Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program alumni
NSF funds a large number of research opportunities for undergraduate students through its REU Sites program. An REU Site consists of a group of ten or so undergraduates who work in the research programs of the host institution. Each student is associated with a specific research project, where he/she works closely with the faculty and other researchers. Here is a list of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory REU alumni.
| Student Academic level Undergraduate institution |
CSHL mentor Project title |
Graduate degree program (graduation year) or professional position |
|---|---|---|
| George Bekheet junior Northeastern |
Anne Churchland Multi-sensory integration during an audiovisual looming stimulus |
M.D., U Connecticut |
| Benjamin Cohen junior New York U |
Josh Huang Exploring the Cellular Basis of the Circuitry and Functional Organization of Mouse Motor Cortex |
post-bac, Brown University |
| Marianna Frey junior Williams College |
Adam Kepecs Adenosinergic modulation of optimal foraging decisions |
Education research assistant, HSS, NY |
| James Gornet sophomore Columbia U |
Pavel Osten Mapping single neurons from whole-brain images |
enrolled |
| Likhitha Kolla junior The College of William and Mary |
Mickey Atwal Mapping the Immune Landscape for Breast Cancer Subtypes |
Post-bac NIH IRTA |
| Natasa Kostic junior Cornell U |
Alex Krasnitz A Computational Pipeline for Absolute Copy Number Quantification in Single Cancer Cells |
|
| Charles Pei sophomore Harvard U |
Zachary Lippman Modification of meristem and floral development genes in Physalis peruviana |
enrolled |
| Dawn Truong junior Harvard U |
Tom Gingeras Modification of meristem and floral development genes in Physalis peruviana |
M.D., U Mass Medical School |
| George Wang sophomore Yale U |
Doreen Ware Resources for identifying the genetic basis of important traits in grapes |
Ph.D., U of Southern California |
| Shenandoah Wrobel junior Vassar College |
Steve Shea Granule Cell Modulation of Odor Representations in Awake Mice |
enrolled |
| Student Academic level Undergraduate institution |
CSHL mentor Project title |
Graduate degree program (graduation year) or professional position |
|---|---|---|
| Toby Aicher junior Middlebury College |
Molly Hammell Investigating drug resistance in melanoma using single-cell RNA-sequencing |
Technician, MIT/Harvard |
| Sara Blagburn sophomore Brown U |
Florin Albeanu Developing a psychometric curve for odor intensity via a novel two-alternative forced choice protocol in head-fixed mice |
post-bac, Brown University |
| Alissa Castleberry junior Furman U |
Thomas Gingeras Processing of Y5 RNA by cancer cell exosomes |
MS, Ohio State University |
| Erin DeNardo junior Washington U |
Doreen Ware Interpretation of gene structure changes in Oryza sativa from a single gene to a population |
Ph.D., Yale University |
| Benjamin Harris junior Colgate College |
Mickey Atwal Pan cancer analysis of ectopic germline gene expression |
Ph.D., Watson School of Biological Sciences |
| Daniel Hawkins junior Georgia Tech |
W. Richard McCombie Long read sequencing and copy number analysis |
Decision Analytics Associate |
| Ashley Kyalwazi sophomore U Notre Dame |
Steve Shea Parvalbumin network and neuroplasticity in the auditory cortex |
M.D., Harvard Medical School |
| Ajay Nadig sophomore Northwestern U |
Adam Kepecs Signatures of prediction error in cortical VIP interneurons |
Post-bac NIH-IRTA |
| Tim Nolan sophomore U Connecticut |
Alex Koulakov Optimization of the short-time fourier transform spectrogram for machine learning objectives |
Technician, Carnegie Mellon University |
| Katelyn Wilensky sophomore U Michigan |
Jessica Tolkuhn Using sex differences to study the relationship between genes and behavior |
| Student Academic level Undergraduate institution |
