Our Team

Graduate Students

Carrie B. Wiese, Ph.D.
Leslie R. Sedgeman, Ph.D.
Nicola Hill, Ph.D. (United Kingdom)
Carolin Besenböck, Ph.D. (Austria)
Ashley B. Cavnar, MSc.

Post-Doctoral Fellows

Ryan M. Allen, Ph.D.
Mark A. Castleberry, Ph.D.

Vanderbilt Center for Quantitative Sciences

• Quanhu “Tiger” Sheng, PhD
  Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
• Marisol Ramirez-Solano, MS
  Statistical Genetic Analyst II

Vanderbilt DNA Sequencing CORE (VANTAGE)

• Angela Jones, PhD, Core Manager

Vanderbilt Mass Spectrometry Core

• Wade Calcutt, PhD
  Research Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University
• Sergei Chetyrkin
  Staff Scientist, Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt Center for Extracellular Vesicles

• Alissa Weaver, MD, PhD
  Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University; Director, Center for Extracellular Vesicles
• Robert Coffey, MD 
  Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, VUMC
• Jeff Franklin, PhD
  Research Assistant Professor, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, VUMC
• James G. Patton, PhD
  Stevenson Chair of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt Univesity School of Medicine

Atherosclerosis Core

• MacRae F. Linton, MD
  Dr. Stephen J. Schillig, Jr. and Mary Schillig Chair in Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, VUMC

• Michelle J Ormseth, MD, MSCI
  Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Department of Medicine, VUMC

• Amanda C. Doran, MD, PhD
  Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, VUMC

• Valentina Kon, MD
  Professor of Pediatrics, Margaret T. and H. Laird Smith Chair in Nephrology

Orthopedics

Jonathan G. Schoenecker, MD, PhD
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Jeffrey W. Mast Chair in Orthopaedics Trauma and Hip Surgery; Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology; Pediatrics; and Pharmacology, VUMC