Asthagiri Cell Engineering Laboratory

Team

Current

asthagiri-wsj.png Anand Asthagiri, PI

Audrey Kidd, BioE M.S.

Burak Yilmaz, BioE Industrial Ph.D.

Morgan Benson, BioE PhD

Alumni

Ph.D. and Postdoctoral Fellows

Claudiu Giurusmescu, ChE

Dan Milano, ChE, now (2020) at Immunogen

Ehsan Jabbarzadeh (post-doc), now (2020) Associate Professor, Dept. of Chem. Eng., Univ. of South Carolina

Jeff Bouffard, BioE, co-advised with Prof. Erin Cram

Jin-Hong Kim, BioE, now (2020) Associate Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University

Kalpana Viswanathan, post-doc

Katarina Blagovic, post-doc

Keiichiro Kushiro, Biochem & Molec. Biol.

Mark Lalli, ChE Ph.D., now (2020) at Sigilon Therapeutics

Melissa Pope, BioE

Nick Graham, ChE, now (2023) Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, Univ. of Southern California

Niki Galownia, ChE

Paul Minor, Biochem and Molec. Biol.

Robert Natividad, BioE, now (2020) at Raytheon

Steve Chapman, ChE

M.S. Thesis

alex-hruska.png Alex Hruska, BioE, now (2020) Ph.D. candidate, Brown University.
james-watkins.jpg Brandon Ng, BioE MS (May 2021), now (2021) doctoral student at Scripps Institute
catherine-luo.jpg Catherine Luo, BioE, now (2020) at Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago
emily-gong.jpg Emily Gong, ChE
gabe-richman.jpg Gabe Richman, ChE
kalpana-viswanathan.jpg Kelsey Dupont, BioE M.S., Aug 2021

Rachel Conover, BioE M.S.

M.S. projects and Undergraduate researchers

(incomplete list)

Alina Varentsova, BioE BS

amy-proctor.jpg Amy Proctor, ChE BS

Angela Fee, BioE/CS BS

brooke-wojeski.jpg Brooke Wojeski, ChE BS
christopher-lee.png Christopher Lee, BioE MS Project
emily-nelson.jpg Emily Nelson, ChE B.S.
emily-wisniewski.jpg Emily Wisniewski, ChE B.S.
hannah-orzechowski.jpg Hannah Orzechowski, ChE B.S.
helen-bartlett.png Helen Bartlett, ChE B.S.
james-watkins.jpg James Watkins, B.S.
lexi-hamsmith.jpg Lexi Hamsmith, ChE B.S.
peter-ries.png Peter Ries, ChE B.S.

Thao-Vy Le, BioE BS

Rotations

Michael Finocchiaro, BioE PhD (rotation)