Graduate Students
Christian Abosede
Advisor: Dr. Susan Eliazer
Justice Adzre
First Year Student
Demilade Afolabi
First Year Student
Michael Allen
Advisor: Dr. L.Keith Henry
Foster Amewowor
First Year Student
Timothy Ayeni
First Year Student
Derek Besch
Advisor: Dr. Mikhail Golovko
Zach Bigelow
Advisor: Dr. Sergei Nechaev
Specialties: Epigenetics, Omics, Molecular Oncogenesis
Dawn Cleveland
Advisor: Dr. Catherine Brissette
Specialties: Microbiology, Lyme disease, Host-Pathogen Interactions
Anna De Albuquerque Leite
First Year Student
Mansi Dere
First Year Student
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
Jacob Haugen
Advisor: Dr. Barry Milavetz
Specialties: Epigenetic regulation, chromatin structure, and Simian Virus 40(SV40)
Nobuki Hida
First Year Student
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
First Year Student
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
Syed Shahab Ud Din Shah
First Year Student
Abiola Sholarin
Advisor: Dr. David Bradley
Specialties: Immunology, Microbiology, Cancer Immunotherapy, and Infectious Disease