Lab Members

Former Lab Members

Postdocs
  • James R. Augsten
    Scientific Writer at United States Pharmacopeial Convention
Graduate Students Advised
  • Alexia Nuñez-Parra PhD (NACS, 2013)
    Assistant Professor, Universidad de Chile
  • Richard Smith PhD (BIology, 2015)
    Assistant Professor, Northwestern Medical School
  • Douglas Mawhinney (NACS, 2015)
    UMD Advisor, Primary Advisor Dr. Josh Corbin, Children's national Hospital
  • Ruilong Hu PhD (NACS, 2020)
    Technical Scientist, BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc., CA
  • Aybike Seaglam PhD (NACS, 2020)
    UMD Advisor, Primary Advisor Dr. Susan Ray NIH
    Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
  • Patricio Ordenes Constela PhD (Ciencias Biológicas, 2021)
    Co-advised with Dr. Maria Garcia Robles
    Postdoctoral Fellow, Universidad de Concepción, Chile
  • Pablo Villar PhD (BISI-PSYS, 2022)
    Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
  • Ahana Mallick PhD (BISI-PSYS, 2024)
    Co-Advised with Dr. Quentin Gaudry
    Postdoctoral Fellow, UNC, Chapel Hill
    • Graduate Students Advised (Others) 
    • Cesar Hernandez
      BISI-PSYS
    • Juan Barbosa
      BISI-PSYS
    • Kevin Schneider
      NACS
    • Alexander Simon
      BISI-CBMG
    • Andrew Borrell
      NACS
    • Shannon Williams
      The Auburn School in Fairfax, VA
    • Visiting Graduate Students from other University/Colleges
    • Marcela Paz Navarrete (2023)
      University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
    • Juan Zegers (2022)
      Catholic University, Santiago, Chile
    • Patricio Ordenes Constela (2019)
      University of Concepcion, Chile
    • Magdiel Salgado (2017)
      University of Concepcion, Chile
Research Assistants
  • Krista Krahe
    LabWare
  • Laurelis Santiago
    Sr. Biological Scientist at University of South Florida
  • Hieu Nguyen
    Graduate Student Biogineering UMD
  • Michael Beirne
    Life Science Specialist VWR
  • Christopher "Jeff" Weitz
    LabWare
Visiting Professors from other University/Colleges
  • Dr. Maria Garcia Robles (Sabattical, 2018)
    University of Concepcion, Chile
Undergraduate Students
  • Emma Lambert
  • Alexander Ghaffari
  • Megan Warrenfeltz
  • Noah Glaser
  • Jacob Epstein
  • Kosta Magoulas
  • Tongyan Wang
  • Anik Sasha
  • Pradhumna Rangini
  • Nikola Susic
  • University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL 
  • Meghan Deyesu
  • Jason Burian
  • New York Medical College, NY
  • Esha Ponnuri
  • Samara Kass
  • Janam Shankar
    Peace Corps Program
  • Ana Cunninham
  • Adam Didouchevski
  • Sneh Gandi
  • Michelle Guevara
  • Zachary Gurwitz
  • Selim Boukabara
  • David Lee
  • Batya Teitz
  • Nathan Boyle
    Research Assistant, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
  • Julia Skibniewska
  • Jordan Strom
  • Omolade Gbolade
    Higher Education and Student Affairs Master's student, The Ohio State University
  • Emma Walz
    Fish and Wildlife Biologist, Olympia, WA
  • Peter Marston
    J.D. Candidate at Harvard Law School, Boston, MA
  • Jeong-Yoon Wu
  • Grant Dong
    Medical Student at Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
  • Griffin Mess
    Clinical Application Specialist at Insightec, Baltimore, MD
  • Adam Wright
  • Shimona Malik
    DMD Candidate at Boston University, MA
  • Michael Ray
  • Benjamin Parrish
  • Chris Eyo
    Medical School, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
  • Sean Lowitz
    Doctor of Medicine (DO) Candidate, Midwestern University, MD
  • Jesse Gerb
    Senior Institute Clinical Trial Administrator at Children's National Hospital
  • Mariela Trejo
    Medical Student at University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
  • Taj Keshav
    Graduate student Public Health JHU
  • Christain Eberly
  • Research Specialist, UMB, Center for Stem Cell Biology 
  • Yonathan Daniel
    Medical Student at Brown University, Providence, RI
  • Helen Luo
  • Helen Kong
  • Eric Segev
  • Medical Student at Albany Medical College 
  • Jenny Le
  • Juliette Rose
    • Senior Project Manager, Suvoda, Washington, DC
  • Sayen Basu
  • Desiree Catalan
    Internal Account ManagerInternal Account Manager, Quest Diagnostics
  • Radina Muskova
  • Oluwaseyi Ogundana
  • Josh Polacek
  • DMD, Peace Dental, Clarion, PA  
  • Andre DeSouza
    Graduate student Neurobiology UCSD, CA
  • Wilson Chan
    MD, General Internal Medicine, St. Mary's Hospital, MD
  • Ashley Sabet
    Resident,General Surgery, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
  • Anthony Bui
    Graduate student Microbiology, Cornell University
  • Allison Arai
    MD-PhD, Resident, Aurora, CO   
  • Ramita Dewan
    MD, Neurology, Seattle, WA
  • Nathan Zimnik
    Lindsey Group
  • Tyler Treadway
    NIH, IRGTA Program
  • Victoria Pugh
    DDS, Oral Surgeon, Bethesda, MD
  • Rupal Jain
    MD, Emergency Medicine, Prince George's Hospital Center, MD
  • Matthew Grant
    MD, Pediatrics, UMD Medical School
  • Sanmeet Singh
    MD, Gastroenterology, FL
  • Robert Maurer
    MD, Neurosurgery, Hershey, PA
  • Majed Kurtom
    Sales Development at Ntrepid Corporation
  • Julian Artunduaga
    DO, Psychiatry, Washington, DC
  • Michael Rozak
    MD, Pain managemen, Reno, NV 
  • Asad Ahmed
    Inside Sales Representative at Redgate Software
  • Ashley Woodford
    Clinical Research Coordinator, Children's Hospital, PA
  • Jaclyn Nutt
    PA, Baltimore, MD
  • Emily Green
  • Christine Barr
    Emergency Nurse, U.S Army Reserve
  • Jonathan Luke
    DDS, Leonardtown, MD
  • Dimpal Patel
  • Spencer Bonar
    Special Events Coordinator,AICR
  • Visiting Students from other University/Colleges
  • Mae Sung
    Summer intern, Grinnell College, IA
  • Sean Salisbury
    Summer intern, University of Southern California
  • Laura Ixchel Castillo
    Summer intern, Middlebury College, VT
High School Students
  • Makiyah Holder
    UMD
  • Amaka Emerson
    UMD
  • Rose Pierce
    University of Chicago
  • Matthew Kegley
    Yale University
  • Daisha Abdillahi
    Syracuse University
  • Olu Abiona
    UMBC
  • Reshma Roy
    UMD
  • Morgan Artis
    UMD
  • Lyle Cinton
    UMD