People

PI:  Oliver Kerscher, Ph.D., Associate Professor Biology

Current Kerscher Lab yeast buds (no particular order):

Cari Mitchell

Rachel Ireland

Calder Burhart

Katherine Valentini

Emily Murtaugh

Daniel Li

Sam Li

Lily Torrans

Dilynne Hsu

Robby Shriver

Chiamaka Onuorah

Gregory Byun

Maddie Ferguson (W&M Biology Master Program)

Keegan Sweeney (W&M Biology Master Program)

Maisy Wang

Call out to former Lab members and volunteers: Cate Hutson (lab technologist at  Johns Hopkins), Christy Vilcas  (Masters at UVA), William Rice, Mariana VanPelt , Cate Jones, Bryant Humphries (Grad student at Vanderbilt), Aqsa Atif, Debby Zhong (Ferguson Award and 2023 summer research funding), Aanika Kapoor (public health Master program), Wendy Stewart (scribing and then Med School), Lexie Hiestand (graduate school at Duke), Stella Shen, Chuck Lin, Kate Balint, Ankita Adhvaryu, Audrey Feledy, Shriie Ganesh (2019 Ferguson Award Recipient now a clinical research coordinator), Meghan Acheson (Med school bound), Meghan Adams (Tick project with the Leu lab - grad school bound), Emily Pilc (2020 Ferguson Award recipient & Charles Center Semester Research Grant - now in Med School at EVMS), Malik Kabra (transferred to UVA).  Kaylee Henderson, Relena Turner, Yasaman Setayeshpour (Masters, 2019 Viginia Space Grant recipient, S. 2019 Laurie Sanderson Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring - now completing a Ph.D. at Duke); Woodard Hopper (St. Adrews masters Program), Miranda Brown (Masters in Social Work), Cat Harvey (NIH postbac), Rui Yin (UMBC Ph.D program), Nathalie Nguyen (Pharmacology School - bound), Grace Halloway (Sailing away!), Dante Morgera, Lauren Kohout, Alexis Sedgwick (off to save the turtles), Christopher Piatkowski (VCU Med School), Linh Quan (Med School-bound), Ryan Johnstone (Med School-bound), Christian Busch, Jen Peek (MD/Ph.d program at Vanderbilt).