T32 AWARDEES
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 2022-2023
Undergraduate: BA, Biochemistry, Grinnell College, 2017
Research: Coming Soon
Lab: Olivia Rissland
Undergraduate: BS, MCDB, University of Michigan, 2020
Research: Coming Soon!
Lab: Matthew Burchill
Undergraduate: BS in Biochemistry, Azusa Pacific University
Research: Understanding the function of Eya proteins in tumor associated immune populations.
Lab: Heide Ford
Undergraduate: BA in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology from the University of Colorado, Boulder
Research: My research focuses on the differential regulation of SIX1 in normal muscle development and the pediatric cancer, rhabdomyosarcoma.
Lab: Heide Ford
Undergraduate: BS, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2016
Research: Investigating the effect of ethanol intoxication and burn injury on pulmonary antimicrobial peptides and designing stem-cell-based therapeutic interventions to treat lung inflammation.
Lab: Elizabeth Kovacs
Undergraduate: BS, Biology, Eckerd College, 2021
Research: Coming Soon!
Lab: Suja Jagannathan
Undergrad: BS, Microbiology, Colorado State University 2015
Research: Coming Soon!
Lab: Andres Vazquez-Torres
Undergraduate: BS, Physiology, UC San Diego, 2021
Research: Coming Soon!
Lab: Suja Jagannathan
Undergraduate: BS, Cell & Molecular Biology, George Fox University, 2021
Research: Coming Soon.
Lab: Rytis Prekeris
Undergraduate: BS, Molecular & Cellular Biology, University of Puget Sound, 2019
Research: Coming Soon!
Lab: Jeff Kieft
Meet the INCLUDE T32 Awardees for 2022-2023
Undergraduate: BS, Biological Sciences, Florida State University, 2017; MS Cell and Molecular Biology, Florida State University 2020
Research: Characterizing and detecting cancers through the use of subnucleosomal and nucleosomal cell-free DNA found in blood plasma.
Lab: Srinivas Ramachandran
Undergraduate: BS, Microbiology, University of Texas, El Paso, 2018
Research: RNA-binding protein function in fat metabolism using Drosophila melanogaster
Lab: Tania Reis
Undergraduate: BA, Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, 2020
Research: Coming Soon!
Lab: Matthew Taliaferro
Undergraduate: BS, Biochemistry, University of Denver, 2015
Research: Characterizing the structure and function of inherently disordered proteins via NMR.
Lab: Beat Vogeli
Undergraduate: BA, University of Colorado Boulder, 2012
Research: Using Giardia as a model organism to understand the evolution of translation.
Lab: Olivia Rissland