Graduate Students Kanan Bell keb0043@uah.edu Program: MS Track I Lab: Dr. Ahmed Lawan Interests: Ecology Joseph Benito jb0188@uah.edu Program: PhD Biotechnology Lab: Dr. Matthew Niemiller Interests: Mitochondrial genomes of subterranean (cave) amphipods. Systematics, divergence, and biogeography of cave trechine beetles eastern North America Caitlyn Brewer cb0269@uah.edu Program: MS Track I Lab: Dr. Zach Culumber Interests: Animal Behavior Elanie Briggs eb0129@uah.edu Program: MS Track I Lab: Dr. Tanya Sysoeva Interests: Antimicrobial resistance, microbial interactions, and low-temperature plasma applications in biology. Drew (Thomas) Bryan tab0004@uah.edu Program: PhD Biotechnology Lab: Dr. Paul Wolf Interests: Plant Biology, Space Science, Genetics Ben Cecil benjamin.cecil@uah.edu Program: MS Track I Lab: Dr. Paul Wolf Interests: Ecology, Conservation Biology, Conservation Education Brendan Cramphorn btc0011@uah.edu Program: MS Track I Lab: Dr. Matthew Niemiller Interests: Phylogeography, speciation and cryptic diversity in cave springtails, entomology, invertebrate zoology, speleobiology Rijan Dhakal rrd0009@uah.edu Program: MS Track I Lab: Dr. Paul Wolf Interests: Plant Genome Evolution Heather Gentle hng0001@uah.edu Program: PhD Biotechnology Lab: Dr. Roger Cruz-Vera Interests: How certain small molecules target the ribosome to regulate translation. Nabin Ghimire ng0063@uah.edu Program: PhD Biotechnology Lab: Dr. Ahmed Lawan Interests: Signalling pathway in obesity and diabetes, MKPs, MAPKs Katelyn (Katie) Giltner kag022@uah.edu Program: MS Track I Lab: Dr. Zach Culumber Interests: Evolution, ecology, animal behavior & physiology Manasa Nagesh Hegde mh0211@uah.edu Program: PhD Biotechnology Lab: Dr. Jerome Baudry Interests: Drug discovery, Computational biology, Ligand-protein interactions Jared Higgs jph0029@uah.edu Program: MS1 Track 1 Lab: Dr Matthew Neimiller Interests: Ecology, Environmental DNA, Conservation Biology, and Biogeography. Sara Jackson sj0073@uah.edu Program: PhD Biotechnology Lab: Dr. Jerome Baudry, Dr. Joe Ng Interests: structural biology, protein folding, immunology, inflammation science, methods in computational biology Wren Jenkins waj0005@uah.edu Program: MS Track I Lab: Dr. Kankshita Swaminathan Interests: Plant Biology, Agricultural Genomics, and Phenotyping Emma Jordan emj0011@uah.edu Program: MS Track I Lab: Dr. Matthew Niemiller Interests: ecology, evolution, conservation biology, herpetology Kristiana Josifi kj0076@uah.edu Program: PhD Biotechnology Lab: Dr. Tanya Sysoeva Interests: Microbiology, Conjugation, Antibiotic Resistance, Protein Structure and Function Katelyn (Katie) Lott katelyn.lott@uah.edu Program: MS Track I Lab: Dr. Tanya Sysoeva Interests: Microbiology, Conjugation, Lipopolysaccharides, Antibiotic Resistance Maher Mansur mm0138@uah.edu Program: PhD. Biotechnology Lab: Dr. Jerome Baudry Interests: Computational molecular biophysics, Structure-based computational drug discovery, antivirals. Emika Miyamoto enm0012@uah.edu Program: MS Track 1 Lab: Dr. Jerome Baudry Interests: Molecular biology, computational biology, human physiology, space biology Bjorn Peterson bp0089@uah.edu Program: MS Track I Lab: Dr. Matthew Niemiller Interests: Ecology, Evolution, Biogeography, Conservation Biology Poshan Pokharel pp0056@uah.edu Program: MS Track I Lab: Dr. Jerome Baudry and Dr. Bradley Kraemer Interests: Structural and Molecular Biology Brian Roberts bsr0012@uah.edu Program: PhD Biotechnology Lab: Dr. Richard M. Myers (HudsonAlpha) Interests: Gene regulation in humans, plasma-based biomarkers of disease Jackson Schoettle jss0046@uah.edu Program: MS Track I Lab: Dr. Matthew Niemiller Interests: Ecology, Conservation Biology, Herpetology Cassandra (Cassy) Secunda cs0244@uah.edu Program: MS Track I Lab: Dr. Ahmed Lawan Interests: Nonalcoholic fatty liver diseas, Platelet Activation, Metabolic Disorders, Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases Aayushi Sharma as0456@uah.edu Program : MS Track I Lab: Dr. Tanya Sysoeva Interests: Microbiology , Transformation, CRISPR editing Foster Sims jfs0019@uah.edu Program: MS Track I Lab: Dr. Matthew Niemiller Interests: Ornithology, Ecological Conservation, Invasive Plant Species Morgan Welch mmw0025@uah.edu Program: MS Track I Lab: Dr. Ahmed Lawan Interests: Senescence, Metabolic Disorders, MAP Kinases, Dual-specificity phosphatases Carter Wright caw0019@uah.edu Program: PhD Biotechnology Lab: Sara Cooper Lab (HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology) Interests: Cancer Genetics and Genomics, Whole-Genome Sequencing, Variant Analysis, Rare Inherited Disease, Drug Resistance in PDAC, Bioinformatics