Welcome to the CELLestials!

  • Pius Amartey

    Undergraduate researcher
    Sophomore, Engineering
    Cornell College of Engineering



    Bio
  • Siddharth Gilra

    Undergraduate researcher
    Sophomore, Biological Sciences
    Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences


    Bio
  • Ananya Kohli, BS

    Graduate researcher
    Field: Genetics, Genomics and Development
    (co-advised with Dr. Andrew Grimson)

    B.S. (Genetics, Cell and Developmental Biology), Arizona State University (ASU)

    Bio
  • Keerti Koya

    High-school researcher
    Mission San Jose High School




    Bio
  • Vaishnavi Kunapuli

    Undergraduate researcher
    Freshman, Biological Sciences
    Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

    Bio
  • Sheng Mao

    Undergraduate researcher

    Junior, Westlake University, China

    Junior, Biometry and Statistics, Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

    Bio
  • Mary Shang

    Summer undergraduate researcher
    Senior, Biology (Major), Computer science (Minor)
    Washington University at St. Louis (WUSTL)



    Bio
  • Yuxin Shi, BS

    Staff researcher

    B.S. (Electrical Engineering)
    East China (Dong Hua) University, P. R. China.
    Associate Degree (Computer Information Systems) with highest honors
    Tompkins Cortland Community College, NY

    Bio
  • Ayshwarya Subramanian, PhD

    Assistant Professor
    Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics,
    Cornell College of Arts and Sciences.


    Bio
  • Taran Tummala

    Undergraduate researcher
    Sophomore, Biology and Society
    Cornell College of Arts and Sciences




    Bio
  • Valentina Zhang

    High-school researcher
    Phillips Exeter Academy

    Bio
  • Jingyu (Warren) Xu

    Undergraduate researcher
    Junior, Biological sciences and computer science
    College of Arts and Sciences

    Bio

Previous mentees and alumni

Rotation students at Cornell

  • Alexandra Hoff, BS (Chemistry), Western Washington University.
    Role: Rotation Student, Genetics, Genomics and Development (Field), Spring 2024.
    Current position: Graduate researcher with Dr. Haiyuan Yu.

  • Melissa Stephanie Mychalczuk, BS (Molecular Biology), University of Pittsburgh.
    Role: Rotation Student, Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology (Field), Spring 2024.
    Current position: Graduate researcher with Dr. Mariana Wolfner.

  • Adil Ibrahim Mohammed, BTech hons (Chemical Engineering), Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad.
    Role: Rotation Student, Biomedical Engineering (Field), Fall 2023.
    Current position: Rotating.

Associate Computational Biologists

  • Yufan Wu, MS (Health Data Science), Harvard University.
    Role: Associate Computational Biologist, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2021-2024.
    Current position: Incoming PhD student at MD Anderson Cancer Center.

  • Carlos Arevalo, BS (Major: Molecular, cell and developmental biology, Minor: Bioinformatics), University of California, Santa Cruz.
    Role: Associate Computational Biologist, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2021-2023.
    Associated Work: Subramanian A, Vernon KA, Zhou Y, Marshall JL, Alimova M, Arevalo C, et al. Protective role for kidney TREM2high macrophages in obesity- and diabetes-induced kidney injury. Cell Rep. 2024 May 21;43(6):114253. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.114253. PMID: 38781074.
    Current position: Bioinformatician at UCSC.

  • Conner Lambden, BS (Molecular and Cell Biology and Computer Science), University of California, Berkeley.
    Role: Associate Computational Biologist, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2020-2021.
    Associated Work: Tang R, Acharya N, Subramanian A, Purohit V, Tabaka M, Hou Y, He D, Dixon KO, Lambden C, et al. Tim-3 adapter protein Bat3 acts as an endogenous regulator of tolerogenic dendritic cell function. Sci Immunol. 2022 Mar 11;7(69):eabm0631. doi: 10.1126/sciimmunol.abm0631. PMID: 35275752.
    Current position: Founder, Helium Trades.

Masters students

  • Neha Gupta, MS (Bioinformatics), Boston University.
    Role: Summer research intern and Fall coop student, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2021.
    Current position: PhD student at Georgia State University.

  • Brad Fortunato, MS (Bioinformatics), Boston University.
    Role: Summer research intern, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2021.
    Current position: Associate Computational Biologist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Undergraduate students

  • Samuel Nitz, BS (Biology and Computer Science), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
    Role: MIT UROP, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2019-2020.
    Current position: PhD student at Tri-I (Rockefeller-Weill Cornell-Sloan Kettering) PhD program.

  • Alexander Young, BS (Mathematics and Computer Science), Brown University.
    Role: Undergraduate Researcher, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2021-2023.
    Current position: Technical Staff at Inceptive, Palo Alto, CA.

  • Adriana Payen-Medina, BS (Chemical Engineering), University of Utah.
    Role: Broad Summer Research Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Summer 2022.
    Current position: PhD student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

  • Titas Banerjee, BS (Computer Science), Carnegie Mellon University;MD, Stony Brook University.
    Role: Undergraduate Researcher, Carnegie Mellon University, 2011
    Current position: Clinical Assistant Professor, Oregon Health & Science University.

High-school students

  • Raj Saha, High-school researcher, The Roxbury Latin School.
    Role: High-School Researcher, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2022-2023.
    Current position: High-school senior, The Roxbury Latin School.

  • Ishaan Sareen, High-school researcher, American School of London.
    Role: Research Science Institute (RSI) scholar, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2023.
    Current position: Incoming freshman at University of Chicago.

  • Tanmay Gupta, High-school researcher, Phillips Exeter Academy.
    Role: High-School Researcher, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2022.
    Current position: Undergraduate at Columbia University (Computer Science).

  • Achyutha Rajaram, High-school researcher, Phillips Exeter Academy.
    Role: High-School Researcher, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2022.
    Current position: Incoming freshman at MIT (Computer Science).

  • Anish Mudide, High-school researcher, Phillips Exeter Academy.
    Role: High-School Researcher, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2020-2023.
    Associated Work: Wilder AP, Supple MA, Subramanian A, Mudide A, et al. The contribution of historical processes to contemporary extinction risk in placental mammals. Science. 2023 Apr 28;380(6643):eabn5856. doi: 10.1126/science.abn5856. PMID: 37104572.
    Current position: Undergraduate at MIT (Computer Science).

  • Varun Suraj, High-school researcher, Lexington High School.
    Role: High-School Researcher, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2021-2022.
    Current position: Undergraduate at Harvard University.

  • Mikhail Alperovich, High-school researcher, Lexington High School.
    Role: High-School Researcher, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2019-2021.
    Associated Work: Subramanian A, Alperovich M, Yang Y, Li B. Biology-inspired data-driven quality control for scientific discovery in single-cell transcriptomics. Genome Biol. 2022 Dec 27;23(1):267. doi: 10.1186/s13059-022-02820-w. PMID: 36575523.
    Current position: Senior Software Engineer (EPAM Systems).