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Michael Cadigan
Joined CMB:
2022
CMB Mentor:
Nicole Koropatkin
Research Interests:
Structural Biology, Bacteriology, Biochemistry
Faith Carranza-Connors
Joined CMB:
2022
Mentor:
Scott Leiser, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Institution:
Millersville University
Vernon Carruthers, Ph.D.
Professor and Associate Chair
Microbiology and Immunology
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training, Anti-Racism Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training. First Generation-Identified
Research Interests:
ESCRT, endocytosis, autophagy, genetics, infection
Marilia Cascalho, MD, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Surgery
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
Intercultural Training, URM- and Immigrant-Identified
Research Interests:
B cell responses to Transplantation. Co-evolution of TNFRSF13B polymorphisms with microbial adaptations. Immunotherapies. Mutable vaccines
Sriram Chandrasekaran, PhD
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Accepting Students?
Yes
Research Interests:
Systems Biology, Drug discovery, Metabolism, Machine Learning, Infectious disease
Trainings:
MORE Mentorship Training
Brandon Chen
Joined CMB:
2020
CMB Mentor:
Yatrik Shah,Ph.D. co-mentor: Costas Lyssiotis, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Institution:
Emory University
Honors/ Service:
Phi Beta Kappa, HHMI EXROP fellowship/Editor for Journal of Emerging Investigators (JEI)
Caleb Cheng
Joined CMB:
2022
CMB Mentor:
Costas Lyssiotis
Research Interests:
Pancreatic Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Cancer metabolism,
Mark Chiang, MD, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Hematology-Oncology
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Research Interests:
T-cell leukemia, T-cell development, Notch, transcriptional genomics, protein-protein interactions
Arul Chinnaiyan, MD, Ph.D.
Michigan Center for Translational Pathology
Michael Cianfrocco, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry
Accepting new students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training, Bystander Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training, First Generation-Identified
Research Interests:
microtubule, motor proteins, cryo-EM
Sydney Clark
Joined CMB:
2023
CMB Mentor:
Jason Spence, Ph.D.
Eleanor "Josie" Clowney, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Bystander Training, HHMI Inclusive Mentoring Training
Research Interests:
development, olfaction, neural circuits, genome evolution, sexual dimorphism
Sam Collie
Joined CMB:
2021
CMB Mentor:
Carole Parent, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Institution:
Millsaps College
Research Interests:
Understanding the role of NETs in neutrophil-mediated immune functions as well as the intercellular signaling cascade surrounding this process.
Kathleen Collins, MD, Ph.D.
Professor
Internal Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Research Interests:
pathogen/trafficking/drug development/virus/immunology
Trainings and Identities:
Mentor/Admissions Cmte Member, NIH PREP; Speaker, NIH Bridging the Gap; PI/Mentor, NIH diversity supplements; Member, ASCI DEI Committee; Advisor, MSTP SMART and INSPIRE; Advisor, MSTP DEI Cmte
Sarah Connolly
Joined CMB:
2020
CMB Mentor:
Melanie Ohi, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Institution:
Truman State University
Research Interests:
I am studying the H. pylori virulence factor vacuolating cytotoxin A (VacA). Using single-particle cryo-EM, I am determining VacA's pore-form and characterizing its membrane interactions.
Gabriel Corfas, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Research Interests
cellular - molecular - developmental neuroscience
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
Implicit Bias Training, Bystander Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training, Create Trust by Asking Questions: The Art of Humble Inquiry
Adele Correia
Joined CMB:
2021
CMB Mentor:
Andrew Lieberman, Ph.D.
Research Interests:
I study the mechanisms of neurodegeneration in Niemann-pick type C disease, an autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disorder
Pierre A. Coulombe, Ph.D.
G. Carl Huber Professor and Chair, Cell & Developmental Biology
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training, Leading the department I chair, CDB, regarding DEI and climate issues., first-generation-identified (college grad)
Research Interests:
Tissue homeostasis, cell differentiation, genetic skin diseases, cancer, nucleus
