Mitchell Lab Beach Party: Summer 2025

Mitchell Lab: Fall 2022

Lab Members

MICHAEL MITCHELL PhD
Principal Investigator
Bioengineering

BRIYANNA HYMMS
Senior Research Coordinator, Lab Administrator
Bioengineering

JINJIN WANG PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Bioengineering

ADELE RICCIARDI MD PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Bioengineering

YE ZENG PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Bioengineering

MARSHALL PADILLA PhD
NIH Postdoctoral Fellow
Bioengineering

DONGYOON KIM PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Bioengineering

JUNCHAO XU PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Bioengineering

QIANGQIANG SHI PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Bioengineering

MELGIOUS ANG PhD
A*STAR Postdoctoral Fellow
Bioengineering

SOYEON YOO PhD
Sejong Science Postdoctoral Fellow
Bioengineering

ZHANGYI LUO PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Bioengineering

JINGCHENG ZHU PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Bioengineering

ROHAN PALANKI PhD
NIH Postdoctoral Fellow
Bioengineering

ALEXANDRE POIRIER PhD
CIHR Postdoctoral Fellow
Bioengineering

NORMAN DRZENIEK MD PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Bioengineering

ANN METZLOFF
PhD Student, NSF Fellow
Bioengineering

HANNAH SAFFORD
PhD Student, NSF Fellow
Bioengineering

HANNAH GEISLER
PhD Student, NSF Fellow
Bioengineering

AJAY THATTE
PhD Student, NSF Fellow
Bioengineering

HANNAH YAMAGATA
PhD Student, NSF Fellow
Bioengineering

EMILY HAN
PhD Student, NSF Fellow
Bioengineering

AMANDA MURRAY
PhD Student, NSF Fellow
Bioengineering

ANDREW HANNA
PhD Student, NSF Fellow
Bioengineering

ANUSHKA AGRAWAL
PhD Student, NSF Fellow
Bioengineering

ORI CHALOM
PhD Student
Bioengineering

EMILY FITZGERALD
PhD Student, John Grist Brainerd Fellow
Bioengineering

ELAINE TONG
PhD Student, NSF Fellow
Bioengineering

AUDREY ZHU
PhD Student, NSF Fellow
Bioengineering

KAREN JIN
PhD Student, NSF Fellow
Bioengineering

ZOE HSIEH
PhD Student, NSF Fellow
Bioengineering

SOJEONG MOON
PhD Student, HY-KIST Fellow
Bioengineering

KOREY PATWARI
Graduate Student
Bioengineering

PARSA PARIROKH
Graduate Student
Bioengineering

BEN NACHOD
Undergraduate Student, Rachleff Scholar
Bioengineering

SOPHIA TANG
Undergraduate Student, PURM Fellow
Computer Science

LIZA MURPHY
Undergraduate Student, PURM Fellow
Bioengineering

CHLOE YAN
Undergraduate Student, PURM Fellow
Bioengineering

CHRISTINA ZHAO
Undergraduate Student, TRIP Fellow
Biochemistry

RICK QIAN
Undergraduate Student, Vagelos LSM Fellow
Biochemistry
Alumni

KELSEY SWINGLE PhD
PhD Student, NSF Fellow
Now: Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Rice University

LULU XUE PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Now: Associate Professor, Nanjing University

XUEXIANG HAN PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Now: Professor, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology

NINGQIANG GONG PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Now: Professor, University of Science and Technology of China

RACHEL RILEY PhD
NIH Postdoctoral Fellow
Now: Assistant Professor, Rowan University

ALEX HAMILTON PhD
PhD Student, NSF Fellow
Now: Postdoctoral Fellow, Rice University

RUI ZHANG PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Now: CEO, XGen Bio

Il-CHUL YOON PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Now: Postdoctoral Fellow, Percec Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania

JEONGEUN SHIN PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Now: Research Scientist, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology

ZAIN SIDDIQUI PhD
NIH Postdoctoral Fellow
Now: Director of Undergraduate Studies, NJIT

