Selvin Group

Alumnus Ahmet Yildiz named AAAS "Young Scientist" of 2005
for work done here

Selvin Group

	Graduate Students
JANET SHEUNG	jsheung2@illinois.edu
MARCO TJIOE	tjioe2@illinois.edu
DUNCAN NALL	nall2@illinois.edu
CHAOYI JIN	cjin8@illinois.edu
REN PIN	pinren2@illinois.edu
SAURABH SHUKLA	sshukla4@illinois.edu
YEOAN YOUN	yyoun4@illinois.edu
Jongjae Lee	yongjae2@illinois.edu
	Post-doctoral Research Associates
	SANG HAK LEE shlee77@illinois.edu
	YUJI ISHITSUKA yuji@illinois.edu
	KAI WEN (KEVIN) TENG teng5@illinois.edu Thesis
	Research Assistant Professor
PINGHUA GE	pge@illinois.edu
	Visitors
WARD LOPES	Assistant Professor Department of Physics Williams College Massachusetts ward.lopes@williams.edu
RACHID REZGUI	Graduate Student Ecole Polytechnique France rezguirachid@yahoo.fr
KATIE WILSON	3rd-Year Graduate Student Dave Fernig Research Lab Institute Integrative Biology University of Liverpool England katie.wilson@liverpool.ac.uk

Research

Previous Group Members:

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YONG WANG

Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Arkansas ( Jan. 2016 - present).

HFSP (Human Frontier Science Program) Postdoc Fellow for Dr. Joshua Milstein of the Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences at University of Toronto

University of Illinois (06/11-05/14)

EN CAI

Post-doc Department of Pathology with Matthew Krummel at University of California, San Francisco (02/15-Present)

University of Illinois Grad (01/09-08/14) Post-doc (08/14-02/15)

Thesis

TOBIAS ROSENKRANZ

Post-doc at Centre for Vascular Research
The University of New South Wales
Sydney Australia

MURAT BADAY

presently Postdoc with Dr. Utkan Demirci, Stanford Radiology muratbaday@yahoo.com.

BEN BLEHM

Thesis

was a Post-doc with Kandice Tanner at NIH, presently at Ventana Medical Systems Inc. : benblehm@hotmail.com

HANNAH DEBERG

Thesis

hdeberg@gmail.com

previously was a post-doc at the University of Washington, Seattle. Currently a Bioinformatician at Benaroya Research Institute

DEREN KUDEKI

Grad student at the U of I, and has programmed for Murat Baday the summers of 2011 and 2012 building algorithms and translating code.

dkudeki@illinois.edu

PAUL SIMONSON (2004-2012)
Thesis

Currently a Resident Physician in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at University of Washington

RUOBING ZHANG (PDRA 1/11-9/12) -- was working in Jeff Lichtman Lab in Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University.
Thesis

MINDY TONKS HOFFMAN (2005-2011)
Thesis

HYEONGJUN KIM (2006-2011) -- currently a postdoc in Joseph Loparo Lab in Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School.
Thesis

ELI ROTHENBERG (PDRA 8/05-8/10) -- Currently Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NY School of Medicine.

CAITLIN SULLIVAN (2006-2009) -- PhD at University of Chicago in Biophysical Sciences (Aug. 2015). Presently in management consulting at McKinsey & Company..

EVAN GRAVES (2003-2009) -- was a post-doc at Jacques Monod Institute in Paris, France. presently Senior Scientist in the department of Systems Integration at Ventana Medical Systems Inc. (also known as Roche Tissue Diagnostics), Tucson AZ. Currently IT Recruiting Manager, Robert Half Technology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-Camden
Thesis

MELIKHAN TANYERI (PDRA 5/06-8/08) -- was a postdoc in Schroeder Lab in Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at UIUC. Currently a Research Scientist, University of Chicago .
Thesis

HASAN YARDIMCI (PDRA 5/06-6/08) -- 2008-2013 Research Fellow in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School. 2013-2015 Group leader, Clare Hall Laboratories, London Research Institute. Currently The Francis Crick Institute Comert Kural, Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University
Thesis

COMERT KURAL (PhD 2002-2008)(PDRA 6/07-5/08) -- Post Doctoral Scholar in Kirchhausen Lab at Harvard Med School (2008-2012). Presently Assistant Professor of Physics at Ohio State University.

Thesis

ERDAL TOPRAK (PhD 9/03-12/07) (PDRA 2008); was a Post Doctoral Scholar in Kishony Lab at Harvard (2008-2011); Assistant Professor at Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey (2011-2014); (2014 - present) Assistant Professor at the Green Center for Systems Biology, University of Texas Southwester Medical Center. Named as the Southwestern Medical Foundation Scholar in Biomedical Research in 2014.

