Former Undergraduate Students
Christine Cao
2020-2022 Chicago undergrad
B.A. and B.S., UChicago 2022
Honors & Awards: BSCD Fellowship,
Current Position: Post-bac student at Washington University, St. Louis is Helen McNeill’s lab.
Daisy Maslan
2021-2022 UChicago undergrad
Honors & Awards: BSCD Fellowship, Quad College Fellowship
Current Position: UChicago Class of 2024
Saman Tabatabaee
2019 – 2021, UChicago undergrad
B.A. & B.S. University of Chicago 2021
Honors & Awards: BSCD Fellowship, Beckman Scholar
Publications: Manuscript in preparation
Current Position: Ph.D. Graduate Student in Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford
Juana Delao
2017 – 2019, UChicago undergrad
B.A. & B.S. University of Chicago 2019
Honors & Awards: Odyssey Scholar, BSCD Fellowship, Beckman Scholar
Publications: Manuscript in preparation
Current Position: Ph.D. Graduate Student in Biology, MIT
Billie Mills Reneker
Summer 2018 NSF REU Program in Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology
B.S. Georgia College
Current Position: PhD Graduate student in Molecular Biology, Princeton
Carmelita Villalobos
Summer 2017 NSF REI Program in Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology
B.S. Dominican University
Current Position: Response and Outreach Coordinator, The Marine Mammal Center, Hawaii; 2021 MS in Tropical Conservation Biology & Environmental Science, University of Hawaii
John Paul Bugay
Summer 2016 NSF REU Program in Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology
B.S. San Francisco State University
Current Position: Ph.D. Graduate Student in Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Sherzod Tokamov
Summer 2015 NSF REU Program in Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology
Publications: Hope et al., Elife 2018
B.S. Florida Gulf Coast University
Current Position: Ph.D. Graduate Student in Development, Regeneration & Stem Cell Biology, University of Chicago
Madison Olmsted
Summer 2015 UChicago BSCD Fellowship Program
B.S. University of Chicago
Current Position: Health Equity Fellow, Minnesota Department of Health
Xintong "Mushroom" He
Summer 2015 UChicago International REU Program
B.S. Tsinghua University
Current Position: Ph.D. Graduate Student, Johns Hopkins University
Xiaoying Yu
Summer 2014 UChicago International REU Program
B.S. Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Current Position: Ph.D. Graduate Student, Scripps Research Institute
Nora Peterson
Summer 2014 NSF REU Program in Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology
B.A. St. Olaf College
Current Position: Associate Consultant, ZS Associates; 2021 Ph.D. in Cell Biology, Duke University
Miles Barney
2013-2014 UChicago BSCD Fellowship Program
B.A. University of Chicago
Current Position: MSTP Program, University of Illinois at Chicago
Marielle O'hara-Hulett
Summer 2013 NSF REU Program in Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology
B.A. Carroll College
Current Position: unknown
Courtney Burnside Hershberger
Summer 2012 NSF REU Program in Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology
B.A. University of Mount Union
Current Position: PhD program in Molecular Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
Xiaowei Jia
Summer 2011 UChicago International REU Program
B.A. University of Science & Technology of China
Current Position: unknown
Sean Mcguire
Summer 2011 NSF REU Program in Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology
B.A. Earlham College; M.D. Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago
Current Position: Medical Resident, Indiana University School of Medicine
Miriam Genuth
2009-2011 UChicago BSCD Fellowship Program
B.A. University of Chicago; Ph.D. University of California at San Francisco
Current Position: Postdoc in Scott Holley’s Lab, Yale University
James Porter
2011-2013 UChicago BSCD Fellowship Program & Goldwater Scholarship
B.A. University of Chicago
Current Position: Facilitator, Recurse Center
Alex Muir
2008-2009 UChicago BSCD Fellowship Program & PCBio Program
B.A. University of Chicago; Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Ben May Department for Cancer Research, University of Chicago
https://cancerbio.uchicago.edu/program/faculty/alexander-muir
Will Vaughan
Summer 2008 UChicago BSCD Fellowship Program
B.A. University of Chicago
Current Position: unknown
Thomas Graham
2006-2009 UChicago BSCD Fellowship Program & Beckman/PCBio Fellowship Program
B.A. University of Chicago; MPhil University of Cambridge; Ph.D. Harvard University
Publications: Zhang et al., Molecular Cell Biology 2010; Graham et al., Development 2010
Current Position: Postdoc (Robert Tjian & Xavier Darzacq) University of California at Berkeley
Jasper Weinberg
Summer 2004
B.S. Carnegie Mellon University; Ph.D. in Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California at Berkeley
Current Position: unknown
David Rawnsley
Summer 2004
B.S. Duke University; M.D./Ph.D. Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Current Position: Clinical Fellow in Cardiology, Washington University St. Louis
Eric Henckels
2002 – 2004
B.A. Tufts University; M.D. Columbia University
Current Position: Director, Technology Strategy & Innovation, Amgen
Laura Doyon
Summers 2000 – 2003
B.A. New York University; M.D. Tufts University
Publications: Silver et al., Molecular Cell Biology 2003; Silver et al., Genesis 2004
Current Position: Surgeon, Emerson Hospital
Cameron Marshall
Summer 2003
B.A. Williams College; M.D. Columbia University
Current Position: Pain Medicine & Anesthesiology, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital
Emily Ludwig Serazin
Summer 2002
B.A. Williams College; M.Phil. Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar)
Current Position: Partner & Managing Director, The Boston Consulting Group
Xiao Tan
Summers 2000 – 2001
B.A. Williams College; Ph.D. University of Cambridge; M.D. Stanford University
Current Position: Clinical Fellow, Wyss Institute, Harvard University
Francis "Char" Decroos
1998 – 2000
B.S. MIT; M.D. Duke University
Current Position: Opthalmologist, Southeastern Retina Associates
http://www.southeasternretina.com/our-doctors/francis-c-decroos-m-d/
Richard DeSouza
1998 – 2000
B.S. MIT; M.D. University of Massachusetts Medical School
Current Position: Internal Medicine, Yale New Haven Hospital
Jillian Pesin-Fulop
Summer 1998
B.A. Williams College; Ph.D. MIT; J.D. University of California at Berkeley
Current Position: Associate at Morrison Foerster