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…
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.
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 !!
March 31, 2026
Kendall has accepted an offer to undertake her medical training at Sam Houston State University Medical School. Go Kendall !!
March 30, 2026
Jenus accepted an offer to join the Physician Assistant training program at UT Southwestern in Dallas this summer. Congratulations Jenus !!
August 01, 2025
Lab alum and Galapawenter Rebecca Keim earned her PhD in entomology under Richard Redak at UC Riverside studying native harvester ant interactions with invasive plant species AND she has just started her new job as an assistant professor at Schreiner University, teaching entomology, leading the…
May 05, 2025
Lab alum Ranya Khalifa has been accepted in the PhD program in Biomedical Engineering at UH. Working with Muna Naash and Muayyad Al-Ubaidi, Ranya’s tentative thesis title is ‘Investigating the molecular function of USH2A and evaluating splice-switching oligonucleotides as a strategy to…
July 15, 2024
Lab alum and Galapawenter Lauren Gregory successfully defended her thesis, “Environmental and genetic contributions to pea aphid phenotypic variation”. Lauren worked in the Brisson lab at Rochester. The main focus of her research was to use the pea aphid’s wing polyphenism as a model to study…
June 15, 2024
Lab alum Meredith Ware finished her medical school training and has matched in pediatrics at UCLA. It was a long and twisty journey for her, but she landed exactly where she wanted to be. Go Meredith !
May 20, 2024
Lab alum Kendall Mills earned a from UC Santa Barbara in 2016 working with NOAA looking at the impact of whale strikes by cargo ships in the Santa Barbara Channel. Then she went to the University of Alaska Fairbanks to work with Link Olson on the biogeographic history of the world’s marmots…