Graduate Students
Sarmad Al-Marsoummi
Advisor: Dr. Marc Basson
- Research Interests: Cancer pathogenesis, Breast cancer, Epithelial differentiation
Zahra Afghah
Advisor: Dr. Xuesong Chen
- Research Interests: Neuroscience and neurodegenerative diseases
Ashrifa Ali
Advisor: Dr. Bryon Grove
- Research Interests: Proteomics, 3D Tissue Engineering
Gbolahan Bamgbose
1st Year Student
Atrayee Bhattacharya
Advisor: Dr. Archana Dhasarathy
Sayem Bhuiyan
Advisor: Dr. Alexei Tulin
- Research Interests: Epigenetics
Joseph Biggane
Advisor: Dr. Van Doze
- Research Interests: Norepinephrine, hippocampus, epilepsy, learning and memory
Emily Biggane
Advisor: Dr. Jane Dunlevy
- Research Interests: Tumor initiation, tumor progression, and heavy metal-induced bladder carcinogenesis
Nivedita Biswas
Advisor: Dr. David Bradley
- Research Interests: Microbiology, immunology, epigenetic mechanisms
Cody Boyle
1st Year Student
Sayantani Ghosh Dastidar
Advisors: Dr. Min Wu & Dr. Sergei Nechaev
- Research Interests: Transcriptional regulation of eukaryotic gene expression in inflammation and cancer
Matthew Ficks
Advisor: Dr. Matthew Nilles
Peter Halcrow
Advisor: Dr. Jonathan Geiger
Moriah Hovde
Advisor: Dr. James Foster
Mitchell Klomp
1st Year Student
Nii Koney Kwaku-Koney
Advisor: Dr. Sergei Nechaev
Leo Lakpa
Advisor: Dr. Jonathan Geiger
- Research Interests: Endolysosome dysfunction in HIV associated neurocognitive dysfunction
Regan Lawrence
1st Year Student
Brett McGregor
Advisors: Dr. Junguk Hur & Dr. Jim Porter
- Research Interests: Applying systems pharmacology approaches to neurological diseases and questions
Nicole Miller
Advisor: Dr. Xuesong Chen
- Research Interests: Neuroscience and neurodegenerative diseases
Kyle O'Donnell
Advisor: Dr. David Bradley
- Research Interests: Influenza A and Dengue virus
Sema Oncel
Advisor: Dr. Marc Basson
- Research Interests: Wound healing, cancer, drug development
Meghan Rodriquez
Advisors: Dr. Keith Henry & Dr. Bryon Grove
Smruthi Rudraraju
Advisor: Dr. Archana Dhasarathy
Taylor Schmit
Advisor: Dr. Nadeem Khan
- Research Interests: Streptococcus pneumoniae pathogenesis in the presence of chronic inflammation due to asthma.
Ethan Snow
Advisor: Dr. Ken Ruit
- Research Interests: Education research involving curriculum design, teaching and assessment methods, and peer mentoring
Mona Sohrabi
Advisor: Dr. Colin Combs
- Research Interests: Cancer, epigenetics
Daniel Stanislowski
Advisor: Dr. Jamie Foster
Sattya Narayan Talukdar
Advisor: Dr. Masfique Mehedi
- Research Interests: Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Immunology
Derick Thompson
Advisor: Dr. Catherine Brissette
- Research Interests: Epigenetics, bioinformatics