MCB Current Students by Thesis Advisor

Margaret Ackerman, Ph.D.

Microbiology and Immunology

  • Colin Hartman
  • Lesle Jimenez
  • Natasha Kelkar
  • Dhavanir Kansara
  • Katherine McCoy
  • Kara Rzasa
  • Matthew Slein (co-mentored with Leib)
  • Chinmay Vaidya

Yashi Ahmed, M.D. Ph.D.

Molecular and Systems Biology

  • Nawat "Nod" Bunnag (co-mentored with Kettenbach)
  • Ghalia Saad Siddiqui
  • Muhammad Taha
  • Zixuan "Kelly" Wan
  • Kai Yuan

Amanda Amodeo, Ph.D.

Biological Sciences

  • Eric Alpert
  • Anusha Bhatt

Alix Ashare, M.D., Ph.D.

Microbiology and Immunology

 

Charles Barlowe, Ph.D.

Biochemistry and Cellular Biology

  • John Fuesler
  • Jonathon Kushler
  • Jerry O'Dwyer

Sharon Bickel, Ph.D.

Biological Sciences

  • Muhammad Haseeb
  • Diana Hilpert
  • Zihan Meng

James Bliska, Ph.D.

Microbiology and Immunology

  • Clarrisa Dabi
  • Haleema Malik
  • Bethany Mwaura
  • Joseph "Pepper" Pennington (co-mentored with Ross)
  • Arianna Reuven

Jennifer Bomberger, Ph.D.

Microbiology and Immunology

  • Julianna Donohoe
  • Lea Michaels

Giovanni Bosco, Ph.D.

Molecular and Systems Biology

  • Rachel Dansereau (4th, IND)
  • Nicole Desmet (co-mentored with Luikart)

T.Y. Chang, Ph.D.

Biochemistry and Cellular Biology

  • Thao Huynh
  • Junghoon Lee

Brock Christensen, PH.D.

Cancer Biology

  • Barbara Karakyriakou
  • Hanxu Lu
  • Irma Vlasac

Duane Compton, Ph.D.

Biochemistry and Cellular Biology

  • Shrea Bural
  • Chenhui Deng
  • Brian Sarmiento
  • Amanda Ya

Robert Cramer, Ph.D.

Microbiology and Immunology

  • Katherine Doss
  • Matt James
  • Angus Johnson
  • Nicole Kordana
  • Kaesi Morelli
  • Cecilia G. Perez
  • Katherine Quinn

Tyler Curiel, Ph.D.

Microbiology and Immunology

  • Hyuk "Jim" Jee
  • Bernice Leung
  • Christopher Tanner

Jay Dunlap, Ph.D. & Jennifer Loros, Ph.D.

Molecular and Systems Biology

  • Armina Frederick
  • Adrienne Mehalow
  • Elizabeth Stevenson
  • Ziyan Wang

Steve Fiering, PH.D.

Microbiology and Immunology

  • Gregory Ho
  • Alicia Santos

Scott Gerber, Ph.D.

Molecular and Systems Biology

  • Kate Carango

Erik Griffin, Ph.D.

Biological Sciences

  • Amelia Kim
  • Aparna Nurni Ravi

Matt Havrda, Ph.D.

Molecular and Systems Biology

  • Karl Biggs (co-mentored with Kettenbach)
  • Elisa Carloni
  • Kath Paul

Bing He, Ph.D.

Biological Sciences

  • Laetitia Reduron (4th, IND)

Harry Higgs, Ph.D.

Biochemistry and Cellular Biology

  • Ziwei She

Robert Hill, Ph.D.

Biological Sciences

  • Xhoela Bame
  • Alicia Pietramale

Deborah Hogan, Ph.D.

Microbiology and Immunology

  • Ana Altamirano Hefferan
  • Amy Conaway
  • Carson Finger
  • Daniel Murante
  • Dhanabala Rajesh Khanna
  • Stacie Stuut

Michael Hoppa, Ph.D.

Biological Sciences

  • Cameron Paton

Yina Huang, Ph.D.

Microbiology and Immunology

  • Tyler Boone
  • Shannon Ferry
  • Asmaa Mohamed
  • Melanie Peck
  • Haille Soderholm (MD/PhD)

Claudia Jakubzick, Ph.D.

Microbiology and Immunology

  • Xin Li

Dionna Kasper, Ph.D.

Molecular and Systems Biology

  • Elizabeth Jones
  • Beatriz Mercado
  • Carolyn Winston

Arminja Kettenbach, Ph.D.

Biochemistry and Cellular Biology

  • Karl Biggs (co-mentored with Havrda)
  • Nawat "Nod" Bunnag (co-mentored with Ahmed)
  • Brennan McEwan
  • Hieu Nguyen
  • Galini Poimenidou
  • Rachel Riley
  • Sadia Kana

Jon Kull, Ph.D.

Chemistry, Biochemistry and Cellular Biology

  • Keren Okyerebea Attiku

Soni Lacefield Ph.D.

Biochemistry and Cellular Biology

  • Pallavi Gadgil
  • Batula Robow

Steven Leach, M.D.

Molecular and Systems Biology

  • Somer Matar

Jiwon Lee, Ph.D.

