Graduate Student Alumni
(ORCID or LinkedIn link provided where possible)
2025 Alumni
| Adams, Elsie | PhD | |
| Azim, Mohammad Fazle | PhD | |
| Estrem, Brandon | PhD | |
| Goodman, Colton | PhD | |
| Norman, Victoria | PhD | |
| Oldridge, Ryan | PhD | |
| Playter, Christopher | PhD | |
| Schuck, Christopher | PhD | |
| Simmons, Timothy | PhD | |
| Tinkey, Christopher | PhD |
2024 Alumni
| Acharyya, Debalina | PhD | Postdoc Fellow – Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, Jupiter, Florida Rangaraju Lab |
| Amankwaa, Bright | PhD | Clinical Chemistry Fellow, University of Washington Medical Center |
| Keith, Alex | MS | |
| Khanal, Susmita | PhD | Senior Research Assistant, Vanderbilt University |
| Lohry, David | PhD | |
| Overholt, Alex | PhD | Postdoc with Albrecht von Arnim, University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
| Russell, Boomer | PhD | |
| Wei, Shushu | PhD | Research Scientist I, New York State Psychiatric Institute & Columbia University, PI Dr. Jonathan Javitch |
2023 Alumni
| Carlew, Timothy | PhD | Postdoc, Carnegie Institute for Science |
| Dasgupta, Anwesha | PhD | Postdoc, University of Michigan Medical School |
| Mykins, Michael | PhD | Mykins – AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at NIH |
| Mark Edens | MS | Research Associate – KBI Biopharma |
| Sankoh, Amie | PhD | Research Scientist, Dow Chemical Company |
2022 Alumni
| Zach Beamer | PhD | Senior Scientist at AbbVie |
| Maddison Melchionna | PhD | Assistant Professor, Montreat College |
| Jyotirmoy Mondal | PhD | Postdoc at St. Jude Children’s Research |
| Udodirim Onwubiko | PhD | Postdoc at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Chris Turpin | PhD | Postdoc with Josh Bembenek, Wayne State University |
| Yujie Ye | PhD | Postdoc with Dr. Nan Zhang, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA |
2021 Alumni
| Nathan Brady | PhD | Researcher, National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, CO |
| Daniel DeGennaro | PhD | Senior Account Manager, Bio-Rad Laboratories |
| Jessica Fernandez | PhD | Molecular Biologist, Promega Corporation |
| Sterling Field | PhD | Postdoc with Sue Rhee, Carnegie Institution for Science |
| Qiutao He | PhD | Research Scientist, ICON Clinical Research |
| Dana Layo-Carris | PhD | Postdoc with Elizabeth Bhoj, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia |
| Brandon Reagan | PhD | Postdoc with Federica Brandizzi, Michigan State |
| Julie Robinson | PhD | USDA NIFA AFRI Postdoc with Alex Harkess, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology |
| Madison Rost | MS | English Second Language Teacher, Changwon, South Korea |
| J. Ryan Simmons | PhD | Postdoc with Jianbin Wang, University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
2020 Alumni
| Gabriel Fuente | PhD | Scientist – Molecular Cloning Manager, Biologend and Revvity |
| Rosela Golloshi | PhD | Postdoc with Andrew Ewald, Johns Hopkins |
| Kathryn Abrahamsson Halter | PhD | Innovative Automated Liquid Handling Solution Provider, TECAN |
| Kathleen King | MS | Research Specialist (Microbiology and Immunology), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Yue Ma | MS | CEO at PinkRain |
| Aleksandra (Ola) Noras | MS | Associate Scientist at Oerth Bio – Targeted Protein Degradation |
| Thomas Payne | PhD | Research Scientist, Harper Cancer Institute |
| Jacob Sanders | PhD | Lecturer at the University of Tennessee, BCMB |
| Rebecca Shrem | MS | Tutor with Air Tutors |
| Justin Westerfield | PhD | Postdoc with Gunnar von Heijne, Stockholm University |
2019 Alumni
| Cidney Allen | MS | Lab Technician, Marathon Petroleum |
| Brian Hercyk | PhD | Postdoc, Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| Deepika Nambiar | PhD | Protein Scientist, Bayer |
| Vanessa Nguyen | PhD | Scientific Project Lead, Avalere Health |
| Lindsey O’Neal Yoder | PhD | Research Scientist, Amazon, Seattle, WA |
| Emily Stow | PhD | Lead Scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton |
| Liang Zhang | PhD | |
| Alexa Hartman | MS | Researcher & Scientific Writer |
| Seda Kocaman | PhD | Scientist, Janssen R&D Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson |
| Craig Conner | PhD | Fixed Term Assistant Professor, Biological Science Program, Michigan State University |
2018 Alumni
| Xiaofei Bai | PhD | Assistant Professor, University of Florida |
| Joanna Cooper | PhD | Faculty Research Associate, University of Maryland School of Medicine |
| Ramya Enganti | PhD | Research Specialist, Indiana University/Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| Pawel Kosentka | PhD | Postdoc Researcher – Bayer Crop Science |
| Christopher Mendoza | MS | |
| Tanmoy Mukherjee | PhD | Postdoc, University of Kentucky, College of Medicine |
| Andrew Stafford | PhD | Professor of Biological Sciences, Florida College |
| Haden Scott | PhD | Lead Manufacturing Associate, Helix Biotech Inc. |