Team

Former Lab Members

Cosette Rivera Cruz - Graduate Student – PhD, 2022 Basic Medical Sciences. Currently a Postdoc at Cincinnati’s Children Hospital. LinkedIn Profile

Krista Huff - Graduate Student – M.S. Basic Medical Sciences. Current: Assistant Researcher, Ethos Therapeutics

Shreya Kumar - Graduate Student – PhD 2023, currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Pfizer. LinkedIn Profile

Zachary Lamantia - Undergraduate Researcher, BS 2023. Currently a BME PhD student at Vanderbilt. LinkedIn Profile

Michael Robinson - Undergraduate student. QC Technician III at Evonik, Tate & Lyle

Julia Dominguez - Undergraduate Student, Summer SROP; Undergrad at Vanderbilt LinkedIn Profile

Melanie Martinez - Undergraduate Student, Summer DURI- Discovery Park Undergrad Research Internship; Current: Senior Biologist, Lilly LinkedIn Profile

Luke Johnson - Undergraduate Student, Summer DURI- Discovery Park Undergrad Research Internship; Currently a PhD student at ABE in the Ristroph Lab. LinkedIn Profile

Modi Wang - Postdoc fellow. Current: Assistant Professor at Clarkson College. (Co-mentored with Dr. Sintim, CHEM) LinkedIn Profile

Ale Marin Rodriguez - Postdoc fellow. Current: Postdoc Researcher Associate at Univ. Georgia, Malaria drug discovery. LinkedIn Profile

Richard Decker, PhD - Postdoc. LinkedIn Profile

Janelle Weslyn “Wes” Salameh, PhD - Graduate Student. Post-Doctoral researcher at Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals. LinkedIn Profile

Virginia Picanço-Castro, PhD - Postdoc. Currently a researcher at the Blood Center of Ribeirao Preto in Brazil. LinkedIn Profile

Clinton Mikek, PhD - PostdocCurrent: analyst at BASi. LinkedIn Profile

Rachel Goedde - Undergraduate Research Student. Currently: PA student.

Masnsen Cherief, PhD - Postdoc. Currently a postdoc at Johns Hopkins University.

Chad Coakley - DVM student. Currently: DVM.

Christopher Williams - DVM Student; Veterinary Scholars Summer Researcher. Currently: DVM

Ramon Gomes Teles - Visiting Scholar. Currently: PhD student in Cellular Biology at ICB-USP and Life Sciences at Universität Würzburg

Danielle Keating - DVM student. Currently: DVM, Associate Equine Emergency Veterinarian. LinkedIn Profile

Sven Phillips - Undergrad Researcher. Currenly: MD student at IU. LinkedIn Profile

Lianne Rupp - Undergraduate Researcher. LinkedIn Profile

Jason Wu - Undergrad Researcher

Nurul H Sulimai, DVM, PhD - Postdoc, DVM Anesthesiologist

Manoel F Neto - Lab Manager

Joe J Shearer, PhD - PhD Student. Completed a postdoc in Cancer Prevention at the NCI/NIH. Current: Staff Scientist at NIH, NHLBI. LinkedIn Profile

C Sam Umbaugh, PhD - PhD Student; postdoc (summer). Currently a postdoc at the ZMBH, Zentrum fur Moleckulare Biologie der Universitat Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. LinkedIn Profile

Abbie Haffner - Veterinary Scholars Summer Researcher. Currently: DVM.