Current Graduate Students
Shican (Claire) Li
Shican (Claire) had her B.S. from University of New Haven and a M.S. from Brandeis University. She is now working on her PhD degree in the Elmendorf lab studying the attachment mechanism of the intestinal parasite Giardia lamblia. She is particularly interested in investigating how Giardia responds to environmental cues to find its attaching site during infection, especially, how Giardia interacts with intestinal mucus. She plans to explore these questions using biological and physical approaches. Besides science, Claire enjoys singing Beijing Opera, writing poetry, and playing Chinese zither occasionally.
Shican (Claire) had her B.S. from University of New Haven and a M.S. from Brandeis University. She is now working on her PhD degree in the Elmendorf lab studying the attachment mechanism of the intestinal parasite Giardia lamblia. She is particularly interested in investigating how Giardia responds to environmental cues to find its attaching site during infection, especially, how Giardia interacts with intestinal mucus. She plans to explore these questions using biological and physical approaches. Besides science, Claire enjoys singing Beijing Opera, writing poetry, and playing Chinese zither occasionally.
Current Undergraduate Students
- Lilly Jones '18, Biology of Global Health major
- Jessica McCann '18, Biology of Global Health major
- Brian Piatigorski '18, Biological Physics major
- John Curran '19, Biology of Global Health major
- Claudia Taccheri '19, Biology of Global Health major
- Lily McMorrow '20, Biology major
- David Seo '20, Biology major
- Vicky Yanouskiy '20, Biology major
Former Graduate Students
- Trey Picou, III, PhD earned in 2017.
- Sweta Batni, PhD earned in 2016, Infectious Disease Epidemiologist and Global Health Security Analyst at ANCER Corporation
- Christopher Williams, PhD earned in 2012, completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the NIH (NIDDK), now a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow AAAS/NSF
- Haibei Luo, PhD earned in 2010, completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Maryland, now an R&D Manager,Molecular diagnostic products at Shanghai Kehua Bio-engineering Co., Ltd. (KHB)
- Colleen Walls, PhD earned in 2010, completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Uniformed Services University and a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow AAAS/USAID and US Dept of State
- Smilja Teodorovic, PhD earned in 2007, Associate Professor at Forensics Department, Academy of Criminalistic and Police Studies, Serbia
- Maryam Farzad, PhD earned in 2003
Former Undergraduate Students
- Alex Marta '17, Biology of Global Health major
- Simon Turkington '17, Biology major
- Breanna Walsh '17, Biology of Global Health major - now a researcher in the Wirth Lab at Harvard School of Public Health
- Megan Barefoot ’16, Biology of Global Health major - now a 1st year MD/PhD students at Georgetown University School of Medicine
- Rabia Mirza ’16, Arabic major
- Audra Ayotte '15, Biology major - earned an M.S. in Biohazardous Threat Agents and Emerging Infectious Diseases at Georgetown University School of Medicine; now a Research Analyst at Obsidian
- Darryl Turakhia ’15, Biology of Global Health major
- Elizabeth Schiavoni ’14 (BIGH) - Medical and Science Writer with Life Science Writing Solutions, LLC
- Alyssa Miller ’14 (NEUB) - now at Georgetown University Medical School
- Claire Lang ’14 (BIGH) - now doing post-graduate research at Georgetown University
- Christopher Jenkins ’14 (BCHU) - now a 2nd year medical students at St. George's University Medical School
- Elise Rubino ’14 (BIOL) - Assistant Vice President, Research Analyst at Bank of America Private Wealth Management, U.S. Trust
- Armon Ayandeh ’12 (BIGH) - MSc in Control of Infectious Diseases at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; now at Brown Medical School
- Anja Frost ’12 (BIGH) - now at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and Research Assistant at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Trey Picou ’11 (BIOL) - now a 6th year Ph.D. student at Georgetown U
- Christina DiBartelomeo ’11 (BIOL) - West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine in the U.S. Army
- Jeffrey Mortensen ’11 (BIOL)
- Michael Hrdy ’10 (BIGH) - earned an M.D. from the University of Virginia School of Medicine, 2014; now a resident physician at Johns Hopkins Childrens’ Center
- Christine Helou ’10 (STIA) - earned an M.D. from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, 2014; now a resident physician at University of Maryland Medical Center
- Tim Costales ’10 (Biochemistry) - earned an M.D. from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, 2014; now a resident physician at University of Maryland R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
- Kelly Arledge ’10 (STIA) - now a researcher at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas; now a supervisor at AHRC in New York City
- Dan Rogan ’09 (BIOL) - earned an M.D. from New York University School of Medicine; now a resident at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine
- Fabio Frisoli ’09 (BIOL) - earned an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; now a resident at the New York University School of Medicine
- Cheriselle Scott ’09 (BIOL)
- Nicholas Stoler ’08 (BIOL) - earned an M.S. from Johns Hopkins University; now a 3rd year Ph.D. student at Pennsylvania State U in Bioinformatics and Genomics
- Ernica Noel ’08 (BIOL)
- Samantha Bowen ’07 (BIOL) - earned a Ph.D. from Duke U in 2013; now a program manager at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute
- Katherine Prendergast ’07 (BIOL) - earned a P.A. from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Science;now a practicing Physician Assistant, Pittsburgh, PA
- Kristin Yates ’06 (BIOL) - earned an MSSW from Columbia University School of Social Work, 2012; now a clinical care specialist at N Street Village, Washington, DC
- Marietta Shapiro ’06 (BIOL) - earned a D.O. from the Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Melissa Altura ’05 (BIOL) - earned a Ph.D. from U. Wisconsin Madison in 2011; now a post-doctoral fellow at U Washington
- Aliza Apple ’05 (PHYS) - now a Senior Manager, Global Vaccines Team at Clinton Health Access Initiative
- Nirica Borges ’05 (BIOL) - earned an M.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 2009; now a pediatric physician in Pittsburgh, PA
- Rasha Khoury '04 (BIOL) - earned an MD from Yale University School of Medicine and an MPH from Harvard School of Public Health; now the Vice Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the French Hospital in East Jerusalem
- Rachel Bouttenot '03 (BIOL) - earned a masters in Molecular Cell Biology from Washington University School of Medicine; now in the Vector-borne Disease unit of the California Department of Public Health
- Mary Sandquist '03 (BIOL)
- Michael Bernstein '03 (BIOL)
- Matthew Neal '02 (BIOL) - earned an MD from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; now a General Surgeon and Assistant Professor at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
- Amit Gupta '02 (BIOL) - earned an MD from George Washington School of Medicine; now a practicing physician in New Jersey
- Charles Layton Elliott '02 (BIOL)
- Vinca Glynn '01 (BIOL)
- Diane Perry '01 (BIOL)
- Emily LaVigne (Arch) '01 (BIOL) - earned an MD from Weill Medical College of Cornell University; now a faculty member at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
- Sally Rohrer (Ravanos) '01 (BIOL) - earned an MD from the University of Alabama School of Medicine; now a practicing physician in North Carolina
