People — Sirk Research Group

Sirk Lab farewell for Ben, pandemic-style - Summer 2020

Sirk Lab farewell for Ben, pandemic-style - Summer 2020

Sirk and Gaj labs celebrate the move to Everitt - Summer, 2018

Sirk and Gaj labs celebrate the move to Everitt - Summer, 2018

Sirk Lab farewell for Rahman, pandemic-style (winter edition) - December 2020

Sirk Lab farewell for Rahman, pandemic-style (winter edition) - December 2020

Vince at Antibody Engineering - San Diego, 2022

Vince at Antibody Engineering - San Diego, 2022

Yu-Hsuan at ICME - Boston, 2022

Yu-Hsuan at ICME - Boston, 2022

Yu-Hsuan got us back to the hotel through the secret mall entrance

Yu-Hsuan got us back to the hotel through the secret mall entrance

Shweta - Clare Boothe Luce Research Scholar Poster, 2022

Shweta - Clare Boothe Luce Research Scholar Poster, 2022

Holiday Party 2022

Holiday Party 2022

Making plum wine - no tasting until you graduate (2022)

Making plum wine - no tasting until you graduate (2022)

Sirk and Gaj Labs escape room - 2019

Sirk and Gaj Labs escape room - 2019

Sirk Lab - 2021

Sirk Lab - 2021

Sirk Lab representing at Central US Synthetic Biology workshop in Madison, WI (2022)

Sirk Lab representing at Central US Synthetic Biology workshop in Madison, WI (2022)

Post-escape room pizza with the Gaj Lab - 2019

Post-escape room pizza with the Gaj Lab - 2019

New lab space - big hole in the wall (2022)

New lab space - big hole in the wall (2022)

Shannon J. Sirk

sirk@illinois.edu

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Graduate Students

Yu-Hsuan Yeh

yhyeh3@illinois.edu

Mark L. Tarabey

tarabey2@illinois.edu

Mitchell L. Bryant

mbryant3@illinois.edu

Yishuo Jiang

yishuoj2@illinois.edu

Undergraduates

Casey I. Meskovich

caseyim2@illinois.edu

Sharon C. Ignatius Newton

sharonn2@illinois.edu

Gerardo M. Paramo

gparamo2@illinois.edu

Shriya Wagholikar

shriyaw2@illinois.edu

Former Members

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS

Rahman Rahman Pour, 2018-2020
Geoffrey A. Christensen, 2018-2020

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Vince W. Kelly 2018-2024 (Ph.D.)
Noah S. Schmid, 2018-2020
Suyue Lyu, 2020-2021

RESEARCH SPECIALISTS

Christopher Lyle, 2022-2025

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Alexander Sekulic, 2024-2025
Shriya Anant, 2024-2025
Vinayak Annapure - Summer 2023
Janhavee S. Panse - Summer 2023
Zubin R. Havewala, 2021-2024
Alexa J. Mitka, 2021-2023
Corey R. Beaver, 2021-2023
Shweta R. Khorana, 2019-2022
Benjamin K. Liang, 2018-2020
Ian M. Tabor, 2018-2020
Olumide A. Ayeni, 2018-2019
Taylor Walker - Summer 2018