Lydia became the director of the Flow Cytometry Facility in 2019, the year the facility was created. To read more about Lydia’s expertise and experience, see the leadership page.

Jackie received her bachelor’s degree in environmental systems from Cornell University. She worked as a research specialist and lab manager for five years in Dr. Michelle Heck’s laboratory helping to research Citrus Greening disease. She joined the Flow Cytometry Facility in 2019 just after the facility’s expansion, and has been assisting users with training and instrumentation operation.

Amanda has a Bachelor of Agriculture in Plant Pathology and a Masters of Landscape Architecture both from The Ohio State University.  Before joining the Flow Facility, she worked in research and laboratory support at local companies ST Genetics and Transonic Systems, Inc.  As a facility technician, she assists users with training and instrumentation operation.

Mike studied Applied Physics at Cornell. Before joining the Flow Facility, Mike worked as a 
technician and lab manager for Dr. Cheetham's lab at the vet school assisting
with research into regeneration mechanisms associated with peripheral nerve injury.

After receiving her Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she worked in biotechnology research in both the for-profit and higher education settings before coming to Cornell in 2009.  She has led the launch of two core facilities, the Transcriptional Regulation and Expression (TREx) Facility and the Genomics Innovation Hub (GIH). Jen assumed the directorship of the Genomics Facility in Summer, 2023. To read more about Jen’s expertise and experience, see the leadership page.

Linda received her bachelor’s degree in Biology from SUNY Cortland. Since joining the Genomic facility in 2007, Linda's position has evolved from junior technician responsibilities to her current role as laboratory manager for the Sanger and Illumina Sequencing labs. In addition to overseeing all Sanger and Illumina workflow and billing, Linda works directly with researchers to coordinate special research projects. Linda takes part in the Vitisgen grape project based in Geneva, processing marker assisted selection samples from around the country and world, and working directly with the researchers involved in this project.

Jing obtained a bachelor’s degree in organic chemistry at Peking University and a master’s degree in physical chemistry at Free University of Berlin. Jing started her research career in a surface science lab jointly run by the Chinese Academy of Science (China) and Max-Planck Institute (Germany). She worked on biomembranes in the Feigenson lab at Cornell for eight years, and on membrane biophysics at University of Michigan for three years. Jing came back to Cornell in 2014 and joined the Genomics Facility where she enjoys working on cutting-edge techniques surrounded by very smart and diverse people in a pleasant environment. 

Yassi received her PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2011. She has a breadth of experience in molecular biology, cell biology, genetics, evolution and development. Prior to joining the BRC Genomics Facility in 2023, she was a research scientist in Andrew Clark’s laboratory in Cornell's Molecular Biology and Genetics Department. She currently manages the core’s single-cell sequencing projects.

Chester received his Bachelor’s degree from Montana State University, majoring in Biotechnology with a concentration in Plant Sciences, and minoring in Genetics. Chester is specifically working in the Sanger lab under the direction of Linda Cote, and is responsible for tracking and processing samples, preparing buffers and reagents, setting up PCR reactions, analyzing results, keeping track of inventory, providing billing information and general customer support, and performing general lab maintenance.

Jeff received his bachelor's degree in Biochemistry from Elmira College. He started at Cornell in 2006 where he initially worked on protein characterization, and became a lab manager in the department of Biomedical Engineering. Since joining the Genomics Core Facility, Jeff is responsible for several critical steps of quality control and sample processing for next-generation sequencing. 

Autumn has a Bachelor of Science in nutritional sciences from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and she’s currently pursuing a master’s degree in health systems management also at RIT. She has several years of experience working with Illumina instrumentation in a fast-paced high-volume genomics lab at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and she brings a wealth of lab, customer service, and administrative skills to the Genomics Facility. 

Xiaoyun joined the Genomics facility as a technician in 2014. Her responsibilities include extractions, quantification, and quality control of nucleic acids. She also prepares sequencing libraries for different applications such as whole genome, rAmpseq, and 3’RNA-Seq. Xiaoyun takes part in troubleshooting, optimizing, and modifying of library prep protocols for custom projects.

George received his Bachelor’s degree in biology from UCLA and a Master’s degree in forensic science with a concentration in DNA analysis from UC Davis. He started at Cornell in 2020 where he initially worked as a technician in the Buckler Lab for 2 years. Since joining the BRC Genomics Facility, his responsibilities include extractions, quantification, and quality control of nucleic acids. He also prepares sequencing libraries for different applications such as whole genome, rAmpseq, and 3’RNA-Seq.

Will became the interim director of the Bioinformatics Facility in 2022. To read more about Will’s expertise and experience, see the leadership page.

Amy received a Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology from Cornell University in 2009 studying mechanisms of DNA repair and recombination. She then pursued postdoctoral research in the fields of mammalian genome instability, cancer genetics, and infertility in the Dept. of Biomedical Sciences at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine. Most recently Amy was a tenured Associate Professor of Biology at Elmira College, primarily teaching undergraduate coursework in genetics, biochemistry, and the biology of cancer as well as running a student-centered research program. She joined the BRC Epigenomics Core Facility as Lab Manager in the fall of 2022.

Danying holds a Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of California, San Diego, and a B.S. in Physics from Peking University. She specializes in computational biology, data science, and web applications. She has worked on a wide range of projects, including cell signaling, cell motility, next-generation sequencing pipelines, labor management, and institutional research.

Catherine graduated from Elmira College with a Bachelor of Science in molecular biology.  She worked in several research labs in the Natural Sciences department at Elmira, most recently working on her research project involving subcloning a human gene into a plasmid in preparation for screening a human cDNA library via yeast two-hybrid. 

Devin graduated from Ithaca College with a Bachelor’s degree in biology. He was a member of Te-Wen Lo's lab for a year and a half while at Ithaca. His interests include researching anything genetics related, especially epigenetics. In his free time he enjoys playing guitar, reading, and exercising. 

Sally is a junior in Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences studying Information Science with a minor in business from Dyson. She is interested in statistical data analysis as well as User Interface UX/UI research and is excited to explore this further for scientifically-focused epigenomics software. Sally has course experience with UX/UI design where she was able to recreate different user interfaces and prototypes for pre-existing apps using Figma. She has experience leading brainstorming sessions and creating different user flows ultimately meant to develop software features for maximizing a user’s experience. She will continue this user-centered approach in her work for our Core, compiling feedback and developing lists of potential features and improvements. Her work is informing all of us about the importance of understanding user-centric design and engineering needs, and how they play a significant role in improving our software offerings. In her free time, she enjoys listening and finding new music, taking pictures with her polaroid, and exploring new places alone or with friends, and is looking forward to meeting and working with everyone.

Kapil Khanal is interested in Complex Systems. He is currently pursuing his Master's degree in Energy Systems Optimization at Cornell. His research focuses on making electrical grids more resilient using machine learning methods. In the future, he hopes to design, optimize and engineer several utility systems. Kapil spends his spare time either hiking, cooking, or visualizing data. He follows soccer and occasionally dabbles in sports analytics for fun.

Audrey is a sophmore at Cornell with an interest in software engineering and User Interface UX/UI design. She has prior experience with C programming, MATLAB, python programming, and HTML. For our Epigenomics Core, she is developing her software engineering skills, mentoring with our senior researcher. She will be writing XML and python programs for our Core’s bioinformatic workflows and learning Best Practices for writing software as a part of a team with Git and other software development tools.

Ying Zhang has studied Environmental Design (Interior Design+ Landscape Design) for six years and is pursuing Master of Landscape Architecture at Cornell. My study interest lies in User experience design and Ecological landscape design. Life is about always trying something new :)