November 7, 2025
Congratulations to former PhD grads!
The department is excited to share good news about our recent (and less recent) Ph.D. graduates and the amazing things they've been doing in the last year. Look for additional postings in the next month. See other recent updates here and look of one more round in later November.
- Manu Sanjeev (2025 Ph.D. in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Singh lab) is now a postdoc at Aarhus University (Denmark)
- Andrew Castonguay (2021 Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics, Hamel lab) is now Scientist II at Altos Labs Bay Area Institute
- Stevin Wilson (2019 Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics, Bird lab) has been promoted to Staff Bioinformatics Scientist at Illumina
- Stephanie LaHaye (2017 Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics, Garg lab) has been promoted to Director, Computational Biology at Tempus Labs.
- Ning Wang (2015 Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics, Wu lab) is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester
- Huayang Liu (2015 Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics, Leone lab) has been promoted to Associate Director at AstraZeneca.
- Greetchen Diaz Muñoz (2012 Ph.D. in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Hopper lab) has been promoted to Executive Director of Ciencia Puerto Rico
- Amit Sharma (2012 Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics, Boris-Lawrie lab) is now an Associate Professor of Infectious Disease at North Carolina State University
- Xidian Xie (2009 Ph.D. in Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology, Grotewold lab) is now a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester
- Xianfeng Xu (2007 Ph.D. in Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology, Meier lab) is now a life sciences licensing and transactions attorney at Foley Hoag LLP