Former Lab Members

Former graduate students

• Timothy Michaels, PhD in 2023

• Brandy Henry, MS in 2023

• Matthew Kaleta, PhD in 2022

• Hanna Grazul, MS in 2020

• Matthew Resch, MS in 2020

• James Goodwine, PhD in 2018.

  • Current position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of California Merced

• Kathryn Cherny, PhD in 2018

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Binghamton University, 2018-2019

  • Current position: Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University.

• Bandita Poudyal, PhD in 2017.

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Binghamton University, 2017-2018

  • Current position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Duke University Medical Center

• Julie (Szu Yu) Liao, PhD in 2014

  • Postdoctoral research Associate, Harvard, Boston Children's Hospital.

  • Current position: Lead microbiologist at Versatope

• Yi Li, PhD in 2013

• Ankita Basu Roy, PhD in 2013

  • Postdoctoral research Associate, Wake Forest University          

• Olga Petrova, PhD in 2009.

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Binghamton University

  • Current position: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Partnerships, Binghamton University.

• Magee Allegrucci, PhD in 2007

• Grace Gansle, MS in 2011

• Wahida Ali, MS in 2008

  • Received PhD from Stony Brook University

  • Current position: Postdoctoral research associate, Division of Rheumatology, University of Michigan-Medical School.

• Christopher Southey-Pillig, MS in 2005

• Rebecca E. Al-Feghali, MA in 2018

  • Current position: PhD student, Binghamton University

• Rachel Hagerman, MA in 2010

  • Current position: Assistant Professor

  • and Chair at SUNY Broome, NY

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Former Postdoctoral Research Associates

• Whitni Redman, PhD. 2021-2023

• Jozef Dingemans, Ph.D., 2016-2019

  • ​Current position: Faculty at University of Maastricht, Netherlands

• Kathryn Cherny, Ph.D., 2018-2019

  • Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University.

• Olga Petrova, Ph.D. 2010-2018.

o   Current position: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Partnerships, Binghamton University.

• Bandita Poudyal, PhD. 2017-2018.

  • Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate,  Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM)
    Duke University Medical Center

• Jacob Chamber, Ph.D. 2011-2017.

o   Current position: Faculty and lecturer at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Buffalo.

• Kajal Gupta, Ph.D., 2012-2015.

o   Current position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Medicine, Rush University Medical Center.

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