Graduate Program: Current Students
 

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

Forms and procedures for current graduate students:

- Graduate Student Committee Meetings
- Student Progress Form
- Overview of General Graduate Courses

Check back for additional documents.

 


Ranjith Anand
(Doctoral Candidate-6th year)
Mahatma Gandhi University, B.Sc Pondicherry University, M.Sc
Freudenreich Laboratory

Minda Berbeco
(Doctoral Candidate-4th year)
Carnegie Mellon, B.S.
Orians Laboratory

Jessica Brubaker
(Doctoral Candidate-2nd year)
Towson University, B.S.
Romero Laboratory
 

Colleen Butler
(Doctoral Candidate-3rd Year)
Boston University, B.A.
Orians Laboratory

Shoshoni Caine
(Doctoral Candidate-4th year)
Bates College, B.S.
McLaughlin Laboratory

David DesRochers
(Doctoral Candidate-6th year)
St. Anselm College, B.A. The College of William & Mary, M.A.
Reed Laboratory

Molly Dickens
(Doctoral Candidate-5th year)
Cornell University, B.S.
Romero Laboratory

Carolyn Gaydos
(Doctoral Candidate-6th year)
Boston College, B.S.
McLaughlin Laboratory

Ronald "Jason" Heustis
(Doctoral Candidate-4th year)
St. Louis University, B.S. Biology & B.A. Chemistry & Political Science)
Fuhrman Laboratory

Nealia House
(Thesis Masters-3rd year)
Smith College, B.A.
Freudenreich Laboratory

Daniel Kane
(Doctoral Candidate-3rd year)
Ball State University, B.S.
McVey Laboratory

Sasha Keyel
(Doctoral Candidate-2nd year)
Arizona State University, B.S.
Reed Laboratory

Huai-Ti Lin
(Doctoral Candidate-3rd year)
U.Mass.Amherst, B.S. Physics
Trimmer Laboratory

Jenny Lenkowski
(Doctoral Candidate-5th year)
Brown University, B.S.
McLaughlin Laboratory

Jocelyn Muller
(Doctoral Candidate-5th year)
Hiram College, B.A. Biology and German
Astier Almedom

Kartik Shah
(Doctoral Candidate-2nd year)
C.M.R. College of Engineering & Technology (India), B.S.
Mirkin Laboratory

Michael Simon
(Doctoral Candidate-5th year)
Rice University, B.S. Elec. Engr. and B.A. Economics
Trimmer Laboratory

Adam South
(Doctoral Candidate-3rd year)
Earlham College, B.A.
Lewis Laboratory

Ayron Strauch
(Doctoral Candidate-4th year)
Washington University, B.A. Biology, Anthropology; Tufts University, M.S. Biology
Astier Almedom

Priya Sundararanjan
(Doctoral Candidate-8th year)
University of Madras, B.Sc
Pondicherry University, M.Sc
Freudenreich Laboratory

Christine Surka
(Doctoral Candidate-2nd year)
Brandeis University, B.S.
Mirkin Laboratory
 

Brian Tavernia
(Doctoral Candidate-5th year)
Muhlenberg College, B.S.
Reed Laboratory

Alexandra Thorn
(Doctoral Candidate-4th year)
Wellesley College, B.A.
Orians Laboratory

Natasha Tigreros
(Doctoral Candidate-2nd year)
Universidad del Valle (Colombia), B.S.
Lewis Laboratory

Adam Thomas
(Thesis Masters-2nd year)
Boston University, B.A.
McVey Laboratory
 

Linnea van Griethuijsen
(Doctoral Candidate-3rd year)
Wageningen University, The Netherlands, MSc
Trimmer Laboratory

Susan Weiner
(Doctoral Candidate-4th year)
Brandeis, B.S. Biology & Jewish Studies
Starks Laboratory

Noah Wilson-Rich
(Doctoral Candidate-5th year)
Northeastern University, B.S.
Starks Laboratory

Jiahui Yang
(Doctoral Candidate-7th year)
Nankai University, B.S.
Freudenreich Laboratory

Amy Yu
(Doctoral Candidate-4th Year)
M.I.T., B.S. Humanities & Science
McVey Laboratory

Visiting Graduate Students

Irina Voineagu
(Doctoral Candidate-6th year)
Visiting Graduate Student from University of Illinois at Chicago
Mirkin Laboratory
   

Recent Graduates

Melinda Franceschini, PhD
"Glucocorticoids and Wildlife Health: Evaluating the Stress of Translocation and Chronic Contaminant Exposure"

Nina Mallozzi, Thesis MS
"Effect of NO on Nerves and Muscles Involved in Gustation in the Tobacco Hornworm, Manduca sexta"

Randi Rotjan, PhD
"The patterns, causes, and consequences of parrotfish corallivory in Belize"

Tatyana Fedina, PhD
"Sexual selection in flour beetles: cryptic female choice of mates"

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)"

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

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)

Christina Bracken, Thesis MS
"Creating an embryonic kidney: The role of BMP signaling during patterning and differentiation of pronephric tissue in Xenopus laevis"

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

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"
   
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