Staff
Program Management & Operations
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Maks Luthra, MPH
Program Management Specialist and Business Manager
maluthra@iu.edu
317-278-9186
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Katie Watson
Program Management Specialist
cawatso@iu.edu
Lab Personnel
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Patrick McGuire, MS
Research Analyst
Primary role: Single Cell Analysis & Spatial Transcriptomics
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Jie Huang
Laboratory Research Specialist
Primary Role: Specialty Library Preparation & Sequencing
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Hui Ding, MS
Research Analyst
Primary role: Quality Control, DNA-seq Library Preparation
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Heqiao Dai
Research Analyst
Primary role: RNA-seq Library Preparation
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Xiaona Chu, MS
Research Analyst
Primary Role: Specialty Library Preparation
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Samuel Elliott, MS
Research Analyst
Primary role: RNA-seq Library Preparation
Bioinformatic Analysts
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Cihat Erdogan, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow in Medical & Molecular Genetics
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Farzaneh Behzadnia, MS, Pharma D
Bioinformatics Analyst
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Jia Ji
Bioinformatics Analyst