Thesis

HYOKEUN PARK (2002-2006 PhD in Chemical Physics) (PDRA 12/06-10/07) -- 2007- 2013 Postdoctoral Research Fellow under Dr. Richard W. Tsien or Dr. Michael Z. Lin in Molecular and Cellular Physiology Department at Stanford; 2014-current Assistant Professor, Division of Life Science and Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Thesis

DAVID POSSON (PhD 08/97 - 04/05)(PDRA 4/05-1/07) -- was a Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Davis School of Medicine, (PDRA 4/05 - 1/07), then a postdoc in Crina Nimigean's laboratory at UC Davis School of Medicine and moved with the lab to Weill Cornell Medical College in 03/08. Presently a Research Scientist at Vertex Pharmaceuticals in Boston..
Thesis

SHEYUM SYED (1/04 -2/07) -- was a Postdoctoral Associate at Michael W. Young Laboratory of Genetics, Rockefeller University. Currently Assistant Professor, University of Miami, Dept. of Physics

HAMZA BALCI (PDRA 6/04-8/09) -- is an Associate Professor at Kent State University.
Thesis

JEFF REIFENBERGER (2003-2006) -- currently working for BioNano Genomics, San Diego, CA
Thesis

MATT GORDON (2000-2006) -- was post-doc in Steve Block Lab at Stanford University, now at Palantir Technologies. Currently Kairos Aerospace, Senior software engineer
Thesis

GREG SNYDER -- PDRA (9/03-7/04), then NIH NRSA post-doctoral fellow in Department of Human Genetics at University of Chicago. Then Technology Transfer Office of Northwestern University. (2010) scientist at Pacific Biosciences in Menlo Park, CA. Then Sr. Manager, System Integration at Cepheid, a Danaher Company. Currently Associate Director, Software Development at ADT, University of Florida.
Thesis

AHMET YILDIZ (July 2004 PhD Graduate) -- was briefly post-doc (7/04-1/05), then post-doc in Ron Vale Lab at UC San Franciso, presently Professor at UC Berkeley.
Thesis

TANIA CHAKRABARTY (May 2002 Graduate with Doctorate in Biophysics) -- was NIH NRSA Fellow in Department of Neurobiology, Pharmacology and Physiology at University of Chicago. Then at Arryx Co. Currently a Senior Manager, System Integration, Cepheid.
Thesis

MING XIAO (Postdoc Fellow 1997-1999, Visiting Research Professor 1999-2001) -- was Senior scientist in Cardiovascular Research Institute at University of California, San Francisco, then Director of Advanced Technology at Bionanomatrix Inc. in Philadelphia (PA). Currently Associate Professor, Drexel University, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems.

ANNE GERSHENSON (PDRA 7/00-6/01) -- was Assistant Professor in Department of Chemistry at Brandeis University (MA). Currently Research Associate Professor University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Thesis

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JIYAN CHEN (PDRA 8/97-99) -- Scientist at Li-Cor Inc. in Lincoln, Nebraska (deceased).
Thesis

