Kistie Brunsell (Assistant Researcher)she/her/hers

Kistie Brunsell (Assistant Researcher)

Camila Souza Beraldo (Postdoc)

Kervens Accilien (Graduate Student)he/him/his

Kervens Accilien (Graduate Student)

Anjali Gupta (EEB Graduate Student) -

Nilanjan Roy (Graduate Student)

Taylor Conway

Taylor Conway (EEB Graduate Student) -

Taiye Adewumi (MB Graduate Student)

Vincent Chan (KINBRE Scholar)

 
 

Demetrius Richards (Emerging Scholar)

Abby Lewis

Abby Lewis (Undergraduate Researcher)

Carly Janzen (Undergraduate Researcher)

Rohan Singh (Undergraduate Researcher)

Gillian Sellet (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

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)

Rosanna Chan (Undergraduate researcher)

Judith Ikerionwu

Judith Ikerionwu

Maureen Dowell (Undergraduate researcher) Currently a Graduate student at Brown University

Maureen Dowell (Undergraduate researcher)

Currently a Graduate student at Brown University

Katie Pileggi (Undergraduate researcher) Currently a nursing student at Baker University

Katie Pileggi (Undergraduate researcher)

Currently a nursing student at Baker University

Lindsay Ussher (Assistant Researcher)

Lindsay Ussher (Assistant Researcher)

Jordyn Koehn (Assistant Researcher)Currently a Graduate student at Case Western Reserve

Jordyn Koehn (Assistant Researcher)

Currently a Graduate student at Case Western Reserve

Drea Darby (PREP Scholar)Currently a Graduate Student at Cornell University

Drea Darby (PREP Scholar)

Currently a Graduate Student at Cornell University

Skye Perkins (Undergraduate Researcher - BRIDGE program)

Skye Perkins (Undergraduate Researcher - BRIDGE program)

Mary Reed-Weston (Undergraduate summer researcher - Carleton College)

Mary Reed-Weston (Undergraduate summer researcher - Carleton College)

Brittany Smith (Assistant Researcher)Currently at Illumina

Brittany Smith (Assistant Researcher)

Currently at Illumina

Hazel-Lynn Rosales-Stephens (Emerging Scholar)

Hazel-Lynn Rosales-Stephens (Emerging Scholar)

Samantha Walker (Undergraduate Researcher)Currently a medical technician at Urgent Care

Samantha Walker (Undergraduate Researcher)

Currently a medical technician at Urgent Care

Jenna Lea (Assistant Researcher) Currently at UT Southwestern Genetic Counseling Program

Jenna Lea (Assistant Researcher)

Currently at UT Southwestern Genetic Counseling Program

Mason Wilkinson (Assistant Researcher)Currently at Vanderbilt University PhD 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

Mariaelena Nabors (K-INBRE Star awardee and McNair Scholar)

Currently at UNC Chapel Hill PhD program

Randie Rudder (Undergraduate researcher)Currently at Millipore Sigma

Randie Rudder (Undergraduate researcher)

Currently at Millipore Sigma

Tom Hill (postdoctoral Researcher)Currently at NIH NCI at Frederick

Tom Hill (postdoctoral Researcher)

Currently at NIH NCI at Frederick

Emma Pagella (K-INBRE Undergraduate Research Scholar)Emma is a Junior pursuing a B.S. in Biology at the University of Kansas. She is researching new pathogens of Drosophila.

Emma Pagella (K-INBRE Undergraduate Research Scholar)

Currently in graduate school at KUMC.

Uma Desai (Undergraduate Researcher)Uma Desai is a junior from Overland Park, KS double majoring in human biology and Spanish. Outside the lab, she can be found traveling or hammocking. Uma is studying the interaction between Wolbachia and systemic …

Uma Desai (Undergraduate Researcher)

Currently in medical school at KUMC.

Emma Beason (Undergraduate Researcher)

Emma Beason (Undergraduate Researcher)

Hunter Duke (Assistant Researcher)they/them/theirs

Hunter Duke (Assistant Researcher)

Isaac Nevarez-Saenz (Assistant Researcher)he/him/hisIsaac is working on in vitro methods to study antimicrobial peptide activity.

Isaac Nevarez-Saenz (Assistant Researcher)

Currently at Kansas Department of Health and the Environment.

Prakash Narayanan (Undergraduate Researcher)he/him/his

Prakash Narayanan (Undergraduate Researcher)

Currently a graduate student at North Dakota State University.

 
Tamara-Doubra Anoruse-Thomas (KINBRE Bioinformatics Scholar; Undergraduate Researcher)she/her/hers

Tamara-Doubra Anoruse-Thomas (KINBRE Bioinformatics Scholar; Undergraduate Researcher)

Patrick Chan (Undergraduate Researcher)he/him/his

Patrick Chan (Undergraduate Researcher)

Kent Winata (KINBRE Bioinformatics Scholar; Undergraduate Researcher)he/him/his

Kent Winata (KINBRE Bioinformatics Scholar; Undergraduate Researcher)

Currently a graduate student at the University of Kansas (EEB)

Wen-Juan Ma (Postdoctoral researcher)she/her/hersWen-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.

Wen-Juan Ma (Postdoctoral researcher)

Currently faculty at the Free University in Brussels

Jaedyn O’Reilly (KU REU student - Summer 2022)

Brett Norris (Undergraduate Researcher)

Brett Norris (Undergraduate Researcher)

Murtaza Shoaib (Undergraduate Researcher)he/him/his

Murtaza Shoaib (Undergraduate Researcher)

Maggie Schedl (Assistant Researcher)she/her/hers

Maggie Schedl (Graduate Student)

Aylar Atadurdyyeva (Undergraduate Researcher)she/her/hers

Aylar Atadurdyyeva (KINBRE scholar; Undergraduate Researcher) - currently a graduate student at Vanderbilt

Ngoc Huan Nguyen (Undergraduate Researcher) - currently a graduate student at University of Kansas

Emma Knoles (KU PREP Scholar) - currently a graduate student at UC Riverside

Lane Anaya (Transfer Scholar)

Paul Ginsberg (KU Center for Genomics Postdoctoral Fellow)

Currently an Assistant Professor at Ottawa University

Jessie Perlmutter (Postdoctoral researcher)she/her/hersJessie 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!

Jessie Perlmutter (Postdoctoral researcher)

she/her/hers

Currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia

Kaitlin Robinson (KINBRE scholar, Undergraduate Researcher)she/her/hers

Kaitlin Robinson (KINBRE scholar, Undergraduate Researcher)

Evelyn Cuellar (Undergraduate Researcher)

Chadhve Ranganathan (Undergraduate Researcher)

Tiffany Chan (Undergraduate Researcher)

Kent Mulkey (Graduate Student)he/him/hisKent is working to isolate Drosophila innubila Nudivirus (DiNV) in cell culture using both classical and molecular virology techniques.

Kent Mulkey (Graduate Student)

Kent is working to isolate Drosophila innubila Nudivirus (DiNV) in cell culture using both classical and molecular virology techniques.

Rylee Crowell (Undergraduate Researcher)

Caelan Graham (Assistant Researcher)

Ibrahim Farooqi (Undergraduate Researcher)

Rylee Clingingsmith (Transfer Scholar)

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