Kate is a student at Notre Dame High School and was learning molecular and cell biology in the lab with Sammy in the summer of 2024.

Tiao was an undergraduate student at UCLA majoring in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology with a minor in Bioinformatics. She was working with Sammy on X-inactivation and reprogramming.

Lilit was a fourth-year UCLA MCDB student in the lab who conducted mitophagy and reprogramming experiments.

Iris was a postdoc in the lab studying the regulation of gene expression, chromatin state, and 3D genome organization during early human and mouse embryonic development utilizing stem cells as a model system. Iris was specifically interested in the action of the long noncoding RNA XIST and identified new functions for the RNA. She moved on to run her own lab.

Alex was a Ph.D. student at Tufts University working in the lab of Martin Pera at The Jackson Laboratory to uncover links between karyotype and embryonic stem cell states. In the Plath lab he was studying the understanding X-chromosome inactivation in human pluripotent stem cells.

Lior was a high school student (Milken Community High School) in the lab until 2024 and went on to Brown University for college.

Robin served as lab manager of the Plath lab from the beginning until 2023. Now, Robin is the Laboratory Safety Officer of the Department of Medicine at UCLA.

Ben was a UCLA undergraduate student majoring in Molecular, Cell and Developmental biology, with double minors in bioinformatics and biomedical research. As undergraduate researcher, he worked with Amanda Collier. He moved on to get his Ph.D. at MIT.

William was a postdoctoral scholar in the lab until 2022. He is now a Scientist at Altos Labs in San Diego.

Molly was an undergraduate student in the lab working with Will. She went on to graduate school at MIT.

Boseon was a postdoctoral scholar in the lab until 2022. She is now a Scientist at Amgen.

Tracy was a postdoctoral scholar in the lab between 2021-2022.

Charlotte was a master’s student in the lab in 2023 who came over from France and worked with Amander Collier.

Yolanda was a project scientist in the lab until 2022. She is now a Lecturer at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. She won the 2022 Boyer/Parvin Award at UCLA.

Nivi was a graduate student in the Plath lab until 2023 who was co-mentored by Dr. Douglas Black at UCLA and worked on understanding the role of RNA-binding proteins in sequestering RNA onto chromatin. She moved on to become a Postdoctoral Fellow at Merck.

Kaemin was an undergraduate student in the lab 2022-23.

Anya was a UCLA MD/PhD student performing her graduate work the lab until 2022 and subsequently continued her medical training at UCLA.

Franziska was a master’s student in the lab in 2022 who came over from Germany and worked with Amander Collier.

Weixian was a graduate student in the lab until 2022 co-mentored by Dr. James Wohlschlegel,and was a recipient of the Fowler Award of the Molecular Biology Institute at UCLA. He became a Scientist at Amgen.

Anthony was a graduate student in the lab until 2022. He went on to become a Scientist at Illumina.

Tsotne was a graduate student in the lab until 2022, co-mentored by Dr. Amander Clark at UCLA, and a recipient of the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation PhD fellowship. He became a Scientist at Calico Life Sciences.

Sebastian was a master’s student in the lab in 2020 working with Amanda Collier. He returned to Germany to complete his masters.

Tom was a post doc in the Plath lab until 202. He took a job as Field Application Scientist at STEMCELL Technologies.

Amy was a Helen Hay Whitney Foundation postdoc in the lab until 2021 and was awarded the inaugural Suzanne Eaton Award at UCLA. She moved on to become a Senior Scientist at Amgen.

Rohan was a undergraduate researcher in the lab until 2021 working with Tsotne Chitiasvili.

Shawn was a graduate student in the lab until 2021. He moved to Singapore to become a research fellow at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore.

Ivy was an undergraduate student in the lab until 2021 and worked with William Tu.

Jarrett was a graduate student in the lab until 2020. He moved on to a position at Bioarkive in San Diego.

Jessie was an undergraduate student in the lab working with Yolanda Markaki until 2021. She left for her graduate school at Yale.

Johnny was an undergraduate student in the lab working with Yolanda Markaki until 2021. He left for graduate school at UC Berkeley.

John was a undergraduate student in the lab until 2020 working with Thomas Allison.

Arthur was an undergraduate student in the Plath lab until 2020 working with Nivi Damodaren.

Shan was a Bioinformatics PhD in the Plath lab until 2020. He moved on to Computational Biology at ArsenalBio.

Christy was an undergraduate student in the lab working with Yolanda Markaki until 2020. She went on to graduate school at Stanford.

Costas was a postdoc in the Plath lab until October 2019. He became an Assistant Professor at UIC.

Yi (Peggy) was an undergraduate student in the lab working with Yolanda Markaki until 2018. She is now attending graduate school at UC Berkeley.

Nicolas worked as an undergraduate student in the lab until 2019 on a project aiming to understand neuronal maturation.

Ivy was an undergraduate student in the lab working with Martina Ross until 2017.

Paula was a research volunteer in the lab until 2017. She moved on to attend graduate school at Cornell University.

Anna was a graduate student in the lab from 2013-2018. I am currently a Scientist at a biotech called Cellares.

Kent was an undergraduate student in the lab until 2018 working with Justin Langerman. He went on to work at Kite Pharma.

