
Aiduk, Michael/GS4
Email: michael.aiduk@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Syracuse University
Research Interests: Pediatric cancer, CRISPR technologies, Genetics
PhD Department/Program: Molecular Cancer Biology
Mentor: Kris Wood, PhD

Alway, Emily/GS4
Email: emily.alway@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Johns Hopkins
Research Interests: The role of environmental factors in neuropsychiatric illness progression
PhD Department/Program: Neurobiology
Mentor: Diego Bohorquez, PhD

Anderson, Preston/GS5
Email: preston.anderson@duke.edu
Alma Mater: University of Iowa
Research Interests: Investigating Airway Stem Cell Biology and Progression of Lung Cancer
PhD Department/Program: Biochemistry
Mentor: Sudarshan K Rajagopal, MD, PhD

Beaman, Mary Makenzie/MS4
Email: mary.beaman@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Vanderbilt University
Research Interests: Cancer genetics and precision medicine
PhD Department/Program: University Program in Genetics and Genomics
Mentor: Greg Crawford

Behrer, Christopher/GS6
Email: christopher.behrer@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Harvard University
Research Interests: Health Policy, economics, and global health, specifically public, labor and development economics applications to health care markets
PhD Department/Program: Sanford School of Public Policy
Mentor: Manoj Mohanan, PhD

Bidzimou, Minu/GS5
Email: minutshyeto.bidzimou@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Grinnell College
Research Interests: Therapeutic discovery and development
PhD Department/Program: Cell Biology
Mentor: Andrew Landstrom, MD, PhD

Blackmer, Jane/GS3
Email: jane.blackmer@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Tufts University
Research Interests: Genome Instability, Molecular Genetics and Cancer
PhD Department/Program: Molecular Cancer Biology
Mentor: Don Fox, PhD

Brown, Erin/MS2
Email: erin.e.brown@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Duke University
Research Interests: Infectious disease, immunology, host-pathogen interactions, vaccinology
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Burner, Danielle/GS3
Email: danielle.burner@duke.edu
Alma Mater: University of California - San Diego
Research Interests: Urology, oncology and regenerative medicine
PhD Department/Program: Molecular Cancer Biology
Mentor: Micah Luftig, PhD

Cano, Reuben Ryan/GS2
Email: reubenryan.cano@duke.edu
Alma Mater: The University of Utah
Research Interests: Immunology, Functional Genomics
PhD Department/Program: Molecular Cancer Biology
Mentor: Jatin Roper, MD

Castellano, Steven/LOA
Email: steven.castellano@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Columbia University
Research Interests: Neuroscience and Biophysics
PhD Department/Program: External PhD, NIH Oxford/Cambridge Scholars Program

Chen, Reed/MS1
Email: reed.chen@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Duke University
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Chen, Reid/MS1
Email: reid.chen@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Duke University
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Chew, Lindsey/GS5
Email: lindsey.chew@duke.edu
Alma Mater: University of Arizona
Research Interests: Visual neuroscience and the molecular basis of ophthalmological conditions that cause visual impairment
PhD Department/Program: Molecular Cancer Biology
Mentor: Catherine Bowes-Rickman, PhD

Chakraborty, Nishma/MS2
Email: nishma.chakraborty@duke.edu
Alma Mater: University of California - Los Angeles
Research Interests: Cancer cell metabolism and signaling pathways in cancer
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Chung, David/MS2
Email: david.chung@duke.edu
Alma Mater: University of California - Los Angeles
Research Interests: Computational and Systems Neuroscience
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Corredera-Wells, Kayla/MS1
Email: kayla.corredera-wells@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Duke University
Research Interests: Critical whiteness studies, carceral health systems, healthcare inequities, rural healthcare systems
PhD Department/Program: Cultural Anthropology
Mentor:

Dalapati, Trisha/GS4
Email: trisha.dalapati@duke.edu
Alma Mater: University of Georgia
Research Interests: Infectious diseases and immunology, maternal-fetal interactions
PhD Department/Program: Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Mentor: Dennis Ko, MD, PhD

Dale, Jahrane/GS5
Email: jahrane.dale@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Columbia University
Research Interests: Biomedical Engineering, Neuroscience
PhD Department/Program: Biomedical Engineering
Mentor: Warren Grill, PhD

