Alumni

Whitney Leach

Postdoctoral Research Associate

May 2020-March 2024

Position after Stowers:
Postdoctoral Researcher, Michael Layden Lab, Lehigh University
Takuya Akiyama

Research Scientist
August 2011 – July 2023

Position after Stowers: Professor at Indiana State University
Helena Raposo

Graduate Researcher
June 2022 – July 2023
Andrea Frias Vellon

Research Scholar
June 2022 – June 2023
KEITH SABIN

Postdoctoral Research Associate
November 2019 – March 2023

Position after Stowers: Postdoctoral Associate, Celia Shiau Lab The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
SUBU RAMANATHAN

Senior Research Associate
February 2015 – February 2023

Position after Stowers:
Assistant Professor at University of Nebraska Medical Center
PABLO GUZMAN PALMA

Predoctoral Researcher
June 2020 – October 2022

Forever in our hearts
AHMET KARABULUT

Predoctoral Researcher
June 2014 – September 2022

Position after Stowers:
Postgraduate Researcher, Sanchez Alvarado Lab

ERIC HILL

Postdoctoral Research Associate
August 2017 – June 2022

Position after Stowers:
Senior Scientist at MRIGlobal
SHUONAN HE

Predoctoral Researcher
June 2014 – August 2021

Position after Stowers:
Postdoctoral Researcher
Hopi Hoekstra Lab
Harvard University

HANNAH SHERMAN

Research Technician I
May 2019 – August 2021



ZACHARY LEE

Predoctoral Researcher
June 2014 – May 2021

Position after Stowers:
Scientist at Catalent Pharma Solutions

CHENG-YI CHEN

Predoctoral Researcher
March 2015 – January 2021

Position after Stowers:
Post-doctoral fellow
Jeffrey A. Farrell Lab
NICHD, NIH

JAKE EPHRON

Research Technician
August 2019 – August 2020

Position after Stowers:
PhD Student, Florida State University, Department of Biological Sciences
ELIZABETH BAUERLY

Predoctoral Researcher
July 2014-August 2020

Position after Stowers:
Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Prachee Avasthi Lab

HANG YIN

Research Lab Coordinator
2017-2019

Position after Stowers:
Graduate Student
Bioinformatics
Northeastern University
Boston Massachusetts
FLORENCIA DEL VISO

Research Specialist
2016-2019

Position after Stowers:
Genomics Laboratory Analyst
Children’s Mercy Hospital
Molecular Genetics Department
MARIIA KIRUSENKO

Summer Scholar
2018

Position after Stowers:
SIPGA scholar
A*STAR Institute of Medical Biology
Nick Barker Lab
Singapore
SERAYA JONES

Undergrad Summer Intern
2018
Summer Scholar
2017

Position after Stowers:
Undergraduate student
Major: Biology
Minor: Chemistry
Grambling State University Grambling, Louisiana
KATARINA RAGKOUSI

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dec 2012 – May 2018

Position after Stowers:
Biologist and Assistant
Professor at Amherst College
FATIMA PLASCENCIA de ANDA

Summer Scholar
2017

Position after Stowers:
BSc University of Leon, Mexico
KENDRA MARR

Research Technician I
May 2014 - July 2016

Position after Stowers:
MD/PhD Student
University of Arizona
College of Medicine
Tucson, Cancer Biology
AISSAM IKMI

Postdoctoral Research Associate
June 2008–June 2014
Research Associate
June 2014-August 2017

Position after Stowers:
Junior Group Leader (2017)
European Molecular
Biology Laboratory
Heidelberg, Germany
ANGELA WESTMORELAND

Senior Administrative Assistant
July 2016 - July 2017

YUICHIRO NAKAJIMA

Postdoctoral Research Associate
May 2011 - March 2016

Position after Stowers:
Assistant Professor
Tohoku University
Sendai, Japan
WHITNEY FROPF

