#  People 

 



## People

   ![Andrew Murray](/sites/g/files/omnuum7496/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-02/awm_semi_formal_april_2018_0_0.jpg?itok=JfPHICg9) 

 

### **Andrew Murray**

Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Genetics in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology  
On sabbatical July 1, 2026 - June 30, 2028

[awm - at - g.harvard.edu](mailto:awm@g.harvard.edu)

   ![Linda Kefalas](/sites/g/files/omnuum7496/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/2025-02/Work%20pic.png?itok=UqL13caE) 

 

### **Linda Kefalas**

Program Coordinator and  
Laboratory Administrator  
Position eliminated effective June 30, 2026. Reach out to Prof Murray for any lab related matters.

[lkefalas - at - mcb.harvard.edu](mailto:lkefalas@mcb.harvard.edu)

   ![Piyush Nanda](/sites/g/files/omnuum7496/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-02/Piyush%20Nanda.jpg?itok=p8YVJQBj) 

 

### **Piyush Nanda**

Graduate Student

[piyushnanda - at - g.harvard.edu](mailto:piyushnanda@g.harvard.edu)

   ![Alexa Pérez-Torres](/sites/g/files/omnuum7496/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-02/Alexa%20Perez-Torres.png?itok=4atap2KR) 

 

### **Alexa Pérez-Torres**

Graduate Student

[alexapereztorres - at - g.harvard.edu](mailto:alexapereztorres@g.harvard.edu)

   ![Kevin Woods](/sites/g/files/omnuum7496/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-02/Kevin%20Woods.JPG?itok=CxlKSBEI) 

 

### **Kevin Woods**

Lab Aide

[kfwoods - at - fas.harvard.edu](mailto:kfwoods@fas.harvard.edu)



 

##  Lab Alumni 

## Former Post Doctoral Fellows

### [Severine Atis](http://irvinelab.uchicago.edu/people.htm)

### [Sue Biggins](https://research.fhcrc.org/biggins/en.html)

### [María Angélica Bravo Núñez](https://sites.google.com/cornell.edu/bravonunezlab)

### [Kevin Brown](https://pharmacy.oregonstate.edu/users/kevin-brown)

### [Rey-Huei Chen](http://www.imb.sinica.edu.tw/~rhchen/)

### [Miguel Coelho](https://www.linkedin.com/in/migccoelho/)

### [Christina Cuomo](https://www.broadinstitute.org/bios/christina-cuomo)

### [Russell Dorer](https://www.virginiamason.org/russell-dorer-md)

### [Marco Fumasoni](https://gulbenkian.pt/ciencia/research-groups/mfumasoni/)

### [Hironori Funabiki](https://www.rockefeller.edu/our-scientists/heads-of-laboratories/1169-hironori-funabiki/)

### [Andrea Giometto](https://www.cee.cornell.edu/faculty-directory/andrea-giometto)

### [Chin-Lin Guo](http://www.phys.sinica.edu.tw/directory_en.php?directory=11&id_key=129)

### [Kevin Hardwick](https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/kevin-hardwick(394c4f49-dc05-44fe-a158-a23712647eb7).html)

### Sandra Holloway

### [Erik Hom](https://biology.olemiss.edu/erik-hom/)

### [Edel Hyland](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/edel-hyland(7bbfffd4-ad81-48b8-a660-376f5d86fd04).html)

### [Quincey Justman](https://www.broadinstitute.org/klarman-cell-observatory)

### [Doug Kellogg](https://mcd.ucsc.edu/faculty/kellogg.html)

### [John Koschwanez](https://www.novartis.com/our-science/postdoc-program/research-themes/pathways-biology/john-koschwanez-phd)

### [Thomas Kramps](mailto:Thkrapms@gmail.com)

### [Liedewij Laan](https://www.tudelft.nl/en/faculty-of-applied-sciences/about-faculty/departments/bionanoscience/research/research-labs/liedewij-laan-lab)

### [Thomas LaBar](https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?fetchDeterministicClustersOnly=true&heroEntityKey=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_profile%3AACoAADgzlbYBvljrdUn3dkbV2W1r1Ng4B7WCeNk&keywords=thomas%20labar&origin=RICH_QUERY_SUGGESTION&position=0&searchId=aa1be312-350e-4577-8e7f-f8eeef80b784&sid=P)c&spellCorrectionEnabled=false)

