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