Alumni

Postdocs

Hwei-Jan Hsu

Postdoc, 2006-2010

Associate Research Fellow & Deputy Director, Institute of Cellular and Organism Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

XiaoQian Hu

Postdoc, 2009-2010

Elizabeth T. Ables

Postdoc, 2007-2012

Associate Professor (tenured), East Carolina University

Alissa Armstrong

Postdoc, 2011-2016

Assistant Professor (tenure-track), University of South Carolina

Shinya Matsuoka

Postdoc, 2013-2017

Medical Science Liaison, Astrazeneca, Japan

Lesley Weaver

Postdoc, 2014-2020

Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Indiana University Bloomington

PhD students

Jessica R. Von Stetina

PhD student, 2004-2008

Senior Scientist I, Homology Medicines Inc.

Leesa L. Sampson (née LaFever)

PhD student, 2007-2010

Associate Director, Vanderbilt Genome Editing Resource, Vanderbilt University

Kate Laws

PhD student, 2011-2016

Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Randolph-Macon College (starting 9/2022)

Tianlu Ma

PhD student, 2016-2020

Senior Health Science Policy Analyst, Office of National Autism Coordination, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

Master’s students

Min-Young Kim

ScM student, 2009-2011

Biotechnology Affairs & Registration Specialist, Pioneer, DuPont, Inc., Korea

Kareshma Mohanty

ScM student, 2010-2011

Graduate student, University of Maryland, Baltimore

Grace Hwang

ScM student, 2011-2012

Postdoctoral fellow in Rosalind Segal’s laboratory, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Shaina Palmere

ScM student, 6/2012-3/2013

Metabel Markwei

ScM student, 2016-2017

OBGYN resident, Stanford Medicine

Ken Ning

MHS. student, 2020-2021

Duotian Qin

MHS student, 2021-2022

Jahnavi Shubhendu Gupta

MHS student, 2021-2022

ScM student, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Postbac students

Ismael Munoz

NIH-supported Post-baccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) Scholar, 7/2015-6/2016

Current position: Senior System Engineer at Becton Dickinson after completing Ph.D. in Bioengineering Program at UCSD

Alexis Menendez Menendez

Morgridge-supported PREP Scholar, 8/2023-8/2024

Current position: M.S. student in Environment and Resources at UW-Madison

Undergraduate trainees

Emily Benesh (née Cross)

Vanderbilt Summer Academy student, 2005

Engagement Manager, Cerner Corporation

Vicente Kenyi Saito Diaz

Visiting undergraduate student (Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru), 2008

Postdoc, Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Georgia

Obinna Ofoche

Undergraduate summer student (University of Maryland College Park), 2010

Physician, Internal Medicine, James J. Petters Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Brianda Montelongo

NIDDK STEP-UP summer student, 2011

Soo-Ah Park

Visiting undergraduate student (Towson University), 2013-2014

Paige Marsh

Undergraduate student, 2013

Aline Dantas

Summer undergraduate student, “Ciência sem Fronteiras”/Brazil Scientific Mobility Program, 2015

Ondina Palmeira

Visiting undergraduate student, “Ciência sem Fronteiras”/Brazil Scientific Mobility Program, 2015-2016

Eden Sheinin

Undergraduate student, 2019-2020

Katie Burnham

Undergraduate Research Trainee (UW-Madison), 11/2022-5/2023

Daniel Molina

Undergraduate Research Trainee (UW-Madison), 10/2022-8/2023

Layne Barry

Undergraduate Research Trainee (UW-Madison), 11/2022-8/2023

Sloane Orchard

Undergraduate Research Trainee (UW-Madison), 11/2022-8/23

W. Andrew Bruce

Biological Interactions Summer Research Program student (from Xavier University of Louisiana), 5/30-8/5/2023

Trishelle Iniguez

Undergraduate Research Trainee (UW-Madison), 11/2022-12/2023

Ella Gilhooly

Undergraduate Research Trainee (UW-Madison), 9/2023-12/2023

Sofia Bachman

Undergraduate Research Trainee (UW-Madison), 9/2022-5/2024

Nina Rau

Undergraduate Research Trainee (UW-Madison), 11/2022-5/2024

August Catherine Chung

Undergraduate Research Trainee (UW-Madison), 1/2024-5/2024

Annika Nesterick

Undergraduate Research Trainee (UW-Madison), 9/2023-5/2024

Braeden Simonis

Undergraduate Research Trainee (UW-Madison), 9/2023-12/2024

Alainee Smith

Undergraduate Research Trainee (UW-Madison), 9/2024-5/2025

High school students

Uyen Pham (Hillwood High School, Nashville, TN)

Vanderbilt School for Science and Math student, 2007

Hala Zein-Sabatto (Hillwood High School, Nashville, TN)

Vanderbilt School for Science and Math student, 2008

FIRST Postdoctoral fellow, Emory University School of Medicine

Mya Smith (Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, Baltimore, MD)

Ingenuity Program student, 2018-2019

Hena Patel (American High School, Fremont, CA)

Summer student, 2021 (zoom)

Shriya Sane (Glenelg High School, Howard County, MD)

High school student, 2021- 2022

Alina Scott (LaFollette High School, Madison Metropolitan School District, WI)

High School Science Research Internship (SRI) program, 6/2025-8/2025