Trained as a geneticist at Sydney University undergraduate and the University of Basel PhD, followed by a Post-Doc at Stanford, Greg has been a Professor in the School of Biology at Georgia Tech since 2009. His CV is available HERE
Greg Gibson
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Stefanie Boettle, Lab Manager, from Germany, residing in the US since 2009. She holds a BBA in Business Admin & Marketing, a BA in Dance & Dance Education and is a certified Yoga Educator(ERYT500 & IAYT Yoga Therapist candidate). Stefanie has always combined her artistic and Yoga career with positions in the administrative field. She has created and managed outreach programs in the non-profit arts sector as well as in the Atlanta Public school system. Stefanie is a Yoga Educator in Atlanta and supports the Gibson Lab with great joy.
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
Sini Nagpal is from the Punjab region of India. An MS-Bioinformatics to PhD transfer, she has become interested in statistical genetics to assess human disease risk and its evolution with environmental and lifestyle change. As a member of the NIDDK IBD-Genetics Consortium, she has also worked on TWAS and predicted-transcriptional risk scores to predict disease progression in IBD.
PHD GRADUATE STUDENTS
Hira Anis is a Fulbright Scholar from Pakistan, is a PhD student in Bioinformatics at Georgia Tech, where she also completed her MS in Bioinformatics. Collaborating with Dr. Eun-Hyung Lee at Emory University, her research focuses on plasma cell maturation using single-cell RNA and ATAC sequencing. She plans to incorporate AI and machine learning into genomic analysis, with interests in personalized medicine, cancer genomics, and autoimmune diseases.
Emily Greenwood is originally from North Carolina where she graduated with a BS in Biology from UNC Chapel Hill. At Georgia Tech, Emily's graduate work utilizes CRISPR/Cas-9 and scRNAseq (in an assay termed eCROPseq) to determine regulatory rare variants and assess functionality of common variants in eQTL for genes implicated in IBD. Her work is in collaboration with Dr. Bao's group at Rice University.
Savannah Washburn is originally from Missouri and received a B.S. in Biology from the University of Arkansas in 2021. Her research involves single cell transcriptomic analysis of individuals with Crohn's Disease. Her work is in collaboration with Dr. Subra Kugathasan at Emory University
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Varsha Bhat graduated from PES University, Bangalore, India in 2021 with a bachelor’s degree in biotechnology and a minor in computer science. Her work focuses on understanding the genetics of pain phenotypes in sickle cell disease. Her interests primarily lie at the intersection of genomics and data science.
Siming Zhao grew up in Chengdu, China and graduated with a BS in biotechnology from PolyU, Hong Kong. She joined Georgia Tech to pursue an MS in Bioinformatics and Computational Sci & Engr. Siming is currently a first year PhD student in the Gibson Lab and her project focuses on analyzing WGS data to identify potential factors that contribute to alloimmunization in patients with Sickle Cell Disease.
Stephanie Dallaire is a PhD student who comes to us from the Boston area with a BS in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology from UMass Amherst. After a stint working on cytogenetics and early population genetics research, she moved to PerkinElmer as a scientist doing assay development. She is excited to be back in school and work on polygenic risk scores as a way to identify disease in newborn screening.
Kyndal Goss is a Georgia native and graduated with a BS in Biology from the University of Georgia in 2019. She then completed a computational immunogenomics research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health before moving back to Atlanta to start the Immunology and Molecular Pathogenesis Ph.D. program at Emory under the mentorship of Dr. Ed Horwitz. Her interests include using computational methods to answer biological questions.
MS GRADUATE STUDENTS
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Tamarin Tandra graduated from the University of Wisconsin – Madison with a bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2020. She spent the next couple of years working as an associate scientist at a biotech startup before coming to Georgia Tech to pursue an M.S. in Bioinformatics. Her current research focuses on analyzing single-cell RNA seq data to identify potential mechanisms underlying autoimmune diseases
Suraksha Vinod is a recent B.Tech Biotechnology graduate with a minor in Computer Science and Engineering from PES University, India. Although she has a wide variety of interests, including cancer biology and neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders, she found herself particularly intrigued by the significant role genetics plays in precision medicine and predictive health, thus motivating her to delve deeper into these fields.
Caleb Connors is a 5th year Biomedical Engineering Student from Denver, Colorado. He is interested in the use of bioinformatics and genomics in predictive health. His research has included work on designing viral capsids and currently works on processing and analyzing single-cell sequencing data for multiple projects.
Ilaha Huseynli received her bachelor's degree in Molecular Biology & Genetics from Istanbul University and her master's degree in Biotechnology from Akdeniz University. Ilaha has experience in clinical genetics and data science. She focuses on analyzing WGS data to identify tier 1 and tier 2 variants in patients with Sickle Cell Disease. She has a strong foundation and deep interest in clinical and preventive genomics.
Honoka Miura graduated from Georgia Tech in 2024 with a bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry and currently is in the MS program for bioinformatics. Her current project involves using single cell analysis to understand genomic differences between vaccine longevity in collaboration with Emory.
Mia Denning is from Atlanta, GA and graduated from Georgia Tech with a bachelor’s degree in biology in 2021. She is currently pursuing a master's degree in bioinformatics, where her research focuses on the links between human disease risk, lifestyle factors, and environmental exposures. She has a strong interest in computational genomics and preventative medicine.