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Postdoctoral Fellow Alumni

Hanbing An, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor , Vanderbilt University Medical Center


Mohan Balasubramanian, Ph.D.

Professor, Biomedical Cell Biology, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick


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Rahul Bhattacharjee, Ph.D.

Scientist, Protein Analytics, Twist Bioscience


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Louise Chang, Ph.D.

Research Associate, Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan


Dawn Clifford Hart, Ph.D.

Professor, Grand Valley State University, MI


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Sierra Cullati, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Western Washington University, Department of Chemistry


    Sam Kale, Ph.D., M.B.A.

    Director Global Marketing Operations, GE Healthcare


    Ilektra Kouranti, Ph.D.

    Research Scientist, Pharming Group NV, Paris, France


    Dannel McCollum, Ph.D.

    Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Mass. Medical Center


    Jennifer Morrell-Falvey, Ph.D.

    Senior Scientist and Joint Professor, Oak Ridge National Laboratories


      Gregory Tomlin, Ph.D.

      Staff Governor, The John Fisher School, Surrey, UK


      Srinivas Venkatram, Ph.D. MBA

      Marketing Insights Manager, Oncology Biomarkers and CDx, AbbVie


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      Marcin Wos, Ph.D.

      Senior Scientist, Molecular Biology, SDS Optic, Lublin, Poland


      Graduate Student Alumni

      Lynne Berry, Ph.D.

      Research Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
      Vice-Chair, Informatics and Collaborative Programs, Dept. of Biostatistics
      Deputy Director, Center for Quantitative Sciences


      K. Adam Bohnert, Ph.D.

      Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University



      Matthew Broadus, Ph.D.

      Director, Discovery Biology at Casma Therapeutics


      C. Geoffrey Burns, Ph.D.

      Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital


      Robert Carnahan, Ph.D.

      Associate Director, Vanderbilt Vaccine Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
      Professor, Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University


      Greg Den Haese, M.D, Ph.D.

      Obstetrician & Gynecologist, Women's Care Florida


        Zac Elmore, Ph.D.

        Postdoctoral Fellow, Duke University, Asokan Lab, Synthetic Virology and Gene Therapy


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        Rodrigo Guillen, Ph.D.

        Scientist, BIOMILQ


          Alyssa Johnson, Ph.D.

          Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University


          Claudia Kale, Ph.D.

          Assistant Professor, Biology, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences University


          Lucy (Xiangxi) Lu, M.D, Ph.D.

          Breast Imaging Radiologist/Neuroradiologist, Wisconsin Radiology Specialists, Mequon, WI


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          MariaSanta Mangione, Ph.D.

          Internal Medicine Resident Fellow, University of Texas Southwestern


          Nathan McDonald, Ph.D.

          Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Kang Shen Lab, Stanford University


          W. Hayes McDonald, Ph.D.

          Research Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
          Co-Director, Proteomics Core


          Sapna Mehta, Ph.D.

          Instructor, Indiana University Bloomington


          Melanie Ohi, Ph.D.

          Rowena G. Mathews Collegiate Professor in the Life Sciences, Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan


          Ryoma (Puck) Ohi, Ph.D.

          Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School


          Rachel Helen Roberts-Galbraith, Ph.D.

          Assistant Professor, Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia


          Joshua Rosenberg, Ph.D.

          Biosciences Sales Specialist, Nikon Instruments


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            Tony Rossi

            Regulatory Scientist, Syngenta


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              Chloe Snider

              Writer, Ashfield MedComms, an Inizio Company


              Joseph Tasto, Ph.D.

              International Business Leader, Next Gen Solutions at Roche Tissue Diagnostics


              Ben Wolfe, Ph.D.

              Associate Director, Global Medical Communications, Abbvie


              Hyun-Joo Yoon, Ph.D.

              Research Scientist, TissueGene, Inc.


               


              Principal Investigator

              Kathy Gould

              Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology

              Kathleen L. Gould, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology and holds a Louise B. McGavock endowed faculty chair. Dr. Gould received her A.B. degree in Biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley and her Ph.D. in Biology from the University of California, San Diego. She was then a Fellow of the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research at the University of Oxford. After joining the Vanderbilt faculty, Dr. Gould received the Boehringer-Ingelheim New Investigator Award, the Searle Scholar Award, and was an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 1994-2013. Elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2011, Dr. Gould is also a member of several national professional societies and journal editorial boards, and she serves regularly as reviewer for the National Institutes of Health and the National Academies Ford Foundation. Her achievements have also been recognized with the SEC Faculty Achievement Award and the Vanderbilt Earl Sutherland Prize.

              Dr. Gould runs an internationally recognized research program that has made fundamental, pioneering discoveries in the mechanisms that control cell division using a multi-disciplinary approach that includes super-resolution microscopy, mass spectrometry-based proteomics, genetics, structural biology, and biochemistry. In her laboratory, Dr. Gould has trained over 40 undergraduate students, many who have gone on to attend graduate or medical schools, and 50 pre-doctoral and postdoctoral scientists.

              Dr. Gould has served in multiple leadership roles at Vanderbilt University including Interim and Vice Chair of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology. She was also Senior Associate Dean for Biomedical Research, Education, and Training in the School of Medicine. Dr. Gould helped shape institutional and national strategies to enhance and broaden training of biomedical pre- and post-doctoral fellows so that they are prepared to enter the biomedical workforce of the future.


