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Pachter Lab

Principal Investigator
Lior Pachter
Lab Manager
Charlene Kim
Graduate students
Maria Carilli
Vera Beilinson (co-advised by Margaret McFall-Ngai*)
Catherine Felce
Kayla Jackson
Conrad Oakes
Joseph Rich
Nikhila Swarna
Visitors
Thorhallur Helgason (Summer 2022)
Lenka Matejovicova (Spring 2016)
Páll Melsted (Spring 2015, Fall 2019)
Julie Mitchell (Spring 2010)
Satyan Devadoss (2009-2010)
Anna Kedzierska (March-August 2010)
Rahul Satija (February-March 2009)
Cole Trapnell (2008-2010)
Graduated students (also in the Mathematics Genealogy Project)
Rebekah Loving, Ph.D. (2025) Methods for Long Read RNA-seq Transcriptomics
Meichen Fang, Ph.D. (2025) A biophysical approach to normalization and trajectory inference in single-cell RNA sequencing data analysis
Delaney Sullivan, Ph.D. (2025) Software, tools, and methods development for single-cell transcriptomics (co-advised by Mitchell Guttman).
Anne Yeokyoung Kil, Ph.D. (2025) Engineeringand Computational Tools for Salivary Biomedicine.
Tara Chari, Ph.D. (2024) Perturbing the Genome: From Bench to Biophysics.
Laura Luebbert, Ph.D. (2024) Complexity of Transcriptomic Data Analysis and Implications for Biological Discovery.
Taleen Dilanyan, Ph.D. (2023) Open-Source Custom Beads for Single-Cell Transcriptomics.
Gennady Gorin, Ph.D. (2023) Stochastic Foundations for Single-Cell RNA Sequencing.
Lambda Moses, Ph.D. (2023) Computational Foundations for Spatial Transcriptomics.
Ángel Merchán Gálvez, Ph.D. (2023) Studies of mRNA Expression and Degradation.
Kristján Eldjarn Hjörleifsson, Ph.D. (2022) Graph modeling for genomics and epidemiology.
Sina Booeshaghi, Ph.D. (2022) Foundations and Applications of Single-Cell RNA Sequencing.
Lynn Yi, Ph.D. (2019) Statistical Methods for Gene Differential Expression Analysis of RNA-Sequencing.
Jase Gehring, Ph.D. (2018) Expanding Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing in Scale and Dimension.
Akshay Tambe, Ph.D. (2017) Developing experimental and computational tools for sequence-census assays (co-advised by Jennifer Doudna).
Robert Tunney, Ph.D. (2017) Regression Modeling and Bias Correction of Ribosome Profiling Data (co-advised by Liana Lareau*).
Brielin Brown, Ph.D. (2016) Computational approaches to understanding the genetic architecture of complex traits.
Lorian Schaeffer, Ph.D. (2016) Pseudoalignment for metagenomic and metatranscriptomic read assignment.
Isaac Joseph, Ph.D. (2016) Sequencing-based computational methods for identifying impactful genomic alterations in cancers.
Shannon Hateley, Ph.D. (2016) Detection, Quantification, and Characterization of Diverse RNA Transcript Isoforms (co-advised by Michael Eisen).
Harold Pimentel, Ph.D. (2016) Fast and accurate quantification and differential analysis of transcriptomes.
Natth Bejraburnin, Ph.D. (2015) A Study on Correlations between Genes, Functions and Evolutions.
Atif Rahman, Ph.D. (2015) Statistical Models for Genome Assembly and Analysis.
Emily Berger, Ph.D. (2015) Probabilistic Methods for Single Individual Haplotype Reconstruction: HapTree and HapTree-X.
Nicolas Bray, Ph.D. (2014) Methods for Measurement and Interpretation of Gene Expression.
Adam Roberts, Ph.D. (2013) Ambiguous fragment assignment for high-throughput sequencing experiments.
Meromit Singer, Ph.D. (2012) Statistical algorithms in the study of mammalian DNA methylation.
Aaron Kleinman, Ph.D. (2012) Combinatorial phylogenetics of reconstruction algorithms.
Cole Trapnell, Ph.D. (2010) Transcript Assembly And Abundance Estimation with High-throughput RNA-sequencing (co-advised by Steven Salzberg).
Anne J. Shiu, Ph.D. (2010) Algebraic methods for biochemical reaction network theory (co-advised by Bernd Sturmfels*).
Peter M. Huggins, Ph.D. (2008) Polytopes in Computational Biology (co-advised by Bernd Sturmfels).
Radu H. Mihaescu, Ph.D. (2008) Distance Methods for Phylogeny Reconstruction (co-advised by Satish Rao).
Anat Caspi, Ph.D. (2007) Comparative Genomics of Repeat Elements.
Ariel S. Schwartz, Ph.D. (2007) Posterior Decoding Methods for Optimization and Accuracy Control of Multiple Alignments.
Colin N. Dewey, Ph.D. (2006) Whole-Genome Alignments and Polytopes for Comparative Genomics.
Sourav Chatterji, Ph.D. (2006) Computational Analyses of Eukaryotic Gene Evolution.
Kevin Chen, Ph.D. (2005) Three Variations on the Theme of Comparative Genomics: Metagenomics, Mitochondrial Gene Rearrangements and MicroRNAs (co-advised by Satish Rao).
Dan Levy, Ph.D. (2005), Applications of Graph Theory to Chromosome Rearrangements and Phylogenetics (co-advised by Rainer Sachs)
Eric Kuo, Ph.D. (2005), Combinatorics of Viterbi Sequences.

* primary co-advisor
Former postdocs
Lambda Moses (2024)
Laura Luebbert (2024)
Gennady Gorin (2023)
Sina Booeshaghi (2023)
Jase Gehring (2020)
Valentine Svensson (2020)
Vasilis Ntranos (2019)
Shannon McCurdy (2017)
Bo Li (2017)
Sharon Aviran (2013)
Eliana Hechter (2013)
Mathilde Paris (2013)
Valerie Hower (2011)
Megan Owen (2011)
Alexander Schönhuth (2010)
Robert Bradley (2009)
Radu H. Mihaescu (2009)
Trevor Bruen (2009)
Niko Beerenwinkel (2007)
Sagi Snir (2006)
Mathias Drton (2005)
Ruriko Yoshida (2004)
Luis David Garcia-Puente (2004)
Von Bing Yap (2003)
Marina Axelson-Fisk (2002)