D'Anniballe, Vincent/GS1
Email: vincent.danniballe@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Xavier University
Research Interests: Initiation and modulation of adaptive immune responses
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De Albuquerque, Daniela /GS6
Email: daniela.de.albuquerque@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Duke University
Research Interests: Computational Neuroscience/Neuroengineering, Machine learning applications to imaging, bioinformatics and genomics
PhD Department/Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mentor: John Pearson, PhD

Delaney, Christopher /GS6
Email: christopher.delaney@duke.edu
Alma Mater: University of Chicago
Research Interests: Molecular Genetics and Cancer Biology
PhD Department/Program: Molecular Cancer Biology
Mentor: Kris Wood, PhD

DiPalma, Devon/GS5
Email: devon.dipalma@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Duke University
Research Interests: Immunology and Cell Biology
PhD Department/Program: Integrative Immunobiology
Mentor: Mari Shinohara, PhD

Finlay, John (Jack)/MS4
Email: john.finlay@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Princeton University
Research Interests: Neural Stem Cell Biology and Cancer Biology
PhD Department/Program: Cell and Molecular Biology
Mentor: Bradley Goldstein, MD, PhD

Frye, William/MS1
Email: william.frye@duke.edu
Alma Mater: University of Louisville
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Gerlus, Nimesha/GS4
Email: nimesha.gerlus@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Brown University
Research Interests: Cognitive and systems neuroscience
PhD Department/Program: Psychology and Neuroscience
Mentor: Kevin LaBar, PhD

Gilles, Casey/MS1
Email: casey.gilles@duke.edu
Alma Mater: University of California - Los Angeles
Research Interests: Cellular/molecular mechanisms of cardiovascular disease pathophysiology
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Granger, Abra/MS1
Email: abra.granger@duke.edu
Alma Mater: University of Richmond
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Haarer, Elena/MS2
Email: elena.haarer@duke.edu
Alma Mater: University of Connecticut
Research Interests: Targeted therapy, epigenetics, and genomic instability in cancer
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Heo, Helen/GS2
Email: helen.heo@duke.edu
Alma Mater: University of Wisconsin - Madison
Research Interests: Neurobiology, Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
PhD Department/Program: Cell and Molecular Biology
Mentor: Cagla Eroglu, PhD

Herche, Jesse/MS4
Email: jesse.herche@duke.edu
Alma Mater: University of the Pacific
Research Interests: Neural Sound Processing
PhD Department/Program: Neurobiology
Mentor: Jennifer Groh, PhD

Huang, Ouwen/LOA
Email: Ouwen.huang@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Duke University
Research Interests: Health informatics, machine learning, computer vision, and natural language processing
PhD Department/Program: Biomedical Engineering
Mentor: Mark L Palmeri, MD, PhD

Jeffs, Sydney/GS4
Email: sydney.jeffs@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Duke University
Research Interests: Biomedical Engineering, Immunology and Cell Biology
PhD Department/Program: Biomedical Engineering
Mentor: Tatiana Segura, PhD

Karpurapu, Anish/GS1
Email: anish.karpurapu@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Duke University
Research Interests: Biomedical engineering, data science.
PhD Department/Program: University Program in Genetics and Genomics
Mentor: Charles Gersbach, PhD

Killarney, Shane/MS4
Email: shane.killarney@duke.edu
Alma Mater: University of Nevada- Las Vegas
Research Interests: Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
PhD Department/Program: Molecular Cancer Biology
Mentor: Kris Wood, PhD

Labib, David/GS1
Email: david.labib@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Cornell University
Research Interests: Neurobiology; developmental and cell biology; neuro-immune interactions
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Lai, Austin/GS1
Email: austin.lai@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Emory University
Research Interests: Genetics and mechanisms of rare diseases, biotechnology development
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LaRosa, Alexis/MS2
Email: alexis.larosa@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Tulane University
Research Interests: Genomic instability, molecular genetics, repetitive and non-coding sequences
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Larson, Travis/GS2
Email: travis.larson@duke.edu
Alma Mater: University of Iowa
Research Interests: Biomedical Engineering, Neuroscience
PhD Department/Program: Neurobiology
Mentor: Marty Woldorff, PhD

