Graduate Students
Christian Abosede
First Year Student
Maryam Afghah
First Year Student
Tobi Aminu
Advisor: Dr. Junguk Hur
Specialties: Bioinformatics, Regulatory genomics & predictive modelling
Gbolahan Bamgbose
Advisor: Dr. Alexei Tulin
Specialties: Epigenetics, Proteomics, PARPs
Derek Besch
First Year Student
Nivedita Biswas
Advisor: Dr. David Bradley
Specialties: Microbiology, immunology, epigenetic mechanisms
Cody Boyle
Advisor: Dr. Saobo Lei
Specialties: Electrophysiology, neuropeptides
Chris Brown
Advisor: Dr. Jamie Foster
Savannah Brown
Advisor: Dr. Marc Basson
Specialties: Cancer, Schlafen Family Proteins, Chemotherapeutics
Dawn Cleveland
Advisor: Dr. Catherine Brissette
Specialties: Microbiology, Lyme disease, Host-Pathogen Interactions
Mikhala Cooper-Robinson
Advisor: Dr. Motoki Takaku
Specialties: Epigenetics, pioneer factors, GATA3
Dilini Ekanayake
Advisor: Dr. Kumi Nagamoto-Combs
Specialties: Neuroimmunology, Food Allergy, Immunophenotyping
Bernard Frempong
Advisor: Dr. David Bradley
Specialties: Immunology & Microbiology
Evertt Glower
First Year Student
Sakuntha Gunarathna
Advisor: Dr. Motoki Takaku
Specialties: Cancer, cfDNA, Bioinformatics
Kaitlyn Gura
First Year Student
Wendie Hasler
Advisor: Dr. Xuesong Chen
Specialties: Virology, neuroimmune disorders, and endosomal Toll-Like Receptors
Jacob Haugen
Advisor: Dr. Barry Milavetz
Specialties: Epigenetic regulation, chromatin structure, and Simian Virus 40(SV40)
Madison Jochim
Advisor: Dr. Eric Murphy
Specialties: Lipid biochemistry, Lipid metabolism, Lipid-transfer proteins
Matthew Johnston
First Year Student
Behnaz Karimialiabadi
First Year Student
Mostafa Khaled
First Year Student
Nirmal Kumar
Advisor: Dr. Jonathan Geiger
Specialties: Neurodegeneration, Redox Biology, Endolysosome iron metabolism, Oxidative stress
Nurcan Kilic
First Year Student
Michaela Lano
Advisor: Dr. Masfique Mehedi
Anna Mansouripour
First Year Student
Nelofar Nargis
Advisor: Dr. Colin Combs
Specialties: Cancer Biology, Immunology, 3D Cell culture
Abiodun Odufuwa
Advisor: Dr. John Watt
Specialties: Epigenetics of neuronal regeneration, Astrocytes and neurons interactions during regeneration.
Sema Oncel
Advisor: Dr. Marc Basson
Specialties: Wound healing, Cancer, Drug development
Chidiebele (Sharon) Oraegbuna
Advisor: Dr. Saobo Lei
Specialties: Ion channels, neuropeptides, electrophysiology
Sean Pollack
Advisor: Dr. Saobo Lai
Specialties: Neurodegenerative diseases: Alzheimer's and Dementia, Mental Disorders: Anxiety and
Depression, Gestation related to Neuroscience, Neurohormones and Neuropeptides
Jason Power
Advisor: Dr. Van Doze
Darius Quansah
Advisor: Dr. Jonathan Geiger
Specialties: Neuroscience, Alzheimer's Disease and HIV-1 Associated Neurocognitive Disorders, Endolysosome
Iron-based therapies
Neda Rezagholizadeh
Advisor: Dr. Xuesong Chen
Specialties: Neuro-HIV, HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorder (HAND), COVID-19
Brennon Schofield
First Year Student
Abiola Sholarin
Advisor: Dr. David Bradley
Specialties: Immunology, Microbiology, Cancer Immunotherapy, and Infectious Disease
Sattya Narayan Talukdar
Advisor: Dr. Masfique Mehedi
Specialties: Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Immunology
Nathan Velaris
Advisor: Dr. David Bradley