Research Coordinator
December 2015 - April 2017

Position after Stowers:
CEO and Senior Editor for CRISP Research Editing

ANNIKA KRUEGER

Summer Scholar
2015

Position after Stowers:
PhD Student
University of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia
QUENTIN LEMAITRE

Internship Student
April 2015-August 2015

Position after Stowers:
PhD student
Fabian Rentzsch group
Sars Internationsl Centre
for Marine Molecular Biology
Bergen (Norway).
EMILY JO MEYER

Lab Assistant
July 2007-May 2014

Position after Stowers:
STEM Education Program Manager
Union Station and
iFLY Indoor Skydiving
Kansas City, Missouri
ASHLEIGH FRITZ

Graduate Student
January 2008-May 2014

Position after Stowers:
Doctoral Student
University of Kansas Medical Center
Cell Biology and Anatomy
Kansas City, Kansas
LIANG LIANG

Graduate Student
May 2009-April 2014

Position after Stowers:
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Stanford University - Genetics
Stanford, California
JOHN GREAVES

Summer Scholar
2013

Position after Stowers:
Foot and Ankle Residency
Northwest Medical Center
Margate FL
CHARLES WOLOCK

Summer Scholar
2013

Position after Stowers:
PhD student
Department of Biostatistics
University of Washington
MILAN SZUPERAK

Postdoctoral Research Associate
January 2007-November 2012

Position after Stowers:
Research Associate
University of Pennsylvania
Perelman School of Medicine
Kayser Lab
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
USHA NAGARAJAN

Postdoctoral Research Associate
October 2009-September 2012

Position after Stowers:
Assistant Professor of Research
SASTRA University
Thanjavur, India
MASON MCMULLEN

Research Technician I
August 2010-August 2012

Position after Stowers:
PhD Student
University of Kansas
School of Pharmacy
Lawrence, Kansas
KIRIAKI KANAKOUSAKI

Postdoctoral Research Associate
December 2006-June 2012

Position after Stowers:
Research Fellow
University of Michigan
Molecular, Cellular,
and Developmental Biology
Ann Arbor, Michigan
JULIA HACKER

Summer Scholar
2012

Position after Stowers:
PhD Student
Friedrich Miescher Institute
for Biomedical Research
Basel, Switzerland
ERICA VLASIC

Summer Scholar
2012

ERIC YOUNG

Summer Scholar
2012

Position after Stowers:
MD/PhD Student
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, Kansas
ANNE MERKS

Summer Scholar
2011

SALLY SALAH

Graduate Student
August 2006-January 2011

Position after Stowers:
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, Kansas
YIRAN XIE

International Summer Scholar
2010

Position after Stowers:
Software Engineer
Google
Mountain View, California
RUI AN

International Summer Scholar
2010

Position after Stowers:
Peking University
ABIGAIL PRIER

Research Technician II
August 2008-December 2009

Position after Stowers:
Physician Assistant
Drisko, Fee & Parkins
Orthopaedic Surgery
Kansas City, Missouri
ALEJANDRA FIGUEROA-CLAREVEGA

Research Technician II
September 2007-May 2009

Position after Stowers:
Manager
Genentech
Pipeline & Portfolio Planning
YOMNA BADAWI

Laboratory Assistant
October 2008-April 2009

Position after Stowers:
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Kansas Medical Center
Shi Lab
Kansas City, Kansas
TYLER GIBSON

Visiting Graduate Student
June 2007-June 2008

Position after Stowers:
Postdoctoral Research Associate
California Institute of Technology
Anderson Lab
Pasadena, California
MATTHEW MCCARTER

Research Technician I
May 2006-May 2007

Position after Stowers:
Pediatric Cardiology Fellow
A.I Dupont Children's Hospital
Wilmington, Delaware
JUAN DU

Rotation Student
2007

Position after Stowers:
A.T. Still Medical School
Kirksville, Missouri