Francesca Anson , NIH Trainee 2016-2018fanson@umass.edu Graduate Program: Chemistry Lab: Jeanne Hardy and Sankaran Thayumanavan Research Interests: Characterize and expand the formulation of potent apoptosis inducing nanogels using combinations of enzymes and small molecule therapeutics for targeted delivery. |
 Margaux Audett, NIH Trainee 2016-2018maudett@umass.edu Graduate Program: Molecular and Cellular Biology Lab: Thomas Maresca Research Interests: Kinetochore proteins in the spindle assembly checkpoint during cell division. |
 Hyerim Ban, UMass Fellow 2021-2022hban@umass.edu Graduate Program: Molecular and Cellular Biology Lab: Lauren Andrews and Jessica Schiffman Research Interests: Developing new approaches for genetic manipulation across the genome-wide scale for engineering cell responses and aiding the design of material properties |
 Cameron Butova, NIH Trainee 2015-2017cbutova@gmail.com Graduate Program: Molecular and Cellular Biology Lab: Scott C. Garman Research Interests: Investigate the molecular basis of the inherited metabolic disease known as Fabry disease. |
 Brandon Clarke, UMass Fellow 2020-2021bstuntebeck@umass.edu Graduate Program: Polymer Science and Engineering Lab: Greg Tew Research Interest: The design of bottlebrush network tissue mimics with tunable properties |
 Kristalle Cruz, UMass Fellow 2018-2020kgcruz@umass.edu Graduate Program: Chemistry Lab: Jeanne Hardy Research Interest: Structural studies of emerging alpha-viral proteases for antiviral development. |
 Amber de Neve, NIH Trainee 2020-2021adeneve@umass.edu Graduate Program: Plant Biology Lab: Madelaine Barlett Research Interests: Understanding the genetic mechanisms controlling floral development |
 Kerianne Dobosz, UMass Fellow 2015-2017kdobosz@engin.umass.edu Graduate Program: Chemical Engineering Lab: Jessica Schiffman Research Interests: Create a new generation of UF membranes with higher flux and lower operating costs for tailored biofouling and selectivity. |
Connor Giles, NIH Trainee 2020-2021cgiles@umass.edu Graduate Program: Chemical Engineering Lab: Jungwoo Lee Research Interests: Engineering the tumor microenvironment to investigate dormancy |
 Greg Gregory, NIH Trainee 2020-2022ggregory@umass.edu Graduate Program: Plant Biology Lab: Sam Hazen Research Interests: Investigating gene regulation determinants to facilitate increased plant productivity through synthetic biology |
 Ian Graham, UMass Fellow 2020-2022ijgraham@umass.edu Graduate Program: Environmental Engineering Lab: Caitlyn Butler Research Interests: Using metagenomic analyses to investigate microbial community composition, activity and genetic potential, particularly with applications towards wastewater treatment and resource recovery |
 Neha Gupta, UMass Fellow 2019-2021nehagupta@umass.edu Graduate Program: Veterinary and Animal Sciences Lab: Rafael Fissore Research Interests: Mechanism of Calcium homeostasis in mammalian eggs. |
 Thomas Harrington, UMass Fellow 2021-2023taharrington@umass.edu Graduate Program: Molecular and Cellular Biology Lab: Madelaine Bartlett Research Interests: Understanding the genomic architecture of plant development. |
 Hannah Hendrickson, NIH Trainee 2020-2022hhendrickson@umass.edu Graduate Program: Plant Biology Lab: Sibongile Mafu Research Interests: Biochemical characterization of sesquiterpene synthase genes in Medicago truncatula to identify potentially useful natural plant products. |
 Hyuna Kim, UMass Fellow 2018-2020hyunakim@umass.edu Graduate Program: Molecular & Cellular Biology Lab: Shelly Peyton Research Interest: Understanding how extracellular matrix alteration relates to drug responses on breast cancer cells. |
 Nathan Kuhlmann, NIH Trainee 2017-2019nkuhlmann@umass.edu Graduate Program: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Lab: Peter Chien Research Interests: Uncovering the structural details of adaptor hierarchy mediated protein degradation using the novel system that governs the cell cycle progression of Caulobacter Crescentus. |
