BMERC Personnel, past and present

BioMolecular Engineering Research Center personnel, past and present.

Center-Associated Faculty
The BMERC Staff
Graduate Students
Prior Pre- and Post-Doctoral Students and Fellows

The BMERC Administration

Temple F. Smith, Director
Sandor Vajda, Co-Director

Center-Associated Faculty

Scott Mohr, BU Department of Chemistry e-mail
Jadwiga Bienkowska, Adjunct Professor in Biomedical Engineering; Serono Reproductive Biology Institute, Rockland, MA e-mail
Joel Graber, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics; Graber laboratory at The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME

The BMERC Staff

Nancy Sands, Center Administrator e-mail
Esther Epstein, Systems Manager e-mail
Sean Quinlan, Database Administrator and Webmaster e-mail

Graduate Students

AJ Bhutka, e-mail
Lan Hu, e-mail

Prior Pre- and Post-Doctoral Students and Fellows

Staff

James Freeman, 1996-1998, Senior Scientist, Varigenics Inc.
Tom Graf, 1991-1998, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
Kathleen Klose, 1988-1995
Ivan Vazquez, 1990-1993
Bob Rogers, 1994-2001, Modular Genetics, Inc., Cambridge, MA e-mail

Predoctoral

Sudeshna Das, 1994-1997, Staff Scientist, Millenium Pharmaceuticals
Hongxian He, 1999-2002, Dupont, Biochemical Science & Engineering Division
Ilana Fogelman, 1990-1991
Chrysanthe Gaitatzes, 1992-1998, Physician
Ann Johansson, 1990-1991
Loredana Lo Conte, 1993-1996
Sinisa Maravic, 1992-1994, Researcher, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Gregg McAllister, 1999-2001, Serono Research Institute
Tom Plasterer, 1997-2001, Beyond Genomics, Inc., Waltham, MA
Hariharane Ramasamy, 1992-1995, FineGround, Campbell, CA
Srikar Rao, 1992-1994, Director of Bioinformatics, CardioDx, Palo Alto, CA
Andrew Rosenbach, 1993-1995, Practicing psychiatrist, Worcester, MA
Michael Schmelzer, 1991
Collin Stultz, 1990-1995, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences
Kavitha Venkatesan, 1999-2004, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
Prashanth Vishwanath, 2000-2005, Modular Genetics, Inc., Cambridge, MA
Lihua Yu, AstraZeneca
Sophia Zarakhovich, 1997-2000
Paola Favaretto, 2003-2006
Michael Brockman, Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME
Priyam Singh, Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME

Postdoctoral

R. Mark Adams, Ph.D., 1994-1996, Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.
Djamal Bouzida, Ph.D., 1990-1994, Staff Researcher, IBM, Almaden Research Lab
Ljubomir Buturovic, Ph.D., 1992-1994, Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, San Francisco State University
Neil Drake, Ph.D., 1989-1991, Researcher, New England Medical Center
Fariba Fischel-Ghodsian, Ph.D., 1988-1990, Drug Researcher, California
Roderic Guigó, Ph.D., 1988-1991, GENOME BIOINFORMATICS RESEARCH LAB, Spain
Steen Knudsen, Ph.D., 1990-1991, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, The Technical University of Denmark
Richard Lathrop, Ph.D., Profesor, Dept. of Information and Computer Science, U. of California, Irvine
George Maalouf, Ph.D., 1996-1997, Chemical Simulations Group, Westwood, MA
Mira Marcus, Ph.D., 1985-1987, Independent Research, Israel
Ilya Muchnik, Ph.D., 1992-1994, Professor, Rutgers University
Sylvia Nagl, Ph.D., 1996-1998, Research Associate, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University College, London
Raman Nambudripad, Ph.D., 1992-1996
Rakefet Rosenfeld, Ph.D., 1991-1994, Industry Research, Israel
William Schmidt, Ph.D., 1994-1995
Randall F. Smith, Ph.D., 1987-1991, Director of Bioinformatics Research, SmithKline Beecham
Teresa Webster, Ph.D., 1986-1991, Affymetrix Inc.
Shengsheng Zhang, 2000-2001, Syngenta Biotechnology, Research Triangle Park, NC
Xiaolin Zang, Ph.D., 1996-1998, Scientist, Astra Bioinformatics Center
Qiang Zhang, Ph.D., 1991-1992, Sr. Scientist, Nova Pharmaceutical
Qing-lin Zhu, Ph.D., 1987-1992, Academic Research, China