Yihao was an undergraduate student in the Plath lab until June 2017. He then attended graduate school at Rockefeller University working in the lab of Elaine Fuchs.

Martina was a postdoc in our lab from 2015-2017, then became Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Chute lab, and later founded a company (Sardona Therapeutics).

Artne was an undergraduate student in the lab working with Yolanda Markaki.

Jordan was a high school student volunteer from Milken Community School from 2015 to 2017. He went on to Stanford University for his undergraduate studies.

Keziah was an undergraduate student in the Plath lab until 2016 and worked with Amy Pandya-Jones.

Stefan was a Master’s student in the Plath Lab in 2016. He went back to Europe for his PhD.

Elena was a CIRM Bridges Master’s student in the Plath Lab 2015-2016 and is went on to obtain her Ph.D. student at UCLA in the MBI program.

Victoria was an undergraduate student in the Plath Lab majoring in Biochemistry. She worked with Anna Sahakyan.

Giancarlo was a bioinformatics graduate student in the Plath Lab, co-mentored with Dr. Jason Ernst. He defended his PhD in 2015 and next became a postdoctoral fellow in the Genome Sciences Department, University of Washington, in the Noble Lab.

Vincent was a postdoctoral fellow in the Plath Lab until 2015. He moved on to a position as Assistant Professor at the University of Leuven in Belgium.

Jacques was a master’s student in the Plath lab until 2015. He returned to Europe after for his PhD at the University of Cambridge.

Jess worked as a high school student (Milken Community High School, Los Angeles) in our lab between 2012-2015. He was supervised by Sanjeet Patel.

Bernadett was a postdoctoral scholar in the Plath Lab until 2015. She moved on to become an Assistant professor at the University of Florida Gainesville.

Molly was an undergraduate in the Plath Lab until 2015. She moved on to get her PhD at Stanford University.

Walter was an undergraduate in the Plath Lab until 2015 and worked with Amy Pandya-Jones. He moved on for his PhD at UCSF.

Sanjeet joined the Plath lab for his PhD as an MD and completed his PhD in 2014. He continued with his medical training after leaving the lab.

Nadia completed her graduate studies in the Plath lab in 2013 and moved on to work for DeciBio, a market research and strategy consulting firm in Los Angeles.

Matthew was a graduate student in the lab. He defended his PhD in 2013 and moved on for a postdoc at the University of California, San Diego, in the Murre Lab. He now works at Fate Therapeutics.

Ritchie completed his graduate studies in the Plath lab in 2013, he then moved on to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, becoming a postdoc at the in Clive Svendsen’s lab. Later he became Assistant Professor at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Anu was a CIRM Bridges master’s student in the Plath lab from 2012-2013 and is Core Director at the UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center.

Jan was a medical student at UCLA and was working with Sanjeet Patel between 2012-2013.

Mark was a postdoc in the Plath lab from 2007-2012. He now is Director Quantitative Biology and Data Sciences, Capsida.

Alissa was a MD/PhD student in the Plath lab and completed her graduate studies in the lab in 2012; after she continued her medical training at UCLA. She now is Executive Medical Director, CRISPR Therapeutics.

Ryan was a MD/PhD student in the Plath lab and completed his graduate studies in 2012, He next finished his medical training at UCLA as part of the MSTP training, and now is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology Keck School of Medicine USC.

Elysse worked as undergraduate student in our lab (2011-2012), on a project with Alissa Minkovsky.

Shahrad was an undergraduate student working in the lab from 2009-2011 working with Mark Chin. He moved on to medical school at Tufts Medical School in Boston.

Edward was an undergraduate student (2007-2008) and later a technician (2010-2011) in the lab. He move on to Medical School.

Jake, a UC Berkely undergraduate student, was on a summer internship with us in 2008.

Rupa was a postdoc in the Plath lab from 2006-2011. She has moved on to become an Assistant Professor at the University of Madison, Wisconsin.

Jason was a graduate student in the lab and left in 2011. He went on for a postdoc in the laboratory of Lorenz Studer at the Memorial Sloan Cancer Center in NYC and now is faculty at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.

Shahrzad was an undergraduate student in the lab in 2008.

Jason was an undergraduate student in the lab in 2008 working on X-inactivation.

Lucy was an undergraduate student in the lab 2008-2009.

Lucy was an undergraduate student in the lab 2009-2010 working on X-inactivation.

Mike completed his graduate studies in the lab in 2010, co-mentored with Dr. Qing Zhou, next was a Research Associate in Damien Chaussabel’s lab at the Benaroya Research Institute in Seattle, and now is Senior Principal Scientist, Bristol Myers Squibb.

Miguel from the Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas, Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, Madrid, was on a sabbatical with us in 2008.

Sacha worked as a high school student (Marlborough High School, Los Angeles) in our lab between 2008-2010. She was supervised by Bernadett Papp.

Ken was an undergraduate student in the lab from 2007 to 2009 and worked on iPSC reprogramming.

Steven was an undergraduate student in the lab 2006-2007.

Ines was a visiting fellow from the Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas, Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, in 2007,

Celine joined the Plath lab in 2007 and has moved on to become a Principal Scientist at Hoffmann La Roche in Switzerland.