Lab Alumni

I have been fortunate to have worked with many talented students. The table below shows the paths for many of them after Pomona College.

Thesis students in bold

NameYears WorkedPost PomonaCurrent
Chris Zarzana (HMC)2002-2003University of ArizonaIdaho National Laboratory
Gerardo Lopez-Mena2003-2004Albert Einstein Medical SchoolKnapp Medical Center
Amanda Raya2003-2004Washington University Medical School 
Eric Edens2004-2005Claremont Graduate University (Teaching Credentials)Google
Kristina Bajema2004-2005University of Washington Medical SchoolCenter for Disease Control and Prevention
David Dorsey2004-2005University of Washington Medical School 
Danielle Mata2004-2005University of Illinois at Chicago (Forensic Science, M.S.)Orange County Crime Lab
Anna Mebust2005-2008UC-Berkeley 
David Duff-Amsel2005-2007  
Joseph Beardslee2006-2008CaltechPomona College
Sam Farina-Henry2006-2007Cornell University (Law School) 
Julia Seaman2006-2007UC-SF Pharmaceutical SciencePrescient Healthcare
Emily Bockmon2006-2008UC-San Diego (Scripps Institute of Oceanography)Cal Poly SLO
Eliot Chang2007-2008Stanford-MBA 
Bonnie Diep2007-2009EPA Chapel Hill/USC Medical School 
Jacob Schual-Berke2007-2008FulbrightSamasource
Adam Chaimowitz2008-2009NYUIntel Corporation
Ben Levy2008-2009  
Kevin Graf2008-2009  
Casey Davis-VanAtta2008-2009White House-Writer 
Heidi Leonard2009-2012Technion-IsraelBiotech Startup in MD
David Kotevski2009-2010  
Levi Moore2009-2011University of Southern MississippiAir Force Research Lab
Cailly Howell2009-2010Ross University Medical School 
Thuy Ly2009-2011USC-Public Health 
Kelly Murphy2009-2012Cornell University- Veterinary SchoolUniversity of Pennsylvania Veterinary Medicine
Kelly Park2009-2012USC Medical School 
Niger Washington2010-2011  
Lauren Budenholzer2010-2012Yale 
Ryan Dodson2012-2015University of Michigan 
Alex Antonoplis2012-2014StanfordSciex
Constance Wu2012-2014Harvard Medical School (HST) 
Kyle Roskamp2012-2014UC-Irvine 
Alison Mercer-Smith2012-2015UNC-Chapel Hill (MD-Ph.D.) 
Michael Etzel2013-2015USC Medical School 
Emily Chittick2014-2017Teach For America 
Laura Barry2013-2014University of Virginia 
Paige Oliver2013-2016 Science 37 Clinical Study Leader
Soleil Worthy2015-2018University of British Columbia 
Aseal Birir2015-2018Harvard Medical School 
Morgen McCracken2015-2016Yale School of NursingYale Cancer Center
Sean Wake2015-2016  
Emily Chang2015-2016USC Medical School 
Leonard Chen2015-2018UC-SD Materials Science 
Peter Rentzepis2015-2018Americorps 
Inga VanBuren2015-2016Oregon Health Sciences University Medical School 
Sylvia Nwakanma2016-2017  
Iyanuoluwa Adeniji2016-2017  
Pollyanna Leung2016-2019  
Amy Watt2017-2018  
Katheryn Kornegay2017-2018Stanford 
Erik Garcia2018-2019Virginia Commonwealth University Medical School 
Cynthia Cuellar2018-2019  
Nathalie Hong2018-2020  
Emily Rainge2018-  
Bria VarnBuhler2019-2020Tri-Institutional PhD Program in Chemical Biology 
Rachel Hall2018-  
Sophie Bax2018-2020 Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
Kirsten Mortimer2019-  
Joseph Lopez2019-2020