People

Lab Members

Marcel Ramos, MPH

Senior Data Scientist

Marcel is a Senior Data Scientist with a Masters in Public Health. He led the development of the MultiAssayExperiment Bioconductor class and is a member of the Bioconductor core team.

Chloe Mirzayi, MPH

Postdoctoral Fellow

Chloe is a postdoctoral fellow in Epidemiology with research interests in bioinformatics and software development, focusing on the field of human microbiome studies.

Andres Wokaty, BA

Systems Developer

Andres is a Python and R programmer, member of the Bioconductor core development team, and has primary responsibility for the nightly build system that builds, tests, and distributes thousands of Bioconductor packages.

Giacomo Antonello, PhD

Postdoctoral Data Scientist

Giacomo’s post-doctoral research is funded by the Aligning Science Across Parkinson (ASAP) network and the Michael J. Fox Foundation. His project aims to gain insights into the extent of the role of the gut microbiome in Parkinson’s disease using multi-omic datasets in humans and mouse models.

Kaelyn Long, MS

Research Scientist

Kaelyn is a Bioinformatician/Curator with the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) network and the Michael J. Fox Foundation, investigating the roles of the microbiome in Parkinson’s disease through data harmonization, curation, and meta-analysis.

Lab Alumni

2023-2025	Samuel Gamboa, PhD	Postdoctoral Fellow
2016-2018	Lucas Schiffer, MPH	Research Assistant
2016-2018	Audrey Renson	MPH Capstone, Research Assistant
2015-2016	Lavanya Kannan, PhD	Postdoctoral Fellow
2014	Ragheed Al-Dulaimi	Research Assistant
2018-2020	Shaimaa El-Safoury, MPH	MPH Capstone, Research Assistant
2017-2020	Ludwig Geistlinger, PhD	Post-doctoral Fellow
2019-2020	Asya Khledorodova, PhD	Research Assistant
2018-2023	Sehyun Oh, PhD	Postdoctoral Fellow
2019-2021	Kelly Eckenrode, PhD	Postdoctoral Fellow
2018-2023	Rimsha Azhar, MS	Research Assistant
2017 - 2023	Fatima Zohra, MPH	Research Assistant

Graduate Student Mentorship

2021	Martha Martin	CUNY SPH	Master’s Fieldwork
2021	Frans Cuevas	CUNY SPH	Master’s Fieldwork
2021	Joyessa Dey	CUNY SPH	Master’s Fieldwork
2021	Samara Khan	CUNY SPH	Master’s Fieldwork
2021	Kweku Amoo	CUNY SPH	Master’s Fieldwork
2021	Clare Grieve	CUNY SPH	Master’s Fieldwork/Thesis
2021	Tangirul Islam	CUNY SPH	Master’s Fieldwork
2020	Yu Wang	NYU	Research Assistant
2020	Philippe Michael Lutete	CUNY SPH	Master’s Fieldwork
2020	Victoria Goulbourne	CUNY SPH	Master’s Fieldwork
2020	Zyaijah Bailey	CUNY SPH	Master’s Fieldwork
2020	William Lam	CUNY SPH	Master’s Fieldwork/Thesis
2020	Mst Afroza Parvin	CUNY SPH	Master’s Fieldwork
2020	Cynthia Anderson	CUNY SPH	Master’s Fieldwork
2020	Lucille Mellor	CUNY SPH	Master’s Fieldwork
2019-20	Utsav Patel	CUNY SPH	Master’s Fieldwork/Thesis
2019-present	Chloe Mirzayi	CUNY SPH	PhD Sponsor
2018-19	Fatima Zohra	CUNY SPH	Master’s Fieldwork/Thesis
2018-19	Marianthi Thomatos	CUNY SPH	Master’s Fieldwork/Thesis
2018-19	Kelly Jack	CUNY SPH	Master’s Fieldwork/Thesis
2018-19	Andy Samedy	CUNY SPH	Master’s Fieldwork/Thesis
2018-19	Phyu Han	CUNY SPH	Master’s Fieldwork
2017-18	Nidhi Saini	CUNY SPH	Master’s Fieldwork
2017-18	Jaya Amatya	CUNY SPH	Master’s Fieldwork
2017	Jochen Raimann	CUNY SPH	Master’s Fieldwork/Thesis
2017	Audrey Renson	CUNY SPH	Master’s Fieldwork/Thesis
2016 - 2018	Carmen Rodriguez Cabrera	CUNY SPH	Master’s Fieldwork/Thesis, Research Assistant
2015 - 2016	Peter Chernek	Hunter College	Master’s Fieldwork/Thesis
2015 - 2016	Jamie Wood	Hunter College	Master’s Fieldwork/Thesis
2015 - 2016	Tiffany Chan	Hunter College	Master’s Fieldwork/Thesis
2014 - 2015	Jasmine Nicodemus Genovese	Hunter College	Master’s Fieldwork/Thesis
2014	Michelle Glaser	Hunter College	Independent Study
2014 - present	Anna Stachel	CUNY SPH	Doctoral Sponsor
2014	Angela Laurio	Hunter College	Doctoral Dissertation Reader
2014	Finn Schubert	Hunter College	Independent Study
2014	Jesica Rodriguez-Lopez	Hunter College	Independent Study
2014 - 2015	Shirley Yang	Hunter College	Predictive Modeling Club
2014 - 2015	Finn Schubert	Hunter College	Predictive Modeling Club
2014	Lindsay Brook	Hunter College	Predictive Modeling Club
2014	Henry Wang	Hunter College	Predictive Modeling Club
2014 - 2015	Kezhen Fei	Hunter College	Predictive Modeling Club
2014 - 2015	Jennifer Brite	Hunter College	Predictive Modeling Club
2014	Cristina Pollari	Hunter College	Predictive Modeling Club
2014	Cody Boppert	Hunter College	Predictive Modeling Club
2014	Henry Wang	Hunter College	Predictive Modeling Club
2014	Siyuan Ma	Harvard University	Research Mentorship
2014 - 2015	Yuqing Zhang	Boston University	Validation of Genomic Classifiers
2014 - 2014	Misato Gbedemah	CUNY SPH	HIV Care Coordination Engagement Study
2014 - 2014	Barry Ma	CUNY SPH	Curation of Breast Cancer Data
2013	Taylor Friedman	Dana Farber Cancer Institute	Research Mentorship
2013 - 2015	Jasmine Abdelnabi	CUNY SPH	HGNChelper R Package
2012 - 2013	Craig Bielski	Harvard University	Master’s Thesis Reader
2012 - 2013	Princy Parsana	Harvard University	Research Mentorship
2012 - 2013	Christoph Bernau	University of München	Research Mentorship
2011 - 2012	Ben Ganzfried	Harvard University	Research Mentorship
2010 - 2013	Yo Sup Moon	Harvard University	Research Mentorship

Undergraduate Interns

2017	Abzal Bacchus	New York City College of Technology	Bioinformatics Student Intern
2015 - 2016	Faizan Malik	New York City College of Technology	Bioinformatics Student Intern
2015 - 2017	Rimsha Azhar	New York City College of Technology	Bioinformatics Student Intern
2015	Benjamin Joseph	New York City College of Technology	Bioinformatics Student Intern
2015	Ahou Eby	New York City College of Technology	Bioinformatics Student Intern
2015	Stephie Louis	New York City College of Technology	Bioinformatics Student Intern

High School Interns

2020 -	Jonathan Ye	Poolesville High School	Bioinformatics Student Intern
2015 - 2016	David Yaffe	Millburn High School	Bioinformatics Student Intern