Below are just some of the highlights from the Grogan Lab!

2025

January - Dr. Grogan leaves for Uganda.

March - Olayemi and Kelly presented a poster at the annual conference of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists in Baltimore, MD. Elizabeth attended as well! Dr. Grogan returned over 2 months in Uganda collecting samples from the Batwa and Bakiga communities.

April- Kelly Pawlak will graduate from the University of Cincinnati and will be attending the Masters Program in Infectious Disease and Microbiology at the University of Pittsburgh in the fall. We're so proud of her!

2024

January - Kelly Pawlak joined the Grogan lab!

April - Dr. Grogan is chosen as a Taft Center Fellow for 2024-2025. Zeke and Brady graduate from the University of Cincinnati! Zeke will be starting as a PhD student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne in the fall and Brady began a job at Camco Chemical. Congratulations!

May - Olayemi is also awarded a Wieman Benedict Research Award from the Department of Biological Sciences and the lab is awarded a Faculty Scholars Award from the University of Cincinnati. Kelly and Elizabeth are each awarded a Taft Summer Mentor-Mentee Research Award. 

July - The lab is awarded a Research Grant from the Leakey Foundation!

2023

March - Olayemi is awarded a University Research Council Graduate Student Summer Stipend for a Faculty-Student Collaboration! Dr. Grogan gave a talk at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

April - Dr. Grogan published a paper on the power of peer networking for postdoctoral fellows! And also gave a talk at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne. 

May - Christine Peterson graduates and is admitted to the UC College of Medicine Biomedical Research Technologies Masters Program. Also Zeke Pierson & Brady Carr joined the lab as an undergraduate research assistants. Zeke's participation in the lab is supported by a Summer Mentor-Mentee Research Award from the Taft Center! Olayemi is also awarded a Wieman Benedict Research Award from the Department of Biological Sciences.

August - Elizabeth McGinnis joined the lab as an undergraduate research assistant.

2022

April - Grace Miller presented a poster at AABA 2022 and graduates as the first undergraduate from the Grogan lab and begins a job as a Genetics Counseling Assistant!

July - Christine Peterson joined the lab as an undergraduate research assistant.

2021

August - Olayemi Ajayi began as the first PhD student in the Grogan lab

June - Dr. Grogan is a co-author on former mentee Audrey Arner's paper published in PLoS Genetics

May - Grace & Dr. Grogan are awarded a Mentor-Mentee Award from the Taft Center

January - Grace Miller joined the Grogan lab as the first person besides Dr. Grogan!

2020

August - The Grogan lab officially opens at the University of Cincinnati.