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ANNALISE PAABY
Assistant Professor

Office: 3011 EBB
Office: (404) 385-4588
Lab: 2108 EBB
Lab: (404) 385-5118
email

After studying ecology as a biology major at Swarthmore College, I learned fly pushing as a technician for Steve DiNardo and then discovered evolutionary genetics as a tech for Paul Schmidt. I joined Paul’s lab as a graduate student and earned my PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009. In 2015 I completed my postdoctoral training with Matt Rockman at New York University and began my appointment at Georgia Tech.

Pronunciation: "anna-lisa poe-bee"

SAMIKSHA KAUL
PhD student in Biology

Office: 2205 EBB
Lab: 2108 EBB
Lab: (404) 385-5118
email

Samiksha became interested in evolution and quantitative genetics while working as an undergrad in Ian Dworkin's lab at McMaster University. After graduating with honors and a degree in molecular biology and genetics in 2016, she joined the Paaby lab and made the jump from flies to worms. She is investigating the functional and evolutionary consequences of variation in the early embryo.

FRANCISCO VALENCIA
Technician

Lab: 2108 EBB
Lab: (404) 385-5118
email

Francisco earned his bachelor of science and licentiate in biochemistry and microbiology from Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, where he graduated cum laude. He worked for eight years in industry in Guatemala, implementing and then providing consulting expertise for microbiology and molecular biology techniques in agricultural applications. He is now characterizing phenotypic and genetic variation in wild C. elegans.

LING WANG
PhD student in Biology

Office: 2205 EBB
Lab: 2108 EBB
Lab: (404) 385-5118
email

Ling received her B.S. from Southwest Jiao Tong University and Georgia State University, then her M.S. in Biology from GSU, working with Casonya Johnson on defining molecular signatures of C. elegans glia using RNA-seq. In the Paaby lab, she is collaborating with the Heitsch group in Mathematics to characterize the role of RNA secondary structure in trait expression and evolution.

AVERY DAVIS BELL
NSF Postdoctoral fellow

Office: 2205 EBB
Lab: 2108 EBB
Lab: (404) 385-5118
email

Avery began genetics research during her undergraduate training. After earning her B.A. in biology from Swarthmore College in 2012, she completed her PhD with Steve McCarroll at Harvard Medical School. Her graduate research focused on understanding genetic diversity in human sperm via the development and implementation of a single-sperm genome sequencing technology. She is now applying her computational genetics expertise to the allelic variation in C. elegans populations.

Previous lab members

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CORINNE SIMONTI
Visiting scientist

2019 - 2022

Associate Editor, Science

EMILY HANG
Undergrad

2020 - 2022

MS candidate in Bioinformatics, Georgia Tech

HAN TING CHOU
Research scientist

2016 - 2021

Enjoying music

TOMI SIYANBADE
Visiting undergrad

Fall 2020

Undergraduate, Harvard

J.C. ALEXANDER
Technician

2019 - 2020

PhD student in microbiology, University of Washington

KATHERINE SILLIMAN
Visting postdoc

Summer 2019

Assistant Marine Scientist, South Carolina Dept. of Natural Resources

JOANNA BAKER
High schooler

Summer 2019

Undergraduate, Stanford

FELICITAS SHEN
High schooler

Summer 2019

High school student

STEPHEN KLUSZA
Bioinformatics MS student

2018 - 2019

Assistant Professor of Biology, Clayton State University

DIPTODIP DEB
Undergrad

2015 - 2018

Computer scientist, Janelia

RIA JOSHI
Undergrad

2017 - 2018

Biology major, Georgia Tech

KAI TONG
Rotation PhD student

2018

PhD student in Will Ratcliff's lab, Georgia Tech

NICK TESTA
Postdoc

2016 - 2017

Data scientist, Highmark Inc.

LIJIANG LONG
Rotation PhD student

2016

Data scientist, The Home Depot

DEBORAH POSTMA
Bee-INSPIRED program

2016

MS candidate in City/Regional Planning & Civil Engineering, Georgia Tech

ERICK WHITE
Technician

2015 - 2016

PhD student in biology, Oregon State University

SAMIHA CHOWDHURY
Undergrad

2015 - 2016

Technical consultant, NetSuite