 Aritra Kundu, UMass Fellow 2017-2019akundu@umass.edu Graduate Program: Chemical Engineering Lab: Shelly Peyton Research Interests: Engineering a synthetic 3-D lung to understand how an aggressive (MDA-MB 231) and a non-aggressive (BT-474) metastatic breast cancer cell line alter the lung ECM to create a favorable microenvironment for breast-to-lung metastasis. |
 Nathanael Kuzio, NIH Trainee 2020-2022nkuzio@umass.edu Graduate Program: Chemistry Lab: Jeanne Hardy Research Interests: Characterization and development of small molecule inhibitors of viral proteases through structure-activity relationship (SAR) optimization human oocytes |
 Matthew Lebovich, NIH Trainee 2018-2020mlebovich@umass.edu Graduate Program: Chemical Engineering Lab: Lauren Andrews Research Interests: Integrating complex genetic circuits into probiotic organisms for therapeutic and diagnostic uses . |
 Xiangan Li, UMass Fellow 2016-2018xianganli@umass.edu Graduate Program: Chemical Engineering Lab: Michael Henson Research Interests: Biofilm metabolic modeling with genome-scale time and spatial resolution. |
 Bin Liubinliu@chem.umass.edu Graduate Program: Polymer chemistry and physics Lab: Sankaran Thayumanavan Research Interests: Biomolecular delivery and targeted immunotherapy. |
 Emily Lopes, NIH Trainee 2020-2022emlopes@umass.edu Graduate Program: Molecular and Cellular Biology Lab: Rafael Fissore Research Interests: Investigating potential crosstalk between voltage gated and TRP family channels in oocytes as well as identifying novel channels in human oocytes |
 Marjorie Marin, UMass Fellow 2020-2022mmarin@umass.edu Graduate Program: Public Heath Lab: Alicia Timme-Laragy Research Interests: Understanding how early life exposure to environmental contaminants like per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) impact the developing pancreas and beta-cell function. |
 Jessica McGory, NIH Trainee 2020-2022jmcgory@umass.edu Graduate Program: Molecular and Cellular Biology Lab: Tom Maresca Research Interests: Investigating the role of intrinsically disordered kinetochore proteins involved in the spindle assembly checkpoint during cell division. |
 Danny McSweeney, NIH Trainee 2019-2021dmcsweeney@umass.edu Graduate Program: Molecular and Cellular Biology Lab: ChangHui Pak Research Interests: Investigating synaptic adhesion molecules and their contributions to neurodevelopmental disorders, like schizophrenia and autism. |
 Jewel Medeiros, UMass Fellow 2020-2022jmmedeiros@umass.edu Graduate Program: Chemistry Lab: Thai Thayumanavan Research Interests: Designing polymeric delivery vehicles for RNA delivery |
 Anh Nguyen, UMass Fellow 2019-2021apnguye0@umass.edu Graduate Program: Chemical Engineering Lab: Ashish Kulkarni Research Interests: Development of stimuli-responsive nanotheranostic platform to enhance anticancer immune response and monitor the response in real time. |
 Justyne Ogdahl, NIH Trainee 2020-2021jogdahl@umass.edu Graduate Program: Molecular and Cellular Biology Lab: Peter Chien Research Interests: Understand the mechanism by which bacterial and mitochondrial Lon’s dynamic conformation cycle engages with substrates, small molecules and DNA in order to regulate degradation |
 Safia Omer, UMass Fellow 2015-2017somer@mcb.umass.edu Graduate Program: Biology Lab: Wei-Lih Lee Research Interest: Research spindle dynamics during mitosis in budding yeast. |
 Bidur Paudel, UMass Fellow 2015-2017bpaudel@vasci.umass.edu Graduate Program: Veterinary and Animal Sciences Lab: Pablo Visconti Research Interests: Structural studies of protein kinases. |
 Narciso Pavon, NIH Trainee 2020-2022npavon@umass.edu Graduate Program: Neuroscience and Behavior Lab: ChangHui Pak Research Interests: Fabricating a new generation of cerebral organoids capable of characterizing the spatiotemporal dynamicity of neurodevelopment. |