CSHL mentor Project title |
Graduate degree program (graduation year) or professional position |
|---|---|---|
| Patricia Aubel junior San Jose State U |
W. Richard McCombie Evaluation of variant detection with the PacBio SMRT DNA sequencing system |
undergraduate, enrolled |
| Syndi Barish sophomore College of New Jersey |
Gholson Lyon Creation and characterization of an isogenic knockout in ScNaa50 |
Ph.D., tbd |
| Cassandra Burdziak sophomore Rutgers U |
Thomas Gingeras Characterization of cell-specific exosomal small RNAs |
Ph.D., tbd |
| Daniel Burkhardt junior U Mass Amherst |
Doreen Ware Searching for SNPs in Stay-Green sorghum |
Ph.D., Yale |
| John Chow junior Georgia Tech |
Alex Krasnitz Convex optimization algorithms for population structure analysis in tumors |
Ph.D., Georgia Tech |
| Luz Dojer sophomore Boston U |
Alea Mills Chromodomain Helicase DNA Binding Protein 5 in neural stem cells |
undergraduate, enrolled |
| Lucy Rummler Clemson U |
Zach Lippman Meristem regulation and the fin and fan mutants in tomato |
undergraduate, enrolled |
| Rachel Sherman junior Harvey Mudd |
Michael Schatz Whole-genome assembly and alignment for gene discovery |
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins |
| Student Academic level Undergraduate institution |
CSHL mentor Project title |
Graduate degree program (graduation year) or professional position |
|---|---|---|
| Emily Flynn junior Smith College |
Thomas Gingeras Examining RNA annotation and quantification by RAMPAGE |
Ph.D., Stanford |
| Victoria Jones junior North Carolina Central U |
Alea Mills Chromodomain Helicase DNA Binding Protein 5 in neural stem cells |
Ph.D., Penn State |
| Ricki Korff sophomore Cornell |
Mickey Atwal Germline genes and cancer |
M.D., Albert Einstein |
| Abigail Lin sophomore Duke |
W. Richared McCombie Classifying epistasis in the DISC1 interactome |
B.S., Duke |
| Uju Momah sophomore Amherst College |
Bruce Stillman Nucleosome disassembly ahead of the DNA replicattion fork |
B.A., Amherst College |
| Alexis Tchaconas junior Columbia |
Michael Wigler Mitochondrial DNA transmission in autism spectrum disorder |
M.D., Hofstra-Northwell |
| Gregory Vurture junior NYU |
Michael Schatz Mathematics of genome architecture |
Analyst, MSKCC |
| Alissa Williams sophomore Wofford College |
Greg Hannon Viral barcode tracking on clonal tumor formation |
Ph.D., UC Berkeley |
| Student Academic level Undergraduate institution |
CSHL mentor Project title |
Graduate degree program (graduation year) or professional position |
|---|---|---|
| Dhruba Banerjee junior UC Berkeley |
Florian Albeanu Top-down control of invariant odor perception |
Research technician, Champalimaud Institute |
| Eleanor Batty sophomore Brown |
Anne Churchland Encoding of head movement in posterior parietal cortex |
Ph.D., Columbia |
| Eric Biggers sophomore Macalester College |
Michael Schatz Assembling the pineapple genome |
Developer, Code42 Software |
| Emily Glassberg junior Dartmouth College |
Alex Krasnitz A novel computational strategy to determine nucleosome positioning in S. cerevisiae |
Ph.D., Stanford |
| Julian Hornburger junior Cornell |
Mickey Atwal Associations between rare variants and complex disease |
Ph.D., Stanford |
| Student Academic level Undergraduate institution |
CSHL mentor Project title |
Graduate degree program (graduation year) or professional position |
|---|---|---|
| Victoria Hanna junior UC Irvine |
Marja Timmermans microRNA mobility |
M.S., UCSD (2014) |
| Brittany Haugen junior Florida Institute Technology |
Alea Mills Investigating p63 isoforms in mouse models of EEC syndrome |
Ph.D., MSKCC |
| Allison Kolbe sophomore Ohio Wesleyan U |
David Jackson Maize phyllotaxy by redox regulation of transcription factors |
Ph.D., Washington State |
| Mitchell Leibowitz junior UVA |
W. Richard McCombie Third-generation sequencing as a high-throughput diagnostic tool |
