Rifkin Lab: On the Origin of Variation

RIFKIN LAB NEWS

10/19/24

Jess's paper on hybrid incompatibility is posted to bioRxiv

10/04/24

Joanna's paper on dauer and coexistence is published in Oikos

09/16/24

Anne Sun joins the lab

09/24/23

Isabel Hui and Sara Keil join the lab as undergraduates

05/20/22

Toni's two papers about GATA factor evolution are posted on bioRxiv

05/15/22

Rachel Weinstein joins the lab as a PhD student

02/10/22

Toni defends her PhD thesis

11/03/21

Anthony Ye joins the lab as an undergraduate

10/15/21

Sophia Xu joins the lab as an undergraduate

09/10/21

Rachel's second paper from the Sugihara lab collaboration published

07/06/21

Aidan Linkins joins the lab as an undegraduate

06/28/21

Alex Popescu and Jason Cui join the lab as RSI summer students

06/04/21

Rachel defends her masters thesis

05/21/21

Rachel's first paper from the Sugihara lab collaboration published

05/09/21

Alex is awared a QIB Training Program fellowship

04/01/21

Alex Bevier becomes the lab's first physics graduate student

02/01/21

New NSF-MCG EAGER grant starts on transcription factor-DNA interactions

07/01/20

New NSF-IOS grant starts on the developmental biology of hybrid inviability

06/28/20

Rohan Kanchana joins the lab as an RSI summer student

06/02/20

Alexis defends her masters thesis

06/03/19

Shea defends his masters thesis

05/28/19

Michael defends his masters thesis

01/31/19

Joanna heads to the wilds of Madison at the Unviersity of Wisconsin

10/01/18

Rachel Goodridge joins the lab as a BS/MS student

06/15/18

Jess Bloom joins the lab as a graduate student

04/02/18

Alexis Cugini joins the lab as a BS/MS student

08/22/17

Michael Cradeur joins the lab as a BS/MS student

07/24/17

Bing Yang joins the lab as a postdoc

08/19/17

Shea Summers joins the lab as a BS/MS student

07/02/17

Joanna Bundus joins the lab as a postdoc

01/30/17

Sarah's living vector field paper published

11/29/16

Dan's paper comparing mRNA and protein expression variation on bioRxiv

09/07/16

Sarah's living vector field paper on bioRxiv

02/16/16

Larry's cis-regulation paper published

09/01/15

Molly leaves to start her lab at Oregon State

07/15/15

Joint NSF grant with Dan!

07/01/15

Sarah begins her job as an Assistant Teaching Prof. at UCSD

06/01/15

Toni Darragh joins the lab as a PhD student

12/01/14

Dan starts his job at Western Washington University

04/01/14

Allison's Aro paper is published

10/14/14

Sarah's galactose network review is published

08/07/13

R01 for endoderm specification comes through

07/29/13

Stephanie and Kate are off to grad school

07/01/13

Isaac Lopez-Moyado (Bioinfo/SysBio grad student) joins the lab

09/22/12

Kate Corbin joins the lab as an undergraduate

09/01/12

Stephanie Fairbairn moves to Staff Research Associate

07/30/12

Larry Du (biology graduate student) joins the lab

07/23/12

Homa Rahnamoun joins the lab as an SDCSB undergraduate intern

06/04/12

Sarah will talk at the National IRACDA conference this summer on interactive teacing

06/01/12

QTL book (edited by Scott and including Dan's chapter) is out

02/20/12

Tito Unglaub is rotating in the lab

11/08/11

Book chapter on finding smFISH spots is out

11/07/11

Ruth Schwartz joins the lab as a Staff Research Associate

11/01/11

Dongyang Li is rotating in the lab

03/31/11

Allison Wu receives a summer fellowship from the Quebecois FQRNT to work with Christian Landry at U. Laval, Quebec

02/14/11

Sidney Kuo (biology graduate student) joins the lab

01/19/11

Sharon Tracy joins the lab as a Staff Research Associate II

12/01/10

Dan Pollard joins the lab as a postdoc.

11/22/10

Moving day! The new space is finally (almost) ready

11/11/10

Stephanie Fairbairn is the lab's first undergrad!

09/20/10

Sarah Stockwell is the lab's first postdoc!

05/10/10

Rebecca Theobald joins the lab

04/12/10

Allison Wu is the lab's first graduate student!

02/18/10

Nature paper on partial penetrance is out

07/01/09

Rifkin Lab officially begins!

Scott Rifkin Principal Investigator ude.dscu@nikfiras CV
Isabel Hui BS/MS Student 2023 -	Sara Keil Undergraduate student 2023 -
Rachel Weinstein Graduate Student 2022 -	Jessica Bloom Graduate Student 2017 -
Alex Bevier Graduate Student 2021 -	Anne Sun High School Student 2024 -

Alumni
Anthony Ye Undergraduate Student 2021 - 2024	Aidan Linkins Undergraduate Student 2021 - 2023
Bing Yang Postdoctoral fellow 2017 - 2023	Sophia Xu Undergraduate Student 2021 - 2023
Antonia Darragh Graduate Student 2015 - 2023
Jason Cui RSI Summer Intern 2020	Alexander Popescu RSI Summer Intern 2021
Alexis Cugini BS/MS Student 2018 - 2020	Rachel Goodridge BS/MS Student 2018 - 2021
Matthew Campos Master's Student 2020	Rohan Kanchana RSI Summer Intern 2020
Michael Cradeur BS/MS Student 2018 - 2019	Shea Summers BS/MS Student 2018 - 2019
Joanna Bundus Postdoctoral fellow 2017 - 2019 Assistant Director of Research, Xylome	Colby Glazer BS/MS Student 2017 - 2018
Larry Du Graduate Student 2012 - 2017 Linked-in Software engineer at 23AndMe	Sidney Kuo Graduate Student 2011 - 2017 Linked-in Senior Bioinformatics Scientist at Illumina
Daniel Pollard Postdoctoral Fellow 2011 - 2014 Website Associate Professor of Biology, Western Washington University	Yin Poe Undergraduate 2014
Sarah Stockwell Postdoctoral Fellow 2010 - 2015 Assistant Teaching Professor, UCSD	Sharon Tracy Staff Research Associate 2011 - 2015
Molly Burke Postdoctoral fellow 2014 - 2015 Website Assistant Professor of Biology, Oregon State University	Chia-Yi (Allison) Wu Graduate Student 2010 - 2015 Senior Data Scientist at ResMed
Harris Lazaris Staff Research Associate 2013 Website Bioinformatics scientist at the Whitehead and Broad Institutions	Ruth Schwartz Staff Research Associate 2011 - 2014
Homa Rahnamoun Undergraduate 2012 - 2014 Research Fellow in Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital	Tram Nguyen Undergraduate 2013 - 2014
Kate Corbin Undergraduate 2012 - 2013 Graduate Student, Department of Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook	Stephanie Fairbairn Undergraduate/Staff Research Associate 2010 - 2013