Lab Members
Marcel Ramos, MPH
Research Associate
Marcel is a Research Associate with a Masters in Public Health. He led the development of the MultiAssayExperiment Bioconductor class and is a member of the Bioconductor core team.
Sehyun Oh, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Oh completed a PhD in molecular biology from the University of Minnesota. She develops systems for the analysis of massive genomic and transcriptomic data in the Cloud.
Kelly Eckenrode, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Kelly is a Postdoctoral Fellow at ISPH. She received her PhD in Molecular Biology from CUNY Graduate Center. She is interested in understanding more about the physiology of microbial communities by using multiomic data.
Chloe Mirzayi, MPH
Doctoral Student
Chloe is a doctoral student in Epidemiology with research interests in bioinformatics and software development, focusing on the field of human microbiome studies.
Rimsha Azhar, MS
Research Assistant
Rimsha first joined the lab as an undergraduate intern from the New York City College of Technology, and now works as a research assistant on curation and standardization projects.
Fatima Zohra, MPH
Research Assistant
Fatima became a research assistant after completing an MPH in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at CUNY SPH, with fieldwork and Capstone work in the Waldron lab. Fatima works on the curation of microbiome studies.
Lab Alumni
| 2015-2018 | Lucas Schiffer, MPH | Research Associate | |
| 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 |
Graduate Student Mentorship
| 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 |