Current Lab Members
Bernie J. Daigle, Jr., Ph.D. – Associate Professor
Dr. Daigle received his Ph.D. in Genetics from Stanford University School of Medicine, and he conducted postdoctoral research in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests include integration of genome-scale datasets for disease biomarker identification, and computational modeling and analysis of stochastic biochemical systems.
Mazen Istanbouli, M.S. – Biological Sciences Ph.D. student
Mazen received M.S. degrees in Biological Sciences from the University of Memphis and Bioinformatics from the University of Memphis. His research interests include computational clinical neuroscience and biomarker identification for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Maziar Ganji, M.Sc. – Biological Sciences Ph.D. student
Maziar received his M.Sc. in Human Genetics from Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. His research interests include computational biology, machine learning, and multi-omics data analysis.
Serena Zhao, S.B. – Medical student
Serena received her S.B. in Bioengineering from Harvard University. Her research interests include multi-omics data integration, PTSD subtyping, and biomarker discovery.
Vibha Tripathi, M.S. – Data Science M.S. student
Vibha received her M.S. in Bioinformatics from the University of Memphis. Her research interests include machine learning and PTSD subtype identification from single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data.
Alumni
Kevin Townsend
B.S., Computer Science
Pulin Agrawal
Ph.D., Computer Science
Caroline Melton
M.A., Linguistics
Liangqun Lu
Ph.D., Biological Sciences
Ted Ling Hu
M.S., Bioinformatics
James Courtney
B.S., Biomedical Engineering
Hunter Franks
B.S., Psychology
Daniel O’Malley
B.S., Chemistry
Ria Patel
St. Mary’s Episcopal (High) School, Memphis, TN
Sohini Banerjee
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, VA
Shreya Shivpuje
M.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Adil Abdurahaman
M.D., The University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Jalyssa Smith
B.S., Biomedical Engineering
Christine Odero
M.S., Data Science
Parth Patel
Memphis University (High) School, Memphis, TN
Arihant Jain
White Station High School, Memphis, TN