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Alumni

Graduate Students:

  • Jaynath Jawahar, Ph.D. 5/2018-8/2023 – subsequent position: Associate Scientist in NGS, TScan Therapeutics.
  • Gilberto Padilla Mercado, M.S. 5/2018-02/2023 – subsequent position: Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) Fellow and Data Analyst at the US Environmental Protection Agency.
  • Cecelia Kelly, Ph.D. 5/2017-8/2023 – subsequent position: Lab Research Analyst, Functional Genomics Core, Duke University.
  • S. Ted Espenschied, Ph.D. 5/2014-8/2019 – subsequent position: Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Thad Stappenbeck, Cleveland Clinic.
  • Caitlin Murdoch, Ph.D. 5/2014-5/2019 – subsequent position: Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Eric Skaar, Vanderbilt University.
  • James Davison, Ph.D. 1/2012-5/2017 – subsequent position: Research Analyst with Dr. Paul Wischmeyer, Departments of Anesthesiology and Surgery, Duke University; current position: Director of Translational Genomics, GeneCentric Therapeutics, Inc.
  • Sandi Wong, Ph.D. 5/2010-4/2015: subsequent position: Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Patrick Seed, Department of Pediatrics, Duke University; current position: Senior Medical Writer, Envision Pharma Group.
  • Ivana Semova, Ph.D. 7/2007-5/2012 – subsequent position: Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Robert Farese, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, University of California – San Francisco; current position: Staff Scientist, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.
  • Gray Camp, Ph.D. 5/2008-7/2012 – subsequent position: Postdoctoral Fellow with Drs. Gill Berjerano and David Kingsley, Stanford University; current position: Group Leader, Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology, University of Basel, Basel, SUI.
  • Michelle Kanther, Ph.D. 5/2007-10/2011 – subsequent position: Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Meera Sundaram, University of Pennsylvania; current position, Assistant Professor, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Philadelphia PA.

Postdoctoral Fellows:

  • Ian Williamson, Ph.D. 7/2018-10/2023 – current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University.
  • Matthew Tillman, Ph.D. 8/2020-04/2023 – current position: Medical Science Liaison, Eli Lilly & Co.
  • Lihua Ye, Ph.D. 8/2015-10/2021 – current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Ohio State University.
  • Jennifer Heppert, Ph.D. 10/2017-12/2019 – current position: Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Heidi Goodrich-Blair, University of Tennessee.
  • Sol Gomez De La Torre Canny, Ph.D. 4/2014-9/2017 – current position: Microbiome Specialist, Skretting, Norway.
  • James Minchin, Ph.D. 3/2009-7/2016 – current position: Principal Investigator and Senior Lecturer, BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh, Queens Medical Research Institute, Edinburgh, UK.
  • Jordan Cocchiaro, Ph.D. 9/2010-5/2016 – current position: Senior Scientific Program Leader, Duke Human Vaccine Institute.
  • Linh Pham, Ph.D. 2/2008-8/2008 – current position: Grant Writer, Duke University

Research Staff:

  • Julia Godwin
  • Eileen Gu
  • Justice Liu
  • Rebecca Graham
  • Shelia Janardhan
  • Patrick Williams
  • Edward Flynn
  • Lantz Mackey
  • Michela Osborn
  • Jessica Russell
  • Laura Schulte
  • Chad Trent

Undergraduate Students:

  • Megan DiFranco
  • London Harper
  • Tiffany Liu
  • Aditya Kotla
  • Jonathan Avendano
  • Adriana Guzman Holst
  • Dustin Hadfield
  • Sung Baek
  • Jamie-Lee Beckford
  • Gabriel Beluchukwu
  • Amber Bivins
  • Ian Cassidy
  • Camil Craciunescu
  • Jaquay Davis
  • Howard Deng
  • T. Conor Guest
  • Alvin Han
  • Christopher Harvey
  • Yasmine Jackson
  • Amelia Jazwa
  • Gabrielle Johnson
  • Eliza Jones
  • Aditya Kotla
  • Tiffany Liu
  • Megan Moran
  • Caitlin McCormick
  • Clare McKenzie
  • Janine Rose
  • Dolvin Speight
  • Connor Traugot
  • Amanda Velez
  • Brad Woodie
  • Lysk Wyckoff
  • Jenny Yang
  • Jinee Yoon
  • Soraya Zakerin