Lab Members -- Ferrell Lab

Lab Members

Current Lab Members

Past Lab Members

Name: Graham Anderson*
Origins:
Undergrad: Cornell University
Position: Graduate Student
Research Topic: Competition as a source
of ultrasensitivity, synchrony of embryonic
cell divisions
System: Mammalian cell lines, Xenopus
embryos
Tape Color: Whatever I can get
Star sign: Linus Pauling
Email: graham.a.anderson at stanford dot
edu
*Frog friendly

Name: Nikki Breaux Trunnell*
Origins:
Undergrad: Duke University
Position: Graduate Student
Research Topic: Hyperphosphorylation
System: Xenopus extracts
Tape Color: Purple
Star sign: Virgo
Email: nbreaux at stanford dot edu
*Frog friendly

Name: Jeremy Chang*
Origins:
Undergrad: Harvard University
Position: Graduate Student
Research Topic: Signal propagation and
bistability
System: Xenopus extracts
Tape Color: Green
Star sign: Libra
Email: jbchang at stanford dot edu
*Frog friendly

Name: James E. Ferrell, Jr.
Origins:
Grad: Stanford University
Position: The BMOC (Big Man On Campus)
Research Topic: Everything, everything,
everything including guitar playing and
science writing
System: Filling out forms
Tape Color: Purple (in the good old days)
Star sign: Scorpio
Email: james.ferrell at stanford dot edu

Name: David Hendrickson†
Origins:
Undergrad: Eckerd College
Position: Graduate Student
Research Topic: Dicer structure/function,
RNAi mechanism, Animal Husbandry
System: Mammalian cell lines
Tape Color: Red
Star sign: Libra
Email: dgh at stanford dot edu
† Frog unfriendly

Name: SunYoung Kim*
Origins:
Undergrad: EWHA Womans University
Position: Postdoctoral fellow
Research Topic: Wee1 Phosphorylation
System: Xenopus extracts
Tape Color: Pink
Star sign: Scorpio
Email: sunykim at stanford dot edu
*(Very) Frog friendly

Name: Sam Pearlman†
Origins:
Undergrad: MIT
Position: Graduate Student
Research Topic: Protein phosphorylation
prediction
System: Virtual systems
Tape Color: Are you kidding me?
Star sign: Scorpio
Email: sampearl at stanford dot edu
† Frog unfriendly

Name: Andy Poon*
Origins:
Undergrad: Harvard University
Position: Graduate Student
Research Topic: Positive feedback and
bistable switches
System: Xenopus extracts
Tape Color: Yellow
Star sign: Scorpio
Email: acpoon at stanford dot edu
*Frog friendly

Name: Silvia Santos†
Origins:
Grad: EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Position: Postdoctoral fellow
Research Topic: Bistability in cell cycle
circuits
System: Mammalian cell lines
Tape Color: Sky blue
Star sign: Aquarius
Email: sdsantos at stanford dot edu
†Not (yet) frog friendly

Name: Sarah Trosin†
Origins:
Position: Graduate Student
Research Topic: Characterizing the mitotic
phosphorylations of cyclin A2
System: Human, Xenopus
Tape Color: Blue
Star sign: Capricorn
Email: strosin at stanford dot edu
†Frog friendly

Name: Tony Tsai*
Origins:
Undergrad: National Taiwan University
Position: Graduate Student
Research Topic: Feedback regulation in
biochemical oscillators
System: Xenopus embryos
Tape Color: [1, 0.9, 0] and [0, 0.8, 1]
(in RGB)
Star sign: Scorpio
Email: tonytsai at stanford dot edu
*Frog friendly

Name: Qiong Yang†
Origins:
Position: Postdoctoral fellow
Research Topic: Quantitative analysis
of a negative feedback loop that drives
mitotic oscillations
System: Human, Xenopus
Tape Color: Pink
Star sign: Aries
Email: qiongy at stanford dot edu
†Frog friendly

Previous Lab Members

Christoph Bagowski worked as a postdoc in the Ferrell Lab from 1999-2002. He now has his own lab in Holland. Christoph's current email: cbagowski@arborvita.com

