doctoral mentoring
We are always recruiting graduate students interested in conducting fundamental and translational research in the iGEM laboratories. Students must be interested in pursuing doctoral research at the interface of one or more of the following areas: genomics, evolution, analytics, biodiversity, epidemiology, and medicine. Students will have the opportunity to engage in discovering biological patterns and elucidating processes that govern and generate these patterns. Depending on their interest, we encourage all students to make predictions based on evolutionary knowledge learned and develop translational products (including software, databases, and general techniques) to accelerate our understanding of biological phenomenon and to apply our knowledge to improving the human condition.
Interested students are advised to directly contact the iGEM faculty of interest. Please send your detailed curriculum vitae and a statement of research interest in a PDF file to the desired faculty member. Remember to include information on your computational and/or laboratory proficiency in your resume.
Ultimately, all doctoral students will be required to apply to a graduate program in the Department of Biology or the Department of Computer and Information Sciences. In special cases, iGEM laboratories will also house doctoral students from other departments. All students are supported by research and teaching assistantships. Students with outstanding credentials will be nominated for Presidential Fellowships. We strongly encourage all incoming and first year graduate students to apply for extramural graduate fellowships (e.g., NSF Graduate fellowship). You should contact the appropriate faculty member to develop such fellowship applications.
Sam Boudeau
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Biology
Mentor: Kulathinal
Joshua Bruce
Doctoral Candidate, Biology
Department of Biology
Mentor: Helmus
Stefani Cannon
Doctoral Candidate, Biology
Department of Biology
Mentor: Helmus
Axl Cepeda
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Biology
Mentor: Escalante
Sky Gao
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
Mentor: Shi
Nick Huron
Doctoral Candidate, Biology
Department of Biology
Mentor: Helmus
Hannah Kim
Doctoral Candidate, Biology
Department of Biology
Mentor: Pond
Chong Li
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
Mentor: Shi
Bin Li
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
Mentor: Shi
Alex Lucaci
Doctoral Candidate, Bioinformatics
Department of Biology
Mentor: Pond
Madeline McGhee
Doctoral Candidate, Biology
Department of Biology
Mentor: Liberles
Alyssa Pivirotto
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Biology
Mentor: Hey
Lisa Schmelkin
Doctoral Candidate, Bioinformatics
Department of Biology
Mentor: Kumar
Molly Schools
Doctoral Candidate, Biology
Department of Biology
Mentor: Hedges
Avery Selberg
Doctoral Candidate, Biology
Department of Biology
Mentor: Pond
Sudip Sharma
Doctoral Candidate, Biology
Department of Biology
Mentor: Kumar
Chen Song
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
Mentor: Shi
Amanda Wilson
Doctoral Candidate, Biology
Department of Biology
Mentor: Liberles
Jordan Zehr
Doctoral Candidate, Biology
Department of Biology
Mentor: Pond
