OUR TEAM
SRUJANA SAMHITA YADAVALLI
(Sam)
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor of Genetics
Waksman Institute of Microbiology
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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
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NITISH SHARMA
Postdoctoral Researcher
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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 ;)