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Our Story

We are a highly-multidisciplinary lab with biochemists, RNA biologists, developmental biologists, & computational biologists working together to understand scientific problems in a highly collaborative, friendly, and interactive manner.

Meet The Team

Proud of the sucess of all past Barna lab members

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Hanna Rosenblatt (Graduate Student)

Present: Postdoctoral Fellow Stanford University

Manu Prakash Lab

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Ching Pin Cheng (Graduate Student)

Present: Military Service while pursuing postdoctoral

position in Europe

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Adele Xu (MSTP, Graduate Student)

Present: Medical Residency, Stanford

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Zijian Zhang (Graduate Student)

Present: Postdoc, MIT, Whitehead Institute

Gehring Lab

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Victoria Hung (Postdoctoral Fellow)

Present: Time to focus on her family and is currently exploring biotech

positions as she returns to her career

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Olena Zhulyn (Postdoc)
Present: Assistant Professor, SickKids Research Institute
University of Toronto

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Kathrin Leppek (Postdoc)
Present: Assistant Professor, University of Bonn

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Naomi Genuth (Graduate Student)
Present: Postdoc, Berkeley, Dillin Lab

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Craig Kerr (Postdoc)
Present: Scientist, Inceptive

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Gun Woo Byeon (Graduate Student)
Present: Postdoc, University of Washington, Seelig lab

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Gerald Tiu (MSTP Graduate Student)
Present: Medical Residency, Stanford

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Kotaro Fujii (Postdoc)
Present: Assistant Professor, University of Florida

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Deniz Simsek (Postdoc)
Present: Scientist, Amgen

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Zhen Shi (Postdoc)
Present: Scientist, Genentech

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Nicolas Denans (Postdoc)
Present: Research Associate, Stowers

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Shifeng Xue (Graduate Student)
Present: Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore

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Timothy Sanders (Postdoc)
Present: Assistant Professor, University of Chicago

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Aya Pusic (Junior Specialist, joint with Ruggero Lab)
Present: Pathways to Independence Instructor
University of Chicago

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Nadya Kondrashov (Junior Specialist)
Present: Medical Doctor

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