Since 1999, the Molecular Biology Graduate Program has been funded by a T32 Training Grant from NIGMS. Thanks to NIH funding each year, we award ten T32 pre-doctoral fellowships.
Meet the MOLB T32 Awardees for 2025-2026
Lane Anderson
Undergraduate: BS, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Middlebury College, 2022
Research: Developing computational models to predict and discover sequence motifs that govern subcellular RNA distribution patterns.
Lab: Matthew Taliaferro
Ilin Joshi
Undergraduate: BS, Neuroscience, Univ of Minnesota Twin Cities, 2021
Cassie Minne
Undergraduate: BS, Microbiology, University of Alabama, 2022
Sierra Simmerman
Undergraduate: BS, Cellular, Molecular and Developmental Biology, University of Washington, 2019
Masters: MS, Medical Genetics and Genomics, Tulane School of Medicine, 2023
Research: Leveraging synthetic biological systems (artificial chromosomes and RNA-based recruitment systems) to understand the mechanisms associated with chromatin silencing by the Silent-Information-Regulator complex in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Lab: Aaron Johnson
Emily DeCurtis
Undergraduate: Bachelor’s Degree, Biology, University of Texas at Dallas
Research: I study mechanisms of protein translation through the lens of transfer RNA, with specific applications in the regulation of suppressor tRNA function and nanopore analysis of peptidyl-tRNAs.
Lab: Jay Hesselberth
Rachael Kostelecky
Undergraduate: Metropolitan State University of Denver, 2018, BS Biology
Megan Pockalny
Undergraduate: BS, Biology, University of California, San Diego, 2018
Sam Greenfield
Undergraduate: BS, Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of Vermont, 2019
Research: Defining the when, where, and how of mitotic DNA synthesis.
Lab: Allie McClure
Edgardo Linares
Undergrad: B.S. Bioengineering
Gregory Poterewicz
Undergraduate: BS, Biology, Stony Brook, 2016