Engineering, Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Wei-Lih Lee, Ph.D.

Biological Sciences

David Leib, Ph.D.

Microbiology and Immunology

  • Paige Canova
  • Abigail Dutton
  • Fiona McEnany
  • Evelyn Turnbaugh

Bryan Luikart, Ph.D.

Molecular and Systems Biology

  • Asan Abdulkareem
  • Nicole Desmet (co-mentored with Bosco)

Lee Lynd, D.E.

Thayer School of Engineering, Biological Sciences

Dean Madden, Ph.D.

Biochemistry and Cellular Biology

  • Janice Galejs
  • Muhammad Khan
  • Zefeng Nie
  • Adam Simard

PRERNA MALANEY, PH.D.

Cancer Biology

  • Paige Blinkiewicz
  • John Zientko

C. Robertson McClung, Ph.D.

Biological Sciences

Aaron McKenna, Ph.D.

Molecular and Systems Biology

  • Abigail Keim  (MD/PHD)
  • Rachel Saxe
  • Evan Winter

Todd Miller, Ph.D.

Cancer Biology

  • Abigail Goen (co-mentored with Samkoe)
  • Anneka Johnson (co-mentored with Christensen)
  • Alyssa Roberts (co-mentored with Wang)

Jamie Moseley, Ph.D.

Biochemistry and Cellular Biology

  • Rachel Berg
  • Madeline Chrupcala
  • Sarah Vandal

Carey Nadell, Ph.D.

Biological Sciences

  • Jacob Holt
  • James Winans

Esteban Orellana, Ph.D.

Molecular and Systems Biology

  • Mac Pholo Aguirre

George O'Toole, Ph.D.

Microbiology and Immunology

  • Kaitlyn Barrack
  • Melissa Carmichael
  • Bassam El Hafi
  • Yu "Alex" Fu
  • Robert Montoya
  • Rendi Rogers
  • Sarvesh Surve

Josh Obar, Ph.D., MCB '06

Microbiology and Immunology

  • Madeleine Grau
  • Francois LeSage
  • Abigail McGee
  • Alexander Rapp

Patricia Pioli, Ph.D., MCB '01

Microbiology and Immunology

  • Chanhyuk Park "Chris"
  • Chen-Yu Wang
  • Heetaek Yang
  • Em Morris

KELLI POINTER, PH.D.

Cancer Biology

  • Godwin Peasah-Darkwah
  • Grace Rosner
  • Laura Price

Michael Ragusa, Ph.D.

Chemistry, Biochemistry and Cellular Biology

  • Sarah Najera

Pam Rosato, Ph.D. MCB'15

Microbiology and Immunology

  • Tiffany Chen
  • Hanna Degefu
  • Jordan Isaacs
  • Sierra Kleist
  • Shawn Musial

Benjamin Ross, Ph.D.

Microbiology and Immunology

  • Paul Hernandez
  • Casey Latario
  • Joseph "Pepper" Pennington (co-mentored with Bliska)
  • Paige Salerno

 

Lucas Salas, MD, PhD

Microbiology and Immunology

  • Chinaza Nnam

Kimberley Samkoe, Ph.D.

Cancer Biology Program

  • Yichen Feng
  • Divya Ravi
  • Abigail Goen (co-mentored with Miller)

Eric Schaller, Ph.D.

Biological Sciences

  • Kasey Hernandez
  • Hai Nguyen
  • Tolulope Ojo

Daniel Schultz

Microbiology and Immunology

  • David Ritz

Christopher Shoemaker, Ph.D.

Biochemistry and Cell Biology

  • Samantha Liu
  • Brian North
  • Carter Tracy

Sladjana Skopelja-Gardner, Ph.D.

Microbiology and Immunology

  • Angelique Cortez
  • Himanshu Goswami
  • Zachary Peters
  • Grace Crossland (MD/PH.D)

Bruce Stanton, Ph.D.

Microbiology and Immunology

  • Lily Charpentier
  • Sharanya Sarkar

Mark Sundrud, PH.D.

Microbiology and Immunology

  • Akshaya Balasubramanian
  • Huijuan Yang

Surachai Supattapone, M.D., Ph.D., D.Phil.

Biochemistry and Cellular Biology

  • Kathryn Beauchemin (Schneider)
  • Lisa Francomacaro   (MD/PHD)
  • Rachel Pepin

Mary Jo Turk, Ph.D.

Microbiology and Immunology

  • Neeti Mittal
  • Delaney Ramirez (Sullivan)

Edward Usherwood, Ph.D.

Microbiology and Immunology

  • Alicia Bostwick
  • Danielle Douglas
  • Emily-Claire Duffy
  • Taewook Kang
  • Alexandrea Turnquist

Xioafeng Wang, Ph.D.

Molecular and Systems Biology

  • Luke Deary
  • Andrew McCray
  • Thomas Skipper (MD/PhD)
  • Ruoyun Wang

Michael Whitfield

Molecular and Systems Biology

  • Helen Jarnagin
  • Madeline Morrisson
  • Rezvan Parvizi
  • Dillon Popovich

Hermes Yeh, Ph.D.

Molecular and Systems Biology

  • Zahra Saad Siddiqui