Dr. Rachel Poretsky Heading link
Dr. Rachel Poretsky
Rachel hails from the great urban microbial hotspot of Brooklyn, NY. She obtained a BS in Biology from Brandeis University in 1999 and a PhD in Marine Sciences from the University of Georgia in 2008. She was a postdoc at Caltech in Geology and Planetary Sciences and at Georgia Tech in Environmental Engineering.
Classes taught: Bios 450: Advanced Microbiology; Bios 594: Environmental Microbial Genomics; Bios 531: Introduction to Ecology and Evolution I; CS 111 Green AKA CS/BIOS 112: Introduction to Programming for Biology
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Adam Horton
Adam Horton, MS
Lab Manager
Dolores
Dolores Sanchez
Laboratory Manager
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Chi-Yu
Chi-Yu Lin
Laboratory Scientist
Jarju
Jarju Modou
Laboratory Technician
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Eric
Erik Andersson, MS
PhD student
Christopher
Christopher Owen
PhD student
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Jamal
Jamal Sheriff
PhD student
Mikey
Mikey Watts
PhD student
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Michael
Michael Secreto
Lab Assistant
Mayumi
Mayumi Pascual
Post-Bac Fellow
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Graduate Students
Leah Kelly, MS 2023
Alex Soltys, Post-Bac 20222 (currently in medical school)
Adit Chaudhary, PhD 2020 (currently Postdoc at Scripps)
Jarad Hampton-Marcell, PhD 2020, Postdoc 2021 (currently faculty at UIC)
Emily Dodd, MS 2019
Katherine Barkus, MS 2015
Postdocs and staff
Melissa Pierce (2016-2020)
Binh Chu (2015-2017)
Anirban Ray
Undergraduate researchers
Eva Durance
Jason Alanis (UIC4)
Matthew Carroll
Claudia Paz Soto
Haley Calderon
Ibrahim Mohsen
Abdullah Saleh
Charity Robinson (SROP)
Prisila Alvarez (L@S GANAS)
Haidy Delgado (L@S GANAS)
Fabian Trejo (SROP)
Dolores Sanchez (B2B, L@S GANAS)
Savannah Stiglic
Matthew Ploger
Maria Pappas
Kehinde Pedro (SROP student)
Rachel Macam (LAS Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Mayowa Balogun (Bridges to Baccalaureate 2016)
Dorothy Wright (Bridges to Baccalaureate 2015-2016)
Marc Ciesielski
Hillary Pham (Honors College Capstone 2015)
Jennifer Arista (Honors College Capstone 2015)
Juana Villagomez (Bridges to Baccalaureate 2014-15)
Neil Mohindra (Honors College Capstone 2014)
Markeia Scruggs
Parth Patel (Honors College Capstone 2014)
Kristina Behnke (Honors College Capstone 2014)