Members and Alumni of the Rokas lab at the 32nd Fungal Genetics Conference, March 2024
Left to right: Matt Mead / Olivia Riedling / Marie-Claire Harrison / Annie Hatmaker / Abbe LaBella / Jacob Steenwyk / Kyle David / Antonis / Adi Gumilang / Karin Steffen / Thomas Sauters / Carla Goncalves
Annie Hatmaker’s PhD Thesis Defense, November 2023
Left to right: Karin Steffen / Thodoris Danis / Olivia Riedling / Alec Brown / Christina Chavez / Annie Hatmaker / Antonis / David Rinker / Dana Lin / Marie-Claire Harrison / Kyle David / Adi Gumilang
Rokas Lab, November 2023
Front row: Thodoris Danis / Karin Steffen / Annie Hatmaker / Christina Chavez / Olivia Riedling / Will White Back row: Kyle David / David Rinker / Antonis / Adi Gumilang / Marie-Claire Harrison / Thomas Sauters Not present: Alec Brown / Dana Lin / Charu Balamurugan / Corey Wiseman / Gideon Kpurubu / Rene Huerta
Members of the Rokas lab at the Cellular and Molecular Fungal Biology Gordon Research Conference, June 2022
Left to right: Antonis / Abbe LaBella / Annie Hatmaker / Marie-Claire Harrison
Farewell party for Matt Mead, April 2022
Left to right: Thomas Buida (honorary member) / Carla Gonçalves / Alec Brown / Jacob Steenwyk / Antonis / Andy Flick (Scientific Coordinator of Evolutionary Studies Initiative) / Christina Chavez / Marie-Claire Harrison / Adi Gumilang / Matt Mead
Members of the Rokas lab at the 31st Fungal Genetics Conference at Asilomar, March 2022
Left to right: Jacob Steenwyk / Marie-Claire Harrison / Carla Gonçalves / Antonis / Abbe LaBella / Annie Hatmaker
Farewell party for Li, October 2021
Front row: Annie Hatmaker / Matt Mead Back row: Yuanning Li / Thodoros Danis / Antonis / Alec Brown / Abbe LaBella / Marie-Claire Harrison / Christina Chavez Not present: Olivia Zheng / Miya Hugaboom
Farewell party for Megan, June 2021
Front row: Marie-Claire Harrison / Christina Chavez / Megan Phillips / Annie Hatmaker Back row: Yuanning Li / Matt Mead / Abbe LaBella / Antonis / Jacob Steenwyk Not present: Olivia Zheng / Miya Hugaboom
Zooming in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, July 2020
Top row: Megan Phillips / Antonis / Annie Hatmaker / Matt Mead Middle row: Yuanning Li / Alissa Cutrone / Alec Brown / Olivia Zheng Bottom row: Marie-Claire Harrison / Jacob Steenwyk / Renato Santos / Abbe LaBella
Outside the Rhea County Courthouse in Dayton, TN, where the Scopes Trial took place, July 2019
Left to right: Jacob Steenwyk / Matt Mead / Abbe LaBella / Clarence Darrow / Anne Hatmaker / Antonis / Alec Brown / Megan Phillips
Rokas lab, June 2019
Left to right: Antonis / Matt Mead / Jacob Steenwyk / Xing-Xing Shen / Anne Hatmaker / Megan Phillips / Abbe LaBella Not present: Olivia Zheng
Members of the Rokas lab at the 30th Fungal Genetics Conference at Asilomar, March 2019
Left to right: Jacob Steenwyk / Matt Mead / Antonis / Abbe LaBella
The Rokas Lab, December 2017
Back row: Juan Ortiz / Michelle Moon / Laura Hesse / Mingshuang Wang / Youhuang Bai / Jacob Steenwyk / Xing-Xing Shen Front row: Penguin / Mara Kim / Matt Mead / Antonis / Abbe LaBella
Rokas lab summer party, June 2017
Left to right: Matt Mead / Abigail Lind / Jen Wisecaver / Julie Phillips / Antonis / Xing-Xing Shen / Mingshuang Wang / Jacob Steenwyk / Haley Eidem / Zack Ely / Mara Kim / Michelle Moon
Fairwell party for Yuyu and Xiaofan, August 2016
Left to right: Alex Borowsky / Matt Mead / Jen Wisecaver / Xiaofan Zhou / Haley Eidem / Yuyu Wang and baby Roger / Antonis / Mara Kim / Abigail Lind / Juan Ortiz / Michelle Moon / Rebecca Burke-Aguero / Xing-Xing Shen / Kitae Kim
The Rokas Lab, Summer 2016
Back row: Xiaofan Zhou / Zack Ely / Sean King / Antonis / Kris McGary Middle row: Matt Mead / Michelle Noon / Mara Kim / Juan Ortiz / Haley Eidem / Julie Phillips Front row: Kitae Kim / Xing-Xing Shen / Yuyu Wang / Abigail Lind / Jen Wisecaver / Maddison Johnson Not present: Sam Smith / Alex Borowsky / Rebecca Burke-Aguero
The Rokas Lab, Summer 2014
Back row: Antonis / Mara Kim / David Rinker / Kris McGary / Tristan Abbott / Xiaofan Zhou Front row: Juan Ortiz / Abigail Lind / Jen Wisecaver / Haley Eidem / George Greene / Brian Cooper Not present: Leonidas Salichos / Sean King
The Rokas Lab, Summer 2013
Back row: Brian Cooper / Kris McGary / David Rinker / Antonis / Leonidas Salichos / Xiaofan Zhou / Ken Polzin Front row: George Greene / Haley Eidem / Mara Kim / Holly Elmore / Patricia Soria / Abigail Lind / Jen Wisecaver
Left to right: Brian Cooper / Xiaofan Zhou / Kris McGary / Ken Polzin / Holly Elmore / Jen Wisecaver / Abigail Lind / Mara Kim / Haley Eidem / Antonis
The Rokas Lab, Summer 2012
Back row: Kris McGary / Ken Polzin / Jason Slot / David Rinker Middle row: Antonis / Patricia Soria / Xiaofan Zhou Front row: Leonidas Salichos / George Greene / Holly Elmore / Mara Kim
The Rokas Lab, Summer 2011
Back row: Jason Slot / Kris McGary / David Rinker / Ioannis Stergiopoulos Middle row: Xiaofan Zhou / Antonis / Han Zhang Front row: John Gibbons / Leonidas Salichos / Patricia Soria / Holly Elmore / Matt Campbell
The Rokas Lab, Summer 2010
Left to Right: Antonis / Natalie Christian / Rich Minford / Leonidas Salichos / Jason Slot / Kris McGary / David Rinker / Doug Denniston / John Gibbons
Lab Alumni
Anne Hatmaker Grad, '18-'23
Carla Gonçalves Postdoc, '22
Jacob Steenwyk Grad, '16-'22
Abbe LaBella Postdoc, '17-'22
Miya Hugaboom Undergrad, '21-'22
Matthew Mead Postdoc, '15-'22
Olivia Zheng Undergrad, '19-'21
Renato Santos Grad, '18-'21
Yuanning Li PostDoc, '19-'21
Megan Phillips Undergrad & Research Assistant I, '19-'21
