 2006 - August 2012

Nathan Alexander

Vanderbilt University
PhD Student
August 2006 - November 2012

Pedro Teixeira

Vanderbilt University
Master Student
July 2011 - May 2013

Elizabeth Nguyen

Vanderbilt University
MD/PhD student
June 2009 - September 2013

Kelli Kazmier

Vanderbilt University
PhD student
September 2007 - November 2013

Mariusz Butkiewicz

Vanderbilt University
PhD student
August 2008 - June 2014

Jordan Willis

Vanderbilt University
PhD student
2006 - June 2014

Sten Heinze

Vanderbilt University
Undergraduate Student / PhD Student
2008 - 2015

Thomas Willcock

Master Student
2014 - 2015

Stephanie DeLuca Hirst

Vanderbilt University
PhD student
August 2008 - May 2015

Gregory Sliwoski

Leipzig University
PhD student
March 2012 - May 2015

Sam DeLuca

Vanderbilt University
PhD Student
August 2008 - May 2015

Sandeep Kothiwale

Vanderbilt University
PhD Student
May 2010 - June 2015

Alexander Geanes

Vanderbilt University
Master Student
2014 - 2016

David Putnam

Vanderbilt University
PhD student
July 2010 - April 2016

Alyssa Lokits

Vanderbilt University
PhD student
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Michaela Fooksa

Vanderbilt University
PhD Student
May 2014 - August 2017

Yan Xia

Vanderbilt University
PhD Student
August 2011 - November 2017

Brittany Allison

Vanderbilt University
PhD Student
August 2009 - December 2017

Axel Fischer

Vanderbilt University
PhD Student
August 2012 - January 2018

Amanda Duran

Vanderbilt University
PhD Student
August 2011 - February 2018

Bian Li

Vanderbilt University
PhD Student
August 2013 - June 2018

Darwin Fu

Vanderbilt University
PhD student
May 2012 - August 2018

Alex Sevy

Vanderbilt University
PhD Student
August 2013 - August 2018

Jessica Finn

Vanderbilt University
PhD Student
August 2011 - November 2018

Brian Bender

Vanderbilt University
PhD Student
2014 - 2019

Alberto Cisneros

Vanderbilt University
PhD Student
August 2012 - June 2019

Lisa Pankewitz

Leipzig University
Master Student / Graduate Student
August 2012 - October 2019

Marion Sauer

Vanderbilt University
PhD Student
August 2014 - June 2020

Laura Sinatra

Leipzig University
PhD Student
January 2020 - December 2020

Linda Schäker-Hübner

Leipzig University
PhD Student
January 2020 - February 2021

Paul Eisenhuth

Leipzig University
Master Student
October 2019 - March 2021

Karolin Dipper

Leipzig University
PhD Student
January 2020 - July 2021

Undergraduate Students

Kristin Glab

Vanderbilt University
Undergraduate Student
September 2005 - May 2007