Lab Members
PI
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Professor of Biochemistry
Ph.D. Physics, University of Texas at Austin
Lab Staff
Senior Research Assistant
M.S. Biotechnology, Amrita School of Biotechnology
amruthanjali.thankappan@vanderbilt.edu
Postdocs
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. Molecular and Life Sciences, University of Wyoming
abdullah.bashar.sami@vanderbilt.edu
Graduate Students
Graduate Student, Biochemistry
B.S. Biochemistry, University of Puget Sound
todd.blakely.jr@vanderbilt.edu
Graduate Student, Cell and Developmental Biology
B.S. Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
Graduate Student, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Kentucky
laura.b.richardson@vanderbilt.edu
Undergraduate Students
Undergradute Junior
Majoring in Medicine, Health and Society
courtney.p.coleman@vanderbilt.edu
Undergraduate Freshman
Majoring in Biological Sciences and Minoring in Computer Science
nolawi.t.alemayehu@vanderbilt.edu
Undergraduate Freshman
Majoring in Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
jhon.christian.b.salubre@vanderbilt.edu
Undergraduate Freshman
Majoring in Computer Science
Lab Alumni
Elizabeth Lawrence, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
2015-2024
Ph.D. Cell and Molecular Biology, McGill University
Next: Dean’s Fellow at Manchester University
Nicole C. Rodgers, B.A.
Graduate Student
2017-2023
PhD Chemical and Physical Biology, Vanderbilt University
Next: NIH IRACDA Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Saptarshi Chatterjee
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
2021-2022
PhD Physics, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
Next: Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech University
Veronica J. Farmer
Graduate Student
2016-2022
PhD Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University
Next: Postdoc at Duke University
Goker Arpag
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
2016-2022
PhD Physics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Next: Assistant Professor at Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey
Matthew Rogers
Graduate Student, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
2020-2022
MS Chemical Engineering, Vanderbilt University
Next: process engineer at Merck & Co., Inc
Tara Hickman
Research Intern
Summer 2021
BS Physics, Willamette University
Next: PhD student in Biochemistry at Vanderbilt
Claire Strothman
Graduate Student
2016-1021
PhD Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University
Next: postdoc at Northwestern University
Stephanie Wang
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Computer Science
2018-2021
Class of 2021
Next: Medical Student at Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania
Cayetana Arnaiz
Graduate Student
2018-2020
MS Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University
Next: PhD student at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Hailey Lovelace
Research Intern
2019-2020
BS Physics, Clemson University
Next: PhD student in Engineering at the University of Michigan
Masahiro Kato
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Mechanical Engineering
2019
Class of 2021
Awarded VUSE Summer Research Scholarship, summer 2019
Next: Business Technology Consultant at Deloitte Consulting, Washington DC
Blake Hanan
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Biomedical Engineering
2018-2019
Class of 2021
SyBBURE student
Next: PhD student in Bioengineering at Harvard
Sarah Hall
Research Assistant I
2018-2019
BS Biochemistry, University of Virginia’s College at Wise
Next: MS Virginia Tech School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences
Alvina Adimoelja
Visiting Undergraduate Researcher, Biomedical Sciences, University of Oxford, England
2017 summer
Expanding Horizons Scholar, Corpus Christi College
Stephanie Batalis, B.A.
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Class of 2017
2016-2017
Next: Graduate student at Wake Forrest University
Wooseong Choi
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Class of 2018
2016
Bailey Heneghan
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Medicine, Health and Society, Class of 2020
2018
Awarded Vanderbilt Undergraduate Summer Research Program (VUSRP) Scholarship, summer 2018
Ki Oh
Research Assistant I
2015-2016
BA Biochemistry, Case Western Reserve University
Next: MD/PhD student at SUNY Stony Brook
Marija Podolski
Visiting Research Fellow, Cell and Developmental Biology
2015-2016
Ph.D. Biophysics, MPI-CBG and TUD, Dresden, Germany
Next: Postdoc at UC Berkeley
Olivia Purtell
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Mathematics, Class of 2018
2015-2018
Next: PhD student in Economics at UNC Chapel Hill
Anika Rahman
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Chemical Engineering and Mathematics, Class of 2016
2014-2016
Next: QGenda, Inc.
Isaac Richardson
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Chemical Engineering, Class of 2019
2017-2018
Awarded Vanderbilt University School of Engineering (VUSE) Summer Research Scholarship, summer 2017
Next: PhD student in Chemical Engineering at University of Colorado at Boulder
Nikita Thomas
Undergraduate Research Assistant, SyBBURE student, Biomedical Engineering, Class of 2017
2015-2017