Alumni

William Best, Ph. D.

William was a graduate student in the Rajan lab for short period and graduated in August 2025. He moved on to Penn State Hershey Medical Center and College of Medicine as a postdoctoral researcher.

Lindsie Martin, Ph. D.

Lindsie was a graduate student in the Rajan lab and graduated in August 2024. She moved on to Cytovance Biologics, OKC, OK.

Sydney Newsom, Ph. D.

Sydney was a graduate student in the Rajan lab and graduated in December 2022. She moved on to a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Central Oklahoma, OK.

Baylee Lacy

Baylee was a graduate student in the Rajan lab and graduated with a Masters degree in December 2021. She moved on as a Research Assistant in the Laboratory of Biomolecular Structure and Function at the the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC).

Kesavan Babu, Ph. D.

Kesavan was a postdoc in the Rajan lab from August 2016 to July 2021. He moved on to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas.

Mason Van Orden, Ph. D.

Mason was a graduate student in the Rajan lab and graduated in August 2020. He moved on to Cytovance Biologics, OKC, OK.

Hari Priya Parameshwaran, Ph. D.

Priya was a graduate student in the Rajan lab and graduated in May 2021. She moved on to Cytovance Biologics, OKC, OK.

Ramya Sundaresan, Ph. D.

Ramya was a postdoc in the Rajan lab from August 2016 to December 2019. She moved on to the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Yogesha S. D., Ph. D.

Yogesha worked in the Rajan lab from October 2014 to May 2016. He moved on to Krystal Biotech, Inc. Pittsburgh, PA.

Peter Klein, Ph. D.

Peter worked in the Rajan lab from January 2015 to February 2016. He moved on to the Kansas State University as a Research Assistant Professor.

Richard Nguyen

Graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a B.S. in Biochemical Sciences in May of 2016. Richard worked in Dr. Rajan's lab on PCR amplifications, RNA transcription, cloning, and activity assays with CRISPR-Cas systems.

Chris Elledge

Chris worked in Rajan lab in the summer of 2015 as an REU. He worked on cloning, protein purification, and crystallography.

Darlean Martin

Darlean worked in Rajan lab in the summer of 2016 as an REU. She worked on cloning, transcription, gel shift assay, and crystallography.

Sungho Suh

Sungho worked in Rajan lab in the summer of 2015 as an RA. He worked on data minimg and analysis.

Jacob Rogers

Jacob worked in Rajan lab in the spring of 2016 as a FYRE student. He worked on protein purification and crystallography.

Marie Nguyen

Marie worked in Rajan lab in the spring of 2016 as an undergrad. She worked on PCR and Cloning.

Miranda Schene

Miranda worked in Rajan lab in the spring of 2016 as an undergrad.

Rachel M. Schooley

Rachel worked in Rajan lab in the spring of 2015 as an undergrad.

Mark Keilbarth

Mark graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a B.S. in Biochemistry in May of 2017. Mark performed RNA transcriptions and activity assays to characterize the CRISPR-Cas systems.

Tyler C. Robison

Tyler worked in Rajan lab in the spring of 2015 as an FYRE student.

Kelsey Burd

Kelsey graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a B.S. in Chemical Biosciences in May of 2017. Kelsey performed activity assays and gel shift assays to characterize CRISPR-Cas adaptation mechanism.

Naaila Ali

Naaila worked in Rajan lab in the summer of 2017 as an REU. She worked on protein purification, activity assays, and crystallography.

Kyle Boulanger

Kyle worked in Rajan lab in the summer of 2017 as an REU. He worked on cloning, protein purification, and activity assays.

Patrick Lockwood

Patrick worked in Rajan lab until May 2018.

Anu Asokan

Anu worked in Rajan lab until December 2018.

Rahul Rajala

Rahul worked in Rajan lab until May 2018.