Student Profiles

Christopher Armstrong

Mentor: Stephan Schürer, Ph.D.
Project: “ASXL1 variation and leukemogenesis”

Chrissy Baker

Mentor: Benjamin Diamond, M.D.
Project: TBD

Mainak Bardhan, M.D.

Mentors: Danny Reinberg, Ph.D. & Ramin Shiekhattar, Ph.D.
Project: “Chromatin Boundary elements in genomic architecture and gene regulation”

Nathan Becker

Mentor: Brian Walker, Ph.D.
Project: TBD

Sayantika Ghosh

Mentor: Anh Pham, M.D., Ph.D.
Project: TBD

Paula Ledo Hopgood

Mentor: David Lombard, M.D., Ph.D.
Project: “Elucidating the role of SIRT7 in Ewing Sarcoma”

Stephanie S. Kim

Mentor: Justin Taylor, M.D. & Vanessa Aguiar-Pulido, Ph.D.
Project: TBD

Robyn McCartan

Mentor: Claes Wahlestedt, M.D., Ph.D.
Project: Dose-Dependent and Region-Specific Impacts of siRNA mediated APP Knockdown on DNA Damage and Alzheimer's Disease Pathology

Katarina L. Micin

Mentor: Justin Taylor, M.D.
Project: “Developing a new chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) classification system using a single cell RNA sequencing-guided machine learning model”

Maggie Miller

Mentor: Claes Wahlestedt, M.D., Ph.D.
Project: "Characterizing the effects of menopause and the menopausal transition on Alzheimer’s Disease in mouse and human models”

Kemigisha Muzungu

Mentor: Emiliano Cocco, Ph.D.
Project: Defining tumor-driven molecular mechanisms of depression in high-grade serous ovarian and endometrial carcinoma

Tom Podolsky

Mentor: Luisa Cimmino, Ph.D.
Project: TBD

Alberto Sigler

Mentor: Kevin Van der Jeught, Ph.D.
Project: TBD

Grace Smith

Mentor: Aristeidis Telonis, Ph.D.
Project: Genome Biology of Retrotransposons

Guinevere Spurdens

Mentor: Stephan Züchner, M.D., Ph.D.
Project: Investigating the Pathomechanisms and Therapeutic Approaches of Spinocerebellar Ataxia 27B

Lishan Xu

Mentor: Yan Guo, Ph.D.
Project: “Using machine learning algorithm to facilitate rare disease diagnosis”

Ashley Zuniga

Mentor: Stefan Kurtenbach, Ph.D.
Project: TBD