GRADUATE STUDENTS

Alumni

Graduate Students

2017-2023     Jin Ou (Dissertation work focuses on unintended microbial targets of antidepressants and developing a yeast system to study SARS Mpro) (Graduated, with distinction); currently a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Yan Yu, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University

2019-2023     Le Phu Pham (Dissertation work focuses on developing microfluidic devices that can be used to support studies of inter-species and inter-kingdom cell-cell signaling and developing a method to assemble bacterial biofilms in hydrogels) (Graduated with distinction)

2015-2021     Sameer Shah (Dissertation work focuses on how nutrient signaling pathways regulate genome and chromosome stability; recipient of                2017 Roland Nardone Award for Graduate Teaching Excellence) (Graduated with distinction)

2016-2021     Charles Bolton (Dissertation focused on post-translational modifications of the yeast kinetochore and how acetylation contributes to       chromosome segregation fidelity) 

2016-2021    Khaled Essawi (Dissertation work focuses on development of rAAV6 to deliver CRISPR/Cas9 to correct sickle cell point mutations,     co-directed with Dr. John Tisdale, NHLBI, NIH) (Graduated with distinction)

2016-2020    Husam Qanash (Dissertation work focuses on cell and gene therapies for inherited blood disorders, co-directed with Dr. Andre     Larochelle, NHLBI, NIH) (Graduated)

Undergraduate Students

2023             Jane Gorman

2023             Natasha Tomaszewski

2023             Justina Benvenuto

2022 -2024   Ben Rees

2021             Ben Ballway

2020-2022    Natalie Vasconez

2019-2020    Danielle Lonbong

2018             Sofia Pareja Lima, Peru

2018-2019    Jacob Ballway (Senior, Biology major)

2015-2020    *Paul Elizalde (Recipient of a Donald King Summer Fellowship from the Huntington’s Disease Society of America, recipient of          FASEB DREAM Travel Award invited to present at 2018 Huntington’s Disease Society of America Convention, 2017 and                                        2018 presenter for CUA Research Day)

2013-2017     *Leah Henry (Honorable mention at 2017 American Association for Cancer Research Meeting, Honorable Mention for Barry         Goldwater Scholarship, Graduated with Honors, Co-recipient of Department of Biology Senior Academic Excellence Award, Entering                            Second Year at University of Maryland Medical School)

2015-2016    Alyssa Jespersen (Poster presentation 2016 Georgetown University Undergraduate Research Symposium, Entering Graduate Program     in Microbiology at University of Pittsburgh

2015             Jessica Chimene Fernandes (summer student from Federal University of Paraná sponsored by the Brazilian Scientific Mobility Program     (BSMP))

2015-2016    Kristina Petrich (Entering Third Year at University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine)

2015-2016    Christian Constantine (Poster presentation 2016 Georgetown University Undergraduate Research Symposium)

2015-2016     Rebecca Martens (Poster presentation 2016 CUA research Day)

2015              Mariana Cruz

2014-2015     Patricia Collucci (Entering Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine)

2014              Anabela Esteves (Applying to Medical School)

2014-2015     Peter Sennert (Joined the Society of Mary - Marianists)

2013              Paula Restrepo (Bioinformatician at Icahn School of Medicine)

2013              Esa Mobaraki