Current Students

IMSD @ Rutgers–New Brunswick

Current IMSD Students

Entry Year: 2018
Program: Plant Biology
PI: James Simon, Ph.D.
Department: Plant Biology
School: SEBS
Research Project: Genetic Transformation Of Catnip (Nepeta Cataria).

Entry Year: 2019
Program: Neuroscience
PI: Anna Konova, Ph.D.
Department: Psychiatry
School: RWJMS
Research Project: Formation and maintenance of optimistic beliefs in opioid use disorder. 

Entry Year: 2018
Program: Nutritional Sciences
PI: Paul Breslin, Ph.D.
Department: Nutritional Sciences
School: SEBS
Research Project: Endocannabinoid/CB1 Receptor Signaling In Human Fat Appetite

Entry Year: 2021
Program: Microbial Biology
PI: Sioban Duffy, Ph.D.
Department: Biochemistry and Microbiology
School: SEBS
Research Project: Role of coinfection on viral emergence on novel hosts.

Entry Year: 2023
Program: Biomedical Engineering
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Entry Year: 2023
Program: Molecular Biosciences
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Entry Year: 2021
Program: Biomedical Engineering
PI: Michael Dunn, Ph.D.
Department: Orthopaedics Surgery
School: RWJMS
Research Project: Meniscal implants: strategies for improvement

Entry Year: 2020
Program: Microbiology and Molecular Genetics - MD/Ph.D. Candidate 
PI: Karen Schindler, PhD
Department: Genetics 
School: SAS 
Research Project: Maternal genetic variants associated with female infertility.  

Entry Year: 2023
Program: Animal Sciences
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Entry Year: 2023
Program: Molecular Biosciences
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Entry Year: 2022
Program: Toxicology
PI: Shuo Xiao, PhD
Department: Pharmacology and Toxicology
School: Pharmacy
Research Project: Female reproduction and fertility

IMSD Associate
Entry Year: 2022
Program: Toxicology
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School: Pharmacy
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Entry Year: 2023
Program: Neuroscience
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IMSD Associate
Entry Year: 2020
Program: Cell and Developmental Biology (Molecular Biosciences)
PI: Annika Barber, Ph.D.
Department: Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
School: SAS
Research Project: Role of key neuropeptides in Drosophila

Entry Year: 2020
Program: Neuroscience
PI: Brian Daniels, Ph.D.
Department: Cell Biology and Neuroscience
School: SAS
Research Project: Neuroimmunology

Entry Year: 2023
Program: Molecular Biosciences
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Entry Year: 2021
Program: Molecular Biosciences
PI: Gaëtan Barbet, PhD
Department: Pediatrics
School: Rutgers Child Health Institute of New Jersey
Research Project:  Calcium dynamics in dendritic cells in response to infectection and sterile injury

Entry Year: 2022
Program: Cell and Developmental Biology
PI: Estela Jacinto, PhD
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
School: Rutgers RWJMS
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IMSD Associate
Entry Year: 2018
Program: Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology (Molecular Biosciences)
PI: Shridar Ganesan, Ph.D.
Department: Medicine and Pharmacology
School: CINJ
Research Project: Triple Negative Breast Cancer and Cancer Genomics 

Entry Year: 2019
Program: Toxicology
PI: Grace Guo, Ph.D.
Department: Pharmacology and Toxicology
School: Pharmacy
Research Project: Examining the Tissue-Specific Function of FXR in the Presence of NASH

Entry Year: 2023
Program: Molecular Biosciences
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Entry Year: 2023
Program: Nutritional Sciences
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Entry Year: 2023
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Entry Year: 2017
Program: Microbial Biology
PI: Donald Schaffner, Ph.D.
Department: Department of Food Sciences
School: SEBS
Research Project: Bacteriophage Phi6 as an enveloped virus surrogate in food environments

Entry Year: 2021
Program: Molecular Biosciences
PI: Miguel Zaratiegui Biurrun, Ph.D.
Department: Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
School: SAS
Research Project: DNA replication activities involved in heterochromatin inheritance

Entry Year: 2020
Program: Cell and Developmental Biology (Molecular Biosciences)
PI: Jian Cao, Ph.D.
Department: Medicine
School: CINJ
Research Project: A novel oncogene in hepatocellular carcinoma