RICARDO WHITAKER PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Bioengineering

JINGYA QIN PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Now: Research Scientist, Spark Therapeutics

PEDRO GUIMARAES PhD
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow
Now: Assistant Professor, Biophysics, UFMG

MINGCHEE TAN PhD
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow
Now: Senior Scientist, GenEdit Inc

CHRIS FIGUEROA-ESPADA PhD
PhD Student, NSF Fellow
Now: Postdoctoral Fellow, Heller Lab, Memorial Sloan Kettering

REBECCA HALEY PhD
PhD Student, NSF Fellow
Now: Senior Scientist, SCRIPT Biosciences

ALVIN MUKALEL PhD
PhD Student, NSF Fellow
Now: Scientist, Enceladus Bio

SARAH SHEPHERD PhD
PhD Student, NSF Fellow
Now: Scientist, Vertex Pharmaceuticals

MARGARET BILLINGSLEY PhD
PhD Student, NIH Fellow
Now: Postdoctoral Fellow, Hammond Lab, MIT

KAMILA BUTOWSKA PhD
Visiting PhD Student
Now: Postdoctoral Fellow, Dowdy Lab, UCSD

JULIA BAENA PAZ
Visiting PhD Student
Now: PhD Student, University of Santiago de Compostela

ELISA BATTISTINI
Visiting PhD Student
Now: PhD Student, University of Santiago de Compostela

SOFIA DIAS
PhD Student, Fulbright Fellow
Now: PhD Student, University of Porto

RAKAN EL-MAYTA
Research Technician
Now: PhD Student, Weissman Lab, University of Pennsylvania

SHURAN ZHANG
Graduate Student
Now: PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania

JINGCHENG XU
Graduate Student
Now: PhD Student, Brown University

HANWEN ZHANG
Graduate Student
Now: PhD Student, Northwestern University

XISHA HUANG
Graduate Student
Now: PhD Student, University of Cambridge

ZIJING (HELEN) ZHANG
Graduate Student
Now: Master's Student, University of Pennsylvania

KAITLIN MRKSICH
Undergraduate Student, PURM Fellow
Now: MD PhD Student, Harvard-MIT

JACQUELINE LI
Undergraduate Student, PURM Fellow
Now: PhD Student, Harvard-MIT HST

RYANN JOSEPH
Undergraduate Student, PURM Fellow
Now: PhD Student, Harvard University

CECILIA SHULER
Undergraduate Student
Now: MD Student, Emory Medical School

RACHEL OU
Undergraduate Student, PURM Fellow
Now: Undergraduate Student, University of Pennsylvania

EMILY KIM
Undergraduate Student, PURM Fellow
Now: PhD Student, University of Texas at Austin

SRIDATTA TEERDHALA
Undergraduate Student
Now: MD Student, Harvard Medical School

ADITI GHALSASI
Undergraduate Student, PURM Fellow
Bioengineering

SAVAN PATEL
Undergraduate Student
Now: PhD Student, Harvard-MIT HST

ELLA ATSAVAPRANEE
Undergraduate Student, Littlejohn Fellow
Now: Fulbright Fellow, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

ALEX HAMILTON
NSF LRSM REU Student
Now: PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania

ROMAN SPEKTOR PhD
Research Scientist

JULIA YAN
Undergraduate Student, Blair Fellow
Now: Undergraduate Student, University of Pennsylvania

YUZHENG (GEORGE) FENG
Undergraduate Student
Now: Undergraduate Student, University of Pennsylvania
CAITLIN FRAZEE
Undergraduate Student
Now: PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania

ANDRES HUBSCH
Undergraduate Student, PURM Fellow

SETH THAYUMANAVAN
Undergraduate Student

JOSHUA ACOSTA
Undergraduate Student
NSF CEMB REU Program
Now: PhD Student, Brown University

AISHA MANSOOR
Undergraduate Student
NSF LRSM REU Program

NICO JOHNSON
Undergraduate Student
NSF LRSM REU Program

SOPHIA CHENG
High School Student
Bioengineering
