Past Lab Members

Name

Position

Current Position and Contact Information

Bart Anderson, PhD 

Postdoctoral Fellow

Senior Director at Novel Modalities at Grünenthal”

bart.anderson@gmail.com

Anwesha Banerjee, PhD

Assistant Scientist 

Medical Science Liaison at Axsome Therapeutics

anwesha1985@gmail.com
Pernille “Penny Buelow" Yilmam, PhD

Graduate Student

CEO and founder of Mind Blossom  

bulowp@gmail.com

Ching-Chieh “Ian” Chou, PhD

Graduate Student 

Research Scientist, Stanford University

cchou6@stanford.edu

Paul Donlin-Asp, PhD

Graduate Student

ESAT Fellow, Group Leader, University of Edinburgh (Scotland)

pdonlin@ed.ac.uk

Kamyra Edokpolor, PhD
 

Graduate Student

 

Business Development Lead at Radyus Research

kamyra.s.edokpolor@gmail.com

Taesun Eom, PhD

Graduate Student

Director of RNA Technologies at nChroma Bio

Dr. Eom's LinkedIn Profile

Claudia Fallini, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Assistant Professor, University of Rhode Island

cfallini@uri.edu

Christina Gross, PhD                 

Postdoctoral Fellow, RT-Faculty   

Associate Professor, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

christina.gross@cchmc.org

Peng Guo, PhD 

Postdoctoral Fellow

Director of the Nikon Imaging Center at UC San Diego

peguo@ucsd.edu

Alicia Hawthorne, PhD 

Postdoctoral Fellow

Senior Lecturer, Auburn University

alicia.hawthorne@auburn.edu

Marius Ifrim, MD, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow, Instructor

Assistant Professor, State University of New York Upstate Medical University

ifrimm@upstate.edu

Chao Lin, PhD

Graduate Student

Software Engineer at Broadcom

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Kun Lin, MS (Awarded posthumously, May 2022)

Graduate Student

Graduate Neuroscience Student Support in Memory of Kun Lin

Zachary McEachin, PhD Graduate Student, Postdoctoral Fellow

Assistant Professor, Emory University (Dept. Human Genetics)

zmceach@emory.edu

Kathryn (Williams) Moss, PhD

Graduate Student

Assistant Professor, University of Missouri
kmoss@missouri.edu

Ravi Muddashetty, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow, RT-Faculty

Associate Professor at the Center for Brain Research, Indian Institute of Science (India)

ravimshetty@iisc.ac.in

Vijayalaxmi "Viji" Nalavadi, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Stem Cell Research Manager at Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative  Medicine, NCBS (India)

vijayalaxmin@instem.res.in

Phillip Price, PhD  

Graduate Student

Research Scientist at Spark Therapeutics

phillipprice555@gmail.com

Ryan Purcell, PhD 

Postdoctoral Fellow, Instructor, RT-Faculty

Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute

rpurcell@vtc.vt.edu 

Nisha Raj, PhD

Graduate Student, Postdoctoral Fellow 

Assistant Professor, Emory University (Dept. Human Genetics)

nraj2@emory.edu

Tawana Randall

Research Project Coordinator

 

Wilfried Rossoll, PhD

RT-Faculty

Associate Professor, Mayo Clinic

Rossoll.Wilfried@mayo.edu

Yukio Sasaki, PhD  

RT-Faculty

Associate Professor, Yokohama City University (Japan)

yukio-sasaki@umin.ac.jp

Sharon Swanger, PhD

Graduate Student

Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute

saswanger@vtc.vt.edu

Wulin Teo, PhD

Technician

Senior Research Associate, University of Calgary (Canada)

wteo@ucalgary.ca

Kristen Thomas, PhD

Graduate Student

Postdoctoral Fellow, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Kristen.Thomas@STJUDE.ORG

Arielle Valdez-Sinon, MD, PhD

Graduate Student

Resident at the Johns Hopkins Hospital

avaldez2@jh.edu

Kristy Welshhans, PhD       

Postdoctoral Fellow

Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina

KRISTYW@mailbox.sc.edu

Lei Xing, PhD

Graduate Student 

Research Scientist, University North Carolina Neuroscience Center

lxing@email.unc.edu

Mei Xu, MD, PhD                   

Postdoctoral Fellow

Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

meixu@pcom.edu

Xiaodi Yao, PhD

Graduate Student 

Research Coordinator at University of North Carolina School of Medicine

xiaodi_yao@med.unc.edu

Katie Yergert, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Variant Assessment Scientist II at Ambry Genetics

katie.yergert@gmail.com