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OUR TEAM

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SRUJANA SAMHITA YADAVALLI
(Sam)

Principal Investigator

Assistant Professor of Genetics

Waksman Institute of Microbiology

Curriculum Vitae

JUNHONG SUN

Lab Technician

SANGEEVAN VELLAPPAN

Ph.D. candidate 

MMG, Molecular Biosciences

Joint student with the Shah lab, Rutgers

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SAMUEL ADELEYE

Ph.D. candidate

MMG, Molecular Biosciences

ARPITA MUKHERJEE

Graduate student

Microbial Biology, SEBS

JOHNATHAN AKDEMIR

Undergraduate Researcher

Genetics Major

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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 ;)

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