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Robert Fellner, PhD
Fall 2010
Bob worked in the Goy lab on his dissertation project, "Prouroguanylin’s Role in the Homeostatic Response to Dietary Sodium: Hormone Precursor or Active Signaling Agent," which he completed in December 2010. He accepted a postdoctoral position position in the lab of Dr. Edward Inscho in the Vascular Biology Center at the Medical College of Georgia.
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Kathryn Hamilton, PhD
Fall 2010
Kate completed her dissertation, "Role of Suppressor of Cytokine Signaling 3 in Colorectal Cancer," in the Lund lab in September 2010. She has relocated to Philadelphia where she is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Anil Rustgi, MD, in the Division of Gastroenterology at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Brett Rollins, MS
Fall 2010
Brett completed his thesis project, "Regulation of the Epithelial Sodium Channel (ENaC) by the Short Palate, Lung, and Nasal Epithelial Clone (SPLUNC1)," in the Tarran lab in the Cystic Fibrosis Center.
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Victoria Newton, PhD
Summer 2010
Vicki's doctoral project, "Suppressor of cytokine signaling-2 and epidermal growth factor receptor modulates insulin-like growth factor signaling in intestinal cancer," was conducted under the guidance of Kay Lund. Vicki is staying at UNC as a SPIRE postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Scott Magness.
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Youjun Chen, PhD
Summer 2010
Youjun successfully defended her dissertation, entitled "Adenomatous Polyposis Coli (APC) Regulates Axon Arborization and Cytoskeleton Organization via its Amino-Terminus," which in the Snider lab. Youjun is continuing her work in the Snider lab as a postdoctoral fellow.
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Brookelyn Haddock, MS
Summer 2010
Brooke completed her thesis in the lab of C. William Davis in the Cystic Fibrosis Center. She has returned to her home state of California.
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Lucia Seminario Vidal, MD, PhD
Spring 2010
Lucia's dissertation work on "Mechanisms of ATP release in airway epithelial cells" was conducted under the guidance of Dr. Eduardo Lazarowski in the CF Center. She and her family have relocated to New Jersey where she will complete her medical residency at Jersey Shore University Medical Center.
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Melinda DiVito, PhD
Fall 2009
Melinda's work in the lab of Dr. Richard Cheney was on "Myosin X and Myosin XIX in Intracellular Transport." She continued her project in the Cheney lab as a postdoctoral fellow. In Fall 2010, Melinda accepted a position as a Fellow of the Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program in the Policy and Global Affairs Division of the National Academies in Washington D.C.
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Sushmita Jha, PhD
Fall 2009
Sushmita's work on her dissertation, "Role of the NLR Gene Family Members in Neuroinflammation and Demyelination in the CNS," was conducted under the guidance of Dr. Jenny Ting in the department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Sushmita is continuing her work with Dr. Ting as a postdoctoral fellow.
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Hsin-Yuan Cheng, PhD
Fall 2009
Hsin began her doctoral studies in the Smyth lab at UNC, then followed Dr. Smyth to the University of Kentucky to complete her thesis on "Regulation of the Pulmonary Vasculature by Lysophospholipase D Autotaxin-Lysophosphatidic Acid Signaling." She is now a postdoctoral fellow at La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology in the lab of Catherine C. "Lynn" Hedrick, PhD.
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Brooks Scull, MS
Spring 2009
Brooks completed his thesis, "Intestinal regeneration after irradiation: Stem cells and Sox9," in the Lund lab.
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Tiffany Thai, PhD
Spring 2009
Tiffany completed her dissertation, "Functional characterization of ADP ribosyl cyclase signaling pathways in the renal microcirculation" under the direction of William Arendshorst, PhD. She is currently postdoctoral research fellow in the laboratory of Jeffrey Sands, MD, at Emory University.
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Xinshuo Wang, MS
Spring 2009
Xinshuo completed her thesis, "Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3 is required for axon growth and development," in the Snider lab in spring of 2009.
After graduation, Xinshuo accepted a position as a professional research assistant in the lab of Kate Horwitz at University of Colorado, Denver.
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Damon Jacobs, PhD
Fall 2008
Damon's doctoral work in the Cheney lab culminated in his thesis, "Myosin Vc is a class V myosin that Functions in Secretory Granule Trafficking." He defended his thesis in December 2008 and accepted a postdoctoral position at the University of Kansas. The position is part of the IRACDA (Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award) program that partners the University of Kansas with Haskell Indian Nations University, which is small, all American Indian university located across town in Lawrence, KS. Postdoctoral fellows are granted a three year appointment with two years working primarily at the bench performing research and 1 year focusing on teaching and mentoring at Haskell.
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Christy Stack, MS
Fall 2008
Christy completed her thesis, "The role of palladin in pancreatic cancer," in the Otey lab.
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Jason Clayton, PhD
Fall 2008
Jason completed his thesis work in the Faber lab on the “Role of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor-A in Collateral Growth and Development” in August 2008 and has returned to medical school to complete the MD requirements of his MD/PhD.
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Rebecca Sayers, PhD
Fall 2008
Rebecca's thesis, entitled “Focal Adhesion Kinase and its Endogenous Inhibitor, FRNK, in Vascular Development and Injury,” was done under the direction of Joan Taylor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Rebecca accepted a position as a Medical Writer/Editor at Education and Training Systems International in Chapel Hill, NC.
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Alicia Blaker, PhD
Spring 2008
Alicia conducted her doctoral research on "Regulation of Smooth Muscle Specific Transcriptions by Serum Response Factor and Formin Homology Domain Containing Protein-1” in the laboratory of Chris Mack in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. She is pursuing her postdoctoral training in the lab of Dr. Hazel Sive at MIT.
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