Postdoctoral Fellows

  • Jing Liu, PhD, 2019-2025, current: Principal Investigator, University of Science and Technology of China
  • Nicole Moss, PhD, 2023-2025, current: Postdoctoral Fellow, Nichol’s Lab, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
  • Lucas Serdar, PhD, 2019-2025, current: Regional Business Analyst, Elsevier
  • Fernando cruz Alsina, PhD, 2017-2024, current: Assistant Member St. Jude Faculty, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
  • Camila Musso, PhD, 2020-2023
  • Mariah Hoye, PhD, 2018-2022, current: Program Manager, NINDS Office of Research Quality
  • Louis-Jan Pilaz, PhD, 2012-2019, current: Associate Scientist/Assistant Professor, Sanford Research Institute, University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine
  • John McMahon, PhD, 2013-2017, current: Director, Regulatory Affairs, Sumitomo Pharma
  • Lei Shi, PhD 2011-2013, current: General Dentist, Lane and Associates Family Dentistry

PhD Students

  • Abby Poff, PhD, 2019-2025
  • Bianca Lupan, PhD, 2017-2023, current: Associate Technical Director, Labcorp
  • Brooke D’Arcy, PhD, 2017-2023, current: Staff scientist, Silver lab, Duke
  • Aaron Mitchell-Dick, PhD, 2013-2020, current: Scientist II, 4D Molecular Therapeutics
  • Ashley Lennox, PhD, 2012-2018, current: Associate Director, Clinical Pharmacology, Geron Corporation
  • Emily Miller, PhD, 2011-2017, current: Associate Director, Program Management, BelGene
  • Hanqian Mao, MS, PhD, 2010-2016, current: Scientist II Pre-Clinical Development, Life Edit Therapeutics
  • Lomax Boyd, PhD, 2010-2014, current: Assistant Research Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Research technicians and students

  • Carla Escobar-Tomlienovich, BS, Research Technician, 2022-2024, current: Medical student, Tufts University School of Medicine
  • Carly Newman, BS, Research Technician, 2019-2022, current: Clinical Research Coordinator, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Charlie Sheehan, BS, PhD, Research Technician, 2017-2019, current: Postdoctoral fellow, Klann lab, NYU
  • Jeremy Rouanet, BS, Technician 2014-2017, current: MSTP student, UC Irvine
  • Autumn Rorrer, BS, Lab Technician, 2014-2016, current: Consultant, Herspiegel
  • Valerie Gartner, BS, PhD, Graduate Student 2017-2018, current: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Furey lab, UNC
  • Caitlyn Mitchell (Fennell), BS, MS student, 2017-2018, Current: Clinical Genomics Scientist, Labcorp

Undergraduates and high school students

Summer or independent study/honors thesis/multiple years

  • Katie Lam, BS, Evolutionary Anthropology Honor’s thesis**, Duke Undergraduate, 2022-2025, current: Fulbright Germany Scholar
  • Stephany Perez-Sanchez, BS, Neuroscience Honor’s thesis**, Duke Undergraduate, 2022-2025
  • Jack Berreth, NCSSM, summer, 2023, current: BS neuroscience student, UNC Chapel Hill
  • Medha Nagaluri, NCSSM, summer, 2022, current: BS Computer science and Data analytics student, UNC Chapel Hill
  • Jacob Egol, BS, Biology Honor’s thesis**, Duke Undergraduate, 2021-2023, current: PhD Student, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke
  • Rachel Solecki, BS, Biology Honor’s thesis**, Duke Undergraduate, 2020-2023, current: Clinical Research Assistant, Boston Food Allergy Center
  • Lydia Lin, BS, Neuroscience Honor’s thesis**, Duke Undergraduate, 2018-2021, current: USC-CalTech MSTP program
  • Annalise Bracher, BS, Biology Honor’s thesis**, Duke Undergraduate, 2018-2021, current: Medical student, University of Arizona-Phoenix
  • Sahil Sethi, BS, NCSSM, UNC Undergraduate, 2018-2020, current: Medical Student, University of Chicago
  • Nna-Emeka Ejimogu, University of Maryland-Baltimore County student, SROP fellow, summer 2019, current: MDPhD student, Johns Hopkins University
  • Valedie Oray, BS, Duke Undergraduate, 2017-2019, current: Senior business manager, Capital One
  • Danwei Wu, BS, MD, Neuroscience Honor’s thesis**, Duke Undergraduate, 2014-2015, current: Instructor, Adult Neurology, Stanford Medicine
  • Miranda Allen, BS, Independent Study**, Duke Undergraduate, 2016-2017, current: Researcher, Duke-NUS Medical School
  • Carla Escobar-Tomlienovich, BS, NCSSM, 2017-2018, current: Medical student, Tufts University School of Medicine
  • Nikila Vasudevan, BS, Duke Undergraduate, Independent study*, 2015-2017, Current: Technical Program Manager, Apple
  • Hamid Hussaini, BS, MD, SROP fellow, summer, 2014, Current: Resident Physician, SCL Health
  • Danielle Scarano, BS, Duke Undergraduate, HHMI summer scholar, 2013, Current: Physician Assistant Student, Stanford
  • Stephanie Skove, BS, MD, Duke Undergraduate, HHMI undergraduate scholar and Independent study**, 2011-2012, current: Physician
  • Katherine Whang, BS, NCSSM, MD, summer, 2012, current: Physician