Former lab members
| NAME | position | time in lab | last known position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph Proto | Technician | Sept. 2016 – Jul. 2017 | |
| Yi Lei | Postdoc | Jun. 2019 – May. 2020 | Senior Manager, WuXi TIDES |
| Matthew Bizer | Technician | May. 2019 – Jul. 2020 | Environmental Engineer, Verdantas LLC. |
| Casey Guardia | Master’s Student | Aug. 2019 – Dec. 2020 | Captain, U.S. Air Force |
| Nguyet Minh Thi Dao | Postdoc | Sep. 2020 – Dec. 2020 | |
| Krystal Flood | Ph.D. Student | Jun. 2019 – Jan. 2021 | Lab tech, Matthew Disney Lab, UF Scripps |
| Priyanka Pistolwala | Technician | Jul. 2020 – Jan. 2021 | Senior QMS Specialist, Exactech |
| Christopher J. Fields | Ph.D. Student | Jan. 2017 – Dec. 2021 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Baylor College of Medicine, Jeremy Wilusz Lab |
| Bhanu Palagati | Database Tech | Feb. 2022 – May. 2022 | |
| Tracy Ouncap | Technician | Mar. 2021 – Jun. 2022 | Student, Santa Fe College |
| Pedro Lopez | Technician | Jun. 2022 – Dec. 2022 | Lab tech, University of Georgia |
| Yu Fang | Master’s Student | Aug. 2021 – Jul. 2023 | Ph.D. Student, Florida State University |
| Tianqi Li | Ph.D./Postdoc | Oct. 2018 – Jan. 2025 | Postdoctoral Researcher, UCSD, Corina Antal Lab |
| Alex Carbonell | Ph.D. Student | Feb. 2024 – Jan. 2025 | Ph.D. Student, Ramon Sun Lab, UF. |
| Nicholas Hiers | Ph.D. Student | Jan. 2021 – Jun. 2025 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Yale, Anna Marie Pyle Lab |
| Yuzhi Wang | Postdoc/Ast. Sci. | Jul. 2021 – Jul. 2025 | |
| Zehui Zhang | Postdoc | Sep. 2024 – Sep. 2025 | Microbiologist, Nivagen Pharmaceuticals Inc. |
Former Undergraduate students
| NAME | Major | Time in lab | last known position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luke Prescott | Microbiology | Nov. 2016 – May. 2017 | –– |
| Vivian Tanios | Biology | Jun. 2017 – Aug. 2017 | –– |
| Monica Yassa | Biology | Jun. 2017 – Dec. 2017 | Resident Physician, Rutgers University |
| Bret Miller | Biochemistry | Jun. 2017 – Dec. 2018 | Brown University Medical School, class of 2025 |
| Emily Chong | Health Education | Jan. 2018 – Dec. 2018 | UF College of Dentistry, class of 2024 |
| Shafina Samraj | Microbiology | Jun. 2018 – May. 2019 | Consenting Coordinator, UF Health |
| Mythili Merchant | Microbiology | Jan. 2019 – May. 2019 | Genetic Counselor, Fred Hutch Cancer Center |
| Taha Huda | Biochemistry | Jan. 2017 – May. 2019 | Hematology-Oncology Fellow, Moffitt/USF |
| Jimmy Tianqi Wei | Biochemistry | Jan. 2017 – Sept. 2019 | Dental Resident, UCLA |
| Sneha Joseph | Biochemistry | Apr. 2019 – Dec. 2019 | UF, Senior |
| Brooke Benedetto | Biochemistry | Apr. 2021 – Sep. 2021 | Associate Bioprocess Engineer, Neurocrine Biosciences |
| Bhargav Kansara | Microbiology | Jun. 2021 – Apr. 2022 | University of South Florida, Medical School, class of 2026 |
| Maria Buzaianu | Biology | Jan. 2022 – May. 2023 | –– |
| Sabrina Hernandez | Microbiology | Oct. 2023 – May. 2024 | |
| Mason Kuzmick | Health Science | Jan. 2024 – May. 2024 | |
| Jessi Effinger-Morris | Biology | Sep. 2021 – Aug. 2024 | Clinical Lab Assistant |
| Kerolus Anis | Biology | May. 2024 – Dec. 2024 | –– |
| Cori Holtzman | Biochemistry | Sep. 2024 – Dec. 2024 | –– |
| Michael Yao | Biochemistry | Jul. 2022 – Feb. 2025 | Ph.D. student, CMDB graduate program at Johns Hopkins |
| Nalani Quintana | Biology | Sep. 2023 – May. 2025 | –– |
| Bianca Lederfeind | Microbiology | Aug. 2022 – Jun. 2025 | Ph.D. student, The Ohio State University |
Rotation students
| Name | Year | Concentration | Dissertation Advisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zuo Ding | 2016 | Cancer | Shuang Huang |
| Paul Wassel | 2018 | Genetics & Genomics | Julie Maupin |
| Marc McLeod | 2018 | Biochemistry | Matt Merritt |
| Jacob Combs | 2018 | Biochemistry | Rob McKenna |
| Savannah Weeks | 2019 | Biochemistry | Linda Bloom |
| Augustine Vinson | 2019 | Biochemistry | Ed Scott |
| Kimberly Paulsen | 2019 | Biochemistry | Zhe Ma (Zhijian Qian) |
| Seth Hale | 2020 | Biochemistry | Daiqing Liao |
| Darius Ramkhalawan | 2020 | Genetics | Nadja Makki |
| Mitchell Gulkis | 2021 | Biochemistry | Linda Bloom/Rob McKenna (Melike Caglayan) |
| Zachary Markovich | 2022 | Genetics | Rui Xiao |
| Anastasia Chambers | 2022 | Biochemistry | Ali Zarrinpar |
| Logan Bell | 2022 | Cell Biology | Lien Nguyen |
| Sebastian Guerra | 2022 | Genetics & Genomics | Marc Chevrette |
| Paul Fernandez | 2023 | Biochemistry | Eric Wang |
| Kendall Long | 2023 | Genetics | |
| Ibtida Ishmam | 2024 | Cancer | Jason Butler |
| Veronica Perez Taboada | 2024 | Cell Biology | Artem Nemudryi |
| Erin Shi | 2024 | Cancer | Weizhou Zhang |
Summer students
| Name | year | program | school |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fayha Asim | 2023 | SSTP | North Bay Haven Academy (Panama City, FL) |
| Anastasia Hunt | 2024 | BMID | UC Berkeley |
| Soren Ghorai | 2024 | SSTP | Eastside Preparatory School (Seattle, WA) |
| Ayona Bagui | 2025 | SSTP | Strawberry Crest High School (Dover, FL) |
| Ricardo Stewart | 2025 | MSRP | UF COM Class of 2028 |