People

Current Lab Personnel

Dr. Alexander Jackson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Principal Investigator

BSc (McGill), PhD (Harvard), Postdoc (UCSF)

William Armstrong IV

Postdoctoral Research Associate

BA (Assumption), PhD (UCONN)

Kristen Springer

Postdoctoral Research Associate

BSc (UCONN), MS (UCONN), PhD (UCONN)

Monica Antony

Postdoctoral Research Associate

BSc (UCONN), PhD (UCONN)

James Salvatore

PhD Student

BSc (Eastern Connecticut State University)

Eneida Wainman

PhD Student

BSc (Syracuse University)

Leah Boyd

PhD Student

BSE (Duke University)

Falyne Driver

Master's Student

BSc (UCONN)

Olivia Knuth

Research Associate

BSc (UMASS), MS (Tufts University)

Aleevna Ehsan

Undergraduate Student

Kristen Erichsen

Undergraduate Student

Mishael Gill

Undergraduate Student

UCONN ’27

Mannat Kadian

Undergraduate Student

UCONN ’26

Liam Murray

Undergraduate Student

Wesley Ong

Undergraduate Student

UCONN ’26

Muskan Sahoo

Undergraduate Student

UCONN ’28

Past Lab Members

Brock Chimileski

Honors Student

University Scholar, Beckman Scholar (UConn ’17)

Current: Medical Student (UConn Health)

Mudasir Khanday, Ph.D.

Post-Doctoral Fellow

Current: Postdoctoral Fellow

Fred Kolling IV, Ph.D.

Post-Doctoral Fellow

Current: Co-Director, Dartmouth Genomics and Microarray Core

Renee Russell

Undergraduate Student

Current: Graduate Student (Bucknell)

Miryam Wilson

Undergraduate Student

Current: Medical Student (UConn Health)

Julia Nasuta

Undergraduate Student

(UConn ’18)

Jozelia Gomes, Ph.D.

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow

BS (University of Londrina), PhD (University of Sao Paulo), Postdoc (University of Sao Paulo)

Laura Mickelsen, Ph.D.

PhD student

Current: Post-Doctoral Fellow, NIH

Akie Fujita, PhD

Graduated PhD Student

BS (William and Mary), BS (Columbia)
PhD (UCONN)

Harry (Yi) Huang, PhD

PhD Student

BS, MS (Wenzhou Medical University)
Current: Post-Doctoral Fellow,
Virginia Commonwealth University

Jacob Naparstek

Honors Student

(UConn ’18)

Eric Beltrami

Honors Student

University Scholar, Beckman Scholar (UConn ’19)

James Costanzo

Undergraduate Student

(UConn ’19)

Lily Zhong

Honor's Student

(UConn ’21)

Elizabeth Chamiec-Chase

Honors Student

(UConn ’21)

Emma Burleigh

Honors Student

(UConn ’21)

Noor Taweh

Honors Student

(UCONN ’21)

Leo DiLeone

Undergraduate Student

UCONN ’26

Current: Medical Assistant

Elani Gordon

Undergraduate Student

Fairfield University ’24

Current: Medical student at New York Institute of Technology College of Medicine

Mahitha Juttu

Undergraduate Student

UCONN ’23

Current: Medical student at Tufts University School of Medicine

Justin Senh

Undergraduate Student

UCONN ’24

Current: Medical student at Wake Forest University School of Medicine