From left to right in the picture (taken in the summer of 1998):

• Michael Q. Zhang (P.I.)
• Ilya Ioshikhes (Post-doc)
• Zhanna Ioschikhes (Scientific programmer)
• Jack Tabaska (Post-doc)
• Brian Chang (Former URP student, Maniatis lab at Harvard)
• Jian Zhu (Post-doc)
• Jin Feng (Graduate student)
• Rukhsana Bari (Undergraduate student, not in the picture)