Ph.D., Harvard |
| Kevin Wu junior UCSD |
Doreen Ware De novo transcriptome assembly and analysis in the Cloud |
M.S., UCSD (2012) |
| Student Academic level Undergraduate institution |
CSHL mentor Project title |
Graduate degree program (graduation year) or professional position |
|---|---|---|
| Helen Cha junior Williams College |
Marja Timmermans A smallRNA gradient sharpens the adaxial-abaxial boundary in Arabidopsis thaliana |
M.D., U Maryland |
| Jonathan Coravos junior Bowdoin College |
Josh Dubnau Is dopamine in glia required for short-term memory in fruit flies? |
Ph.D., MIT |
| Joseph Cammarata junior Hunter College |
Zach Lippman A marker of meristem reiteration in Solanum lycopersicum |
Ph.D., Cornell |
| Claudio Morales Perez sophomore U Puerto Rico |
Hiro Furukawa The molecular mechanism of antagonism in NMDA receptor |
Ph.D., UT Southwestern |
| Angelina Regua junior Molloy College |
Leemor Joshua-Tor Organization of the ClrC complex |
Ph.D., SUNY Upstate |
| Student Academic level Undergraduate institution |
CSHL mentor Project title |
Graduate degree program (graduation year) or professional position |
|---|---|---|
| Lina Marcela Carmona junior U Pennsylvania |
Marja Timmermans The contribution of polarity determinants to organ development |
Ph.D., Yale |
| Danielle Feldman junior Hunter College |
Josh Dubnau Expression and localization of lightoid in Drosophila CNS |
Ph.D., MIT |
| Daniel Goltz sophomore Whitman College |
W. Richard McCombie Targeted resequencing using microarray exon capture |
M.D., Duke |
| Aviva Mail junior Cornell |
Michael Zhang Detection of genomic structural variation from high throughput sequence data |
Analyst, MIT Investment Management Company |
| Alan Rodriguez Penney junior U Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras |
Bo Li Effect of ketamine on striatum and nucleus accumbens activity |
M.D., University of Puerto Rico |
| Julia Rogers junior Yale |
Leemor Joshua-Tor Transducer and repressor complex in the yeast GAL induction system |
Ph.D., Harvard |
| Student Academic level Undergraduate institution |
CSHL mentor Project title |
Graduate degree program (graduation year) or professional position |
|---|---|---|
| Alison Baker junior Dartmouth College |
Tony Zador A role for rat auditory cortex in attention in time to auditory stimuli |
Ph.D., Harvard |
| Yesenia Correa junior Oregon State U |
Scott Powers Influence of initial differentiated state on tumorigenic phenotype |
Ph.D., U Washington (2014) |
| Eric Domb sophomore Princeton |
Michael Zhang In silico detection of cis-regulatory modules |
Technical Analyst, Gilder Gagnon Howe |
| Erin Jimenez junior UCLA |
David Jackson Understanding the mechanisms controlling phyllotaxy in maize |
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins |
| Daniel Kim sophomore Amherst College |
Adam Kepecs Network mechanism of theta oscillations in the hippocampus |
MBA, Harvard |
| Student Academic level Undergraduate institution |
CSHL mentor Project title |
Graduate degree program (graduation year) or professional position |
|---|---|---|
| Vikram Agarwal sophomore UT Austin |
Lincoln Stein Characterizing coverage and chromosomal rearrangement in the Watson genome |
Ph.D., MIT |
| Jack Angiolillo junior Amherst College |
Leemor Joshua-Tor Attempting to solve the structure for the ORC 2-3 subcomplex |
M.D., Columbia |
| Christine Cho junior Brown |
Josh Dubnau MicroRNAs in memory: Characterization of miR276a expression |
Ph.D., Rockefeller |
| Emily Combs sophomore Cornell |
Doreen Ware Validation of non-canonical introns in rice |
Ph.D., U Minnesota (2012) |
| Lindsay Courtney junior Drury U |
Wolfgang Lukowitz Exploring localization and complementation of the MAPK pathway |
Analyst, Richard Chandler Corp. |
| Matt Golub junior Stanford |
Partha Mitra The red-eye flight: Memory of a lifetime |