 Poonam Phalak, UMass Fellow 2015-2017pphalak@umass.edu Graduate Program: Chemical Engineering Lab: Michael Henson Research Interests: Biofilm metabolic modeling with genome-scale time and spatial resolution. |
 Akaansha Rampal, UMass Fellow 2021-2023arampal@umass.edu Graduate Program: Molecular and Cellular Biology Lab: Shelly Peyton and Richard Vachet Research Interests: Characterizing and comparing the distribution of extracellular matrix proteins in synthetic 3D hydrogels versus tissues |
 Monika Roy, NIH Trainee 2017-2019monikaroy@umass.edu Graduate Program: Environmental Health Sciences Lab: Alicia Timme-Laragy Research Interests: Understanding how environmental contaminants impact cellular and organ development of the pancreas and impact subsequent metabolic disease outcomes. |
 Patrick Ryan, NIH Trainee 2021-2023prryan@umass.edu Graduate Program: Molecular and Cellular Biology Lab: Jungwoo Lee Research Interests: 3D in vitro models to study bone cancer metastasis |
 Ayousha Shahi, UMass Fellow 2020-2022ashahi@umass.edu Graduate Program: Plant Biology Lab: Sibongile Mafu Research Interests: Understanding the role of specialized metabolites in fungi. |
 Heather Sherman, NIH Trainee 2016-2018hsherman@umass.edu Graduate Program: Molecular and Cellular Biology Lab: Barbara Osborne and Lisa Minter Research Interests: Spatiotemporal analyses of signaling cascades in activated CD8 T cells. |
 Khushboo Singh, UMass Fellow 2017-2019ksingh@umass.edu Graduate Program: Chemistry Lab: Sankaran (Thai) Thayumanavan Research Interests: Developing a platform for conjugation of a monoclonal antibody (mAb), specific for a tumor antigen, on to a polymeric nanogel composed of polyethylene glycol (PEG) as the hydrophilic unit and pyridyl disulfide (PDS) as the hydrophobic unit. |
 Morgan Smith, NIH Trainee 2021-2023mornsmith@umass.edu Graduate Program: Polymer Science and Engineering Lab: Maria Santore Research Interests: Investigating and controlling bacteria response through bacterial and biomaterial mechanics |
 Deborah Snyder, NIH Trainee 2019-202021djsnyder@umass.edu Graduate Program: Polymer Science and Engineering Lab: Todd Emrick Research Interests: A Sustainable Redesign of Polymer Zwitterions |
 Nidhi Thaker, UMass Fellow 2021-2022nthaker@umass.edu Graduate Program: Molecular and Cellular Biology Lab: Rafael Fissore and Meg Stratton Research Interests: Investigating the role of CaMKII in embryogenesis and organogenesis |
 Madeline Tompach, NIH Trainee 2021-2022mtompach@umass.edu Graduate Program: Molecular and Cellular Biology Lab: Alicia Timme-Laragy Research Interests: Investigating the impacts of preconception and embryonic exposure to per- and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS) on nutrient utilization and β cell development. |
 Darya Tourzani, NIH Trainee 2018-2020dtourzani@umass.edu Graduate Program: Veterinary and Animal Services Lab: Pablo Visconti Research Interests: Investigating the impact of metabolic changes in spermatozoa on early embryo development. |
 Ning-Hsuan Tseng, UMass Fellow 2016-2018ntseng@umass.edu Graduate Program: Molecular and Cellular Biology Lab: Shelly Peyton Research Interests: Drug-mediated evolutionary genomics in breast cancer. |
 Jacob Ullom, NIH Trainee 2021-2023jullom@umass.edu Graduate Program: Molecular and Cellular Biology Lab: Leonid Pobezinsky Research Interests: Understand the mechanism by which T cells of the adaptive immune system differentiate into either terminal effectors or memory cells upon activation. |
 Jiacheng Wang, UMass Fellow 2021-2023jiachengwang@umass.edu Graduate Program: Chemical Engineering Lab: Michael Henson Research Interests: Investigating the impact of public versus private metabolism on the stability of microbial communities within natural hosts |