Our Students

Current

Zanwen Chen E-mail: zc148019@bcm.edu
Advisor: Peter Saggau, Ph.D.
Education: M.S., Biology, Peking University, China, 2002
Research Interests: Combination of Whole Cell Patch Clamp and Optical Dendritic Imaging
James Culver E-mail: culver@bcm.edu
Advisor Mary Dickinson, Ph.D.
Education : BS Biology and Physics, MIT Cambridge 2006
Research Interests: Quantifying Blood Flow in the Brain; Stretch-Activated Channels in Vascular Development
Joseph Fachini E-mail: fachini@bcm.edu
Advisor: 1st year
Education: BS Biology, University of West Georgia 2005
Research Interests: To be determined
Xiao Fang E-mail: xfang@bcm.edu
Advisor: Pumin Zhang, Ph.D.
Education: BS Biosciences, University of Science and Technology of China 2007
Research Interests: To be determined
Yuanyuan Fu E-mail: yfu@bcm.edu
Advisor: Gang-Yi Wu, Ph.D.
Education: B.A., Medicine Research, Xiang-Ya School of Medicine 2002
Research Interests: Interest: Role of mTOR Pathway in Adult Neurogenesis
Monica Garcia E-mail: mgarcia5@bcm.edu
Advisor: Mary Dickinson, Ph.D.
Education: Rice University 2004 BS Bioengineering
Research Interests: Endothelial Cell Migration and Vascular Remodeling in the Mouse Yolk Sac
Rashieda Hatcher E-mail: rhatcher@bcm.edu
Advisor: Pumin Zhang, Ph.D.
Education: B.S., Biology, California State Polytechnic University Pomona, Ca., 2001
Research Interests: Securin’s Role in Chromosome Stability and Tumorigenesis
Taeko Inoue E-mail: taekoi@bcm.edu
Advisor: Robia Pautler, Ph.D.
Education: B.S., Physics, University of Texas at Brownsville 2008
Research Interests: To be determined
Lu Huang E-mail: luh@bcm.edu
Advisor: Richard Sifers, Ph.D.
Education: B.S., Life Sciences, Fudan University Shanghai 2006
Research Interests: Oligosaccharide Dependent Post-Translational Checkpoint
Karlie Jones Email: krjones@bcm.edu
Advisor; 1st year rotations
Education: B.S., Biology and Chemistry, University of South Carolina 2007
Pier-Anne Lachance E-mail: lachance@bcm.edu
Advisor: Eva Sevick-Muraca, Ph.D.
Education: B.S., Physics, Austin Peay State University 2006
Research Interests: Imaging of Lymphangiogenesis and its Impact on Cancer Metastasis
Han Lin E-mail: hanl@bcm.edu
Advisor: Pumin Zhang, Ph.D.
Education: M.S., Biological Science, Tsinghua University Beijing 2008
Research Interests: To be determined
Julia Reynolds E-mail: jreynold@bcm.edu
Advisor: Joseph H. Bayle, Ph.D.
Education: BS Biophysics, Centenary College of Louisiana 2007
Research Interests: To be determined
Lakshmi Sampath E-mail: lsampath@bcm.edu
Advisor: Eva Sevick-Muraca, Ph.D.
Education: M.S., Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University 2005
Research Interests: Development of Multi-Modality Molecular Imaging Agents
Sanam Sane E-mail: sane@bcm.edu
Advisor: Lubov Timchenko, Ph.D.
Education: M.D., University of Tehran, Tehran
Research Interests: To be determined
Sarah Shahmoradian E-mail: shahmora@bcm.edu
Advisor: Wah Chiu, Ph.D.
Education: B.S., Biology, James Madison University 2006
Research Interests: Electron Cryo-Microscopy of Protein-Folding Complexes
Gary Sinnett Email: stinnett@bcm.edu
Advisor: 1st Year
Education: B.S., Physics, Texas Tech University 2007
Karen Smith E-mail: karenb@bcm.edu
Advisor: Robia Pautler, Ph.D.
Education: B.S., Animal Science, Texas A&M University, Texas, 2001
Research Interests: MRI Analysis of Neuronal Degeneration
Chuang Sun E-mail: csun@bcm.edu
Advisor: Xin-Hua Feng, Ph.D.
Education: B.S., Biological Science, University of Science & Technology of China 2008
Research Interests: To be determined
Zhubo Wei E-mail: wei@bcm.edu
Advisor: Pumin Zhang, Ph.D.
Education: B.S,Microbiology, SiChuan University; Chengdu, China 1998
Research Interests: Functions of hCDC14B in Cell cycle and Development
Inna Yanez E-mail: iyanez@bcm.edu
Advisor: Steen Pedersen, Ph.D.
Education: B.S.; Physics Engineering, Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM), Monterrey , México. 1999.
Research Interests: Detection of nAChR conformational transitions with FRET
Jean Philippe York E-mail: jyork@bcm.edu
Advisor: Pumin Zhang, Ph.D.
Education: B.S., Biology, University of Texas Arlington; Arlington, TX 2003
Research Interests: Gene Regulation of Genitourinary Development and Function

