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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

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Maria Barna, PhD

Principle Investigator

Associate Professor of Genetics

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Kitra Cates, PhD

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A.P. Giannini Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow

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Sonia Bustos

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Graduate Student, Genetics

NSF Fellow

ARC Fellow

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Daphna Rothschild, PhD

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Research Associate

EMBO Fellow

HSF Fellow

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Mika Nevo, PhD

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Postdoctoral Fellow

Stanford's Dean Fellowship

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Yuxiang Chen, PhD

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ACS Postdoctoral Fellow

Stanford's Dean Postdoctoral Fellow

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Travis Lantz

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Graduate Student

Chemical & Systems Biology

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Taylor Muldoon

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Administrative Assistant

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Mirian Krystel De Siqueira, PhD

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AHA Postdoctoral Fellow

Stanford Dean's Postdoctoral Fellow

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Zhengxi Gu

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Graduate Student

Bioengineering 

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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: Postdoctoral Fellow

David Gatfield Lab, University of Lausanne

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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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