Sarah, Jan (Alumni), news post

Author: cassieperry

_people/jan-hummel.md

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 person_title: <a href="/people/jan-hummel">Jan Hummel</a>
 name: Jan Hummel
 subtitle: Undergraduate Student  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
-professional_title: "Visiting Research Fellow"
+professional_title: "TUM and LMU Munich (Bioinformatics) → Master's student, Cambridge"
 description: "Jan is a senior in the joint Bioinformatics program at TUM and LMU Munich. He has done undergraduate research in computational cancer genomics, focusing on miRNA signatures, signaling pathways, and transformer-based models for subtyping HNSCC tumor microenvironments. Currently, he is a Visiting Undergraduate Student, working on SigMa and the prediction of homologous recombination deficiency."
 layout: person
-status: "Active Member"
+status: "Alumni"
 image: ./img/jan-hummel.jpg
 hide_footer: true
-position_category: Students
+position_category: "Alumni: Undergraduate Thesis Students"
 additional_links:
     github: "https://github.com/github4touchdouble/"
+start_date: 2025-05-01
+end_date: 2026-01-01
 ---

_people/sarah-nicholson.md

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 person_title: <a href="/people/sarah-nicholson">Sarah Nicholson</a>
 name: Sarah Nicholson
 subtitle: Data Curator  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
-professional_title: "Data Curator"
+professional_title: "PhD in Plant Biology, UC Davis"
 academic_title: "PhD in Plant Biology, University of California, Davis"
 description: "Sarah received her PhD in Plant Biology from University of California, Davis. Her doctoral research focused on the dissection of quantitative trait variation in a multi-parent mapping population of maize, assessing the statistical power of various models to detect quantitative trait loci (QTL)  (Odell et al. (2022), G3) and the ability of gene expression QTL to explain variation in complex traits. Prior to her graduate training, Sarah worked as a Database Curator at GrainGenes, a USDA-funded genome database for small grains. Sarah joined the Park Lab in May 2024 as a Data Wrangler for the SMaHT Project."
 layout: person
-status: "Active Member"
+status: "Alumni"
 image: ./img/sarah-nicholson.jpg
 hide_footer: true
-position_category: Staff Scientists and Software Engineers
+position_category: "Alumni: Staff Scientists"
+start_date: 2024-05-01
+end_date: 2026-05-07
 ---

_posts/2026-04-30-jan-farewell

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+---
+layout: news-item
+title: "Farewell Jan!"
+subtitle: "April 30, 2026"
+page_name: news-item
+date: "2026-04-30"
+---
+
+We said farewell to Jan as he wraps up his work in Park Lab and will soon be graduating from university. Park Lab is excited to send Jan off to Cambridge next year to get his Master's Degree.
+
+![Image](/img/news-images/Jan_last_day.jpg)