Lab Members


Ph.D. Université Claude Bernard - Lyon I

Associate Research Professor

Research Projects:
RNA editing in plant organelles

Bentolila's Publications:
Stephane Bentolila at NCBI Pubmed      Stephane Bentolila at Google Scholar


Ludovic Giloteaux

Ph.D. Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, France

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Research Projects:
Extracellular vesicles in ME/CFS


Arnaud Germain

Ph.D., Cornell University

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Research Projects:
Plasma proteins and metabolites in ME/CFS


Vishal Chaudhari

Ph.D. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Research Projects:
Engineering carboxysomes into chloroplasts


Carl Franconi

B.S. in Microbiology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

M.S. in Cell and Molecular Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

Research Project:
Lab management for all projects


Katie Glass

Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Research Projects:
ME/CFS


Claire McNally

B.S. in Biochemistry, Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan

Graduate student in Genetics, Genomics and Development

Research Project:
Endothelial function in human cell cultures


William Antoniades

B.S. in Pharmaceutical Science, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

M.S. in Biomedical Science, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

Graduate student in Biochemistry, Molecular, and Cell Biology

Research Projects:
Extracellular vesicles in ME/CFS


Yutong Chen

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Biological Sciences Major

Undergraduate Researcher:
ME/CFS projects


Recent Lab Alumni

Jose Lombana

Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Cornell University, August 2026


Bill Lam

Former Undergraduate Lab Assistant
(Plant and ME/CFS projects)

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Biological Sciences Major


Bobur Poudel

Former Undergraduate Lab Assistant
(ME/CFS project)

College of Arts and Sciences

Biological Sciences Major


Allison Weiher

Former Undergraduate Lab Assistant
(Plant and ME/CFS projects)

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Plant Sciences Major


Melissa Eckert

Former Undergraduate Lab Assistant (ME/CFS)

B.S. in Statistics, Cornell University, May 2025

Current Position:
Data Analyst at Northwell Health


Lana Scepanovic

Former Undergraduate Lab Assistant
(Plant projects)

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Plant Sciences Major


Doriane Anglade

Former Undergraduate Lab Assistant
(Plant and ME/CFS projects)

B.S. in Biological Sciences, Cornell University, 2024


Jessica Maya

Ph.D. in Genetics, Genomics and Development, Cornell University, May 2024

Current Position:
Vice President of Scientific Programs, Solve ME/CFS Initiative


Caitlin McCabe

Former Undergraduate Researcher
(Improving Photosynthesis)

B.A. in Biological Sciences, Cornell University, May 2023

Current Position:
Graduate Student in the Immunology Graduate Group at the University of Pennsylvania


Lauren Mei

Former Undergraduate Lab Assistant
(Engineering carboxysomes into plants)

B.S. in Biological Sciences, Cornell University, May

Current Position:
Research Assistant at Riffin Lab, Weill Cornell Medicine


Skellie Orantes

2023 Summer intern, Boyce Thompson Institute/Cornell REU program

California State University, Los Angeles

Current Position:
PhD Student at Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California


Asher Lal

Former Undergraduate Lab Assistant
(Plant and ME/CFS projects)

B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, 2024

M.Eng. in Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, 2025

Current Position:
Clinical Research Assistant at Hospital for Special Surgery


Daniel Bacher

2022 Summer intern, Boyce Thompson Institute/Cornell REU program

H.B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oregon State University, 2023


Sherlyn Contreras

2022 Summer intern, Boyce Thompson Institute/Cornell REU program

Ball State University

Current Position:
Graduate student, Plant and Microbial Sciences, Washington University


Vivian Huang

Former Undergraduate Researcher
(ME/CFS)

B.S. Computer Science, Cornell University, May 2022

Current Position:
MD/PhD student, Tri-Institutional Weill Cornell-Rockefeller-Memorial Sloan Kettering Medical Scientist Training Program

 


Myat Lin

Former Postdoctoral Associate
(Engineering Rubisco for improved carbon fixation)

Ph.D. University of Illinois

Current Position:
Senior Scientist, C16 Biosciences Inc., Manhattan, NY



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