Alumni

Qiaoyun Shi, Ph.D. (09)
Charles Gilman, Ph.D. (09)
Postdoctoral Fellow; Squibbs @ Florida
Junling Jia, Ph.D. (08)
Postdoctoral Fellow; Carnegie Institution
David Brent Halling, Ph.D. (07)
Postdoctoral Researcher; University of Texas at Austin
Hyung Jin Ahn, Ph.D. (07)
Postdoctoral Trainee; University of Texas Medical School
Maria Fadri, Ph. D. (07)
Postdoctoral Fellow; Baylor College of Medicine
Mihail Chelu, Ph.D. (06)
Internal Medicine Resident; University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Daoying Hu, Ph.D. (06)
Postdoctoral Fellow; Novartis Pharmaceuticals
Vikas Kumar, Ph.D. (06)
Neurology Resident; St. Louis University Health Science Center
Jacqueline Alldritt, Ph.D. (05)
High School Biology and Medical Science Teacher; Fairfield Suisun Unified School District
Jessica Banko, Ph.D. (05)
Research Fellow; Vanderbilt University
Wanda Vila-Carriles, Ph.D. (04)
Postdoctoral Trainee; University of Alabama
Robert Meltzer, Ph.D. (04)
Postdoctoral Trainee; University of Alabama
Dongni Yang, Ph.D. (03)
Postdoctoral Associate; Human Neuroimaging Laboratory at Baylor College of Medicine
Yue Wei, Ph.D. (03)
Postdoctoral Associate; Cell Biology at Baylor College of Medicine
Wei Tang, Ph.D. (02)
Postdoctoral Associate; Molecular Physiology and Biophysics at Baylor College of Medicine
Sergy Lemeshko, Ph.D. (01)
Attending Baylor College of Medicine to complete a M.D.
Ajay Gautam, Ph.D. (01)
Attending Rice University School of Business Administration
Aslihan Koksoy, M.D., Ph.D. (01)
Returned to her native country, Turkey
Kai Zhang, Ph.D. (01)
Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Utah
George Rodney, Ph.D. (01)
Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Maryland
Laura Y.M. Lorentzen, Ph.D. (00)
Assistant Professor at Kean University
C. Porter Moore. Ph.D. (00)
Attending Medical School at Medical College of Virginia
Julianne Clancy, M.S. (99)
Senior Paramedic for the Galveston EMS
Monica Lurtz, Ph.D. (98)
Research Associate at the Georgia State University
Bahman Aghdasi, Ph.D. (97)
Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins Medical School
Thanh Doan, Ph.D. (97)
Senior Scientist for Zygogen, LLC
Xiao Du, Ph.D. (97)
Working in industry in California
Irmgard Willcockson, Ph.D. (97)
Project Dir. for the Learn Project at the Univ. of Houston
Wenxuan Dai, Ph.D. (96)
Working in the computer industry
Agustin Avila-Sakar, Ph.D. (95)