Alumni – Other Program Graduates

 

NAME	DISSERTATION	MENTOR	DEGREE YEAR PROGRAM	POST-GRADUATE POSTITION
2018
Lennox, Ashley	"mRNA Regulation in Mammalian Brain Development and Developmental Disorders"	Silver	PhD 2018 UPGG
Matty, Molly	"Chemical and Genetic Modulation of the Host Immune Response to Mycobacterial Infection"	Tobin	PhD 2018 UPGG
Midani, Firas	"Predicting colonization of microbes in the human gut"	David	PhD 2018 CBB
Lin, Chao-Chieh	"CoA Synthase Regulates Mitotic Fidelity via CBP-Mediated Acetylation"	Chi	PhD 2018 UPGG
Moore, Anthony	"Genetic control of genomic alterations induced by interstitial telomeric sequences"	Petes	PhD 2018 UPGG
2017
Hum, Yee Fang	"Molecular Characterization of Mitotic Homologous Recombination Outcomes in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae"	Jinks-Robertson	PhD 2017 UPGG
McSweeney, Melodi Keisha	"Microelectrode array modeling of genetic neurological disorders in the era of next generation sequencing"	Goldstein	PhD 2017 UPGG
Bisogno, Laura Simone	"Post-transcriptional regulation of cancer traits and gene expression in a genetically defined, primary cell-derived model of breast tumorigenesis"	Keene	PhD 2017 UPGG
Reese, Aspen	"Ecological Forces in Microbial Communities: Experimental Tests of Community Ecology Theory in Soil and the Mammalian Gut"	David	PhD 2017 UPE	Postdoc, Harvard
Miller, Emily	"The Discovery of EJC Independent Roles for EIF4A3 in Mitosis, Microtubules and Neural Crest Development"	Silver	PhD 2017 UPGG/DSCB
Billmyre, Blake	"Genome evolution in the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus deuterogattii"	Heitman	PhD 2017 UPGG	Postdoc, Stowers Institute in Kansas City, MO
Bae, Sena	"Next Gen sequencing tools to derive insights into protein expression and gene function"	Valdivia	PhD 2017 BME	Duke
2016
Ross, Justyne	"Epigentic Basis of Centromere Maintenance and Inheritance"	Sullivan	PhD 2016 UPGG	TBD
Chien, Ming-Shan	"Single-Cell Transcriptome Analysis of Olfactory Sensory Neurons"	Matsunami	PhD 2016 UPGG	TBD
O'Connell, Karen	"Genetic analysis of mitotic recombination in Saccharomyces cerevisiae"	Petes	PhD 2016 UPGG	TBD
Sloan, Roketa	"Topoisomerase 1-associated genome instability in yeast: effects of persistent cleavage complexes or increase Top1 levels"	Jinks-Robertson	PhD 2016 UPGG	TBD
Ost-Selvig, Kyla	"Host pH as a signal to induce Cryptococculs neoformans immune evasion"	Alspaugh	PhD 2016 UPGG	TBD
Mao, Hanqian (Helen)	"Posttranscriptional regulation of embryonic brain development by the exon junction complex"	Silver	PhD 2016 UPGG	TBD
2015
Guo, Xiaoge (Amy)	"Tracking individual repair events occurring at mitotic double-strand breaks in Saccharomyces cerevisiae"	Jinks-Robertson	PhD 2015 MCB	TBD
Keenan, Melissa		Chi	PhD 2015 UPGG
Aldrup-Macdonald, Megan		Sullivan	MS 2015 UPGG	High School Science Teacher
Yin, Yi		Petes	PhD 2015 UPGG	TBD
Doss, Jennifer		Chi	PhD 2015 UPGG	TBD
2014
Chen, Yi Shan	Dissertation Seminar	Valdivia	PhD 2014 UPGG	TBD
Ho, Jianghai	Dissertation Seminar	Matsunami	PhD 2014 NBI	TBD
