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Name: Samuel “Tanner” Roach
Email: sroach4@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Washington University – St. Louis
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Name: Tova Bergsten
Email: bergste1@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Princeton University
Rotations:
2017: Rong
2018: Burdette
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Mentor:
Name: Nathan Calzadilla
Email: ncalza3@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Johns Hopkins University
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2017: Khetani
2018: Linninger
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Name: Spring Davis
Email: sdavis52@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Princeton University
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2017: Bonini
2018: Jung
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Name: Ellen Drake
Email: edrake5@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Oberlin College
Rotations:
2017: McLachlan
2018: Kenter
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Name: Samuel Eallonardo
Email: seallo2@uic.edu
Alma Mater: University of Notre Dame
Rotations:
2017: Freitag
2018: Prabhakar
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Name: Benjamin Gordon
Email: bgordo6@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Cornell University
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2017: Kitajewski
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Name: Fred Lee
Email: flee22@Uic.edu
Alma Mater: Arizona State University
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2017: Janson
2018: Merrill
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Name: Hannah Steinberg
Email: hstein5@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Johns Hopkins University
Rotations:
2017: Eddington
2018: Ross
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Name: May Barakat
Email: mbarak5@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Harvard University
Rotations:
2016: Saxena
2017 (1): DiPietro
2017 (2): Tamplin
Research Interests: Regeneration, stem cells, regenerative and personalized medicine, aging and development
PhD Dept/Program: Microbiology/Immunology
Mentor: Luisa DiPietro, DDS, PhD
Name: YiShin Chang
Email: ychan32@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Duke University
Rotations:
2016: Lagenecker
2017 (1): Phan
2017 (2): Loeb
Research Interests: Diffusion and functional MRI of the human brain. Potential areas of graduate study include neurology and biomedical engineering
PhD Dept/Program: Bioengineering
Mentor: David Perkins, MD, PhD and Patricia Finn, MD
Name: Joseph Crutison
Email: jcruti2@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Iowa State University
Rotations:
2016: Patton
2017 (1): Leow
2017 (2): Lazarov
Research Interests: Bioengineering and Neuroscience
PhD Dept/Program: Bioengineering
Mentor: Thomas Royston, PhD
Name: Gregory Heller
Email: ghelle2@uic.edu
Alma Mater: University of California-Riverside
Rotations:
2016: Bongarzone
2017 (1): Madhaven
2017 (2): L. Tai
Research Interests: Neurodegenerative disorders and epidemiology
PhD Dept/Program: Neuroscience
Mentor: Ernesto Bongarzone, PhD
Name: Kai Huang
Email: khuang49@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Northwestern University
Rotations:
2016: Khetani
2017 : Finn/Perkins
Research Interests: Biomaterials, drug delivery, microfluidics, high throughput/organ on a chip assays, novel biochemical sensors
PhD Dept/Program: Bioengineering
Mentor: David Perkins, MD, PhD and Patricia Finn, MD
Name: Olivia Ly
Email: oly2@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Cornell University
Rotations:
2016: Darbar
2017 (1): Amirouche
2017(2): Royston
Research Interests: Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, microfluidic devices for disease modeling and drug delivery, neurodegenerative diseases, 3-D virtual reality
PhD Dept/Program: Bioengineering
Mentor: Frank Gonzalez, MD
Name: Mladen Rasic
Email: mrasic2@uic.edu
Alma Mater: University of Chicago
Rotations:
2016: Leow
2017 (1): P. Yu
2017 (2): Loeb
