Trainee Directory by Graduate Program
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Biomedical Engineering
Thomas Li (he/him)
Bennett Landman Lab, G4
Adam Abdulrahman (he/him)
Ethan Lippmann Lab, G2
Neil Chada
John Wilson Lab, G3
Chloe Cho
Bennett Landman Lab, G2
Derek Doss
Dario Englot Lab, G4
Taryn Dunigan
Brett Byram Lab, G2
Candace Grisham (she/her)
Marjan Rafat Lab, G4
Bruno Hidalgo Monroy Lerma (he/him)
Dario Englot Lab, G1
Mark I. Petrovic
Matthew Bacchetta and Ciara Shaver Labs, G2
Anas Reda
Dario Englot Lab, G1
Anvith Reddy (he/him)
Wesley Thayer and Galen Perdikis Labs, G1
Biomedical Informatics
Victor Borza (he/him)
Brad Malin Lab, G4
Monika Grabowska (she/hers)
Wei-Qi Wei Lab, G4
John Shelley (he/him)
Jonathan Mosley Lab, G5+
Cancer Biology
Natalie Bennett, Ph.D. (she/her)
Julie Rhoades Lab, M4
Riley Bergman (she/her)
Ben Ho Park Lab, G5+
Yunli Emily Chu (she/her)
Brent Ferrell Lab, G5+
Reilly Fankhauser (he/him)
Justin Balko Lab, G2
Matthew Loberg (he/him)
Vivian Weiss Lab, G5+
Sarah Reed (she/her)
Ben Ho Park Lab, G4
Alex Silver, Ph.D.
Michael Savona Lab, M4
Jailyn Smith (she/her)
Rachelle Johnson Lab, G1
Megan Tigue
Vivian Weiss Lab, G4
Raymond J. Zhang (he/him)
Tae Kon Kim Lab, G3
Cell and Developmental Biology
Eric KF Donahue (he/him)
Kris Burkewitz Lab, G5+
Arlene Garcia (she/her)
Maulik Patel Lab, G3
Jen Peek (she/her)
Matthew Wilson and Lauren Woodard Labs, G4
Jack Trapani (he/him)
Juan Pablo (JP) Arroyo Lab (Roy Zent co-mentor), G2
Chemical and Physical Biology
Joseph DeCorte
Jens Meiler Lab (Jeff Rathmell co-mentor), G3
Atlee Witt
Seth Smith Lab, G2
Epidemiology
Simone Herzberg, Ph.D. (she/her)
Katherine Hartmann and Jonathan Schoenecker Labs, M4
Health Policy and Health Services Research
Human Genetics
Xavier Bledsoe
Eric Gamazon Lab, G5+
Hannah Giannini (she/her)
Alex Bick Lab, G1
Jeewoo Kim (she/her)
Digna Velez Edwards and Jacklyn Hellwege Labs, G3
Allie Lake (she/her)
Lea Davis Lab, G4
Samuel Alexander Palmer (he/him)
Douglas Ruderfer Lab, G2
Yash Pershad (he/him)
Alex Bick Lab, G2
David Wu, Ph.D.
Antonis Hatzopoulos Lab, M4
Microbe-Host Interactions
Kyle T. Enriquez
Eric Skaar Lab, G3
Bruno Lança (he/him)
Borden Lacy Lab, G1
Seth Reasoner (he/him)
Maria Hadjifrangiskou Lab, G5+
Clara Si (she/her)
Jim Cassat Lab, G4
Molecular Pathology and Immunology
Avery Bogart (she/her)
Lorraine Ware Lab, G4
Landon Clark (he/him)
Rachel Bonami and Jeff Rathmell Labs, G1
Aamina Dandy (she/her)
Dawn Newcomb Lab, G1
Zach Ewell (he/him)
Mary Philip Lab, G1
Emilie Fisher-Gupta (she/her)
Jeff Rathmell Lab, G5+
Emma Hope (she/her)
Amanda Doran Lab, G1
Zachary Jones
1996-2021
Margaret McBride, Ph.D. (she/her)
Ed Sherwood Lab, M4
Kaitlin McKernan (she/her)
Dawn Newcomb Lab, G3
Casey Nichols (they/them)
Jeff Rathmell Lab, G1
Duby Okonkwo
Jonathan Schoenecker Lab, G2
G. Donald Okoye, Ph.D. (he/him)
Sebastian Joyce Lab, M4
Mark Rusznak
Stokes Peebles Lab, G4
Max Van Belkum
Mariana Byndloss Lab, G2
Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Yasminye Pettway (she/her)
Al Powers Lab, G5+
Ariel Thorson (she/her)
John Stafford Lab, G3
Neuroscience
Stirling Argabright (he/him)
Stephan Heckers Lab, G1
Kimberly (Kimmy) Bress (she/her)
Carissa Cascio Lab, G3
Stephanie Cajigas Gabriel
Erin Calipari Lab, G5+
Thomas Clarity (he/him)
Erin Calipari Lab, G1
Nada Elsayed
Kevin Ess Lab, G3
Evelyn Kandov (she/her)
Cody Siciliano Lab, G3
Drew Kittleson (he/him)
Julia Sheffield Lab, G3
Hailey Kresge (she/her)
Angela Jefferson Lab, G3
Ansley Kunnath (she/her)
Mark Wallace Lab, G4
Nicholas Petersen, Ph.D.
Danny Winder Lab, M4
Ericka Randazzo (she/her)
Kendal Broadie Lab, G3
Jordan Washecheck
Brad Grueter Lab, G3
Zack Williams, Ph.D.
Tiffany Woynaroski and Carissa Cascio Labs, M4
Fei Yang (she/her)
Rick Sando Lab, G2
Kevin Zhang (he/him)
Lisa Monteggia and Ege Kavalali Labs, G2
Pharmacology
Aaron Gochman (he/him)
Bjorn Knollmann Lab, G4