OUR TEAM
SRUJANA SAMHITA YADAVALLI
(Sam)
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor of Genetics
Waksman Institute of Microbiology
JUNHONG SUN
Lab Technician
SAMUEL ADELEYE
Ph.D. candidate
MMG, Molecular Biosciences
ARPITA MUKHERJEE
Graduate student
Microbial Biology, SEBS
JOHNATHAN AKDEMIR
Undergraduate Researcher
Genetics Major
SALMA AL SAAI
Postdoctoral Researcher
NITISH SHARMA
Postdoctoral Researcher
YANELI GUERRA
2024 RISE/REU Summer Research Fellow
Alumni
Shun Liang
Part-time Technician
Current: Research Technician at the Jain lab, Rutgers
Debbie Cerda
Undergraduate researcher 2019-2020, Genetics Major
2020 DLS-Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow
Current: Research Technician at the Chan lab, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
McKenzie Burge
Master's student
Current: Research Technician II at the Cleveland Clinic
Kyle Skalenko
Research Technician
Current: R&D Scientist I, Specialty Assays Inc.
Pranavi Jagadeesan
2021-22 Masters in Biomedical Sciences
Current: Research Associate, Genesis Biotechnology Group
Hifsa Abbasi
Undergraduate Researcher Microbiology major
2021 RISE/RUP-IMSD Summer Research Fellow
Hannah Lake
Undergraduate Genetics Major, 2023 Honors student
2021-22 DLS-Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow
Maryam Mohammed
2023 Project SUPER Undergraduate Researcher
Microbiology major, SAS Honors student
Janki Patel
Undergraduate Researcher Biological Sciences major
Daryl Von Herbert
Part-time Researcher
(Master's in Clinical Research Management)
Current: Scientist II at Merck
Shokufeh Nourollahi
Volunteer Researcher
Kaneshia Freeman
Undergraduate Researcher, Biotechnology major
2023 McNair Summer Research Scholar
2024 George H Cook Honors Scholar
Sarah Khan
Undergraduate Researcher, Biological Sciences major
Varun Chovatia
Undergraduate summer researcher, Biology major
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Bacillus subtilis
Visiting researcher ;)