Our Students
Kodi Harris
Undergraduate Institution: Morehouse College
Vivien Thomas Scholar

Christian Lopez
Undergraduate Institution: University of Dallas

Uche Onuchukwu
Undergraduate Institution: University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Vivien Thomas Scholar

J. Noah Workman
Undergraduate Institution University of Georgia

Rama Alhariri
Undergraduate Institution: New York University Abu Dhabi, 2021
Thesis Advisor: Dan Arking

Nelson Barrientos
Undergraduate Institution: University of Virginia 2020
Thesis Advisor: Andy McCallion

Julian Calderon-Espinosa
Undergraduate Institution: University of Toronto, 2021
Thesis Advisor: Linda Resar

Eric Cormack
Undergraduate Institution: University of Chicago, 2018
Graduate Institution: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Thesis Advisor: Luisa Cochella

Madeline Denton
Undergraduate Institution: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 2017
Thesis Advisor: Charlotte Sumner

Hunter Giles
Undergraduate Institution: Brigham Young University, 2020
Thesis Advisor: Jennifer Erwin

Fujr Osman Ibrahim
Undergraduate Institution: Maryville University St. Louis, 2021
Thesis Advisor: Amboise Wonkam

Nikita Marcou
Undergraduate Institution: Northwestern University, 2021
Thesis Advisor: Bert Vogelstein

Shakela Mitchell
Undergraduate Institution: Cornell University, 2017
Thesis Advisor: Julie Hoover-Fong

Audrey Pion
Undergraduate Institution: University of Connecticut, 2020
Thesis Advisor: Garry Cutting

Estefan Santi
Undergraduate Institution: Stevens Institute of Technology, 2021
Thesis Advisor: TBD

Bailey Spiegelberg
Undergraduate Institution: University of Wisconsin Madison, 2019; St Louis University 2021
Thesis Advisor: Jennifer Erwin

Kyla Woyshner
Undergraduate Institution: University of California Berkeley, 2019
Thesis Advisors: Loyal Goff and Genevieve Stein-O’Brien

Haley Appel
Undergraduate Institute: Salisbury University 2019
Thesis advisor: Seth Blackshaw

Brennan Danlasky
Undergraduate Institution: University of California Davis, 2018
Thesis advisor: Geraldine Seydoux

Nguyet Le
Undergraduate Institution: University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2020
Thesis advisor: Seth Blackshaw

Kyler McKessy
Undergraduate Institution: University of California Berkeley, 2019
Thesis advisor: Dan Arking

Jacob Mitchell
Undergraduate Institution: Towson University, 2018
Thesis advisor: Elana Fertig

Zachary Nicholas
Undergraduate Institution: University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2019
Thesis advisor: Andrew Holland

Wendy Camejo Nunez
Undergraduate Institution: Morgan State University, 2020
Thesis advisor: Elena MacFarlane

Afrooz Razi
Undergraduate Institution: University of Maryland, 2018
Thesis advisor: Kasper Hansen

Kenna Sherman
Undergraduate Institution: University of California Santa Barbara, 2020
Thesis advisor: Andy Feinberg

Nicholas Vulpescu
Undergraduate Institution: New York University, 2018
Thesis advisor: Victor Velculescu

Zachary Besich
Undergrduate Institution: University of Arizona 2013
Graduate Institution: Johns Hopkins University 2017
Thesis advisor: Susan Michaelis

Rachel Boyd
Undergraduate Institution: University of Western Ontario 2019
Thesis advisor: Andy McCallion

Daniel Bruhm
Undergraduate Institution: McGill University 2016
Thesis advisor: Victor Velculescu

Emily DeBoy
Undergraduate Institution: University of Maryland 2017
Graduate Institution: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Thesis advisor: Mary Armanios

Allison Kalinousky
Undergraduate Institution: University of Buffalo 2019
Thesis advisors: Hans Bjornsson and Jacqueline Harris

Weifeng Li
Undergraduate Institution: Tsinghua University 2017
Graduate Institution: Peking Union Medical College 2019
Thesis advisor: Donald Zack

Raymond Paranal
Undergraduate Institution: College of the Holy Cross 2015
Thesis advisors Nicholas Roberts and Laura Woods

William Simmons
Undergraduate Institution: Colby College 2016
Thesis advisor: Geraldine Seydoux

Jared Slosberg
Undergraduate Institution: George Washington University 2019
Thesis advisor: Loyal Goff

Basma Taleb Ismail
Undergraduate Institution: University of California Los Angeles 2017
Thesis advisor: Geraldine Seydoux

Vickie Trinh
Undergraduate Institution: University of Southern California 2015
Thesis advisor: Seth Blackshaw

Jiaqi Xie
Undergraduate Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2016
Graduate Institution: Harvard University 2019
Thesis advisor Dan Arking

Emily Bramel
Undergraduate Institution: Penn State University
Undergraduate Degree: B.S. Genetics & Developmental Biology / Year 2017
Thesis Advisor: Elena Mac Farlane

Alice Eastman
Undergraduate Institution: Oberlin College
Undergraduate Degree: B.A, Biology /Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: Garry Cutting

Kevin Emmerich
Undergraduate Institution: University of Maryland
Undergraduate Degree: B.S. Cell Biology & Genetics / Year 2018
Thesis Advisor: Jeff Mumm

Rossin Erbe
University of California, San Diego
Undergraduate Degree: B.S., Human Biology / Year 2018
Thesis Advisor: Elana Fertig

Carolyn Hruban
Undergraduate Institution: University of Chicago
Undergraduate Degree: B.A., Biology /Year: 2017
Thesis Advisor: Victor Velculescu

Katherine Jenike
Undergraduate Institution: Whitman College
Undergraduate Degree: B.A., Biology / Year: 2015
Johns Hopkins University, M.S., Bioinformatics / Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: Michael Schatz

Rebecca Munday
Undergraduate Institution: George Mason University
Undergraduate Degree: B.S., Biology / Year 2017
Thesis Advisor: Priya Duggal

Kira Perzel Mandell
Undergraduate Institution: College of William and Mary
Undergraduate Degree:B.S., Biology / Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: Andrew Jaffe & Shizhong Han

Jessica Resnick
Undergraduate Institution: Mercer University, Macon
Undergraduate Degree: B.S., Biochemistry & Molecular Biology/ Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: Andrew Pekosz

Olivia Sniezek
Undergraduate Institution: Westminster College
Undergraduate Degree: B.S., Molecular Biology/ Year: 2018
Thesis Advisor: Hilary Vernon

Parris Washington
Undergraduate Institution: Spelman College
Undergraduate Degree: B.S., Biology 2017
Morehouse School of Medicine, M.S. Neuroscience, 2018
Thesis Advisor: Seth Blackshaw

Alyssa Bowling
Undergraduate Institution: State College of New York
Undergraduate Degree: B.S., Biochemistry / Year: 2017
Program year of entry: 2017
Thesis Advisor: Garry Cutting

Vamsee Pillalamarri
Undergraduate Institution: Carnegie Mellon University
Undergraduate Degree: B.S., Computational Biology / Year: 2008
Graduate Degree: M.S., Computational Biology / Year 2009
Program year of entry: 2016
Thesis Advisor: Dan Arking
