The team
Andrew Su is a Professor in the Department of Integrative, Structural and Computational Biology at the Scripps Research Institute. Prior to joining Scripps in July 2011, he was the Associate Director of Bioinformatics at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF) in San Diego, CA.
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Chunlei Wu is an Associate Professor of Molecular Medicine in the Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine at the Scripps Research Institute. Prior to joining Scripps in July 2011, he was the Research Investigator II at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF) in San Diego, CA.
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Max Nanis is a research programmer working on our Gene Wiki effort, Mark2Cure, and other projects. He joined the lab in June 2012.
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Louis Gioia is a graduate student currently working in cancer genomics. He joined the lab in January 2014.
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Ginger Tsueng is our Scientific Outreach Project Manager. She joined the lab in May 2014.
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Greg Stupp is a research scientist that joined the lab in September 2014. He organized the first BD2K Hackathon.
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Sebastian Burgstaller is a postdoctoral associate that joined in 2015. He works on Gene Wiki and Wiki Data.
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Cyrus Afrasiabi is a research programmer that joined in 2015. He works on myvariant.info.
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Kevin Xin is a graduate student that joined in 2015. He works on myvariant.info.
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Toby Li is a graduate student that joined in 2015. He works crowd-sourcing entity relationship extraction.
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Jake Bruggemann is a graduate student that officially joined the Su Lab in 2015. He is working on crowdsourcing classifications in electron micrographs.
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Karthik Gangavarapu is a graduate student. After two successful summers working with us through the Google Summer of Code, and joining the lab as an undergrad assistant in January 2014, he graduated, left, and returned to us in August of 2015.
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Sebastien Lelong is a research programmer that joined in 2016. He previously worked at the “Internet of Things” and now works on mygene.info. more…
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Mike Mayers is a graduate student that joined in 2016. He is currently interested in working on solutions to some of the problems of Big Data as it relates to bioinformatics
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Núria Queralt Rosinach is a postdoctoral associate that joined in 2016. She is working on biomedical discovery specifically on rare genetic diseases
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Byung Ryul Jeon is a visiting scientist that joined in 2017. He is an accomplished doctor and scholar interested in broadening his knowledge and honing his research skills
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Shirley Willis is our administrative assistant. She joined the lab in July 2011.
Come back soon for more complete profiles (and possibly better pictures) of group members! In the mean time, apply to join our group!
Alumni
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Tim Putman is a postdoctoral associate that joined in 2015 and left in July 2017. He is now a Research Assistant Professor and Bioinformatics Software Developer at Oregon Health and Science University
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Ben Good was an Assistant Professor of Molecular Medicine in the Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine at the Scripps Research Institute. He joined the lab in July 2011, and left in July 2017.
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Ramya Gamini was a postdoctoral associate that joined the lab in October 2014. As of July 2017, she is now a postdoctoral associate with Pfizer.
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Julee Adesara was a Master’s student that joined in 2015. She worked on biothings.drugs project, and graduated in April 2017.
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Sandip Chatterjee is a postdoctoral associate that joined in 2015. He was interested in applying natural language processing methods to try to make sense of the rapidly expanding biomedical literature, and left in July of 2016. He is now a Bioinformatics Data Specialist at Ancestry.com.
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Jennifer Fouquier was a bioinformatics programmer that joined in 2015. She contributed to the Mark2Cure efforts, and left in June of 2016.
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Erick R. Scott was a KL2 scholar and graduate student, who was a member of Peter G. Schultz’s lab and joined the Su lab in August 2014. He completed his studies in 2015, and is an assistant professor at Mount Sinai.
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Salvatore Loguercio was a postdoctoral associate working on several projects related to the Gene Wiki and biological games. He joined the lab in January 2012, and left in June of 2015. Sal is now a staff scientist in the Balch lab here at TSRI.
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Adam Mark was a graduate student interested in translational genomics and developing prescriptive tools. He joined the lab in January 2014, and left in May of 2015. Adam now works at Avera Health as a Clinical Bioinformatics Analyst.
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Vyshakh Babji was a summer intern. He joined the lab in May 2014 to work on The Cure project, and left in April 2015. He is now a software engineer at RingCentral.
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Tobias Meissner was a postdoctoral associate whose research focuses on using quantitative methods for biomedical discovery. He joined the lab in June 2013, and left in October 2014. He is now a Cancer Genomics Investigator at Avera Health.
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Ian MacLeod was a Research Programmer on our BioGPS team. Prior to joining Scripps in July 2011 as an inaugural member of the lab, he was a Bioinformatics Programmer at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF) in San Diego, CA, and he left for greener pastures in December 2012. He is currently a Senior Software Developer at Covario.
Erik Clarke was a research programmer working on our Gene Wiki effort. He was an inaugural member of the lab when we started here in July 2011, and he left for the University of Pennsylvania in August 2012 where he is currently a graduate student.
- Marc Leglise (Software engineer) – Private software consultant
- Yue Hue (Postdoctoral Associate) – Research Fellow, NCI
- Jennifer Flyod (Postdoctoral Associate) – Technology & Patent Specialist, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
- David Delano (Postdoctoral Associate) – Senior Product Manager, Illumina
- Stephen Su (Postdoctoral Associate) – Senior Scientist, Merrimack Pharmaceuticals
- Jon Huss (Master’s student) – Principal Software Engineer
- Banu Dost (Intern) – Software Engineer, Google
