PI
Trevor Siggers
Associate Professor, Biology
Email: tsiggers@bu.edu
Office: LSEB 306
Phone: 617-358-7118
PhD: Columbia University (2006)
PhD Students
Pamela Garcia Lopez
Graduate Student, Cell & Molecular (CM) PhD Program
Email: pamelagl@bu.edu
BS: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Maryam Dashtiahangar
Graduate Student, MCBB PhD Program
Email: maryamda@bu.edu
BS: Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
Eric Levine
Graduate Student, Cell & Molecular (CM) PhD Program
Email: edlevine@bu.edu
BS: U. Massachusetts, Amherst
Md Shahadat Hossain
Graduate Student, Bioinformatics PhD Program
Email: shahadat@bu.edu
BS: Dhakar, Bangladesh
Master’s (MS) Students
Undergraduate Researchers
Andre Fecteau 2024-present ajf25@bu.edu
Kyleigh Steward 2026 – present kstew32@bu.edu
Yicheng Li 2026 – present miaomiao@bu.edu
High-school Researchers
Talas Jaeger 2026 – present talasj@bu.edu
Lab Alumni
Postdoctoral Fellows
Nima Mohaghegh 2013-2019 nim@bu.edu Current position: Scientist at 4D Molecular Therapeutics (4DMT), San Francisco, CA
PhD Students
Rebecca Miller 2020-2025 (Bioinformatics) rm679@bu.edu Current position:
Melissa Inge 2019 – 2024 (Cell & Molecular) melinge4@gmail.com Current position: BioNTech
Heather Hook 2017-2022 (Cell & Molecular) hhook@bu.edu Current position: Moderna
Dave Bray 2015-2020 (Bioinformatics) bray@bu.edu Current position: Moderna
Kellen Andrilenas 2012-2019 (Cell & Molecular) kandril@bu.edu Current position: New England Biolabs (NEB)
Ashley Penvose 2012-2019 (Cell & Molecular) apenvose@gmail.com Current position: Generation Bio
Jessica Keenan 2012-2019 (Bioinformatics) keenanjess@gmail.com Current position: Generation Bio
MS Students
James Nuhfer 2024-2025 jnuhfer@bu.edu
Lazzat Nurtay 2024-2025 lazzat@bu.edu
Jessie Hsu 2021-2022 jesshsu@bu.edu
Evan Wadden 2020-2021 ewadden@bu.edu
Robert Buckshaw 2019-2020 bucky96@bu.edu
Research Technicians
Brian Barron 2012-2014 brianbarron1@gmail.com Current position: Yale Medical School, Connecticut
Vijendra Ramlall 2016-2017 vijendra@bu.edu Current position: PhD Candidate, Columbia University, NY
Undergraduates
Leilani Hoffmann 2025-2026 leilanih@bu.edu
Sieun “Jennie” Ahn 2026 sieun.ahn@dartmouth.edu
Cristina Barraza 2024 cbarraza@bu.edu
Lamar Abu Ghosh 2024- preset lamara@bu.edu
Ravi Shah 2023-present ravids@bu.edu
Lucia (Lucy) Kisova 2023 lkisova@bu.edu
Vasisht Poosapati 2023-2024 vasisht_poosapati@brown.edu
Ethan Castillo BU 2023 Summer (SURF Program) ethan9733@gmail.com
Emily (Yu) Yang 2021-2022 yangy22@bu.edu
Erwina Yang 2021-2022 erwina@bu.edu
Thierry Edwards 2021-2022 tredward@bu.edu
Trevor Tamura 2021-2022 trevort@bu.edu
Kadesh Daniels 2019-2021 kadeshd@bu.edu Current position: Medical School (U. of Georgia)
Yemi Osayame 2019-2020 yosayame@bu.edu Current position: Biotech. startup
Rose Zhao 2018-2020 rzhao7@bu.edu Current position: Medical School, Boston University
Davis Settipane 2018-2019 davisguy@bu.edu Current position: CRISPR therapeutics
Matthew Arnold 2019-2020
Amanda Chaplin 2017-2018 achapss@bu.edu
Heather Dennett 2017 hdennett@bu.edu
Kailyn Doiron 2015-2017 kdoiron@bu.edu Current position: PhD Candidate, Systems Biology, Harvard University
Anjali Pandey (U. Mass Boston ) 2016-2017 anjali.pandey9@gmail.com Current position: PhD Candidate, Brandeis University
Vijendra Ramlall 2012-2016 vijendra@bu.edu Current position: PhD Candidate, Columbia University, NY
Matthew Caputo 2015-2016 caputmat@bu.edu
David Mueller 2016 muellerd@bu.edu
Ryan Webster 2013-2015 rwebster@bu.edu
Brandon Leung 2014-2015 bdonlng@bu.edu
Nicole Akramoff 2014-2015 akranm@bu.edu
Narui “Willie” Tan 2014-2015 tdnarui@bu.edu
Jesse Kurland 2013-2014 jkurland@bu.edu Current position: PhD Candidate, University of Colorado
Katie Tooley 2013-2014 ktooley@bu.edu Current position: PhD Candidate, Harvard University
Michael Simpson 2013-2014 mdsimpso@bu.edu
Kavin Zhu 2013 kavin@bu.edu
High-school Students
Robbie Mulroy BU Academy 2023 summer
Reid Siggers Summer 2021 reid.msiggers@gmail.com