Research Interests: Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Bioengineering, Physiology and Biophysics
PhD Dept/Program: Bioengineering
Mentor: David Perkins, MD, PhD and Patricia Finn, MD
Name: Terilyn Stephen
Email: tsteph2@uic.edu
Alma Mater: University of Alaska
Rotations:
2016: Dr. Jan Kitajewski
2017: Lazarov
Research Interests: Brain and heart ischemia and injury; cerebrovascular and cardiovascular physiology; neuroprotection and cell repair; and drug development
PhD Dept/Program: Neuroscience
Mentor: Orly Lazarov, PhD
Name: Kevin Tam
Email: ktam5@uic.edu
Alma Mater: University of Illinois at Chicago
Rotations:
2016: Prabhakar
2017 (1): Lau
2017 (2): Thatcher
Research Interests: Cancer mechanisms, pathology and therapeutics, medical microbiology
PhD Dept/Program: Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy
Mentor: Greg Thatcher, PhD
Name: Paul Thomas
Email: pthoma4@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Ohio State University
Rotations:
2016: Brady
2017 (1): Ajilore/Phan
2017 (2): Cuervo
Research Interests: Neuromuscular disorders, movement disorders, neuroscience, mycology, deep brain stimulation, gene therapy
PhD Dept/Program: Neuroscience
Mentor: Olu Ajilore, MD, PhD
G2s
Name: Russell Dulman
Email: rdulma2@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Duke University
Rotations:
2015: S. Pandey
2016 (1): J. Roitman
2016 (2): Pinna
Research Interests: Environmental Effects on the brain and development of psychiatric disorder
PhD Dept/Program: Neuroscience
Mentor: Dr. Subhash Pandey
Name: Matthew Kleinjan
Email: kleinja2@uic.edu
Alma Mater: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Rotations:
2015: Ackerman
2016 (1): Bonini
2016 (2) : Kitajewski
Research Interests: Biochemistry; Protein Interactions and Kinetics, Development of new drugs
PhD Dept/Program: Physiology & Biophysics
Mentor: Dr. Jan Kitajewski
Name: Trevor Leonardo
Email: tleona3@uic.edu
Alma Mater: University of California, Davis
Rotations:
2015: Finn and Perkins
2016 (1): S. Pandey
2016 (2) : Y. Dai
Research Interests: Epigenetics using a bioinformatics approach
PhD Dept/Program: Microbiology and Immunology
Mentor: Luisa DiPietro, DDS, PhD
Name: Cutler Lewandowski
Email: lewando4@uic.edu
Alma Mater: University of Minnesota
Rotations:
2015: Bongarzone
2016(1): Thatcher
2016 (2): Gemeinhart
Research Interests: Drug discovery and drug delivery in neurological diseases
PhD Dept/Program: Medicinal Chemistry & Pharmacognosy
Mentor: Dr. Gregory Thatcher
Name: Richard Marszalek
Email: rmarsz2@uic.edu
Alma Mater: University of Illinois at Chicago
Rotations:
2015: Gaponenko
2016 (1) : A. Mankin
2016 (2): J. Liang
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PhD Dept/Program: Physiology and Biophysics
Mentor: Dr. John Solaro and Dr. Beata Wolska
Name: Michael Metrick
Email: mmetri2@uic.edu
Alma Mater: James Madison University
Rotations:
2015 and 2016 – NIH
Research Interests: Protein misfolding disorders; Prions; Preventative methods for proteinopathies
PhD Dept/Program: NIH Cambridge Program
Mentor:
Name: Hannah Pennington
Email: hpenni2@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Western Kentucky University
Rotations:
2015: R. Chang
2016(1): N. Hay
2016(2): Merrill
Research Interests: Cancer cell biology, mathematical modeling of tumorigenesis and wound healing
PhD Dept/Program: Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
Mentor: Dr. Bradley Merrill
Name: Daniel Principe
Email: principe@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Loyola University
Rotations:
2015: P. Grippo
2016: P. Grippo
Research Interests: Gastronintestinal Malignancies. Tumor Cell Biology, Tumor Microenvironment/Immunology, Transforming Growth Factor β Singnaling, Transgenesis
PhD Dept/Program: Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Mentor: Dr. Ajay Rana
Name: Kate Rahbari
Email: krahba2@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Temple University
Rotations:
2015: Shukla
2016 (1) : Freitag
2016 (2): Federle
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PhD Dept/Program: Microbiology & Immunology
Mentor: Dr. Michael Federle
Name: Rachael Smith
Email: rsmith65@uic.edu
Alma Mater: University of Pittsburgh
Rotations:
