Our Lab

Aaron Quinlan (he/him) is the Colby Endowed Professor of Human Genetics and Biomedical Informatics at the University of Utah. He also co-directs the DELPHI Biomedical Data Science Initiative and the Utah Center for Genetic Discovery. He is passionate about genome biology, genome data science, and squash (the sport). For more details, refer to his CV.

Lab as of August 2023

Lab culture

Our lab’s culture and mentorship approach seeks to nurture creativity, scientific independence, and rigor. Our lab motto is “Know thy data”.

We strive to create a collaborative, friendly, and respectful lab culture that encourages open communication and values team science.

Our code of conduct requires that lab members are expected to: Be kind, Be aware, Become an expert, Be autodidactic, Be helpful, Be safe, Be organized, Be professional, Be responsible, Be punctual, Be responsive, Be prepared.

Postdoctoral fellows

	Name	GitHub	Twitter	Personal website
	Harriet Dashnow K99/R00 NHGRI Fellow
	Michael Goldberg T32 Fellow in Genomic Medicine

Graduate students

	Name	GitHub	Twitter	Personal website
	John Chamberlin NLM T15 Fellow
	Laurel Hiatt (they/he) F30 Fellow (NICHD)
	Joshua Major-Mincer NLM T15 Fellow
	Jason Kunisaki T32 Genetics Fellow

Staff scientists

	Name	GitHub	Twitter	Personal website
	Brent Pedersen
	Tom Sasani (he/him)
	Peter McHale
	Suchita Lulla
	Tom Nicholas

Alumni

Graduate students

	Name	Current position
	Stephanie Kravitz	Computational Biologist at 10X Genomics
	Jon Belyeu	Bioinformatics Scientist at Illumina
	Michael Cormier	Bioinformatics Scientist at Fabric Genomics
	Jim Havrilla	Director of Informatics at Pathnostics

Postdoctoral fellows

	Name	Current position
	Amelia Wallace	Data Scientist at Adaptive Biotechnologies
	Brian Lohman	Bioinformatics Scientist at Quest Diagnostics
	Ryan Layer	Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder
	Uma Paila	Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia

Staff scientists

	Name	Current position
	Hao Hou
	Joe Brown	Data Scientist at Invitae
	Meenal Gupta
	Neil Kindlon	Programmer/Analyst at the Jackson Laboratories

Undergraduate researchers

	Name	Current position
	John Rubinski
	Phanwadee Sinthong