IMSD Graduate Students
Karen Velez
- Matriculated: 2022
- Graduate Program: Cellular and Molecular Biology
- Thesis Advisor: TBD
- Thesis Project: TBD
Nina Amarandos
- Matriculated: 2022
- Graduate Program: Immunology
- Thesis Advisor: TBD
- Thesis Project: TBD
Chisondi Warioba
- Matriculated: 2021
- Graduate Program: Medical Physics
- Thesis Advisor: TBD
- Thesis Project: TBD
Nazik Elmekki
- Matriculated: 2021
- Graduate Program: Microbiology
- Thesis Advisor: TBD
- Thesis Project: TBD
Indya Weathers
- Matriculated: 2020
- Graduate Program: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Demet Arac
- Thesis Project: TBD
Ashleigh Polo
- Matriculated: 2020
- Graduate Program: Neurobiology
- Thesis Advisor: Alfredo Garcia
- Thesis Project: Assessing metabolic changes in the hippocampus after intermittent hypoxia
Lucas Dyer
- Matriculated: 2020
- Graduate Program: Cell and Molecular Biology
- Thesis Advisor: David Pincus
- Thesis Project: TBD
Joash Lake
- Matriculated: 2019
- Graduate Program: Immunology
- Thesis Advisor: Rotating
- Thesis Project: TBD
Santiago Acero Bedoya
- Matriculated: 2019
- Graduate Program: Cancer Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Rotating
- Thesis Project: TBD
Julian Bertini
- Matriculated: 2019
- Graduate Program: Medical Physics
- Thesis Advisor: Rotating
- Thesis Project: TBD
Sarah Ann King
- Matriculated: 2018
- Graduate Program: Developmental, Regeneration, & Stem Cell Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Wu, Xiaoyang
- Thesis Project:Designing skin grafts/ tissue engineering
Carlos Cortez
- Matriculated: 2018
- Graduate Program: Cell & Molecular Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Joe Thornton
- Thesis Project: The Evolutionary Origin of Allostery and Heterotetramerization in Hemoglobin
Elena Cortes
- Matriculated: 2018
- Graduate Program: Biochem
- Thesis Advisor: Engin Ozkan
- Thesis Project: Molecular Analysis of Kainate Receptor Regulation by Neto Auxiliary Subunits
Lizette Zavala
- Matriculated: 2022
- Graduate Program: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Thesis Advisor: TBD
- Thesis Project: TBD
Brandon Grandison
- Matriculated: 2022
- Graduate Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Sciences
- Thesis Advisor: TBD
- Thesis Project: TBD
Christian Checkcinco
- Matriculated: 2021
- Graduate Program: Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition
- Thesis Advisor: TBD
- Thesis Project: TBD
Joshua McKeever
- Matriculated: 2020
- Graduate Program: Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition
- Thesis Advisor: Andrew Koh
- Thesis Project: Role of Vitamin D Receptor in Medullary Thymic Epithelial Cell Promiscuous Gene Expression
Claire Weeks-Young
- Matriculated: 2021
- Graduate Program: Human Genetics
- Thesis Advisor: TBD
- Thesis Project: TBD
Jorden Lane
- Matriculated: 2019
- Graduate Program: Immunology
- Thesis Advisor: Daria Esterhazy
- Thesis Project: Understanding how lymphatics shape immune microenvironments
Matthew McDonough
- Matriculated: 2019
- Graduate Program: Cell and Molecular Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Jonathan Staley
- Thesis Project: Early transcription termination mediated by interrupted splicing
Jorge Alvarado
- Matriculated: 2019
- Graduate Program: Neurobiology
- Thesis Advisor: Demet Arac
- Thesis Project: Modification of GPR56 Signaling via Synthetic Antibody Application
Victor Mendoza
- Matriculated: 2018
- Graduate Program: Mol. Metabolism & Nutrition
- Thesis Advisor: Lev Becker
- Thesis Project: The immune system and its role in diabetes and heart disease
Carolina Castro-Rivera
- Matriculated: 2018
- Graduate Program: Neuroscience
- Thesis Advisor: Fred Garcia
- Thesis Project: Effects of intermittent hypoxia in learning and memory
Martin Sepulveda
- Matriculated: 2017
- Graduate Program: Immunology
- Thesis Advisor: Marisa Alegre
- Thesis Project: Gut-restricted microbiota effect on distal skin graft outcomes
Jimmy Elias
- Matriculated: 2017
- Graduate Program: Cell and Molecular Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Alex Ruthenburg
- Thesis Project : Epigenetic gene regulation via non-coding RNAs
Nicole Arrellano
- Matriculated: 2022
- Graduate Program: Cancer Biology
- Thesis Advisor: TBD
- Thesis Project: TBD
Ramses Ngachoko
- Matriculated: 2021
- Graduate Program: Computational Neuroscience
- Thesis Advisor: TBD
- Thesis Project: TBD
Rio Salazar
- Matriculated: 2020
- Graduate Program: Cell and Molecular Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Robert Carrillo
- Thesis Project: TBD
Briana Banks
- Matriculated: 2019
- Graduate Program: Cancer Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Rotating
- Thesis Project: TBD
Jasmine Fuerte-Stone
- Matriculated: 2019
- Graduate Program: Microbiology
- Thesis Advisor: Rotating
- Thesis Project: TBD
Noah Pena
- Matriculated: 2018
- Graduate Program: Cell & Molecular Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Tao Pan
- Thesis Project : Characterizing the function and mechanism of the low complexity regions of m6A reader protein YTHDC1
Anthony Osuma
- Matriculated: 2018
- Graduate Program: Neuroscience
- Thesis Advisor: Paschalis Kratsios
- Thesis Project : Effects of disrupted oxygen homeostasis on hippocampal physiology
Maile Hollinger
- Matriculated: 2017
- Graduate Program: Immunology
- Thesis Advisor: Anne Sperling
- Thesis Project : Protection against allergic inflammation using bacterial exopolysaccharides
Edgar Correa
- Matriculated: 2017
- Graduate Program: Cell and Molecular Biology
- Thesis Advisor: Paschalis Kratsios
- Thesis Project: Sex-specific motor neuron development and maintenance
Alexis Thomas
- Matriculated: 2016
- Graduate Program: Microbiology
- Thesis Advisor: Phoebe Rice
- Thesis Project: Determining the regulation of SCC elements in Staphylococci spp