Graduate Students

Kanan Bell

Kanan Bell

keb0043@uah.edu

Program: MS Track I

Lab: Dr. Ahmed Lawan

Interests: Ecology


Joseph Benito

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

Caitlyn Brewer

cb0269@uah.edu

Program: MS Track I

Lab: Dr. Zach Culumber

Interests: Animal Behavior


Elanie Briggs

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

Drew (Thomas) Bryan

tab0004@uah.edu

Program: PhD Biotechnology

Lab: Dr. Paul Wolf

Interests: Plant Biology, Space Science, Genetics


Ben Cecil

Ben Cecil

benjamin.cecil@uah.edu

Program: MS Track I

Lab: Dr. Paul Wolf

Interests: Ecology, Conservation Biology, Conservation Education


Brendan Cramphorn

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

Rijan Dhakal

rrd0009@uah.edu

Program: MS Track I

Lab: Dr. Paul Wolf

Interests: Plant Genome Evolution


Heather Gentle

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

Nabin Ghimire

ng0063@uah.edu

Program:  PhD Biotechnology

Lab: Dr. Ahmed Lawan

Interests: Signalling pathway in obesity and diabetes, MKPs, MAPKs


Katelyn (Katie) Giltner

Katelyn (Katie) Giltner

kag022@uah.edu

Program: MS Track I

Lab: Dr. Zach Culumber 

Interests: Evolution, ecology, animal behavior & physiology


Manasa Nagesh Hegde

Manasa Nagesh Hegde

mh0211@uah.edu

Program: PhD Biotechnology

Lab: Dr. Jerome Baudry

Interests: Drug discovery, Computational biology, Ligand-protein interactions


Jared Higgs

Jared Higgs

jph0029@uah.edu

Program: MS1 Track 1

Lab: Dr Matthew Neimiller

Interests:  Ecology, Environmental DNA, Conservation Biology, and Biogeography.


Sara Jackson

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

Wren Jenkins

waj0005@uah.edu

Program: MS Track I

Lab: Dr. Kankshita Swaminathan

Interests: Plant Biology, Agricultural Genomics, and Phenotyping


Emma Jordan

Emma Jordan

emj0011@uah.edu

Program: MS Track I

Lab: Dr. Matthew Niemiller

Interests: ecology, evolution, conservation biology, herpetology


Kristiana Josifi

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 (Katie) Lott

katelyn.lott@uah.edu

Program: MS Track I

Lab: Dr. Tanya Sysoeva

Interests: Microbiology, Conjugation, Lipopolysaccharides, Antibiotic Resistance


Maher Mansur

Maher Mansur

mm0138@uah.edu

Program: PhD. Biotechnology

Lab: Dr. Jerome Baudry

Interests: Computational molecular biophysics, Structure-based computational drug discovery, antivirals.


Emika Miyamoto

Emika Miyamoto

enm0012@uah.edu

Program: MS Track 1

Lab: Dr. Jerome Baudry

Interests: Molecular biology, computational biology, human physiology, space biology


Bjorn Peterson

Bjorn Peterson

bp0089@uah.edu

Program: MS Track I

Lab: Dr. Matthew Niemiller

Interests: Ecology, Evolution, Biogeography, Conservation Biology


Poshan Pokharel

Poshan Pokharel

pp0056@uah.edu

Program: MS Track I

Lab: Dr. Jerome Baudry and Dr. Bradley Kraemer

Interests: Structural and Molecular Biology


Brian Roberts

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

Jackson Schoettle

jss0046@uah.edu

Program: MS Track I

Lab: Dr. Matthew Niemiller

Interests: Ecology, Conservation Biology, Herpetology


Cassandra (Cassy) Secunda

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

Aayushi Sharma

as0456@uah.edu

Program : MS Track I

Lab: Dr. Tanya Sysoeva

Interests: Microbiology , Transformation, CRISPR editing


Foster Sims

Foster Sims

jfs0019@uah.edu

Program: MS Track I

Lab: Dr. Matthew Niemiller

Interests: Ornithology, Ecological Conservation, Invasive Plant Species


Morgan Welch

Morgan Welch

mmw0025@uah.edu

Program: MS Track I

Lab: Dr. Ahmed Lawan

Interests: Senescence, Metabolic Disorders, MAP Kinases, Dual-specificity phosphatases


Carter Wright

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