University of Kansas

  • Cara Goodnight (Undergraduate, 2024-2025)
    • ​Project: Alteration of the Hypoxia-Inducible Factor Pathway in Lungless Salamanders
    • Presented poster at 2 conferences; winner of "Best Poster Award" at 28th Annual KU Undergrad Research Symposium
    • CURRENTLY: Postbac Program in Kansas City ; Georgetown (deferred - Biomedical Masters Program)​

University of Utah

Marisol Bustos
  • Undergraduate Student at University of Texas El Paso
  • Genomic Summer Research Program for Minorities (GSRM) Intern - Summer 2021
  • Project: Investigation of Paraoxonase 1 (PON1) pseudogenization and transcriptional activity in Pinniped lineages
  • Presented poster at 2 conferences; Coauthor on 1 publication (Published at Molecular Biology and Evolution)
  • CURRENTLY: Pfizer R&D (Pfizer Rotational R&D Fellow)
Tacy Christensen
  • Undergraduate Student at Utah State University
  • Genomic Summer Research Program for Minorities (GSRM) Intern - Summer 2022
  • Project: Characterizing HIF-pathway alteration and molecular response to hypoxia across extant basal metazoans (Ctenophora, Porifera)​
  • Presented poster at 2 conferences (including NIH NIGMS)
  • Coauthor on 1 publication (In preparation)
  • CURRENTLY: Andology Laboratory Phlebotomist