Where are they now?



 

 

2007

 

Dr. Andrew Miller, Ph.D. (2007)

Present Position: Postdoctoral Fellow at NIH with Dr. Bin Gao.

 

Dr. JoEllen Sefton, Ph.D. (2007)

Present Position. Tenure-track faculty member in Biomechanics/Athletic Training at Auburn University

 

Dr. Kara King, Ph.D. (2007)

Present Position: Research Project Manager, Division of Education and Research, Carolinas Medical Center.

 

2006

 

Dr. Walid Kamoun, Ph.D (2006)

Present Position: Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Rakesh Jain in the Edwin L. Steele Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School.

 

Dr. Nancy Gasper-Smith, Ph.D (2006)

Nancy Gasper, as a predoctoral student, investigated murine gammaherpesvirus pathogenesis. 

Present Position:

Present Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Duke University Medical Center, Department of Microbiology.

 

2005

 

Dr. Hongzhi Xu, Ph.D (2005)

Present Position. Hongzhi Xu is now a postdoctoral fellow at Center for Engineering in Medicine/Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Shriners Burns Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

 

Dr. Nathan Hedrick, Ph.D (2005)

Present Position: Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Josh Farber in the Inflammation Biology Section, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, at the National Institutes of Health.

 

Dr. Elizabeth M. Jablonski, Ph.D (2005)

Dr Jablonski, as a predoctoral student, studied the role of aquaprin water chanels as mediators of the early stages of programmed cell death in liver tumors (hepatocellular carcinoma).

Present Position: Postdoctoral Fellow under the mentorship of Dr Charles Clevenger in the Department of Pathology/Lurie Cancer Center at , Northwestern University. Her current studies are funded by the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center's Postdoctoral Training Program in Signal Transduction and Cancer where she is investigating the role of prolactin signaling and regulation of genes important to the  initiation and progression of breast cancer.

 

Dr. Tian Lin, Ph.D (2005)

Tian Lin, as a predoctoral student, investigated the initiation of mucosal immune responses. 

Present Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Tufts University, Department of Microbiology, Boston Massachusetts.

 

2004

 

Dr. Sandy Merkel, Ph.D (2004)

Sandy is a postdoctoral fellowship with Richard Rippe, UNC Chapel Hill

 

Dr. Nisha McConnell, Ph.D (2004)

Nisha is a Postdocotoral Fellow, Deptartment of Oncology, McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, Wisconsin School of Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is studying the role of Wnt signaling in stem/progenitor cell driven mammary tumorigenesis.

 

Dr. Amy Rasley, Ph.D (2004)

Present Position: A Biomedical Scientist with the Defense Biology Division at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab in Livermore, CA.

 

2002

 

Dr. Sherine El Sawa, Ph.D (2002)

Sherine El Sawa was a predoctoral student, investigated the immune response against murine gammaherpesvirus 68. 

Present position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.

 

Dr. Emily Alexander, Ph.D. (2002)

Emily Alexander graduated from the Biology Department’s Interdisciplinary Ph.D. program at UNC-Charlotte in December, 2002.  Her mentor was Dr. Michael C. Hudson.  Immediately following graduation, Emily moved to Burlington, VT to begin a two year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Vermont.  The first year of her postdoctoral fellowship work was conducted in the laboratory of Dr. Mercedes Rincon and was focused on the activation of JNK pathways in T-cells.  The second year of her postdoctoral fellowship was completed in Dr. Doug Johnson’s laboratory and was focused on the study of novel yeast proteins and on the pathogenesis of Candida albicans.  Emily then moved to Durham, NC to accept a postdoctoral position at Duke University Medical Center in 2004.  She worked with Dr. Vance G. Fowler and conducted research on host:pathogen interactions with Staphylococcus aureusPresent Position: Emily moved to Raleigh, NC in June 2006 to accept a Research Scientist position at Talecris Biotherapeutics, Inc.   Emily is currently working on developing novel assays to detect and quantify viral pathogens.

 

2001

 

Dr. Rajeev Baveja, Ph.D (2001)

Pediatrics residency, SUNY Downstate; Neonatology fellowship, Mass. General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

 

Dr. Yukihiro Yokoyama, Ph.D (2001)

Present position: Assistant Professor in Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology.

 

Dr. James Peakcock, Ph.D (2001)

James Peacock, as a predoctoral student, investigated host-pathogen response to murine gammaherpesvirus-68.

Present Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.

 

2000

 

Dr. Adam Elhofy, Ph.D (2000)

Adam Elhofy, as a predoctoral student, investigated the expression of IL-12 beta 2 chain receptor expression during salmonellosis. 

Present position: Research Associate, Northwestern University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois.

 

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