              Research Staff

              Liping Ren

              Senior Research Specialist, Cell & Developmental Biology

              Liping was born in Shanghai, China. She is researching pre-mRNA splicing and regulation of cytokinesis. In her leisure time, she enjoys gardening and hiking with her family.


              Lesley Turner

              Research Assistant I, Cell & Developmental Biology

              Lesley is originally from Birmingham, Alabama and recently graduated from Auburn University with a degree in Biology. At Auburn she worked in an Alzheimer’s research lab that studied the blood brain barrier. She enjoys playing Ultimate Frisbee and cats!


              Research Faculty

              Jun-Song Chen

              Research Assistant Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology

              Jun-Song Chen was born in China but he came to the USA to pursue his “American dream” after he got his Ph.D. degree in Shanghai. He is studying proteins involved in cell cycle regulation, one of which is the newly identified protein, Nsk1. When not in the lab, his favorite thing to do is taking road trips with his family to look around “Mei Guo” (the Chinese translation for America meaning “beautiful country”), even when he has to carry “a little burden”—his son Roger.


              Alaina Willet

              Research Assistant Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology

              Alaina was born in Connecticut and raised close to Nashville in Franklin, Tennessee.  She received her Bachelor’s degree from The University of Tennessee and came straight to Vanderbilt for graduate school. She defended her thesis in July 2017 and continues in the Gould Lab as a Research Instructor. Currently she has a broad interest in the regulation of cytokinesis. Outside of lab she enjoys the outdoors, playing soccer, reading and cooking.


              Postdoctoral Fellows

              Kazutoshi Akizuki

              Kazutoshi was born in Oita, Japan. He received his PhD degree from Ehime University (Kagawa), Japan, where he studied the function and activation mechanism of CaMKIδ, a CaM kinase. And then he moved to Hiroshima University, Japan, and studied the role of CaM kinase phosphatase in migration of breast cancer cells by using its specific inhibitors. He is excited for this next chapter in Nashville and researching CK1 kinases using fission yeast and mammalian cells with cutting-edge approaches. Outside of the lab, Kazutoshi enjoys playing guitar, soft tennis, and swimming.


              Undergraduate Students

              Sarah Hanna

              Sarah was born in Iowa and raised in Tampa, Florida. She is pre-med and double majoring in Medicine, Health and Society and Cell and Molecular Biology, with a minor in Spanish. Outside the lab, she loves thrift shopping, going to the beach, and spending time with family and friends!


              Bita Tavafoghi

              Bita was born in Maryland and raised in Northern Virginia. She is pre-med and double majoring in Medicine, Health, & Society, and Political Science. In her free time, Bita likes to hike, travel, and dance.


              Alumni

              Hanbing An

              Research Assistant Professor , Vanderbilt University Medical Center ,


              Mohan Balasubramanian

              Professor, Biomedical Cell Biology, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick


              Lynne Berry

              Research Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Vice-Chair, Informatics and Collaborative Programs, Dept. of Biostatistics Deputy Director, Center for Quantitative Sciences


              Rahul Bhattacharjee

              Scientist, Protein Analytics, Twist Bioscience


              K. Adam Bohnert

              Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University


              Connie Breeding-Nichols

              Senior Scientist, Duke University


              Matthew Broadus

              Director, Discovery Biology at Casma Therapeutics ,


              C. Geoffrey Burns

              Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital ,


              Robert Carnahan

              Associate Director, Vanderbilt Vaccine Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Professor, Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University


              Louise Chang

              Research Associate, Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan


              Dawn Clifford Hart

              Professor, Grand Valley State University, MI


              Sierra Cullati

              Assistant Professor, Western Washington University, Department of Chemistry


              Greg Den Haese

              Obstetrician & Gynecologist, Women's Care Florida


              Zac Elmore

              Postdoctoral Fellow, Duke University, Asokan Lab, Synthetic Virology and Gene Therapy


              Alyssa Johnson

              Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University


              Sam Kale

              Director Global Marketing Operations, GE Healthcare


              Claudia Kale

              Assistant Professor, Biology, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences University


              Ilektra Kouranti

              Research Scientist, Pharming Group NV, Paris, France ,


              Lucy (Xiangxi) Lu

              Breast Imaging Radiologist/Neuroradiologist, Wisconsin Radiology Specialists, Mequon, WI


              Dannel McCollum

              Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Mass. Medical Center


              Nathan McDonald

              Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Kang Shen Lab, Stanford University


              W. Hayes McDonald

              Research Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Co-Director, Proteomics Core


              Sapna Mehta

              Instructor, Indiana University Bloomington


              Jennifer Morrell-Falvey

              Senior Scientist and Joint Professor, Oak Ridge National Laboratories


              Melanie Ohi

              Rowena G. Mathews Collegiate Professor in the Life Sciences, Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan


              Ryoma (Puck) Ohi

              Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School


              Rachel Helen Roberts-Galbraith

              Assistant Professor, Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia


              Joshua Rosenberg

              Biosciences Sales Specialist, Nikon Instruments ,


              Tony Rossi

              Regulatory Scientist, Syngenta


              Joseph Tasto

              International Business Leader, Next Gen Solutions at Roche Tissue Diagnostics


              Gregory Tomlin

              Staff Governor, The John Fisher School, Surrey, UK


              Srinivas Venkatram

              Marketing Insights Manager, Oncology Biomarkers and CDx, AbbVie ,


              Ben Wolfe

              Associate Director, Global Medical Communications, Abbvie


              Hyun-Joo Yoon

              Research Scientist, TissueGene, Inc.