Lab photo December 2022
Jessie Perlmutter (Postdoctoral researcher)
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Jessie did her undergraduate work at the University of Rochester working antibiotics against Staphlyococcus aureus. She then moved to Vanderbilt where she completed a PhD with Seth Bordenstein in the Department of Biological Sciences. Her PhD work focused on the genetic basis of Wolbachia -induced male killing. Her work resulted in several papers published in mSystems, mBio, PLoS Pathogens and Nature. Her work at KU will involve projects in both Drosophila immunity and Wolbachia. We are excited to have her!
Paul Ginsberg (KU Center for Genomics Postdoctoral Fellow) - starting Fall 2022
Kent Mulkey (Graduate Student)
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Kent is working to isolate Drosophila innubila Nudivirus (DiNV) in cell culture using both classical and molecular virology techniques.
Maggie Schedl (Graduate Student)
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Kervens Accilien (Graduate Student)
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Kistie Brunsell (Assistant Researcher)
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Nilanjan Roy (Graduate Student)
Emma Knoles (KU PREP Scholar)
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Anjali Gupta (EEB Graduate Student) - starting Fall 2022
Taylor Conway (EEB Graduate Student) - starting Fall 2022
Aylar Atadurdyyeva (KINBRE scholar; Undergraduate Researcher)
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Lane Anaya (Transfer Scholar)
Chadhve Ranganathan (Undergraduate Researcher)
Tiffany Chan (Undergraduate Researcher)
Ngoc Huan Nguyen (Undergraduate Researcher)
Lab Alumni
Jo Chapman (Postdoc)
Currently Scientist at the Enteric, Environmental and Food Virology Laboratory in the Institute of Environmental and Scientific Research (ESR), New Zealand
Rosanna Chan (Undergraduate researcher)
Judith Ikerionwu
Maureen Dowell (Undergraduate researcher)
Currently a Graduate student at Brown University
Katie Pileggi (Undergraduate researcher)
Currently a nursing student at Baker University
Lindsay Ussher (Assistant Researcher)
Jordyn Koehn (Assistant Researcher)
Currently a Graduate student at Case Western Reserve
Drea Darby (PREP Scholar)
Currently a Graduate Student at Cornell University
Skye Perkins (Undergraduate Researcher - BRIDGE program)
Mary Reed-Weston (Undergraduate summer researcher - Carleton College)
Brittany Smith (Assistant Researcher)
Currently at Illumina
Hazel-Lynn Rosales-Stephens (Emerging Scholar)
Samantha Walker (Undergraduate Researcher)
Currently a medical technician at Urgent Care
Jenna Lea (Assistant Researcher)
Currently at UT Southwestern Genetic Counseling Program
Mason Wilkinson (Assistant Researcher)
Currently at Vanderbilt University PhD program
Mariaelena Nabors (K-INBRE Star awardee and McNair Scholar)
Currently at UNC Chapel Hill PhD program
Randie Rudder (Undergraduate researcher)
Currently at Millipore Sigma
Tom Hill (postdoctoral Researcher)
Currently at NIH NCI at Frederick
Emma Pagella (K-INBRE Undergraduate Research Scholar)
Currently in graduate school at KUMC.
Uma Desai (Undergraduate Researcher)
Currently in medical school at KUMC.
Emma Beason (Undergraduate Researcher)
Hunter Duke (Assistant Researcher)
Isaac Nevarez-Saenz (Assistant Researcher)
Currently at Kansas Department of Health and the Environment.
Prakash Narayanan (Undergraduate Researcher)
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Currently a graduate student at North Dakota State University.
Tamara-Doubra Anoruse-Thomas (KINBRE Bioinformatics Scholar; Undergraduate Researcher)
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Patrick Chan (Undergraduate Researcher)
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Kent Winata (KINBRE Bioinformatics Scholar; Undergraduate Researcher)
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Currently a graduate student at the University of Kansas (EEB)
Wen-Juan Ma (Postdoctoral researcher)
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Wen-Juan is working on the genetics and evolutionary consequences of sex-ratio meiotic drive in Drosophila affinis. She is broadly interested in sex chromosome evolution and has worked on a broad range of organisms from fungi to plants to frogs to wasps.
Jaedyn O’Reilly (KU REU student - Summer 2022)
Brett Norris (Undergraduate Researcher)
Murtaza Shoaib (Undergraduate Researcher)
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Kaitlin Robinson (KINBRE scholar, Undergraduate Researcher)
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Fall 2021 Lab Photo
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