Former Trainees
KIMBERLY RILEY
Hometown: Greensboro, NC
Education:
Ph.D. in Cell and Developmental Biology from Vanderbilt University
B.S. in Biology with a minor in Chemistry from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
MARIA GOLSON
Hometown: Conyers, GA
Education:
Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology from University of Pennsylvania
B.S. in Biology with concentration in Genetics from Duke University
ROCKANN MOSSER
Hometown: Corpus Christi, TX
Education:
Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Biophysics from Texas A&M University.
B.S. in Biochemistry from University of Texas at Austin
KATHRYN HENLEY
B.S. in Biology from Xavier University
PETER WIEBE
Peter Wiebe successfully defended his thesis on June 27, 2007. He has since joined Abbott Labs in Chicago, IL.
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LAURA WILDING CRAWFORD
Laura Wilding Crawford successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis on June 13, 2007. She had earlier decided that she wanted to enroll in veterinary school, with the goal of becoming a laboratory animal pathologist. She has now matriculated at the North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine.
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ELIZABETH TWEEDIE ABLES
Elizabeth Tweedie Ables successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis on March 14, 2007. She has since moved on to a post-doctoral fellowship with Daniela Drummond-Barbosa in the Department of Cell & Developmental Biology here at Vanderbilt, where she is studying the role of insulin and nutrition in Drosophila melanogaster oogenesis.
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AMANDA ACKERMANN MISFELDT
Amanda Ackermann Misfeldt successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis on September 5th, 2008. She just graduated in May 2010 from Medical and the Graduate at Vanderbilt University.
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Click here to read about Amanda's graduate thesis work.
JIA ZHANG
Jia Zhang successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis in April 2010. She has since moved on to a post-doctoral fellowship with Klaus Kaestner at University of Pennsylvania.
Ph.D. in Department of Cell & Developmental Biology
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MICHELLE GUNEY
Michelle Guney successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis in February 2011. She has since moved on to a post-doctoral fellowship at University of Colorado Denver.
Ph.D. in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
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HONGJIE ZHANG
Hongjie Zhang completed her post-doctoral fellowship in our laboratory in September 2007. She is now a Research Instructor at the Hufflington Center on Aging at Baylor College of Medicine.
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RENUKA MENON
Renuka Menon completed her post-doctoral fellowship in our lab in December 2009. She is now a post-doctoral fellow at Baylor College of Medicine.
UMA GUNASEKARAN, MD
Uma Gunasekaran completed her clinical fellowship in our lab in June 2012.
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