Cristea Lab Members, Past & Present

Principal Investigator

Research Molecular Biologist

Postdoctoral Scientists

Graduate Students

Undergraduates

Lab Alumni

Former Postdocs:

Joshua Justice, PhD - Senior Scientist @ Johnson & Johnson, Philadelphia, USA

John Muroski, PhD - Analytical Scientist @ BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc., San Rafael, CA, USA

Joel Federspiel, PhD - Senior Scientist @ Pfizer, Drug Safety Research and Development Group, Boston, USA

Yutaka Hashimoto, PhD - Assistant Professor @ Nagoya City University, Japan

Rommel Mathias, PhD - Assistant Professor @ Monash University, Australia

Yuan-Chin Tsai, PhD - Assistant Professor @ Taipei Medical University, Taiwan

Preeti Joshi, PhD - Senior Scientist @ Biogen, USA

Yang Luo, PhD - Research Scientist @ The Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center


Former Grad Students:

Dawei Liu, PhD - Postdoc in Zhao Lab @ U Chicago, Chicago, USA

Cora Betsinger, PhD - Postdoc in Mootha Lab @ Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Bokai Song, PhD - Postdoc in White Lab @ MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

Katelyn Cook, PhD - Postdoc in Nadler and Von Appen Labs @ Max Planck Institute of Cell Biology, Dresden, Germany

Michelle Kennedy, PhD - Senior Scientist @ Zoetis, Parsippany, NJ, USA

Timothy Howard, PhD - Associate @ ClearView Healthcare Partners, Newton, MA, USA

Xinlei Sheng, PhD - Postdoc in Zhao Lab @ U Chicago, Chicago, USA

Laura Murray-Nerger, PhD - Postdoc in Gewurz Lab @ Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Pierre M Jean Beltran, PhD  - Postdoc in Carr Lab @ Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA

Elizabeth Rowland, PhD - Associate @ McKinsey & Co., Philadelphia, USA

Marni Crow, PhD - Associate Medical Director @ VMLY&R, New Jersey, USA

Benjamin Diner, PhD - Senior Scientist @ Editas, Boston, USA

Amanda Guise, PhD - Postdoc in Steen Lab @ Harvard University, Boston, USA

Hanna Budayeva, PhD - Senior Scientist @ Gentech, USA

Tuo Li, PhD - Assistant Professor @ UT Southwestern, USA

Yana Miteva, PhD - Senior Scientist @ Pfizer, USA

Danielle Rowles, PhD - Research Scientist @ QPS Delaware, USA

Val Carabetta, PhD - Assistant Professor @ Cooper Medical School, USA


Former Technicians:

Fang Yu - Research Scientist @ Fudan University, China


Former Undergrads:

Sophia Chen - Research Technician @ Massachusetts General Hospital (2024)

Laura Haubold - MPhil @ University of Cambridge (2024)

Victoria Merengwa - Medical Assistant in the Greater Orlando Area (2024)

Corazón Núñez - PhD @ Harvard University (2023)

Cody Mui - Fulbright Scholarship @ Taiwan (2023)

Elene Tsopurashvili - Princeton Project 55 Fellow @ Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center, UCSF (2022)

Brett Phelan - PhD @ Yale University (2022)

Julia Edgar - Research Technician @ The Leonard Wagner Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Immunology, Rockefeller University (2021)

Emily Cheng - Business Analyst @ McKinsey & Co., New York, NY (2021)

Pranav Rekapalli - MD @ UPenn (2020)

Caroline Taber - Post-bac. @ Hospital for Special Surgery, Orthopedics Department, NYC (2020)

Samvida Venkatesh - Rhodes Scholar (PhD) @ Oxford University (2019)

Amy Tien - Bain & Company Global Management (2019)

Catherina Pan - MD @ Yale University (2019)

Clayton Otter - MD/PhD @ University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine (2018)

Caroline Snowden - MD @ Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis (2017)

Morgan Sly

Chase Palisch

Jennifer Wang

Irene Zhang