Roth Laboratory

The Roth Lab

Frederick "Fritz" Roth	Professor and Chair, Dept of Computational & Systems Biology	fritzpitt.edu	416-946-5130
Amanda Shaheen	Administrative Assistant	ams983pitt.edu	416 586 4800 ext 3292
Warren van Loggerenberg	Research Scientist	WAV14pitt.edu
Kirby Fawcett	Research Technician	KIF38pitt.edu
Vignesh Senguttuvan	Bioinformatician	VIS176pitt.edu
Daniel Tabet	Postdoctoral Fellow	daniel.tabetmail.utoronto.ca
Daniel Zimmerman	Postdoctoral Fellow	dan.zimmermanmail.utoronto.ca
Anna Axakova	Postdoctoral Fellow	anna.axakovamail.utoronto.ca
Radha Subramaniam	Graduate Student	radha.subramaniammail.utoronto.ca
Ali Rasoulzadeh	Graduate Student	alireza.rasoulzadehmail.utoronto.ca
Eva Toko-McCarthy	Master's Student	EVT32pitt.edu
Tian Yi (Cindy) Zhang	Post-baccalaureate Student	CIZ8pitt.edu

Information on positions available in the Roth lab.

Former lab members... where are they now?

Former postdoctoral fellows

Mariana Babor	Senior Manager, Computational Biology	DarwinHealth
Hon Nian (Kenny) Chua	CTO	FeatureByte
Murat Cokol	Director of Computational Biology	Axcella
Rahul Deo	Chief Product Officer	Atman Health
aDNAn Derti	Computational Biology Fellow	Vindhya Data Science
J. Javier Diaz-Mejia	Head of Data Science	Phenomic AI
Hanane Ennajdaoui	Senior Scientist	Sana Biotechnology, Inc.
Debra Goldberg	Director and Chief Executive Officer	Cage-Free Learning
Dae-Kyum Kim	Assistant Professor	McGill University
Oliver King	Assistant Professor	University of Massachusetts Medical School
Yong Lu	Software Engineer	Google
Joe Mellor	Founder and CSO	SeqWell LLC
Gabe Musso	Chief Scientific Officer	BioSymetrics, Inc.
Sedide Ozturk	Senior Director of Corporate Development	Freenome
Evangelia Petsalaki	Group Leader	EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute
Song Sun	Unit Head of High-throughput Sequencing	Sanofi Pasteur
Yo Suzuki	Assistant Professor	J. Craig Venter Institute
Murat Taşan	Principal	AlgoInformatics
Weidong Tian	Professor	Fudan University
Nozomu Yachie	Professor	University of British Columbia and Osaka University

Former staff

University of Toronto

John Beaver	Software Engineering Manager	Amazon Web Services
Gabriel Berriz	Research Associate in Medicine	Brigham and Women's Hospital
Wai Wa (Ray) Chan	Lab Research Project Coordinator	The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
Atina Cote	Senior Research Associate	University of Toronto
Julie Dunham	Director, Product Management & Marketing	Conavi Medical
Frank Gibbons	Director, GI modeling team lead	Takeda
Paul Bansal	Staff Pharmacist	Remedy'sRx
Marinella Gebbia	Senior Research Associate	University of Toronto
Anjali Gopal	Research Scientist, Bioengineering	Anthropic
Nishka Kishore	Scientific Associate	Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Jennifer Knapp	Microbiology Research Coordinator	University of Waterloo
Roujia Li	Bioinformatician	Deep Genomics
Natascha van Lieshout	Bioinformatician	Wageningen University & Research
Maria Nguyen	Research Technician	University of Toronto
Oxana Pogoutse
Ashyad Rayhan	Lab Coordinator	University of Toronto
Miha Skalic	Senior Research Scientist	Boehringer Ingelheim
Marta Verby	Director Of Laboratory Operations	Deep Genomics

