Graduate Program: Current Students
 

Kelly A. McLaughlin, Ph.D
Graduate Program Director
Associate Professor of Biology

Forms and procedures for current graduate students:

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Current Graduates

Ranjith Anand
(Doctoral Candidate-7th year)
Mahatma Gandhi University, B.Sc Pondicherry University, M.Sc
Freudenreich Laboratory

Carolyn Bauer
(Doctoral Candidate-1st year)
University of Washington, B.S.

Kelly Beagan
(Doctoral Candidate-1st year)
Wayne State University, B.S

Minda Berbeco
(Doctoral Candidate-5th year)
Carnegie Mellon, B.S.
Orians Laboratory

Colleen Butler
(Doctoral Candidate-4th Year)
Boston University, B.A.
Orians Laboratory

Shoshoni Caine
(Doctoral Candidate-5th year)
Bates College, B.S.
McLaughlin Laboratory

Brook Chernet
(Doctoral Candidate-2nd year)
Saint Vincent College, B.S.
Levin Laboratory

Robert deBruijn
(Doctoral Candidate-2nd year)
University of Groningen, M.S. & Swedish Licentiate, Mid Sweden University
Romero Laboratory

David DesRochers
(Doctoral Candidate-7th year)
St. Anselm College, B.A. The College of William & Mary, M.A.
Reed Laboratory

Casey Diederich
(Doctoral Candidate-1st year)
Boston College, B.S.
SUNY at Buffalo, M.S.


Vera Egorova
(Doctoral Candidate-2nd year)
Moscow State University, M.S. Physics
Mirkin Laboratory


Jessie Evans
(Doctoral Candidate-2nd year)
Assumption College, B.A.
Freudenreich Laboratory


Ronald "Jason" Heustis
(Doctoral Candidate-5th year)
St. Louis University, B.S. Biology & B.A. Chemistry & Political Science)
Fuhrman Laboratory

Daniel Kane
(Doctoral Candidate-4th year)
Ball State University, B.S.
McVey Laboratory

Sasha Keyel
(Doctoral Candidate-3rd year)
Arizona State University, B.S.
Reed Laboratory

Christine Lattin
(Doctoral Candidate-2nd year)
Swarthmore College, B.A. Linguistics &
Eastern Kentucky University, M.S. Biology
Romero Laboratory

Jenny Lenkowski
(Doctoral Candidate-6th year)
Brown University, B.S.
McLaughlin Laboratory

Huai-Ti Lin
(Doctoral Candidate-4th year)
U.Mass.Amherst, B.S. Physics
Trimmer Laboratory

Maria Lobikin
(Doctoral Candidate-1st year)
University of Pennsylvania, B.Eng.Sci.

Anne Madden
(Doctoral Candidate-2nd year)
Wellesley College, B.A.
Starks Laboratory

Cinzia Metallo
(Doctoral Candidate-Sackler ISP/Neuroscience)
Trimmer Laboratory

Tegan Morton
(Doctoral Candidate-2nd year)
Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, B.S.
Orians Laboratory

Ansel Payne
(Thesis Masters-2nd year)
Harvard University, B.A.
Starks Laboratory

Kartik Shah
(Doctoral Candidate-3rd year)
C.M.R. College of Engineering & Technology (India), B.S.
Mirkin Laboratory

Michael Simon
(Doctoral Candidate-6th year)
Rice University, B.S. Elec. Engr. and B.A. Economics
Trimmer Laboratory

Adam South
(Doctoral Candidate-4th year)
Earlham College, B.A.
Lewis Laboratory

Ayron Strauch
(Doctoral Candidate-5th year)
Washington University, B.A. Biology, Anthropology; Tufts University, M.S. Biology
Astier Almedom

Christine Surka
(Doctoral Candidate-3rd year)
Brandeis University, B.S.
Mirkin Laboratory

Brian Tavernia
(Doctoral Candidate-6th year)
Muhlenberg College, B.S.
Reed Laboratory

Adam Thomas
(Doctoral Candidate-3rd year)
Boston University, B.A.
McVey Laboratory

Alexandra Thorn
(Doctoral Candidate-5th year)
Wellesley College, B.A.
Orians Laboratory

Natasha Tigreros
(Doctoral Candidate-3rd year)
Universidad del Valle (Colombia), B.S.
Lewis Laboratory

Linnea van Griethuijsen
(Doctoral Candidate-4th year)
Wageningen University, The Netherlands, MSc
Trimmer Laboratory

Susan Weiner
(Doctoral Candidate-5th year)
Brandeis, B.S. Biology & Jewish Studies
Starks Laboratory

Noah Wilson-Rich
(Doctoral Candidate-6th year)
Northeastern University, B.S.
Starks Laboratory

Jiahui Yang
(Doctoral Candidate-8th year)
Nankai University, B.S.
Freudenreich Laboratory

Amy Yu
(Doctoral Candidate-5th Year)
M.I.T., B.S. Humanities & Science
McVey Laboratory

Recent Graduates

Olivia Ambrogio, PhD
"The potential influence of reproductive systems and behavior on mate finding and choice in two sex-changing snails, Crepidula fornicata and Crepidula convexa"

Molly Dickens, PhD
"Linking translocation and chronic stress: Analysis of alterations in stress physiology and behavior resulting from translocation procedures in wild birds"

Nicole E. Cyr, PhD
“The effect of acute and chronic stress on the first and second waves of the stress response in European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris)

Nealia House, Thesis MS
"The effect of chromatin structure on CAG/CTG repeat maintenance"

Carolyn Miazga, PhD
"Notch Signaling Mediates Cell Fate Decisions During Gastrulation in Xenopus laevis"

Jocelyn Muller, PhD
"Including Local Voices in Global Discourse in Biodiversity Conservation: an Ethnobotanical Study in Boumba, Niger (Park W)"

Yaguang Si, PhD
"Metabolic Engineering of Adipocyte Lipid and Energy Balance"

Priya Sundararanjan, PhD
"Double Strand Break repair Pathways modulate CAG Repeat Instability and Cytotoxicity"
Freudenreich Laboratory

Steven Untersee, PhD
 "Effects of encapsulated development and larval dispersal on susceptibility to phenol and copper for marine gastropods (Ilyanassa obsolete, Nucella lapillus, Crepidula fornicate, and C. convexa)"

Haihua Zhang, PhD
"An AT-Rich Sequence in Human Common Fragile sites FRA16D Causes Fork Stalling and Chromosome Breakage in S. cerevisiae"
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