Lawrence, Elijah/GS1
Email: elijah.lawrence@duke.edu
Alma Mater: University of California - San Diego
Research Interests: Hypoxia, cancer, and stem cell biology
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Li, Matthew/MS1
Email: matthew.j.li@duke.edu
Alma Mater: University of Georgia
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Lim, Lauren/GS1
Email: lauren.lim@duke.edu
Alma Mater: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research Interests: Cryo-EM, cryo-ET, x-ray crystallography, gut microbiome, intrinsically disordered proteins
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Maduka, Austin /MS2
Email: austin.maduka@duke.edu
Alma Mater: University of Maryland
Research Interests: Control of the mammalian oxidative stress response through ubiquitin signaling
PhD Department/Program: University Program in Genetics and Genomics
Mentor: Gustavo Silva, PhD

Majety, Neha/MS2
Email: neha.majety@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Johns Hopkins University
Research Interests: Immunology, autoimmunity, infectious disease
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Messerschmidt, Jonathan/GS3
Email: jonathan.messerschmidt@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Boston University
Research Interests: Immunology of Cancer Development
PhD Department/Program: Integrative Immunobiology
Mentor: Mari Shinohara, PhD

Mohan, Aditya/GS3
Email: aditya.mohan@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Johns Hopkins University
Research Interests: Cancer Immunotherapy, CAR-T Cells, Synthetic Biology, Molecular Biology
PhD Department/Program: Biomedical Engineering
Mentor: Anoop Patel, MD

Morash, Margaret/GS5
Email: margaret.morash@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Rutgers University
Research Interests: Epigenetics and gene regulation
PhD Department/Program: Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Mentor: John Rawls, PhD

Mosley, Iman/MS2
Email: iman.mosley@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Lehigh University
Research Interests: Pediatric neurobiology, Pediatric brain-heart interactions and disorders, Therapeutic discovery and development
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Mulcahey, Patrick/GS2
Email: patrick.mulcahey@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Georgetown University
Research Interests: Systems Neuroscience, Neuromodulation, Cognition and Affection
PhD Department/Program: Neurobiology
Mentor: Josh Huang, PhD

Nettere (Rosenthal), Danielle/MS4
Email: danielle.rosenthal@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Washington and Lee University
Research Interests: Immunology and Infectious Disease
PhD Department/Program: Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Mentor: Guido Ferrari, MD

Olson, Lyra/MS4
Email: lyra.olson@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Princeton University
Research Interests: Understanding metabolic changes in obesity and diabetes
PhD Department/Program: Pharmacology
Mentor: Bruce Sullenger, PhD

O'Sullivan, Aine/GS2
Email: aine.osullivan@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Johns Hopkins University
Research Interests: Tissue Engineering, Regenerative Medicine, Stem Cells and Biomaterials, Musculoskeletal Disease and Injury
PhD Department/Program: Biomedical Engineering
Mentor: Ashutosh Chilkoti, PhD

Oxendine, Seneca/GS2
Email: seneca.oxendine@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Yale University
Research Interests: Neuroimmunology, Glial Biology, Neurodevelopment
PhD Department/Program: Psychology and Neuroscience
Mentor: Staci Bilbo, PhD

Parker, Lauren/GS3
Email: lauren.parker@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Johns Hopkins University
Research Interests: Genetics and Epigenetics, Cardiac Development, Inherited Cardiac Disease
PhD Department/Program: Cell and Molecular Biology
Mentor: Ravi Karra, MD

Patino, Alejandra/GS4
Email: alejandra.patino@duke.edu
Alma Mater: New York University
Research Interests: Combining molecular and physiological approaches to studying neuropsychiatric disorders
PhD Department/Program: Molecular Cancer Biology
Mentor: Joshua Snyder, PhD

Putman, Rachael/GS3
Email: rachael.putman@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Yale University
Research Interests: Biomedical engineering, nanoparticles, gene editing, fetal therapies, assisted reproductive therapies, and tissue engineering/regenerative medicine
PhD Department/Program: Biomedical Engineering
Mentor: Ashutosh Chilkoti, PhD

Raj, Jude/GS5
Email: jude.raj@duke.edu
Alma Mater: University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Research Interests: Immunology
PhD Department/Program: Molecular Cancer Biology
Mentor: Kris Wood, PhD

Rao, Vishwas/GS4
Email: vishwas.rao@duke.edu
Alma Mater: North Carolina State University
Research Interests: Chemical biology and infectious diseases
PhD Department/Program: Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Mentor: Nicholas Heaton, PhD

