BTP Trainees’ Summer 2025 Internships

Adam Lynch, NIH Trainee 2024-2025
aclynch@umass.edu
Graduate Program: Veterinary and Animal Sciences
Lab: Leonid Pobezinsky
Research Interests: I study the mechanisms behind CD8 T cell fate decisions and the development of Immunological Memory. 
Adam Fish, NIH Trainee 2022-2024
ajfish@engin.umass.edu
Graduate Program: Chemical Engineering
Lab: Ashish Kulkarni
Research Interests: Innate immune cells respond to changes in physiological environment, such as shear stress, to better understand the connection between chronic inflammation and the extracellular environment.
Beatriz Martin-Martinez, NIH Trainee 2023-2025
bmartinezmar@umass.edu
Graduate Program: Molecular and Cellular Biology
Lab: Pak & Sun
Research Interest: I incorporate engineering to neuroscience to effectively grow brain organoids.
Kaito Hioki, NIH Trainee 2022-2024
khioki@umass.edu
Graduate Program: Molecular and Cellular Biology
Lab: Leonid Pobezinsky
Research Interests: Mechanisms of T cell-based immunity and classification of rare T cell subsets
Katie Rickelton
krickelton@mcb.umass.edu
Graduate Program: Molecular and Cellular Biology
Lab: Courtney Babbit
Research Interests: the evolution of the primate cerebellum, specifically in the context of cognition and uniquely-human traits.