Shambhavi Bhagwat

Shambhavi Bhagwat

PhD candidate in Molecular Cell Biology | Entering year: 2021 | Research interests: cancer metabolism, and specifically the role of extracellular lactate in the progression of Osteosarcoma,a primary malignant bone tumor.

Amanda Cimino

Amanda Cimino

PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering | Entering year: 2020 | Research interests: synthetic biology and regenerative medicine, engineering cartilage therapeutics for rheumatoid arthritis.

Joshin Kumar

Joshin Kumar

PhD candidate in Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering | Entering year: 2020 | Research interests: Physics-Based Modeling with Emphasis on Atomic and Radiative Transfer Simulations, along with the Application of Data Analysis, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning Techniques in Health and Environmental Sciences.

Alyssa Labonte

Alyssa Labonte

PhD candidate in Neurosciences | Entering year: 2021 | Research interests: development of functional brain organization in infants.

Luke O'Connor

Luke O'Connor

PhD candidate in Developmental, Regenerative, and Stem Cell Biology | Entering year: 2020 | Research interests: impact of cellular differentiation on Host-pathogen interactions, bioinformatics, and genome editing.

Din Selmanovic

Din Selmanovic

PhD candidate in Neuroscience | Entering year: 2020 | Research interests: sex differences in disease risk, autism genetic risk changes throughout sexual differentiation during development, how genetic mutations in disease can lead to better sex-specific treatment for various neuropsychiatric disorders.

Maurice Tetne

Maurice Tetne

PhD Candidate in French Language and Literatures | Entering year: 2020 | Research interests: regional French of Louisiana and francophone Africa, exploring the aesthetics of their representation in literature and cinema; stylistic devices employed by literary texts and cinematic works and how they influence language trends in former French colonies.