Anne Gardner joined the Pugh lab in 2021 as Lab Manager. She is excited to be back at Cornell where she completed her undergraduate in Biology. She earned her PhD in Immunology at Duke University on immunoglobulin intracellular transport during B cell differentiation and did a postdoctoral fellowship at National Jewish Immunology focusing on MAP kinase signal transduction pathways.

Josh received his BS in Biology with the Neuroscience option from Penn State, shortly thereafter joining the Pugh Lab in December of 2022. As a technician, he has been exploring the use of mammalian tissue as a substrate for ChIP-exo.

Matthew received his bachelor’s degree in Viticulture and Enology from Cornell University. He is interested in the yeast and bacteria that are responsible for producing beer and wine. Since the production of beer and wine is stressful to yeast, Matthew has been studying where transcription factors are bound to DNA in yeast as a response to different stress factors using ChIP-exo.

Ruihao completed his Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2017. Following this, he pursued his PhD in Quantitative and Systems Biology at the University of California, Merced, graduating in 2023. Shortly after, he joined Pugh’s lab as a postdoctoral fellow. He is committed to constructing mathematical models and developing computational tools to elucidate the intricate networking between transcription factors and genes.

Jordan is a MD/PhD student at Penn State University / Penn State College of Medicine. He is focused on the optimization of ChIP-exo for mammalian cells and tissues in hopes of identifying differential transcription factor binding sites across many tissues and diseases. His work should be instrumental to the inclusion of epigenomics in the field of precision medicine and pathology.

Haining Chen is a doctoral candidate in the Graduate Field of Biochemistry, Molecular, and Cell Biology (BMCB) Graduate Program at Cornell University. She received her Bachelor's degree in microbiology from Shandong University. In 2019, Haining joined the Pugh lab, and her current research focuses on unraveling the intricate molecular architectures of proteins implicated in transcription initiation and studying how transcription factors regulate gene expression in a cell-type-specific manner.

Olivia received her bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Computational Biology from Colby College and then went on to work for The Saccharomyces Genome Database for two years before starting her PhD in Cornell’s Computational Biology program. As a member of the Pugh lab, she works on tool development for the data generated from sequencing based assays.

Justin Cha is a PhD student in the Computational Biology Program. He received his bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology before working as an Associate Computational Biologist in the Getz Lab at the Broad Institute. For the Pugh lab, he works on software development and high-throughput computing (HTC) for the analysis of sequencing data.

Fred got his BS in Biomedical Sciences from the University of São Paulo and Master’s in Pharmacology from the Federal University of São Paulo. He worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Iowa for two years before joining Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences PhD program in Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology. In the Pugh Lab, he works on the technical development of single cell ChIP-exo.

Rebecca received a BS in Biology from Cornell University, and has been working in science communication and conservation biology since graduation. As a graduate student in the Pugh Lab, she is interested in gene regulatory networks in yeast.

Jiayi Hu is a PhD student in the Genetics, Genomics, and Development Program at Cornell University. She received her bachelor's degree in Integrated Science at Peking University in China. She joined Pugh lab in 2024, focusing on understanding the dynamics of epigenomic architecture by chromatin reconstitution.

Kritika Grover is a PhD student in the Computational Biology Program at Cornell University. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Waterloo in Biochemistry and minored in computing.

Zimo Zhu is a PhD student in the Computational Biology Program at Cornell University. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Washington in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology with a minor in Data Science.