Predoctoral
Rosa Menjivar, Graduate Student
Cell and Molecular Biology (CMB)
Research: Arginase 1 as a mediator of immune suppression in pancreatic cancer
Mentor: Marina Pasca di Magliano, PhD, Professor, General Surgery
Sajedeh Nasr Esfahani, Graduate Student
Mechanical Engineering
Research: Spontaneous differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells to amniotic ectoderm cells and primordial germ cells in a in vivo-like system
Mentor - Jianping Fu, PhD, Professor, Mechanical Engineering & Biomedical Engineering
Nafisa Nuzhat, Graduate Student
Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB)
Research: Investigating how the distal-end centriolar protein, CEP162, regulates axoneme extension during ciliogenesis and its underlying role in retinal dystrophy
Mentor: Jillian N. Pearring, PhD, Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Megan Schaller, Graduate Students
Molecular & Integrative Physiology
Research: The role of FMO-2/FMO5 to resist oxidative stress-induced intestinal barrier dysfunction
Mentor: Scott F. Leiser, PhD, Assistant Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, Internal Medicine and Gerontology
Bridget Waas, Graduate Student
Cell and Developmental Biology
Research: Investigating Dual Roles for KIF17 in the Developing Cerebellum
Mentor: Benjamin Allen, PhD, James Douglas Engel Collegiate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Postdoctoral
Nicole Edwards, PhD
General Surgery
Research: Prevention of Traumatic Heterotopic Ossification via Modulation of Macrophage Migration and Function
Mentor: Marina Pasca di Magliano, PhD, Associate Professor, General Surgery
Co-Mentor: Yuji Mishina, PhD, Professor of Dentistry, Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences & Prosthodontics
Daysha Ferrer-Torres, PhD
Internal Medicine
Research: A racially diverse living biobank to interrogate injury-repair in the human esophagus
Mentor: Jason Spence, PhD, H. Marvin Pollard Collegiate Professor of Gastroenterology Associate Professor
Megan Radyk, PhD
Molecular & Integrative Physiology
Research: Redox Homeostasis and Mitochondrial Metabolism are Required for Pancreatic Acinar Cell Dedifferentiation in Acinar to Ductal Metaplasia (ADM)
Mentor: Costas Lyssiotis, PhD, Assistant Professor, Molecular & Integrative Physiology Dept. of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology
Co-Mentor: Yatrik Shah, PhD, Horace W. Davenport Collegiate Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
Non-Traditional Dean's Fellowship
Typhanie Dumontet, PhD
Internal Medicine - MEND (Metabolism, Endo, & Diabetes)
Research: Role of the transcription factor Hhex in adrenal homeostasis and response to hormonal challenges
Mentor: Gary Hammer, PhD, Millie Schembechler Professor of Adrenal Cancer
Hiroki Ueharu, PhD
Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences & Prosthodontics
Research: Bone Morphogenetic Protein (BMP) signaling directs cell fate of cranial neural crest cells
Mentor: Yuji Mishina, PhD, Professor Biologic and Materials Sciences & Prosthodontics