The Rokas Lab

Team

The Rokas Lab, Summer 2020

Top to bottom from left to right: Megan / Antonis / Annie / Matt / Li / Alissa / Alec / Olivia / Marie-Claire / Jacob / Renato / Abbe

Current Team Members


Matt Mead	Jacob Steenwyk
PostDoctoral Fellow	Graduate Student
B.Sc., Iowa State Univ.	B.Sc., Clark Univ.
Ph.D., Univ. Wisconsin-Madison	M.Sc., Clark Univ.
	Personal website

Marie-Claire Harrison	Abbe L. LaBella
Graduate Student	PostDoctoral Fellow
B.Sc., Pomona College	B.Sc., American Univ.
	Ph.D., Duke Univ.
	Personal website

E. Anne Hatmaker	Alec Brown
Graduate Student	Graduate Student
B.Sc., Univ. Tennessee-Knoxville	B.Sc., Bowling Green State Univ.
M.Sc., Univ. Tennessee-Knoxville	M.Sc., Bowling Green State Univ.

Renato Santos	Yuanning Li
Visiting Graduate Student	PostDoctoral Fellow
B.Sc., São Paulo State Univ., Brazil	B.Sc., Shanghai Ocean Univ., China
M.Sc., Univ. of Campinas, Brazil	M.Sc., Ocean Univ. of China
	Ph.D., Auburn Univ.
	PostDoc, Yale Univ.

Olivia Zheng	Megan Phillips
Undergraduate Researcher	Research Assistant I
	B.Sc., Vanderbilt University

The PI

Antonis Rokas
Professor of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Informatics, Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Biological Sciences
B.Sc., Univ. Crete
Ph.D., Edinburgh Univ.
PostDoc, Univ. Wisconsin

Curriculum Vitae
Google Scholar Profile
ORCID Profile
Twitter

Joining the Lab

Undergrads / Grads / PostDocs

Undergraduates excited about our work, especially those with computational experience, are encouraged to apply for a position in our lab. We expect a minimum commitment of 12 hours per week during academic terms (for course credit) and full-time during summers (for pay). We also expect our undergrad researchers to apply to the Vanderbilt Undergraduate Summer Research Program (for their summer stipends) and to perform research over multiple semesters. Interested candidates should email Antonis with a brief statement that explicitly states why they want to join our lab, CV and the contact details of two course instructors / evaluators.

Students interested in graduate work in our lab are encouraged to apply either to the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program (IGP) or to the Biological Sciences Program (BSP). Students in the IGP rotate through 4 different labs in the first year, thus gaining a diversity of research experiences and evaluating the goodness-of-fit of several different labs across the university. Students in the BSP rotate through 2 or 3 labs in the department but typically commit to joining a particular lab upon acceptance to the program. If interested, please email Antonis with a cover letter that explicitly states why you want to join our lab, statement of research interests, CV and the contact details of three evaluators.

Postdoctoral candidates with relevant experience in evolutionary biology, computational biology, genomics, bioinformatics, fungal biology, and related fields interested in joining our lab should email Antonis with a cover letter that explicitly states why they want to join our lab, statement of research interests, pdf reprints of published papers, CV and the contact details of three evaluators. A track record of high-quality publications, excellent communication skills, enthusiasm for basic research, and a collaborative approach to science is expected.