Entry Year: 2022
Program: Biomedical Engineering
PI: Maribel Vazquez, PhD
Department: Biomedical Engineering
School: Engineering
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Entry Year: 2021
Program: Molecular Biosciences
PI: Michael Verzi, Ph.D.
Department: Genetics
School: SAS
Research Project: The role of transcription factor Hnf4 in regeneration of intestinal villus and crypt following injury

IMSD Associate
Entry Year: 2022
Program: Biomedical Engineering
PI: Valerie Tutwiler, PhD
Department: Biomedical Engineering
School: SAS
Research Project: Immune-Mediated Thrombosis

Entry Year: 2020
Program: Microbiology and Molecular Genetics (Molecular Biosciences)
PI: Jeffrey Boyd, Ph.D.
Department: Biochemistry and Microbiology
School: SEBS
Research Project: The role of sRNA during Staph. aureus response to iron scarcity

Entry Year: 2020
Program: Biomedical Engineering
PI: Li Cai, Ph.D.
Department: Biomedical Engineering
School: SAS
Research Project: Function of LAPTM4B on retinal development

IMSD Associate
Entry Year: 2022
Program: Nutritional Sciences
PI: Tracy Anthony, PhD
Department: Nutritional Sciences
School: SEBS
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Entry Year: 2021
Program: Toxicology
PI: Debra Laskin, PhD
Distinguished Professor, Roy A.Bowers Endowed Chair, Department Chair
Department: Pharmacology and Toxicology
School: Pharmacy
Research Project: The effects of ozone exposure on the integrated stress response in the murine lung

Entry Year: 2022
Program: Molecular Biosciences
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Entry Year: 2020
Program: Toxicology
PI: Troy Roepke, PHD 
Department: Animal Sciences
School: Environmental and Biological Sciences
Research Project: Effects on the fetus of maternal exposure to flame retardants that disrupt energy homeostasis, behavior, and development

IMSD Associate
Entry Year: 2019
Program: Microbiology and Molecular Genetics (Molecular Biosciences)
PI: Jeffrey Boyd, Ph.D.
Department: Biochemistry and Microbiology
School: SAS
Research Project: Staphylococcus Aureus Respiration Sensors

Entry Year: 2019
Program: Microbiology and Molecular Genetics (Molecular Biosciences)
PI: Karen Schindler, Ph.D.
Department: Genetics
School: SAS
Research Project: Mechanisms that mediate reproductive aging

Entry Year: 2018
Program: Cell and Developmental Biology (Molecular Biosciences)
PI: Pingyue Pan, Ph.D.
Department: Neuroscience and Cell Biology
School: RWJMS
Research Project: SynJ1 deficiency In Parkinson’s disease

Entry Year: 2018
Program: Neuroscience
PI: David Margolis, Ph.D.
Department: Cell Biology and Neuroscience
School: SAS
Research Project: Sensory-Motor Integration In The Striatum

Entry Year: 2023
Program: Microbial Biology
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Entry Year: 2020
Program: Toxicology
PI: Phoebe Stapleton, Ph.D.
Department: Pharmacology and Toxicology
School: Pharmacy
Research Project: Effects of environmental chemicals on cardiovascular and placental development in pregnant rats

Entry Year: 2019
Program: Nutritional Sciences
PI: Joshua Miller, Ph.D.
Department: Nutritional Sciences
School: SEBS
Research Project: Relationship between excess folic acid and Vitamin B12 depletion

Entry Year: 2020
Program: Toxicology
PI: Brian Buckley, Ph.D.
Department: Environmental and Community Medicine
School: RWJMS
Research Project: BCRP transporter mechanisms and cadmium locations in murine tissues.

Entry Year: 2022
Program: Biomedical Engineering
PI: Adam Gormley, PhD
Department: Biomedical Engineering
School: Engineering
Research Project: Using multivalency to control cell signaling

IMSD Associate
Program: Chemistry
PI: Jean Baum, Ph.D.
Department: Chemistry and Chemical Biology
School: SAS
Research Project: Investigating Collagen Structure and Dynamics

Entry Year: 2023
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