Alex Bazarov worked as a postdoc in the Ferrell Lab from 1999-2002. He is now working in the Herskowitz lab at UCSF. Alex's current email: alex_baz@yahoo.com

Ramesh Bhatt worked as a graduate student in the Ferrell Lab. He is now working for Eli Lilly Co. Ramesh's current email: ramesh@lilly.com

David Byron worked as a technician for the Ferrell Lab. He is now a medical student in Israel. Dave's current email: dbyron@stanfordalumni.org

Yoon Sup Choi was a visiting student in the lab from 2007-2008. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Signaling Proteome Lab & Structural Bioinformatics Lab within the School of Interdisciplinary Bioscience and Bioengineering at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in Korea. Yoon Sup's current email: ambition@postech.ac.kr

Delquin Gong was a graduate student in the Ferrell lab from 2002-2008. She is now in Orion Weiner’s lab at UCSF. Delquin’s current email: delquin@stanford.edu

Sherril Green worked as a collaborator in the Ferrell Lab. She is now an associate professor in comparative medicine at Stanford. Sherril's current email: sherril@stanford.edu

Tom Guadagno worked as a postdoc in the Ferrell Lab. He is now an assistant professor at the Interdisciplinary Oncology Program at USF. Tom's current email: guadagnt@moffitt.usf.edu

Fred Huang worked as a graduate student in the Ferrell Lab. He now has his own lab in Taipei, Taiwan. Fred's current email: chiying@nhri.org.tw

Narae Hwang worked as a visiting graduate student in the Ferrell Lab in 2003. Narae's current email: nrhwang@yahoo.com

Chung-Han Lee worked as an undergrad in the Ferrell Lab from 1998-2000. He is now studying medicine at University of Michigan. Chung-Han's current email: c-h.lee@stanfordalumni.org

Jason Myers worked as a graduate student in the Ferrell Lab. He is now a postdoc in Pat Brown's lab at Stanford University. Jason's current email: jmyers@stanford.edu

Eva Petschnigg worked as an undergrad and technician in the Ferrell Lab. She is now a medical student in Austria. Eva's current email: evap@stanford.edu

Joe Pomerening worked as a postdoc in the Ferrell Lab. He is now an Assistant Professor at the Indiana University - Bloomington: jpomeren@indiana.edu (Pomerening Lab Homepage)

Diana Rios-Cardona was a graduate student in the lab from 2003-2008 and currently resides in San Diego.

Michal Ronen worked as a postdoc in the Ferrell Lab. She is now a postdoc in Gavin Sherlock's lab at Stanford University: mronen@stanford.edu

Zach Serber worked as a post-doc in the Ferrell lab from 2003-2007. He is now working for Amyris Biotechnologies. Zach’s current email: serber@amyrisbiotech.com

Mike Sohaskey worked as an graduate student in the Ferrell Lab. He is now a postdoc in the Skarnes' lab at UC Berkeley. Mike's current email: sohaskey@socrates.berkeley.edu

Jeff Ubersax worked as a post-doc in the Ferrell lab from 2004-2008. He is now working for Amyris Biotechnologies. Jeff’s current email: jeff.ubersax@gmail.com

Sarah Walter worked as a graduate student in the Ferrell Lab until 2000. She is now working for Sugen Inc. Sarah's current email: sarah-walter@sugen.com

Xiao-Min Wang worked as a postdoc in the Ferrell Lab. She is now working at DNAX. Xiao-Min's current email: xiaomin.schebye@dnax.org

Polly Wong worked as a graduate student in the Ferrell Lab. For her current contact info, please call the Ferrell Lab.

Wen Xiong worked as a postdoc for the Ferrell Lab from 1999-2003. She is now a postdoc in the Wasserman Lab at UCSD. Wen's current email: wenxiong@biomail.ucsd.edu

John Yoon worked as an undergrad and later as a lab technician in the Ferrell Lab from 1997-2001. He is studying medicine at Southwestern Texas Medical Center. John's current email: jdyoon@stanfordalumni.org

Jianbo Yue worked as a postdoc in the Ferrell Lab. He is now a Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong: jianboyue@yahoo.com