Alumni

2023

Ashleigh Rawls

Junior Scientific Creator

Graduate Student, Pharmacology and Cancer Biology

Elise Adamson, PhD

Junior Scientific Creator

Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering

Dalton Hughes, PhD

Senior Scientific Creator

Research Specialist

Alex Bey, PhD, MD

Senior Scientific Creator

Child Psychiatry Fellow and Postdoctoral Research Associate

Samantha Scott

Junior Scientific Creator

Research Technician

Sophia Vera

Junior Scientific Creator

Research Technician

2022

Jake Benton

Junior Scientific Creator

Graduate Student, Neurobiology

Medical Scientist Training Program

Gwenaelle Thomas, PhD

Senior Scientific Creator

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Carter Vanderloo

Junior Scientific Creator

Undergraduate Research Assistant

2021

Neil Gallagher

Graduate Student, Neurobiology (2015-2021)

Undergraduate Research Assistant (2010-2013)

Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Weill Cornell Medical School

Zachary Rene

Undergraduate Research Assistant (2018-2021)

Zach completed a BS in Psychology from Duke University in 2021 Current Position: Masters of Biomedical Science Student at Duke University

Rachel Fisher

Research Technician (2019-2021)

Current Position: Incoming Graduate Student. Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai. Rachel completed her B.A. in Psychology from Vasser College in 2019

Athy Robinson

Research Analyst II (2013-2021)

Athy has expertise in varied research laboratory techniques and in lab management. She completed her undergraduate degree in Biology at East Carolina University and her Master's Degree in Marine Biology at UNC-Wilmington

2020

Austin Talbot, PhD

Statistical Sciences Graduate Student, Duke University (2016-2020)

Summer Research Intern (2015)

Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Stanford University

Katelyn (Kat) Hefter

Undergraduate Research Assistant (2018-2020)

Current Position: Law Student, University of Pennsylvania Kat graduate with her BS in Biomedical Engineering, Neruoscience, and Electrical Engineering from Duke University in 2020

Reagan Portelance

Undergraduate Research Assistant (2018-2020)

Reagan graduated with her BS in Electrical Engineering from Duke University in 2020.

Current Position: Graduate Student, Neuroscience at Wake Forest University

Tatiana Rodriguez

Laboratory Research Technician (2017-2020)

Current Position: Graduate Student NYU Tatiana completed her B.S. in Biochemistry from University of Maryland Baltimore County in 2019.

Alexandra Fink

Undergraduate Researcher (2017-2020)

Current Position: Graduate Student. Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai. Alie completed her B.S. in Neuroscience from Duke University in 2020

2019

Ryan Bowman

Laboratory Technician (2017-2019)

Current Position: Graduate Student. Neuroscience, Carnegie Mellon. Ryan completed his B.S. in Neuroscience from Duke University in 2017.

Timothy Nyangacha

Laboratory Technician (2018-2019)

Undergraduate Research Assistant (2016-2018)

Tim completed his BS in Neuroscience with from Duke University in 2015. He is an incoming medical student at University of Minnesota.

Cameron Blount

Research Technician (2017-2019)

Laboratory Technician (2016-2017)

Undergraduate Research Intern (2015-2016)

Awarded NIH Administrative supplement. Current Position: Incoming Medical Student, Emory Medical School

Anna Matthews

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Neuroscience (2017-2019)

2018

Rainbo Hultman, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Associate (2013-2018)

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics. Iowa Neuroscience Institute

Mai-Anh Vu, PhD

Graduate Student (2013-2018)

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Boston University

Nkemdilim Ndubuizu

Laboratory Technician (2016-2018)

Current Position: Medical Student, Howard School of Medicine

Anica Nangia

Undergraduate Researcher (2017-2018)

2017

Meghana Vagwala

Undergraduate Research Assistant (2015-2017)

Awarded Marshall Scholarship

Current Position: Medical Student, Harvard

Chuma Eruchalu

Undergraduate Research Assistant (2016-2017)

Current: Medical Student, Harvard Medical School

Hannah Schwennesen

Undergraduate Research Assistant (2016-2017)

Completed Medical School, University of Pennsylvania.

Current Position: Medical Resident, Duke University Medical Center

Haley Talbot

Undergraduate Research Assistant (2016-2017)

Medical Student, University of Michigan

2016

Alexander Skidmore

Undergraduate Research Assistant (2016)

Completed Medical School: Washington University of St. Louis.

Current Position: Neurosurgery Resident, University of Kentucky

Christa Parrish

Summer Intern (2016)

North Carolina School of Science and Math

Joyce Wang

Laboratory Technician (2015-2016)

Undergraduate Research Assistant (2014-2015)

Joyce completed her BS in Neuroscience with Distinction from Duke University in 2015. She is currently a Neuroscience Graduate Student at MIT.

Lisa David

Research Technician (2014-2016)

Undergraduate Research Intern (2012-2014)

Current: Medical Student, Florida International University Medical School

Jana Schaich Borg, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Associate (2013 – 2016)

Current: Assistant Research Professor, Duke University

Okechi Boms

Undergraduate Research Assistant (2014-2016)

Fullbright, 2016-2017 Current: Medical Student, Harvard Medical School

2015

Caley Burrus

Undergraduate Research Assistant (2015)

Current: Duke Neurobiology Graduate Student

Rithi Chandy

Undergraduate Research Assistant (2014 – 2015)

Brittany Katz

Laboratory Research Technician (2012 – 2015)

Current position: Graduate student, University of North Carolina

Sunil Kumar, PhD

Research Technician and Senior Research Associate (2009 – 2015)

2014

Gretchen Chidester (née Sprow), PhD

Postdoctoral Research Associate (2013 – 2014)

Current position: consultant, MedThink Communications

Lizhen Lin, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Associate (2012 – 2014)

Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics, University of Notre Dame

Matthew Shirley

Undergraduate Research Intern (2014)

Current Position: Undergraduate student, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Nadine Michel

Research Intern (2013-2014)

Undergraduate Research Intern (2012-2013)

Current: MD/PhD student, University of Virginia

Current Position: Medical Scientist Training Program, University of Virginia School of Medicine

Kinsley Johnson

Research Technician (2012 – 2014)

2013

Kia Johnson

Undergraduate Research Intern (2013)

Graduate, University of St. Thomas. Subsequently awarded Fullbright Fellowship

2012

Nicole Peretti

Undergraduate Research Intern (2012)

Current position: pre-doctoral scholar, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Sherilynn Black, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Associate (2010 – 2012)

Current position: Assistant Professor of the Practice in Medical Education, Duke University School of Medicine Director, Office of Biomedical Graduate Diversity