People
Current and former members of the Messer Lab
Principal Investigator
Philipp W. Messer
Professor, Department of Computational Biology
Philipp studied Physics and Human Physiology at the University of Cologne. He has been a faculty member of the Department of Computational Biology at Cornell University since 2014. His research focuses on evolutionary biology and population genetics, with particular interests in rapid adaptation, gene drives, and simulation methodology.
Research Associates & Postdocs
Benjamin C. Haller
Research Associate
Anna Maria Langmüller
Postdoc
Ethan Gyllenhaal
Postdoc
Graduate Students
Meera Chotai
PhD Student (co-advised with April Wei)
Andrea Chen
PhD Student (co-advised with Andrew Hein)
Ziyang Xia
PhD Student
Rachel Goodridge
PhD Student (co-advised with Erik Enbody)
Christopher Talbot
PhD Student
Freya Kailing
PhD Student (co-advised with Matt Pennell)
Alumni
- Mitchell Lokey — PhD Student
- Samuel Champer — PhD Student
- Isabel Kim — PhD Student
- Anna Clark — Visiting Graduate Student
- Kiran Chandrasekher — Undergraduate Student
- Mohamed Abdelrahman — Undergraduate Honors Student
- Sachin Kaushik — Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Ian Caldas — Graduate Student
- Beliz Erdogmus — Undergraduate Student
- Runxi Shen — Graduate Student
- Jackson Champer — Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Ronin Sharma — Undergraduate Student
- Jing Sun — Undergraduate Student
- Matthew Metzloff — Undergraduate Student
- Sandra Lapinska — Undergraduate Student
- Yiran Li — Undergraduate Student
- Lin Xie — Undergraduate Student
- Nathan Oakes — Graduate Student
- Jingxian Liu — Undergraduate Honors Student
- Andrew Vaughn — Undergraduate Honors Student
- Emily Yang — Undergraduate Student
- Yineng Xu — Graduate Rotation Student
- Hongya Zhu — Graduate Rotation Student
- Shagun Gupta — Graduate Rotation Student
- Joanna Zhao — Undergraduate Student
- Anisha Luthra — Undergraduate Student
- Runyang Lou — Graduate Rotation Student
- Andrew Marderstein — Undergraduate Honors Student
- Henry Kunerth — Graduate Rotation Student
- Aaron Sams — Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Lucas Ducrot — Undergraduate Student
- Ying Qiao — Graduate Rotation Student
- Antoine Barthelet — Graduate Rotation Student
- Rebecca Stambler — Undergraduate Student
- Andy Ding — Graduate Rotation Student
- Florencia Schlamp — Graduate Rotation Student
- Jamal Elkhader — Graduate Rotation Student
- Manisha Munasinghe — Graduate Rotation Student
- Madeline Kwicklis — Undergraduate Student
- Lewis Chesebrough — Undergraduate Student
- Julian van der Made — Graduate Research Assistant