Page Updated: 2/1/17

Previous Group Members:
>	YONG WANG Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Arkansas ( Jan. 2016 - present). HFSP (Human Frontier Science Program) Postdoc Fellow for Dr. Joshua Milstein of the Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences at University of Toronto University of Illinois (06/11-05/14)
	EN CAI Post-doc Department of Pathology with Matthew Krummel at University of California, San Francisco (02/15-Present) University of Illinois Grad (01/09-08/14) Post-doc (08/14-02/15) Thesis
	TOBIAS ROSENKRANZ Post-doc at Centre for Vascular Research The University of New South Wales Sydney Australia
	MURAT BADAY presently Postdoc with Dr. Utkan Demirci, Stanford Radiology muratbaday@yahoo.com.
	BEN BLEHM Thesis was a Post-doc with Kandice Tanner at NIH, presently at Ventana Medical Systems Inc. : benblehm@hotmail.com
	HANNAH DEBERG Thesis hdeberg@gmail.com previously was a post-doc at the University of Washington, Seattle. Currently a Bioinformatician at Benaroya Research Institute
	DEREN KUDEKI Grad student at the U of I, and has programmed for Murat Baday the summers of 2011 and 2012 building algorithms and translating code. dkudeki@illinois.edu
	PAUL SIMONSON (2004-2012) Thesis Currently a Resident Physician in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at University of Washington
	RUOBING ZHANG (PDRA 1/11-9/12) -- was working in Jeff Lichtman Lab in Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University. Thesis
	MINDY TONKS HOFFMAN (2005-2011) Thesis
	HYEONGJUN KIM (2006-2011) -- currently a postdoc in Joseph Loparo Lab in Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School. Thesis
	ELI ROTHENBERG (PDRA 8/05-8/10) -- Currently Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NY School of Medicine.
	CAITLIN SULLIVAN (2006-2009) -- PhD at University of Chicago in Biophysical Sciences (Aug. 2015). Presently in management consulting at McKinsey & Company..
	EVAN GRAVES (2003-2009) -- was a post-doc at Jacques Monod Institute in Paris, France. presently Senior Scientist in the department of Systems Integration at Ventana Medical Systems Inc. (also known as Roche Tissue Diagnostics), Tucson AZ. Currently IT Recruiting Manager, Robert Half Technology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-Camden Thesis
	MELIKHAN TANYERI (PDRA 5/06-8/08) -- was a postdoc in Schroeder Lab in Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at UIUC. Currently a Research Scientist, University of Chicago . Thesis
	HASAN YARDIMCI (PDRA 5/06-6/08) -- 2008-2013 Research Fellow in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School. 2013-2015 Group leader, Clare Hall Laboratories, London Research Institute. Currently The Francis Crick Institute Comert Kural, Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University Thesis
	COMERT KURAL (PhD 2002-2008)(PDRA 6/07-5/08) -- Post Doctoral Scholar in Kirchhausen Lab at Harvard Med School (2008-2012). Presently Assistant Professor of Physics at Ohio State University. Thesis
	ERDAL TOPRAK (PhD 9/03-12/07) (PDRA 2008); was a Post Doctoral Scholar in Kishony Lab at Harvard (2008-2011); Assistant Professor at Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey (2011-2014); (2014 - present) Assistant Professor at the Green Center for Systems Biology, University of Texas Southwester Medical Center. Named as the Southwestern Medical Foundation Scholar in Biomedical Research in 2014. Thesis
	HYOKEUN PARK (2002-2006 PhD in Chemical Physics) (PDRA 12/06-10/07) -- 2007- 2013 Postdoctoral Research Fellow under Dr. Richard W. Tsien or Dr. Michael Z. Lin in Molecular and Cellular Physiology Department at Stanford; 2014-current Assistant Professor, Division of Life Science and Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Thesis
	DAVID POSSON (PhD 08/97 - 04/05)(PDRA 4/05-1/07) -- was a Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Davis School of Medicine, (PDRA 4/05 - 1/07), then a postdoc in Crina Nimigean's laboratory at UC Davis School of Medicine and moved with the lab to Weill Cornell Medical College in 03/08. Presently a Research Scientist at Vertex Pharmaceuticals in Boston.. Thesis
	SHEYUM SYED (1/04 -2/07) -- was a Postdoctoral Associate at Michael W. Young Laboratory of Genetics, Rockefeller University. Currently Assistant Professor, University of Miami, Dept. of Physics
	HAMZA BALCI (PDRA 6/04-8/09) -- is an Associate Professor at Kent State University. Thesis
	JEFF REIFENBERGER (2003-2006) -- currently working for BioNano Genomics, San Diego, CA Thesis
	MATT GORDON (2000-2006) -- was post-doc in Steve Block Lab at Stanford University, now at Palantir Technologies. Currently Kairos Aerospace, Senior software engineer Thesis
	GREG SNYDER -- PDRA (9/03-7/04), then NIH NRSA post-doctoral fellow in Department of Human Genetics at University of Chicago. Then Technology Transfer Office of Northwestern University. (2010) scientist at Pacific Biosciences in Menlo Park, CA. Then Sr. Manager, System Integration at Cepheid, a Danaher Company. Currently Associate Director, Software Development at ADT, University of Florida. Thesis

	AHMET YILDIZ (July 2004 PhD Graduate) -- was briefly post-doc (7/04-1/05), then post-doc in Ron Vale Lab at UC San Franciso, presently Professor at UC Berkeley. Thesis
	TANIA CHAKRABARTY (May 2002 Graduate with Doctorate in Biophysics) -- was NIH NRSA Fellow in Department of Neurobiology, Pharmacology and Physiology at University of Chicago. Then at Arryx Co. Currently a Senior Manager, System Integration, Cepheid. Thesis
	MING XIAO (Postdoc Fellow 1997-1999, Visiting Research Professor 1999-2001) -- was Senior scientist in Cardiovascular Research Institute at University of California, San Francisco, then Director of Advanced Technology at Bionanomatrix Inc. in Philadelphia (PA). Currently Associate Professor, Drexel University, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems.
	ANNE GERSHENSON (PDRA 7/00-6/01) -- was Assistant Professor in Department of Chemistry at Brandeis University (MA). Currently Research Associate Professor University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Thesis
NO PHOTO	JIYAN CHEN (PDRA 8/97-99) -- Scientist at Li-Cor Inc. in Lincoln, Nebraska (deceased). Thesis