### [Soni Lacefield Shimoda](http://lacefieldlab.bio.indiana.edu/)

### [Jun-Yi Leu](http://www.imb.sinica.edu.tw/~jleu/)

### [Karel Liem](https://medicine.yale.edu/intranet/facultybydept/karel_liem.profile)

### [Jeremy Minshull](mailto:jminshull@dna20.com)

### [Thea Norman](mailto:theanorman66@gmail.com)

### [Matthieu Piel](https://science.institut-curie.org/research/multiscale-physics-biology-chemistry/umr144-subcellular-structure-and-cellular-dynamics/team-piel/team-members/?mbr=matthieu-piel-phd)

### [Scott Schuyler](http://ls.cgu.edu.tw/files/11-1038-1563.php)

### [Bodo Stern](http://www.hhmi.org/about/leadership/senior-executive-team/bodo-stern)

### [Dawn Thompson](https://lifeminetx.com/)

### [Bryan Weinstein](https://www.mitre.org/)

### [Gregg Wildenberg](mailto:gwildenberg@uchicago.edu)

## Former Graduate Students

### [Zain Ali](mailto:zainomarali@gmail.com)

### [Laura Bagamery](https://www.klein.hms.harvard.edu/)

### [Felix Barber](https://rojaslab.com/)

### [Julien Barrere](https://www.linkedin.com/in/julien-barrere/)

### [Needhi Bhalla](https://mcd.ucsc.edu/faculty/bhalla.html)

### [Dario Cabrera](mailto:Dariodon21@gmail.com)

### [Michael Desai](https://desailab.oeb.harvard.edu/)

### [Nathaniel Edwards](https://www.vrtx.com/)

### [Natalie Funk Nannas](https://www.hamilton.edu/academics/our-faculty/directory/faculty-detail/Natalie-Nannas)

### [Maria Joana Gonçalves de Sa](https://www2.novasbe.unl.pt/en/faculty-research/faculty-profiles/faculty-detail/id/146/joana-goncalves-de-sa)

### [Yu-Ying Hsieh](https://www.labofpie.org)

### [Lori Huberman](http://glasslab.berkeley.edu/lori-huberman)

### [Lena Hwang](mailto:hwang.lenah@gmail.com)

### [Vahan Indjeian](https://www.gene.com/)

### [Nicolas Ingolia](http://www.ingolia-lab.org/)

### [Tanush Jagdish](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanush-jagdish/)

### [Nilay Karahan](mailto:nilaykarahan@gmail.com)

### [Gregory Lang](https://www.lehigh.edu/~inbios/Faculty/Lang.html)

### [TC Derek Lau](https://www.emmanuel.edu/academics/our-faculty/derek-lau.html)

### [Rong Li](https://engineering.jhu.edu/faculty/rong-li/)

### [Gal Lumbroso](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gal-lumbroso/)

### William Palframan

### [Adam Rudner](https://med.uottawa.ca/bmi/people/rudner-adam)

### [Ibrahim Sabbarini](https://www.nyu.edu/)

### [Ayellet Segrè](https://personal.broadinstitute.org/asegre/)

### [Caroline Shamu](https://iccb.med.harvard.edu/people/caroline-shamu)

### [Marion Shonn Dorer](https://www.fredhutch.org/en.html)

### [Laurence Shumway](https://www.flagshippioneering.com/)

### [Mike Springer](https://sysbio.med.harvard.edu/michael-springer)

### [Sriram Srikant](https://www.laublab.mit.edu/)

### [Patrick Stoddard](https://www.newculturefood.com/)

### [Aaron Straight](http://straightlab.stanford.edu/)

### [Alex Szidon](https://ita.ucsf.edu/person/alex-szidon-phd-head-west-coast-innovation-hub-and-exec-director-business-development-and)

### [Mary Wahl](mailto:mary.e.wahl@gmail.com)

### [Carolyn Cara Weisman](https://lsi.princeton.edu/)

### [Bill Wells](https://www.usaid.gov/)

### [Nichole Wespe](https://www.indigoag.com/pages/point-of-view/spotlight-data-science-team)

## Former Undergraduate Students

### [Yi Hua Chen](mailto:yhc@mit.edu)

### Jimena Luque - Class of 2025

### Athena Rogers - Class of 2025

### Ani Srinivasan - Class of 2025

## Former Staff/Researchers

### [Taylor Chang](mailto:taylorchang@fas.harvard.edu)

### [Beverly Neugeboren](https://www.ehs.harvard.edu/node/8626?f%5B0%5D=field_department_name_term%3A820)