2015: Maki
2016 (1) : Saxena
2016 (2): S. Langenecker
Research Interests: Stress; Neurodegenerative disorders; Neurobiology of behavior
PhD Dept/Program: Neuroscience
Mentor: Dr. Ernesto Bongarzone
Name: Adam Szmelter
Email: szmelte1@uic.edu
Alma Mater: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Rotations:
2015: Eddington
2016 (1): Shin
2016 (2) : Patton
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PhD Dept/Program: Bioengineering
Mentor: Dr. Jae-Won Shin
Name: Morgan Zenner
Email: zenner2@uic.edu
Alma Mater: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Rotations:
2015: Kenter
2016 (1) : Tyner
2016 (2): Nonn
Research Interests: microRNA and ProteinKinase
PhD Dept/Program: Pathology
Mentor: Dr. Larisa Nonn
G3s
Name: Osama El-Sayed
Email: oelsay2@uic.edu
Alma Mater: University of Michigan
Rotations:
2014: Z. Chen
2015: Prabhakar
Research Interests: Role of regulatory t-cells in type 1 diabetes pathogenesis
PhD Dept/Program: Public Health- Epidemiology
Mentor: Dr. Lisa Powell
Name: Joseph Geraghty
Email: jgerag2@uic.edu
Alma Mater: SUNY Geneseo
Rotation:
1st – Summer 2014 – Feinstein
2nd – Summer 2015 – Freitag
3rd – Summer 2015 – Loeb
Research Interests: Seizure Activity, Inflammation, and Drug Therapy in a Rat Model of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
PhD Dept/Program: Neuroscience
Mentor: J. Loeb, MD, PhD
Name: Artemis Gogos
Email: agogos2@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Grinnell College
Rotation:
1st – Summer 2014 – Simonovic
2nd – Summer 2015 – Federle
3rd – Summer 2015 – Freitag
Research Interests: Elucidate the downstream targets of the Rgg2/3 pathway in Streptococus pyogenes
PhD Dept/Program: Microbiology and Immunology
Mentor: M. Federle, PhD
Name: Evguenia (Jane) Ivakhnitskaia
Email: eivakh2@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Cornell University
Rotation:
1st – Summer 2014 – Bongarzone
2nd – Summer 2015 Chiek – Chang
3rd – Summer 2015 – Rosenblatt
Research Interests: Corneal nerve regeneration and functionality of new neurons
PhD Dept/Program: Neuroscience
Mentor: Mark Rosenblatt, MD, PhD, MBA
Name: Allison Kirchner
Email: akirch4@uic.edu
Alma Mater: University of Wisconsin
Rotation:
1st – Summer 2014 – Larson
2nd – Summer 2015 – Loeb
3rd – Summer 2015 – Rosenblatt
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PhD Dept/Program: Neuroscience
Mentor: J. Loeb, MD, PhD
Name: Cory Reiter
Email: creite3@uic.edu
Alma Mater: University of Denver
Rotation:
1st – Summer 2014 – Bongarzone
2nd – Summer 2015 – Feinstein
3rd – Summer 2015 – Yoshi
Research Interests: Dysmyelination: Mechanisms of oligodendrocyte mediated leukodystrophies
PhD Dept/Program: Neuroscience
Mentor: E. Bongarzone, PhD
Name: Michael Sun
Email: msun8@uic.edu
Alma Mater: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Rotation:
1st – Summer 2014 – Malik
2nd Summer 2015 – D. Mehfa
3rd – Summer 2015 – Rosenblatt
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PhD Dept/Program: Pharmacology
Mentor: Mark Rosenblatt, MD, PhD
Name: Alexander Terry
Email: aterry7@uic.edu
Alma Mater: University of Chicago
Rotation:
1st – Summer 2014 – Merrill
2nd – Summer 2015 – Burdette
3rd – Summer 2015 – Hay
Research Interests: The role of metabolism and mitochondrial biogenesis in cancer development
PhD Dept/Program: Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
Mentor: N. Hay, PhD
G4s
Name: Catherine (Casey) Blaha
Email: blaha1@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Northwestern University
Rotation:
1st – Summer 2013 – Tyner
2nd – Summer 2014 – Hay
3rd – Summer 2014 – Raychaudhuri
Research Interests: The role of the hexokinase 2 in breast cancer metastasis
PhD Dept/Program: Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
Mentor: N. Hay, PhD
Name: Laura Rodgers-Hardy
Email: lrodge4@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Swarthmore College
Rotation:
1st – Summer 2013 – Freitag
2nd – Summer 2014 – Stocco
3rd – Summer 2014 – Ladu
Research Interests: The role of PAX8 on tumor cell survival, angiogenesis, and inflammation in the fallopian tube, ovary, and ovarian tumors
PhD Dept/Program: Medicinal Chemistry & Pharmacognosy
Mentor: J. Burdette, PhD