Ruzzo, Elizabeth		Goldstein	PhD 2014 UPGG	TBD
Thompson, Marshall		Keene	PhD 2014 UPGG	TBD
2013
Chu, Pei-Lun		Marchuk	PhD 2013 UPGG	TBD
Feretzaki, Marianna	Dissertation Seminar	Heitman	PhD 2013 UPGG	TBD
McDonald, David		Marchuk	PhD 2013 UPGG	TBD
2012
Evsyukova, Irina	Dissertation Seminar	Garcia-Blanco	PhD 2012 BCH	TBD
Lamonte, Greg		Chi	PhD 2012 UPGG	TBD
Reeves, Jason		Nevins	PhD 2012 UPGG	TBD
St. Charles, Jordan		Petes	PhD 2012 PHARM	TBD
Yen, Jerry		Linney	PhD 2012 Integrated Toxicology	TBD
2011
Friedersdorf, Matthew	Dissertation Seminar	Keene	PhD 2011 MCB	Post-Doctoral Fellow Keene Lab, Duke University
Hayden, Karen E.		Willard	PhD 2011 UPGG	Post-Doctoral Scholar UC Santa Cruz
Kucera, Katerina	Dissertation Seminar	Willard	PhD 2011 UPGG	TBD
LaBreche, Heather	Dissertation Seminar	Nevins	PhD 2011 UPGG	Post-Doctoral FellowDuke University Medical Center
Nguyen, Bidong	Dissertation Seminar	Valdivia	PhD 2011 UPGG	Post-Doctoral Associate Duke University Medical Center
Sangokoya, Carolyn	Dissertation Seminar	Chi	PhD 2011 UPGG	Third Year Duke University Medical Student
2010
Cirulli, Elizabeth	Dissertation Seminar	Goldstein	PhD 2010 UPGG	Biostatistician Duke University Medical Center
Keum, Sehoon		Marchuk	PhD 2010 UPGG	Post-Doctoral Fellow UCSF
McCulley, Jennifer		Petes	PhD 2010 MCB	Post-Doctoral Fellow Myung Lab NIH, Maryland
Morris, Adam	Dissertation Seminar	Keene	PhD 2010 UPGG	Post-Doctoral Fellow Duke University Medical Center
Mudrak, Sarah Victoria	Dissertation Seminar	Jinks-Robertson	PhD 2010 UPGG	Post-Doctoral Fellow Duke University Medical Center
Mukherjee, Neelanjan	Dissertation Seminar	Keene	PhD 2010 UPGG	Post-Doctoral Fellow Ohler Lab Duke University
Robinson, Timothy	Dissertation Seminar	Dewhirst/Garcia-Blanco	PhD 2010 MCB	Duke University Medical School
Wheeler, Bayly	Dissertation Seminar	Willard	PhD 2010 UPGG	Post-Doctoral Fellow University of California-Berkeley
2009
Akers, Amy		Marchuk	PhD 2009 UPGG	Chief Scientific Officer Angioma Alliance
Bastidas, Robert		Heitman/Cardenas	PhD 2009 UPGG	Post-Doctoral Fellow Valdivia Lab Duke University Medical Center
Diezmann, Stephanie		Dietrich	PhD 2009 UPGG	Post-Doctoral Fellow Leah Cowen Lab University of Toronto
Fuhrman, Laura		Aballay	PhD 2009 UPGG	Post-Doctoral Fellow Duke University
Maloney, Kristin		Sullivan	PhD 2009 UPGG	Genetic Counseling University of Maryland-Baltimore
Roberts, Richard	Dissertation Seminar	Matsunami	PhD 2009 UPGG	Post-Doctoral Fellow Duke University
Slone, Jesse		Amrein	PhD 2009 UPGG	Post-Doctoral Fellow Texas A&M University
2008
Bonano, Vivian		Garcia-Blanco	PhD 2008 UPGG	Post-Doctoral Fellow Duke University
Haskins, Kylie		Aballay	PhD 2008 UPGG	Post-Doctoral Fellow Center for Drug Evaluation & Research, FDA
Kavanaugh, Laura		Dietrich	PhD 2008 UPGG	Computational Biologist, Syngenta
Spaeth, Kris		Valdivia	PhD 2008 UPGG	Post-Doctoral Fellow Duke University
Umbach, Jennifer Lin		Cullen	PhD 2008 UPGG	Post-Doctoral Fellow, Duke University
Zhuang, Hanyi		Matsunami	PhD 2008 UPGG	Faculty Shanghai Jia Tong University