Alumni

Information about former members of the State Lab is preserved here. Please keep in mind, these profiles are not updated after their subjects leave the lab, which means that educational and biographical information may not be up-to-date.

• Thomas Fernandez (Medical Student 2004-2005, Resident, Psychiatry; Child Psychiatry Fellow 2005-2012); Current: Associate Professor in the Child Study Center and of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine
• Stephan Sanders (Graduate Student 2008-2011, Postdoctoral Fellow 2011 - 2014),   Current: Associate Professor of Psychiatry at UCSF
• Ellen Hoffman (Postdoctoral Scholar 2009-2014); Current: Assistant Professor in the  Child Study Center at Yale School of Medicine
• Chris Mason (Postdoctoral Scholar 2006 - 2009): Current: Associate Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine
• Brian O'Roak (Graduate Student 2008 - 2011): Current: Associate Professor at Oregon Health & Science University
• Abha Gupta (Associate Research Scientist 2006-Present); Current: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine
• Althea Stillman (Graduate Student 2005 - 2009); Current: Senior Associate, Life Sciences, IP Group Inc.; Director, Board of Directors, Carisma Therapeutics
• Rehab Khalil (Postdoctoral Scholar 2015-2017)
• Jeremy Willsey (Graduate Student 2011-2013, Postdoctoral Scholar 2014-2015); Current: Assistant Professor at UCSF Psychiatry and UCSF Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases
• Aaron Besterman (Psychiatry Resident 2015-2016); Current: Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Rady Children's Hospital and UC San Diego
• Jeff Mandell (Bioinformatics Programmer 2014-2016); Current: Graduate Student, Yale Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
• Zack Bonzell (Staff Research Associate 2015-2016)
• Carolyn Erdman (Staff Research Associate​ 2015-2017)
• Louw Smith (Bioinformatic Programmer 2014-2015); Current: Senior Security Analyst at Boston College
• Emily Pfannenstiel (Staff Research Associate 2015)
• Wipa Panmontha (Visiting Scholar 2015)
• Sindy Law - Database/Application Programmer (2014-2019); Current: Clinical Informatics Technology, UCSF School of Dentistry Dean's office
• Donna Werling (Postdoctoral Scholar 2014-2019); Current: Assistant Professor of Genetics at University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Siavash Fazel Darbandi (Postdoctoral Scholar 2015-2021); Current: Developmental Neuroscientist, Scientist II, Neuroscience at Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc.
• Shan Dong (Postdoctoral Scholar 2016-2021); Current: Postdoctoral Scholar, Sanders Lab
• Sheng Wang (Postdoctoral Scholar 2019-2024); Current: Data Scientist, Calico Life Sciences
• Niat Yohannes (Staff Research Associate 2023-2024)
• ​Shawn Liu (Staff Research Associate 2023-2024)