Name: Joshua Jones
Email: jjones56@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Unversity of Illinois at Chicago
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1st – Summer 2013 – Yuan
2nd – Summer 2014 – J. Loeb
Research Interests: Understanding the role of Endothelial PLVAP in Acute Lung Injury
PhD Dept/Program: Pharmacology
Mentor: Dr. Asrar Malik and Dr. Richard Minshall
Name: Christopher Manzella
Email: cmanze2@uic.edu
Alma Mater: St. John Fisher College
Rotation:
1st – Summer 2013 – Lavie
2nd – Summer 2014 – Ravendar Gill
3rd – Summer 2014 – Simonovic
Research Interests: Serotonin signaling and transport in the GI tract
PhD Dept/Program: Physiology & Biophysics
Mentor: R. Gill, MD
Name: Adam Schafer
Email: aschaf5@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Indiana University
Rotation:
1st – Summer 2013 – Freitag
2nd – Summer 2014 – Rong
3rd – Summer 2014 – Wen-Shu Wu
Research Interests: Anti-filovirus properties of antihistamines
PhD Dept/Program: Microbiology & Immunology
Mentor: L. Rong, PhD
Name: Cody Schott
Email: cschot3@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Northwestern University
Rotations:
1st -Summer 2013 – Benvolenskay
2nd – Summer 2014 – Ackerman
3rd – Summer 2014 – Bongarzone
Research Interests: Identifying a relationship between sarcoidosis immune responses and the microbiome
PhD Dept/Program: Microbiology and Immunology
Mentor: Patricia Finn, MD
Name: Alexander Ticho
Email: aticho2@uic.edu
Alma Mater: St. Olaf College
Rotation:
1st – Summer 2013 – Solaro
2nd – Summer 2014 – Tobacman
3rd – Summer 2014 – Wada Alrefai
Research Interests: Gastrointestinal and hepatic transport of cholesterol and bile acid
PhD Dept/Program: Physiology & Biophysics
Mentor: W. Alrefari, PhD
Name: Benjamin Turturice
Email: bturtu2@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Loyola University, Chicago
Rotation:
1st – Summer 2013 – VandenHoek
2nd – Summer 2014 – Prabhakar
3rd – Summer 2014 – Perkins
Research Interests: Assessing host-microbe interactions for prediction of early-onset asthma
PhD Dept/Program: Microbiology & Immunology
Mentor: P. Finn, MD
Name: Alexandria (Ally) Young
Email: ayoung43@uic.edu
Alma Mater: University of Pittsburgh
Rotation:
1st – Summer 2013 – Stocco
2nd – Summer 2014 – Raychaudhuri
3rd – Summer 2014 – G. Weinberg
Research Interests: FEMKube, a translational platform for studying HGSOC and developing chemotherapeutics
PhD Dept/Program: Medicinal Chemistry & Pharmacognosy
Mentor: J. Burdette, PhD
Later Stage Graduate Students
Name: Alexander Agelidis
Email: aageli2@uic.edu
Alma Mater: University of California – Berkeley
Rotation:
1st – Summer 2012 – Prabhakar
2nd Summer 2013 – Shukla
3rd Summer 2013 – Raychaudhuri
Research Interests: Heparanase as a host virulence factor in herpes simplex virus pathogenesis
PhD Dept/Program: Microbiology & Immunology
Mentor: D. Shukla, PhD
Name: Matthew Durst
Email: mdurst2@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Washington University
Rotation:
1st – Summer 2012 – Lavie
2nd – Summer 2013 – Freitag
3rd – Summer 2013 – Kenter
Research Interests: Understanding ENTPD5’s structure and role in prostate cancer
PhD Dept/Program: Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
Mentor: A. Lavie, PhD
Name: Matthew MacDougall
Email: mmacdo3@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Queen’s University
Rotation:
1st – Summer 2012 – Merrill
2nd – Summer 2013 – Joe Garcia
Research Interests: Elucidating the genetic determinants for exit out of naive pluripotency
PhD Dept/Program: Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
Mentor: B. Merrill, PhD
Name: Alan Perez-Rathke
Email: perezrat@uic.edu
Alma Mater: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Rotation:
1st – Summer 2012 – Lussier
2nd – Summer 2013 – Dai
Research Interests: Computational modeling of chromatin structure and protein loop structure
PhD Dept/Program: Bioengineering
Mentor: J. Liang, PhD
Name: Alan Tseng
Email: atseng5@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Boston University
Rotation:
1st – Summer 2012 – Merrill
2nd – Summer 2013 – Gus Cho
3rd – Summer 2013 – J. Xu
Research Interests: The role of ERO1alpha in platelets