Former PhD students

Albi Celaj	AI Lead,Computational Biology	Deep Genomics
Can Cenik	Associate Professor	University of Texas, Austin
Justin Klekota	Deputy Director of Computational Sciences	Sanofi Pasteur
Suzanne Komili	Yogini	SuzanneKomili.com
Kevin Kuang	Senior Manager, Loyalty Strategy & Planning	Loblaws, Inc.
Mikkel Oestergaard	Executuve Director, Health Technology Assessment Statistics	MSD
Dayag Sheykhkarimli	Postdoctoral Fellow	University of British Columbia
Adrine de Souza	Data Analyst	The Hospital for Sick Children
Kevin Wang	Graduate Student	University of Toronto
Jochen Weile	Senior Research Associate	University of Toronto
Sharyl Wong	Sr. Medical Science Director	Genentech
Yingzhou (Joe) Wu	Lead, Generative AI Team	Fable therapeutics
(Sunny) Fan Yang	Professor	Shenzhen University
Lan Zhang	Founding CEO	AssurHealth

Former Master's students

Aditya Chawla	Associate Scientist	OmniaBio
Adam Gravitis	VP Engineering	Upverter
Rong Huang	Senior Data Scientist	Microsoft
Rosanna Jiang	Senior Research Associate	Deep Genomics
Sornnujah Kathirgamanathan	Bioinformatics Support Scientist	Illumina, Inc.
Minjeong Ko	Bioinformatics Engineer	Quest Diagnostics
Siyang Li	Vice President	Vivian Health
Mailoan Panchalingam	MSc Student, Medical Genomics	University of Toronto
Polina Polunina	PhD Student	University of Freiburg
Takafumi Yamaguchi	Senior Bioinformatician	UCLA, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center

Former undergraduate and post-baccalaureate students

Justin Burgener	Bioinformatic Scientist	Adela, Inc.
Dilay Cansever	Scientist	Pattern Biosciences
Carmela Carrero	PhD Student	University of Toronto
Jack Castelli	Graduate Student	U Washington, Seattle
Ziyi Dai	PhD Student	University of Toronto
Sam Douville	Master's in Biotechnology Student	University of Toronto
Tiffany Fong	Regulatory Affairs Specialist	Sanis Inc.
Iosifina Fotiadou	PhD Student	University of Toronto
Giovanni Franklin	Mathematician	Everi Holdings, Inc.
Michelle Gavac	Microbiology Technologist	Trillium Health Partners
Gaurav Gupta	Software Engineer II	Google
Ghazal Haddad	Internal Medicine Resident	McMaster University
Meng Xiao He	Principal Scientist	Genentech
Luke Hunter	Emergency Medicine Physician	Baylor College of Medicine
Julia Kitaygorodsky	Graduate Student	University of Toronto
Justin Komisarof	MD/PhD Student	University of Rochester
Bingruo (Betty) Liu	Graduate Student	Stanford U Bioengineering
Karen Liu	MScAC Student (Data Science)	University of Toronto
Joanna McCulloch	Owner	Mountain Shadow Nursery
Louai Musa	Medical Resident	Family Medicine, Abbotsford, BC
Beste Mutlu	Scientific Editor	Cell Press
Ted Pak	Infectious Diseases Fellow	Mass General Hospital
D'Arcy Prendergast	Medical Genetics Resident	Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
Jonathan Roth	Postdoctoral Researcher	MIT Koch Institute
Gireesh Seesankar	Equity Research Associate	Bloom Burton & Co
Xinlei Sheng	Graduate Student	Princeton University
Rachel Silverstein	Graduate Student	Harvard Medical School
Olivia Taverniti	Graduate Student	University of Toronto
Tanya Tyagi	Banking Advisor	RBC
Cathy Tie	Founder and Chief Executive Officer	Locke Bio
Cassandra Wong	Operations Manager, Proteomics Facility	Mount Sinai Hospital
Ping Wu	Scientist	Genentech
YiFan Zhang	Research Associate	Johns Hopkins Biostatistics Center
Shijie (Tina) Zhou	Medical Resident	McMaster University Internal Medicine

Former visiting scientists

Kyoungho Suk	Associate Professor	Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, S. Korea
Zohar Weinstein	Physician	Atrius Health