Graduate Students
Temidayo Adeluwa
First-Year Student
Sarmad Al-Marsoummi
Advisor: Dr. Marc Basson
- Research Interests: Cancer pathogenesis, Breast cancer, Epithelial differentiation
Zahra Afghah
Advisors: Dr. Xuesong Chen Dr. Jonathan Geiger
- Research Interests: Neuroscience and neurodegenerative diseases
Ashrifa Ali
Advisor: Dr. Bryon Grove
- Research Interests: Proteomics, 3D Tissue Engineering
Malak Alzidaneen
First-Year Student
Gbolahan Bamgbose
Advisor: Dr. Alexei Tulin
- Research Interests: Epigenetics, Proteomics, PARPs
Sayem Bhuiyan
Advisor: Dr. Alexei Tulin
- Research Interests: Epigenetics
Joseph Biggane
Advisor: Dr. Van Doze
- Research Interests: Norepinephrine, hippocampus, epilepsy, learning and memory
Nivedita Biswas
Advisor: Dr. David Bradley
- Research Interests: Microbiology, immunology, epigenetic mechanisms
Cody Boyle
Advisor: Dr. Saobo Lei
Dawn Cleveland
First-Year Student
Mikhala Cooper
First-Year Student
Sayantani Ghosh Dastidar
Advisors: Dr. Min Wu & Dr. Sergei Nechaev
- Research Interests: Transcriptional regulation of eukaryotic gene expression in inflammation and cancer
Jacob Haugen
First-Year Student
Moriah Hovde
Advisor: Dr. James Foster
Madison Jochim
First-Year Student
Mitchell Klomp
Advisor: Dr. Nadeem Khan
Leo Lakpa
Advisor: Dr. Jonathan Geiger
- Research Interests: Endolysosome dysfunction in HIV associated neurocognitive dysfunction
Regan Lawrence
Advisor: Dr. Eric Murphy
Nicole Miller
Advisor: Dr. Xuesong Chen
- Research Interests: Neuroscience and neurodegenerative diseases
Abiodun Odufuwa
First-Year Student
Sema Oncel
Advisor: Dr. Marc Basson
- Research Interests: Wound healing, cancer, drug development
Jason Power
First-Year Student
Nathan Riha
First-Year Student
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.
Mona Sohrabi
Advisor: Dr. Colin Combs
- Research Interests: Cancer, epigenetics
Sattya Narayan Talukdar
Advisor: Dr. Masfique Mehedi
- Research Interests: Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Immunology
Derick Thompson
Advisor: Dr. Catherine Brissette
- Research Interests: Epigenetics, bioinformatics