Congratulations Sydney !
May 20, 2026
Current lab member Sydney has been earning her MS in Biochemical Foundations of Nutrition at The University of Texas at Austin - while becoming a fitness guru. Go Sydney !
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Congratulations Niki !
May 11, 2026
Lab alum Niki Rahimi has been accepted into the UT Health San Antonio School of Dentistry, where she will begin the DDS program in July. Between now and then she is squeezing in as much travel as possible.
Congratulations Dr. Parish !
May 10, 2026
Lab alum and Galapawenter Audrey Parish has earned her PhD in Evolution, Ecology & Behavior at Indiana University in the Newton lab! Her thesis, Too Much of a Good Thing: Mechanisms of Provisioning and Pathogenesis in a Honey Bee Nutritional Symbiont, and related work led to an impressive…
Congratulations Jordan !
May 10, 2026
Lab alum and Galapawenter Jordan will start her MS in prosthetics and orthotics at Baylor College of Medicine this June. Go Jordan!
Congratulations Diana !
May 06, 2026
Lab alum Diana Diaz will start PA school at the University of Texas Medical Branch in the summer of 2026! Between the lab and school, Diana taught grade school for a bit. On to the next big thing!
Congratulations McKinley !
May 03, 2026
Lab alum McKinley Williams earned his PhD in microbiology from A&M in 2024, and has just started a job as a professor at Prairie View A&M. Well done sir !
Go Kiranjot !
May 02, 2026
Lab alum Kiranjot Bhusri graduated in Biochemistry in 2020, pursued nursing and began working at MD Anderson Cancer Center. She is now completing a MS in Nursing at UTHealth and will graduate this winter as a Family Nurse Practitioner.
Congratulations Dr. Restivo !
May 01, 2026
Lab alum and Galapawenter Kelli Restivo has completed her PhD in Computational Neuroscience with Andreas Toliasat at BMC! Her thesis is “Using deep learning to reveal functional organization in the visual cortex”, and she’s currently considering many different job offers in…
Congratulations Rea !
May 01, 2026
Lab alum Rea Rose spent over two years in the lab contributing to ongoing research projects and developing her interests in clinical and translational research. She has accepted an offer to begin medical school at Paul L. Foster School of Medicine in El Paso.
Congratulations Stephen !
April 01, 2026
Lab alumni Stephen had a great week of grad school at Indiana University - he passed his qualifying exams and then was awarded an NSF GRFP. Go Stephen !!