Doctoral students are integral to collaboration on research with faculty members in their labs and with fellow graduate students and undergraduates. These opportunities allow students to benefit from our faculty’s expertise while gaining experience mentoring and teaching. The close-knit community of students in biology, biochemistry and molecular biology, and chemistry builds collaboration across disciplines both in the lab and in the field, which has led to exciting research.
Shafer Belisle
Office: 340 Lasry Bioscience
Adviser: Nathan Ahlgren
Eun-Mi Jeong
Office: 340 Lasry Bioscience
Research interests: Nuclear envelope proteins
Adviser: Denis Larochelle
Joseph Nelsen
Office: 340 Lasry Bioscience
Research interests: agroecology, insect food webs, plant-insect interactions
Adviser: Kate Mathis
Daley O’Keefe
Office: 340 Lasry Bioscience
Research interests: Invasion ecology, chemical ecology
Adviser: Kate Mathis
Maxwell Olson
Office: 340 Lasry Bioscience
Research interests:
Adviser: Philip Bergmann
Prasanth Prabhu
Office: 340 Lasry Bioscience
Research interests: Fungal systematics and evolution
Adviser: David Hibbett
Johnny Davila-Sandoval
Office: 340 Lasry Bioscience
Research interests: Nervous system evolution, body plan formation, comparative embryology
Adviser: Neva Meyer
Thomas Roehl
Office: 340 Lasry Bioscience
Research interests:
Adviser: David Hibbett
Achyuthan Srikanthan
Office: 340 Lasry Bioscience
Adviser: Philip Bergmann
Liam Cleary
Office: 255 Lasry Bioscience
Research interests: Secondary Metabolism and Population Genomics of the fungus Basidiobolus
Adviser: Javier Tabima-Restrepo
Mahima Gupta
Office: 340 Lasry Bioscience
Adviser: Jackie Dresch
Diego Borges-Rivera
Office: 340 Lasry Bioscience
Research interest: Chromosomal looping, cis-regulatory elements, and retrotransposable elements
Adviser: Jacqueline Dresch
Reynaldo Ponce Almeri
Office: 340 Lasry Bioscience
Research Interests: Gene Regulation, Synthetic biology and Genomics
Adviser: Nathan Ahlgren
Lauren Slattery
Office: 340 Lasry Biosciences
Research Interests: Fungal Genomics & Secondary Metabolism
Adviser: Javier Tabima-Restrepo
Samia Riaz
Office: 340 Lasry Bioscience
Research Interests: Evolution and Ecology
Adviser: Chandra Jack
Behnoush Rafiei Nia
Office: 340 Lasry Bioscience
Research interests: Developmental Biology, Cell Signaling pathways, Nervous system evolution
Adviser: Neva Meyer
Fatemeh Noori
Office: 340 Lasry Bioscience
Adviser: Chandra Jack