James Wang
Graduate Student
James is a chemical engineer by training (UCLA, Caltech) studying the physiology and diversity of microbial chemoautotrophs.
Sophia Adami-Sampson
Research Associate
Sophia is an environmental scientist (Bowdoin) interested microbial ecology. She helps run the lab and is currently working on chemoautotrophy with James.
Eden Elkayam
Research Associate
Eden studied neuroscience and computer science (Yeshiva University). She helps run the lab and is developing our computational and experimental genomics workflows.
Brenda Wu
Volunteer
Brenda is a chemist by training (Caltech) volunteering on a computational project in the lab while she applies to graduate school.
Collaborators and Friends
Akshit Goyal, TATA Bangalore
Josh Goldford, Dayhoff Labs
Karna Gowda, Ohio State
Sarah Kostinski, NYU
Yinon Bar-On, WIS
Alums
Pippa Richter
Caltech Schmidt Software Fellow, 2023-2025;
Current: NDSEG fellow, Berkeley PMB Graduate Program
Albert Li
Chemers Neustein SURF Summer Student, 2025;
Current: UCSB Senior in Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology