IMSD Graduate Students

IMSD Program meeting

2017 IMSD Students

IMSD Program Meeting

2018 IMSD Students

IMSD Graduate Students

Claire Gray

  • Matriculated: 2023
  • Graduate Program: Human Genetics
  • Thesis Advisor: TBD
  • Thesis Project: TBD

Gianna Davis

  • Matriculated: 2022
  • Graduate Program: Neurobiology
  • Thesis Advisor: Ming Xu
  • Thesis Project: TBD

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: Peter Savage
  • Thesis Project: TBD

Chisondi Warioba

  • Matriculated: 2021
  • Graduate Program: Medical Physics
  • Thesis Advisor: Timonthy Carroll
  • Thesis Project: Use of DTI and fMRI in the detection of functional conductivity after ischemia

Nazik Elmekki

  • Matriculated: 2021
  • Graduate Program: Microbiology
  • Thesis Advisor: Laurie Comstock
  • Thesis Project: Bacteroidetes genes important to survival in the mammalian gut

Indya Weathers

  • Matriculated: 2020
  • Graduate Program: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 
  • Thesis Advisor: Demet Arac & Engin Ozkan
  • Thesis Project: Revealing functional roles for cross talk between axon guidance pathways

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: System Mechanics of Cellular Stress Responses

Joash Lake

  • Matriculated: 2019
  • Graduate Program: Immunology 
  • Thesis Advisor: Eugene Chang
  • Thesis Project: Determining the role of Bacteroides fragilis in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Santiago Acero Bedoya

  • Matriculated: 2019
  • Graduate Program: Cancer Biology 
  • Thesis Advisor: Tom Gajewski
  • Thesis Project: Dendritic cell-intrinsic PTPN22 negatively regulates anti-tumor immunity

Julian Bertini

  • Matriculated: 2019
  • Graduate Program: Medical Physics
  • Thesis Advisor: Tim Carroll
  • Thesis Project: Using susceptibility weighted MRI to quantify oxygen in the brain

Anahi Bustillos Salazar

  • Matriculated: 2022
  • Graduate Program: Neurobiology
  • Thesis Advisor: TBD
  • Thesis Project: TBD

Alyssa Guzman

  • Matriculated: 2023
  • Graduate Program: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • Thesis Advisor: TBD
  • Thesis Project: TBD

Lizette Zavala

  • Matriculated: 2022
  • Graduate Program: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • Thesis Advisor: Cassandra Hayne
  • Thesis Project: TBH

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: Raghavendra Mirmira
  • Thesis Project: Validating Knockout of G-Coupled Protein Receptor 31

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

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

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

Carlos Cortez

  • Matriculated: 2018
  • Graduate Program: Cell & Molecular Biology 
  • Thesis Advisor: Joe Thornton
  • Thesis Project: The Evolutionary Origin of Allostery and Heterotetramerization in Hemoglobin

Dylan Cook

  • Matriculated: 2023
  • Graduate Program: Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology
  • Thesis Advisor: TBD
  • Thesis Project: TBD

Nicole Arrellano

  • Matriculated: 2022
  • Graduate Program: Cancer Biology
  • Thesis Advisor: Shannon Elf
  • Thesis Project: TBD

Ramses Ngachoko

  • Matriculated: 2021
  • Graduate Program: Computational Neuroscience
  • Thesis Advisor: Melina Hale
  • Thesis Project: Proprioception in Substrate-Based Postures of the Dwarf Hawkfish (Cirrhitichthys falco)

Rio Salazar

  • Matriculated: 2020
  • Graduate Program: Cell and Molecular Biology 
  • Thesis Advisor: Robert Carrillo
  • Thesis Project: Investigating the cell surface protein mechanisms underlying synaptic partner recognition

Briana Banks

  • Matriculated: 2019
  • Graduate Program: Cancer Biology 
  • Thesis Advisor: Matthew Brady
  • Thesis Project: Determining the effect of chronic psychological stress during puberty and early adulthood on mammary development

Jay Fuerte-Stone

  • Matriculated: 2019
  • Graduate Program: Microbiology
  • Thesis Advisor: Mark Mimee
  • Thesis Project: Engineering Bacteroides prophage for payload delivery in the human gut

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

Jimmy Elias

  • Matriculated: 2017
  • Graduate Program: Cell and Molecular Biology 
  • Thesis Advisor: Alex Ruthenburg
  • Thesis Project : Epigenetic gene regulation via non-coding RNAs

Elena Cortes

  • Matriculated: 2018
  • Graduate Program: Biochem
  • Thesis Advisor: Engin Ozkan
  • Thesis Project: Molecular Analysis of Kainate Receptor Regulation by Neto Auxiliary Subunits