M.S., Stanford (2009) Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon (2015) |
| Simon Quay sophomore Whitman College |
Tony Zador The role of long-range callosal projections in the auditory cortex |
Designer, Terrazign Inc. |
| Erin Romberg junior Oberlin College |
Zach Mainen Uncertainty, decision making, and orbitofrontal cortex |
M.D., Washington U St Louis |
| Rachel Sachs sophomore Princeton |
Alex Koulakov Application of the Watershed algorithm to spike sorting |
JD, Harvard (2013) MPH, Harvard (2013) |
| Adrianna San Roman sophomore Williams College |
David Jackson Stop-and-go traffic: Regulating the gates of plasmodesmata |
Ph.D., Harvard |
| Student Academic level Undergraduate institution |
CSHL mentor Project title |
Graduate degree program (graduation year) or professional position |
|---|---|---|
| Lenore Barhak junior Cooper Union |
Leemor Joshua-Tor A molecular view of transcrptional repression |
Ph.D., Columbia |
| Ryan Devenyi sophomore Bowdoin College |
Wolfgang Lukowitz Investigations in the yoda MAP kinase pathway in Arabidopsis |
M.D.-Ph.D., Mount Sinai |
| Nandita Garud sophomore Cornell |
Doreen Ware Weeding for phenotypes and motifs in a weed |
M.S., Stanford (2012) Ph.D., Stanford (2014) |
| Julie Granka sophomore Cornell |
Michael Zhang Characterizing the binding specificity of CTCF |
Ph.D., Stanford (2013) |
| Lilian Ho junior Vassar College |
Cordula Schultz Novel protein Lucky Luke and cellular integrity |
M.D., U Washington |
| William Kruesi junior Carleton College |
Marja Timmermans Regulation of MIR166 gene expression in Arabidopsis |
Ph.D., UC Berkeley (2013) |
| Wenke Li sophomore Stevens Institute of Technology |
Ravi Sachidanandam How old are introns? |
Ph.D., UT Austin |
| Christopher Quinn sophomore Cornell |
Alexei Koulakov An improved neural spike clustering approach |
M.S., U Illinois (2013) |
| Joshua Siegle junior Brown |
Partha Mitra Oscillatory brain dynamics of working memory |
Ph.D., MIT |
| Lincoln Smith sophomore Wabash College |
W. Richard McCombie BglII fragment selection using hybridization-based selections |
M.S., Princeton (2012) M.D., Rutgers (2014) |
| Vicky Zhou junior UC Irvine |
Lincoln Stein Visualization of C. elegans gene expression data in Wormbase |
Ph.D., Harvard (2012) |
| Student Academic level Undergraduate institution |
CSHL mentor Project title |
Graduate degree program (graduation year) or professional position |
|---|---|---|
| Vineeta Agarwalla sophomore Stanford |
Michael Zhang CTCF Binding Site Specificity and Distribution |
M.D.-Ph.D., Harvard/MIT |
| Albert Almada junior UC Irvine |
Andrew Neuwald Sequence, structure, and function in the alpha beta hydrolase fold family |
Ph.D., MIT (2013) |
| Robert Carrasquillo senior Washington U St. Louis |
Rob Martienssen Effects of differential methylation on transposon activation and gene expression in A. thaliana |
M.D., Harvard (2012) |
| Christopher Javadi junior UT Austin |
Josh Dubnau Drosophila deficiency mapping using whole-genome tiling arrays |
M.D.-Ph.D., UT Southwestern |
| Krishnan Palaniappan senior Carnegie Mellon |
Bruce Stillman Binding of mitotic cyclins to Cdc6 and ORC as regulators of PRC formation |
Ph.D., UC Berkeley (2012) |
| Vanessa Ringgold senior UC Davis |
Marja Timmermans Investigations into the effects of asymetric leaves 1 in Arabidopsis |
M.A., Columbia (2008) JD, Brooklyn Law School (2013) |
| Thomas Takara senior Grinnell College |
Leemor Joshua-Tor A structural investigation of papillomavirus replication initiation protein E1 |
Ph.D., MIT (2011) |
| Ye Wang junior U Rochester |
Cordula Shultz To be stem cells, or not to be |
M.S., Rochester Institute of Technology (2015) |
| Kelly Wetmore senior UCLA |
Wolfgang Lukowitz Mapping quantitative trait loci that modify SHORT SUSPENSOR |
Research Associate, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory |