Graduate Students

Christian Abosede
Advisor: Dr. Susan Eliazer

Justice Adzre
Advisor: Dr. Catherine Brissette

Demilade Afolabi
Advisor: Dr. Kumi Nagamoto-Combs

Michael Allen
Advisor: Dr. L.Keith Henry

Foster Amewowor
Advisor: Dr. Xuesong Chen

Timothy Ayeni
Advisor: Dr. Alexei Tulin

Derek Besch
Advisor: Dr. Mikhail Golovko

Zach Bigelow
Advisor: Dr. Sergei Nechaev
Specialties: Epigenetics, Omics, Molecular Oncogenesis

Anna De Albuquerque Leite
Advisor: Dr. Xuesong Chen

Mansi Dere
Advisor: Drs. Emilie DeKrey & Thad Rosenberger

Dilini Ekanayake
Advisor: Dr. Kumi Nagamoto-Combs
Specialties: Neuroimmunology, Food Allergy, Immunophenotyping

Kingsley Ekumi
Advisor: Dr. Holly Brown-Borg

Mostafa Khaled Elhennawy
Advisor: Dr. Masfique Mehedi

Bernard Frempong
Advisor: Dr. Matthew Nilles
Specialties: Immunology & Microbiology

Brooke Froelich
Advisor: Drs. Benjamin Roche & Sergei Neachaev
Specialties: RNA Imaging, Epigenetics, Cellular Quiescense

Everett Glower
Advisor: Dr. Benjamin Roche
Specialties: Transcription, Epigenetics, Cellular Quiescence

Jenna Grindeland
Advisor: Dr. Archana Dhasarathy
Specialties: Cancer, Epigenetics, Microscopy

Sakuntha Gunarathna
Advisor: Dr. Motoki Takaku
Specialties: Cancer, cfDNA, Bioinformatics

Kaitlyn Gura
Advisor: Drs. Catherine Brissette & Archana Dhasarathy
Specialties: Lyme Arthritis, Epigenetics, Genomics

Nobuki Hida
Advisor: Dr. Motoki Takaku

Hannah Huthmaker
Advisor: Dr. Amanda Haage

Madison Jochim
Advisor: Dr. Eric Murphy
Specialties: Lipid biochemistry, Lipid metabolism, Lipid-transfer proteins

Matthew Johnston
Advisor: Dr. Holly Brown-Borg

Behnaz Karimialiabadi
Advisor: Drs. Jung Hur & Motoki Takaku

Nurcan Kilic
Advisor: Dr. Colin Combs
Specialties: Alzheimer's disease (AD), inflammation and neurodegeneration, amyloid precursor protein
(APP), Therapeutic targets in AD, neurotransmitter

Michaela Lano
Advisor: Dr. Barry Milavetz

Angela Mullins
Advisor: Dr. Kumi Naagamoto-Combs
Specialties: Sex differences in immune response to dietary and environmental allergens, gut-immune-brain
communication, neuroimmunology, neurodegenerative diseases

Aerica Nagornyuk
Advisor: Dr. Motoki Takaku

Chidiebele (Sharon) Oraegbuna
Advisor: Dr. Saobo Lei
Specialties: Ion channels, neuropeptides, electrophysiology

Taylor Painter
Advisor: Dr. Holly Brown-Borg
Justice Paintsil
Advisor: Dr. Susan Eliazer

Darius Quansah
Advisor: Dr. Jonathan Geiger
Specialties: Neuroscience, Alzheimer's Disease and HIV-1 Associated Neurocognitive Disorders, Endolysosome
Iron-based therapies

Brennon Schofield
Advisor: Dr. Mikhail Golovko

Abiola Sholarin
Advisor: Dr. David Bradley
Specialties: Immunology, Microbiology, Cancer Immunotherapy, and Infectious Disease