The Pertea Lab

Mihaela Pertea
Associate Professor
Associate Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Computational Biology
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Department of Biomedical Engineering
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mpertea@jhu.edu
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@ elapertea

Ales Varabyou
Postdoctoral Fellow
Former PhD Student
Joint Member of Salzberg Lab
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Department of Computer Science

Beril Erdogdu
PhD Student
Joint Member of Salzberg Lab
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Department of Biomedical Engineering

Ida Shinder
PhD Student
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XDBio Graduate Training
Program

Zoe Rudnick
PhD Student
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Department of Biomedical Engineering

Bowen Chen
PhD Student
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Department of Computer Science

Nikola Zadorozhny
PhD Student
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Department of Computer Science
Former Lab Members

Tad Berkery
Graduate Research Assistant
September 2024 – May 2025

Arshana Welivita
Undergraduate Research Assistant
May 2024 – May 2025

Kuan-Hao Chao
PhD Graduate
August 2021 – August 2025

Alan Mao
Undergraduate Research Assistant
May 2023 – August 2025

Sam Kovaka
PhD Graduate
2022

Richard Hu
Undergraduate Research Assistant
May 2022 – May 2024

Rebecca Yu
Graduate Research Assistant
June 2021 – May 2022

Brandon Wong
Undergraduate Research Assistant
October 2020 – May 2022

Siddhi Nargund
Graduate Research Assistant
October 2019 – August 2020

Christopher Sohn
Graduate Research Assistant
February 2020 – June 2020