Team

Our team is composed of researchers with diverse expertise and complementary skillsets spanning scientific disciplines including: Bioengineering, Cellular and Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Genetics and Genomics, Computational Biology, Immunology, Virology, and Pharmacology. We value high-quality science, hard work, collaboration, training, and teamwork.

Principal Investigator

• Isaac Hilton, PhD

  About Isaac ›

  Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
  Assistant Professor, BioSciences
  CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research

  

  

  

  Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Center for Genomic and Computational Biology, Duke University (2013-2017)

  Ph.D., Genetics and Molecular Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, (2013)

  B.S., Biological Sciences, University of Missouri Columbia (2004)

Postdoctoral Researchers and Staff

• Jing Li, PhD

  Ph.D. Biochemistry, Clemson University, 2017

  M.S. Genetics, Sun Yat-sen University, 2011

  B.S. Biological Science, Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University, 2008

• Barun Mahata, PhD

  Ph.D. Biochemistry, Calcutta University, 2018

  M.S. Zoology, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Vidyasagar University, 2009

  B.S. with Honours in Zoology, Chemistry and Botany, Jhargram Raj College, 2007

• Mario Escobar, PhD

  Ph.D. Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, 2022

  American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellow

  B.S. Biology, Brigham Young University – Idaho, 2018

• Sandy Luong

  B.A. Biochemistry, Cell, and Molecular Biology, Drake University, 2021

Graduate Students

• Jacob Goell

  

  Department: Rice Bioengineering

  Bioelectronics NSF Research Trainee

  M.S. Translational Medicine, University of California, Berkeley and University of California, San Francisco, 2017

  B.S. Bioengineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 2016

• Rosa Selenia Guerra Resendez

  Department: Rice Systems, Synthetic, and Physical Biology (SSPB)

  Conacyt Fellow

  Rice Liu Idea Lab for Innovation & Entrepreneurship Fellow

  Fulbright-García Robles Doctoral Scholar

  B.S. Genomic Biotechnology, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, 2017

• Daniel Brenner

  Department: Rice Bioengineering

  B.S. Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 2019

• Sunghwan Kim

  

  Department: Rice Bioengineering

  M.S. International Agricultural Technology, Seoul National University, 2019

  B.S. Life Science, Hanyang University, 2017

  B.S. Business Administration, Hanyang University, 2017

• Guy Bedford

  Department: Rice Bioengineering

  *Co-advised with Dr. Michael Diehl (Rice Bioengineering)

  B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, 2021

• Daniel Reed

  Department: Rice Bioengineering

  B.S. Biochemistry and Microbiology, Oklahoma State University, 2022

• Hailey Szadowski

  Department: Rice Systems, Synthetic, and Physical Biology (SSPB)

  NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Program Awardee

  B.S. Biological Engineering, Purdue University, 2022

• Amaury F. Bittar Yepes

  Department: Rice Bioengineering

  Fulbright-García Robles Doctoral Scholar

  M.Sc, Biomedical Engineering, Universidad de los Andes, 2022

  B.S., Biomedical Engineering, Universidad de los Andes, 2021

  B.S., Microbiology, Universidad de los Andes, 2021
• Alex Ma

  Department: Rice Bioengineering

  B.S. Bioengineering, Minor in Bioinformatics, University of California, Los Angeles, 2023
• Lavanya Saxena

  Department: Rice Bioengineering

  *Co-advised with Dr. Laura Segatori (Rice Bioengineering)

  M.S. Biotechnology, University of Wisconsin – Madison, 2019

  B.S. Biotechnology, Thapar University, India, 2016

   

• Selvalakshmi (Selva) Selvaraj Anand

  Department: Rice Systems, Synthetic, and Physical Biology (SSPB)

  M.S. Diagnostic Genetics and Genomics – Molecular Biology,  MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2023

  B.Tech. Genetic Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, 2020

Undergraduate Students

• Suchir Misra

  Department: Rice Biochemistry and Cell Biology (B.S.)
• Jennifer Liu

  Department: Rice Biochemistry and Cell Biology (B.S.)
• Samantha Lydon

  Department: Rice Bioengineering (B.S.)
• Santiago Munoz

  Department: HCC LSAMP Undergraduate Researcher
• Mira Srinivasa

  Department: Rice Bioengineering (B.S.)
• Maria Contreras

  Department: Rice Bioengineering (B.S.)
• Sam Balakrishnan

  Department: Rice Bioengineering (B.S.)
• Ana Naqvi

  Department: Rice Biochemistry and Cell Biology (B.S.)
• Catherine Wang

  Department: Rice Bioengineering (B.S.)
• Ashwika Agrawal

  Department: Rice Bioengineering (B.S.)