Graduate Students

1. Tao Yang - PhD awarded May, 2005; Genetics Program

2. Wenjie Chen - PhD awarded May, 2006; Genetics Program

3. Hela Azaiez - PhD awarded March, 2008; Genetics Program

4. Colleen Campbell - PhD awarded May, 2010; Genetics Program

5. Maria Abrera-Abeleda - PhD awarded May, 2010; Genetics Program

6. Megan Ealy - PhD awarded May, 2011; Genetics Program  (University of Iowa recipient of D.C. Spriesterbach Award for best thesis) 

7. Abe Sheffield - PhD awarded December, 2011; MSTP

8. Tara Maga - PhD awarded December, 2011; Genetics Program

9. Eliot Shearer - PhD awarded December, 2012; MSTP (University of Iowa recipient of the Rex Montgomery Award for best thesis) 

10. Christina Sloan - PhD awarded December, 2016; MSTP

11. Fengxiao Bu - PhD awarded December, 2016; Genetics Program

12. Xue Xiao - PhD awarded December, 2017; Genetics Program

13.  Paul Ranum - PhD awarded December, 2017; Genetics Program

14.  Kevin Booth - PhD awarded December, 2018; Physiology Program (University of Iowa recipient of D.C. Spriesterbach Award for best thesis)       

15.  Bertha Martin - PhD awarded December, 2020; Anatomy and Cell Biology Program

16.  Jill Hauer - PhD awarded December, 2021; Genetics Program

17.  Jin-Young Koh - PhD awarded May, 2022; Biomedical Engineering Program

18.  Sofiya Pisarenka - PhD awarded May, 2023; Immunology Program

19.  Monique Weaver - Masters awarded December, 2023; Genetics Program

20.  Joseph Chin - PhD candidate; MSTP

21.  Maria Wong - PhD candidate; Bioinformatics Program

22.  Amanda Heiderscheit - PhD candidate; Immunology Program

Post-doctoral Scholars

 1. Arabandi Ramesh, PhD – 1992-1995

 2. Srikumari Srisailpathy, PhD – 1995-1999

 3. Kunihiro Fukushima, MD – 1996-1998

 4. Norio Kasai, MD – 1998-2001

 5. Huijun Yuan, PhD – 2000-2002

 6. Yuzhou Zhang, PhD – 2002-2005

 7. Yukehide Maeda, MD, PhD – 2003-2006

 8. Tao Yang, PhD – 2005-2009

 9. Michael Hildebrand, PhD – 2006-2011

 10. Hela Azaiez, PhD – 2008-2010

 11. Frederic Venail, MD, PhD – 2008-2009

 12. Megan Ealy, PhD – 2011-2012

 13. Fatemeh Alasti, PhD – 2010-2014

 14. Colleen Campbell, PhD – 2010-2014

 15. Hideaki Moteki, MD, PhD – 2012-2014

 16. Seiji Shibata, MD, PhD – 2012-2014

 17. Elisa Rubinato, MD – 2014-2015

 18. Hidekane Yoshimura, MD, PhD – 2015-2018

 19. Paul Ranum, PhD – 2017-2018

 20. Fengxiao Bu, PhD – 2017-2019

 21. Xue Xiao, PhD – 2017-2019

 22. Ryotaro Omichi, MD, PhD – 2018-2020

23. Yoh-ichiro Iwasa, MD, PhD – 2018-2020

 24. Ryan Thorpe, MD – 2019-2021

 25. Miles Klimara, MD – 2020-2022

 26. Jacquelyn DeVries, MD – 2022-2024

 27. Corentin Affortit, PhD – 2022-

Other Previous Lab Members

Jon Aanestad 

Dina Ahram 

Tayo Akinbo 

Rachel Albers 

Blake Anderson 

Emily Anderson 

Graham Ausdal 

Matt Avenarius 

Alexa Bacha 

Risa Banasik 

Brian Bane 

Chloe Beck 

Eric Bishop 

Elizabeth (Ann) Black-Ziegelbein 

Mary Bradford 

Matt Brown 

Brianna Brun 

Jacob Buatti 

Zac Builta 

Daniel Burke 

Benjamin Cable 

Parker Chamberlain 

Eugene Chang 

Achih Chen 

Arthur Chen 

Jacky Chen 

Jing (Grace) Cheng 

Johnny Cruz Corchado 

Bob Cucci 

Roger Davis 

Alexis DiVincenzo 

Andi Doane 

Christina Dominguez 

Cobey Donelson

Chaeli Doughrtey

Lindsey Dunlay 

Hannah Dunlop 

Bradley Edeal 

Holly Engelstad 

Sean Ephraim 

Bob Eppsteiner 

Stephen Eyler 

Rong Fan 

Andrea Ferguson 

Lauren Ferguson 

Brittany Fett 

Stephanie Fischer 

Kathy Frees 

David Gallegos 

Hilary Gehin 

Chad Geller 

Chantal Giguere 

Alexander Goodwin 

Glenn Green 

John Greinwald 

Matthew Grunewald 

Jose Gurrola 

Meagan Hartman 

Noah Hartman 

Paige Harlan 

Lisa Harrison 

Judy He 

Andy Heaford 

Shady Henien 

John Henrich 

Luan Heywood 

Brieanna Hilkin 

Stephen Hone 

Luke Hovey 

Susanna Howard 

Zhaohui Hu 

Sunny Huang 

Murad Husein 

Yoh Iwasa 

Virgil Jackson 

Alec James 

Mary-Kayt Jones 

Michael Jones 

Ben Jorgensen 

Ryan Kavlie 

Adam Keenan 

Jonathan Kim 

Amit Kochhar 

Karen Kolln Bednarski 

Michelle Kraft 

Bradley Krivit 

Samantha Krysa 

Madeline LaPage 

John (Jack) Lesniewski 

Elizabeth Leslie 

Erica Li 

Yingyue (Annie) Li 

Naomi Lohr 

Greizy Lopez 

Katie Lynch 

Hide Maeda 

Aidan Manaligod 

Joseph Manaligod 

Jacquie Marietta 

Robert Marini 

Janine Martin 

Kristofer May 

Wyman McGuirt 

Sarah McMordie 

Mateo McMeen

Rachel McNamara 

Maithilee Menezes 

Racheal Munoz

Pavitra (Pavi) Narasimha 

Rossella Piras 

Will Postler 

Sai Prasad 

Shawn Safdar 

Chris Sarno 

Van Schaefer 

Brian Sherry 

Joseph Sia 

Jannik Sichau

Allen Simpson 

Rachel Sippy 

Jenna Smith 

Jessica Smith 

Luke Smith 

Rion Smith 

Ryan Smith 

Jessica Sorenson 

Dana Soukup 

Zach Sperstad

Michelle Stolzoff 

Erika Takanami (Clark) 

Lauren TeGrootenhuis 

Mark Thorn 

Lorenzo Tomasiello 

Tucker Trefz 

Jenny Valdez 

Cameron Vannoy 

Katherine Vega 

Jana Van Rybroek

Lynn Vining

Fiza Virk

Abe Vore 

Yixi Wang 

Sigrid Wayne  

Zachary Weaver 

Rebecca Webber 

Chelsea Welp 

Cody West 

Heather Widmayer 

Nick Wilson 

Grace Yang 

Suhyoung (Young) Yoon 

Michelle Zeiner 

Sarah Zeiner 

Yan Zhang 

Xinchang Zhou