The People

Current lab members at University of Florida (UF)

Karina Alviña, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor
Rishi Patel
Undergraduate Student
Maya Kalinowski
Undergraduate Student
Caoyuanhui (Jennifer) Wang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Victoria Marquez Undergraduate Student
Braden McCormick Undergraduate Student
Justin Toller
Graduate Student
Sarah Smith
Undergraduate Student

Lab Alumni

Mónica Cortés Soto, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, SNIP2025

Kaleb Friday-Saunders, UF undergrad RA

Arielle Trotz, UF undergrad RA

Jacob Borukhin, UF undergrad RA

D. Marcela Cuestas Torres, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, 2023-2024

Aura Valter Franco, Kennesaw State undergrad, SNIP2024.

Favour Ebiala, University of Miami undergrad, SNIP2024

Jake Barsch, UF undergrad RA. Currently in Medical School.

Ashmitha (Ash) Satish, UF undergrad RA

Jonah Juergensmeyer, M.S. Graduated from UF M.S. in Neuroscience Program, 2021-2023

Sophia Moret, UF undergrad RA

Lorena Mesquita Ragonesi, NSU undergrad, SNIP2023. Current PhD student at University of Cincinnati.

Luis Rendon Orozco, University CES, Bogota Colombia, PIENSA summer 2023

Charmi Desai, BS. Research Assistant.

Eden Rickmers, UF undergrad RA

Sam Vilarino, UF undergrad RA

Sheehan Parvez, UF undergrad RA

Eiko Alzamora, UF undergrad RA. Current PhD student, UF Biomedical Engineering Program.

Jillian Murray, Undergrad at the College of Wooster (Wooster, OH), SNIP 2022. Currently Physician Assistant student.

Kazi Farhana Afroz, Ph.D. Graduated from TTU. Currently Postdoctoral Fellow at Emory University (Atlanta, GA).

Rodrigo Tomas, UF Ph.D. student

Tara Iyer, UF undergrad RA

Maria F. Ortega, UF undergrad RA

Malika Allen, Undergrad at Wesleyan College, SNIP 2021

Rachel Gunraj, UF Ph.D. student

Kimberly Goldinak, UF undergrad RA

Mohammad Jodeiri Farshbaf, Ph.D. Graduated from TTU. Currently Postdoctoral Fellow at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine (New York, NY).

Amit Kumar Mondal, M.S. Graduated from TTU.

Sagufta Garasia, BS, TTU Undergraduate RA. Currently Medical student.

Dominica Moussoki, BS, TTU Undergraduate RA. Currently Medical student.

Noah Reyes, BS, TTU Undergraduate RA

Danny Cherkowsky, BS, TTU Undergraduate RA

Jason Peirce, BS, TTU Undergraduate RA. Currently Ph.D. student.

Heather Kneisel Blakley, BS, TTU Undergraduate RA. MS from Rosalind Franklin University

Justin Blakley, BS, TTU Undergraduate RA. MS from University of North Texas. Currently Medical student.

Alyssa Patterson, BS, TTU Undergraduate RA

Bridgette Kerr BS, TTU Undergraduate RA. Currently Ph.D. student.

Fabiola Arzate BS, TTU Undergraduate RA

Hao Nguyen, BS, TTU Undergraduate RA. MS from University of Texas Austin

Kajal Parikh, BS, TTU Undergraduate RA. Currently Medical student.

Varsha Misra, BS, TTU Undergraduate RA