Graduate students

Anna Ivanina (Ph.D.)
Expression of stress proteins in response to temperature and cadmium stress
Supported by NSF

Ilya Kurochkin (Ph.D)
Physiological adaptations to heavy metal and temperature stress at cellular, tissue and whole-organism levels
Supported by NSF

Rita Bagwe (Ph.D.)
Role of nitric oxide in temperature- and metal-mediated change in mitochondrial bioenergetics
Supported by UNC Charlotte

Brent Foster (Masters)
Role of apoptosis in host-parasite relationships
Supported by UNC Charlotte and NC Sea Grant

Honors and undergraduate students

Kristen Reynolds (Honors)
Energetic costs of P-glycoprotein expression induced by cadmium
Sponsored by the JCSU MBRS-RISE Program, UNCF SEEDS program and American Physiological Society.

Kanan Patel
P-glycoprotein expression and function in oyster mitochondria

Judah Dice
Effects of trace metals on apoptosis and disease resistance in oysters


Kimberly Williams
Effects of cadmium exposure in vivo on mitochondrial aconitase activity
Sponsored by the JCSU MBRS-RISE Program.

Courtney Taylor
Temperature-dependent rates of cadmium accumulation in oysters from different latitudes
Sponsored by the JCSU MBRS-RISE Program.

Past post-doctoral researchers

Past students

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