The Barnhart Lab Team

Erin Barnhart (she/her)
Assistant Professor

Eavan Donovan Burton (she/her)
Postdoctoral Fellow

Katherine Delgado (she/her)
PhD Student (Biological Sciences)

Deme Geneva Fortson
PhD Student (Biological Sciences)

Kwass Wass (they/them)
PhD Student (Biological Sciences)

Katriona Guthrie-Honea (she/her)
PhD Student (Biological Sciences)

Briana Robles (she/her)
Research Technician, Bridge Scholar

Letitia Bortey (she/her)
PhD Student (Biological Sciences) w/ Shirasu-Hiza

Hunter Whitbeck (he/him)
PhD Student (Biological Sciences)

Ana Clara M. Accioli
Undergraduate (Columbia College ’26)

Tyler Zwick (he/him)
Undergraduate (Columbia College ’26)

Ryan Farrell (he/him)
Postdoctoral Fellow

Maya Bhaskar (she/her)
Undergraduate (Columbia College ’28)

Ketan Kotla (he/him)
PhD Student (Biological Sciences)

Lab Alumni

Clelia Siefer-Gaillardin
Visiting Masters Student (2025)

Avi Adler
Undergraduate Student (2021-2024), Research Technician (2024-2025); Current Position: PhD Student at Rockefeller

Hailey (Qiyu) Wang
Master’s Student (2021-2022), Researcher Technician (2022-2025); Current Position: PhD Student at Northwestern

David Moran
Undergraduate Researcher (2022-2025); Current Position: Associate Researcher at NYU Langone

Giovanna Napoleone
Undergraduate Researcher (2021-2025); Current Position: MD student at SUNY Downstate

Emily Sarkar
Undergraduate Researcher (2021-2025)

Lucie Lefebvre
Visiting Masters Student (2024)

Jordan Kalai
Undergraduate Researcher (2020-2022), Research Technician (2022-2024); Current Position: PhD Student at Stanford

Jachym Harwood
Undergraduate Researcher (2023-2024); Current Position: Researcher at the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Noah Bell
Undergraduate Researcher (2022-2024); Current Position: Analyst at Ascel Health

Judith Beaux
Visiting Masters Student (2023)

Natalia Jiménez
SRP Summer Student (2023); Current Position: Undergraduate at University of Puerto Rico

Nermine Hamed
Undergraduate Researcher (2020-2023)

Nicole Liberman
Undergraduate Researcher (2020-2021), Research Technician (2021-2022); Current Position: MD student at Columbia

Ike Ogbonna
Undergraduate Researcher (2020-2022); Current Position: MD/PhD student at UCSF

Michael Cesar
Undergraduate Researcher (2021); Current Position: MD student at Harvard

Vicky Mak
Research Technician (2019-2021); Current Position: Technical Writer