PhD Dept/Program: Pharmacology
Mentor: G. Cho, PhD
M3s
Name: Tiffani Berkel
Email: tberkel2@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Universtiy of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Rotation:
1st – Summer 2011 – T. Nakamura
2nd – Summer 2012 – Lazarov
3rd – Summer 2012 – S. Pandey
Research Interests: Histone methylation contributions to epigenetic regulation of anxiety and alcoholism
PhD Dept/Program: Neuroscience
Mentor: S. Pandey, PhD
Name: Mir Isaamullah
Email: misaam2@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Vanderbilt University
Rotation:
1st – Summer 2013 – R. Sharma
2nd – Summer 2014 – K. Sharma
Research Interests: Sleep circuit research utilizing optogenetics and various neural tracing techniques
PhD Dept/Program: Neuroscience
Mentor: K. Sharma, PhD
Name: Evan Kyzar
Email: ekyzar2@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Tulane University
Rotation:
1st – Summer 2012 – E. Cook
2nd – Summer 2013 – S. Pandey
3rd – Summer 2013 – Rasenick
Research Interests: Epigenetic mechanisms of adolescent alcohol exposure and comorbid anxiety
PhD Dept/Program: Neuroscience
Mentor: S. Pandey, PhD
Name: Alejandra Marinelarena
Email: amarin28@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Harvard University
Rotation:
1st – Summer 2013 – Unterman
2nd – Summer 2014 – Prabhakar
3rd – Summer 2014 – Kineman
Research Interests: Investigating the therapeutic potential of tolerogenic dendritic cells in autoimmunity
PhD Dept/Program: Microbiology & Immunology
Mentor: B. Prabhakar, PhD
Name: Amanda Mennie
Email: amenni2@uic.edu
Alma Mater: University of Iowa
Rotation:
1st – Summer 2012 – Tonetti
2nd – Summer 2013 – Raychaudhuri
Research Interests: Protein interactions at the telomere regulating stable maintenance of chromosomes
PhD Dept/Program: Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
Mentor: T. Nakamura, PhD
Name: Matthew Tobin
Email: mktobin2@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Univeristy of Michigan
Rotation:
1st – Summer 2012 – Bartholomew
2nd – Summer 2012 – Lazarov
Research Interests: Endogenous repair mechanisms following ischemic stroke
PhD Dept/Program: Neuroscience
Mentor: O. Lazarov, PhD
M4s
Name: Michael Marshall
Email: mmarsh22@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Northwestern University
Rotation:
1st – Summer 2011 – E. Bongarzone
2nd – Summer 2012 – Thatcher
Research Interests: Studying new pathologic mechanisms and developing therapeutics for Krabbe disease
PhD Dept/Program: Neuroscience
Mentor: E . Bongarzone, PhD
Name: Uzoagu Okonkwo
Email: uokonk2@uic.edu
Alma Mater: San Diego State University
Rotation:
1st – Summer 2010 – Liebman
2nd – Summer 2011 – J. Levine
3rd – Summer 2012 – J. Lash
Research Interests: Diabetes and Wound Healing
PhD Dept/Program: Microbiology and Immunology
Mentor: Luisa Di Pietro, DDS, PhD
Name: Erin Shanker
Email: ebeisn2@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Rice University
Rotation:
1st – Summer 2010 – Federle
2nd – Summer 2011 – R. Kittles
Research Interests: Signaling pathways in Streptococcus species involved in pathogenesis
PhD Dept/Program: Medicinal Chemistry & Pharmacognosy
Mentor: M. Federle, PhD
Name: Andrew Widmer
Email: awidme2@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Carleton College
Rotation:
1st – Summer 2012 – Art Craig Fellow
Research Interests: Study inhibitory neurotransmission in olfactory cortex of Fragile X Syndrome model
PhD Dept/Program: Neuroscience
Mentor: J. Larson, PhD
Name: Reid Wilkening
Email: rwilke4@uic.edu
Alma Mater: Swarthmore College
Rotation:
1st – Summer 2011 – M. Federle
2nd – Summer 2012 – Freitag
Research Interests: Streptococcus pyogenes quorum sensing to discover novel anti-virulence strategies
PhD Dept/Program: Microbiology & Immunology
Mentor: M. Federle, PhD
Name: Jenny (Yu) Zhang
Email: yzhan7@uic.edu
Alma Mater: University of California – Berkeley
Rotation:
1st – Summer 2011 – K. Wary
2nd – Summer 2012 – Merrill
3rd – Summer 2012 – Bongarzone
Research Interests: Discerning the role of Tcf7L1 during the ESC-to-EpiLC transition
PhD Dept/Program: Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
Mentor: B. Merrill, PhD