Raza, Danyal/MS1
Email: danyal.raza@duke.edu
Alma Mater: University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
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Seas, Andreas/GS6
Email: andreas.seas@duke.edu
Alma Mater: University of Maryland
Research Interests: Biomedical engineering and data science with applications in surgery. This includes use of engineering techniques to answer basic questions in disease pathology, as well as scale-up of lab discoveries for human applications
PhD Department/Program:
Mentor: Cameron McIntyre, PhD

Sejourne, Gabrielle/GS4
Email: gabrielle.sejourne@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Harvard University
Research Interests: Genetics and developmental biology
PhD Department/Program: Cell and Molecular Biology
Mentor: Cagla Eroglu, PhD

Shi, Harvey/GS3
Email: harvey.shi@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Duke University
Research Interests: Biomedical engineering, machine learning, computational medicine, and data science
PhD Department/Program: Biomedical Engineering
Mentor: Roarke Horstmeyer, PhD

Stilwell, Laura/MS4
Email: laura.stilwell@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Public policy and economics related to healthcare delivery and health disparities with a particular interest in child health and development, mental illness and maternal health
PhD Department/Program: Sanford School of Public Policy
Mentor: Manoj Mohanan, PhD

Stringham, Christopher/GS2
Email: christopher.stringham@duke.edu
Alma Mater: The University of Utah
Research Interests: Viral Immunology, Molecular Pathogenesis, Immunotherapy, Vaccinology, Preclinical Development
PhD Department/Program: Integrative Immunobiology
Mentor: Bart Haynes, MD

Su, Chang/MS4
Email: chang.su@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Davidson College
Research Interests: Cancer immunotherapy
PhD Department/Program: Molecular Cancer Biology
Mentor: David Kirsch, MD, PhD

Tracey, Skye/GS4
Email: skye.tracey@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Duke University
Research Interests: Neurobiology
PhD Department/Program: Integrative Immunobiology
Mentor: Ashley Moseman, PhD

Truong, Ashley/GS3
Email: ashley.truong@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Rhodes College
Research Interests: Elucidating the Transcriptional Brakes on Adipocyte Thermogenesis
PhD Department/Program: Cell and Molecular Biology
Mentor: Rana Gupta, PhD

Tu, Violet/GS1
Email: violet.tu@duke.edu
Alma Mater: University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Cancer immunology, metabolism, immunotherapy development
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Udupa, Sunag/GS2
Email: sunag.udupa@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Johns Hopkins University
Research Interests: Molecular Biology, Biochemistry
PhD Department/Program: Biochemistry
Mentor: Robert Lefkowitz, MD

Wachsmuth, Lucas/MS4
Email: lucas.wachsmuth@duke.edu
Alma Mater: University of Georgia
Research Interests: Immunology, tumor immunology, transplant tolerance
PhD Department/Program: Pathology
Mentor: Peter E Fecci, MD, PhD

Wang, John/GS1
Email: john.s.wang@duke.edu
Alma Mater: University of California - Berkeley
Research Interests: Targeting tumor immunogenicity with new therapies
PhD Department/Program: University Program in Genetics and Genomics
Mentor: Zachary Hartman, PhD

Weber, Margaret/GS3
Email: margaret.c.weber@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Middlebury College
Research Interests: Cell and cancer biology
PhD Department/Program: Molecular Cancer Biology
Mentor: Trudy Oliver, PhD

Weng, Peter/MS4
Email: peter.weng@duke.edu
Alma Mater: University Of Maryland
Research Interests: Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
PhD Department/Program: Neurobiology
Mentor: Diego Bohorquez, PhD

Williams, Ashley/GS2
Email: ashley.williams080@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Georgia Southern University
Research Interests: Gene Regulation, Epigenetic Regulation, Chromatin Biology, Neuroepigenetics, Regulatory RNAs, Neurodevelopmental/Neuropsychiatric Disorders
PhD Department/Program: University Program in Genetics and Genomics
Mentor: Yarui Diao, PhD

Zhang, Diane/MS2
Email: diane.zhang@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Computational biology, single-cell genomics, cancer, spatial transcriptomics
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Zorawski, Marek/GS5
Email: marek.zorawski@duke.edu
Alma Mater: Pomona College
Research Interests: Chemical biology; RNA and carbohydrate biochemistry
PhD Department/Program: Biochemistry
Mentor: Amanda Hargrove, PhD