- PhD students
YEAR 7+
Kathryn Malone
Assessing the effect of importing alpha localization on breast cancer migration and metastasis Advisor: Brownlee 
Jay Gupta
Inhibiting FABP5 to reduce Nociceptor Hyperexcitability and Spontaneous Pain induced by Spinal Cord Injury Jay.gupta@stonybrookmedicine.edu
Advisor: Puopolo 
Zijian Shao
Dystrophins in Oligodendrocytes: New Insight into Brain Phenotypes in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Advisor: Colognato YEAR 6
Gabriel Brill
I am studying the lipid mediated affects of IAPP on pancreatic beta cell insulin secretion and pancreatic beta cell toxicity Advisor: Raleigh (Chem) 
Nathaniel Sweet
I am studying how diapause programs suspend developmental processes with no adverse affect on life Nathaniel.Sweet@stonybrook.edu
Advisor: Hu, Chi-Kuo 
Tuba Mansoor (Thakir)
Studying how tumor-derived PTHrP–induced hypercalcemia drives cardiac dysfunction and arrhythmias in cancer cachexia Advisor: Janowitz, Tobias YEAR 5
Adriana DiBua
Characterization of novel astrocyte subtype in HIV-induced neuropathic pain Advisor: Tang, Shao-Jun 
Javier Anduaga
Small and large molecule drug discovery for protein tyrosine phosphatases in metabolic disease, cancer, and neurological and neurodevelopmental diorders Advisor: Nicholas Tonks 
Jack Bauer
Yarrowia lipolytica origin licensing: structural biology, biochemistry, binding/kinetics Advisor: Joshua-Tor, Leemor (CSH) 
Mark Maurelli
Niacin as an analgesic against nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI)-induced pain Advisor: Tang, Shao-Jun 
William Noah Brett
I have two research projects : 1) Investigating the role of cell cycle transcription factors in multiciliogenesis, and 2) Determining the role of DNA damage checkpoint proteins in multiciliogenesis Advisor: Alice Nemajerova/Moll YEAR 4
Ruby Pan
Investigating the role of CCDC186 in neurodevelopmental epilepsy Advisor: Takemaru 
Ana Candia Flores
AMPK role in regulating oligodendrocyte myelination and differentiation ana.candiaflores@stonybrook.edu
Advisor: Colognato 
Chelsea Kirkland
Leveraging DNABERT for Cancer Genomics: A Deep Learning Approach to Uncovering Disrupted Gene Regulation in Colorectal Cancer chelsea.kirkland@stonybrook.edu
Advisor: Joshua Rest 
Matthew Licht
Understanding the mechanisms of drug resistance, discovering drugs capable of overcoming resistance, and building tools to accomplish the former tasks Advisor: Bahar, Ivet 
Julia Gattozzi
Dissecting cellular heterogeneity and mechanisms of treatment resistance in castration resistance prostate cancer Advisor: Talos 
Laurel Schappell
Features and consequence of microglial phagocytosis of neutrophils in ischemic stroke Laurel.Schappell@stonybrook.edu
Advisor: Nadkarni/Tsirka YEAR 3
Salma Balogun
Studying alternative polyadenylation (APA) in podocyte injury and glomerular disease, focusing on kidney-specific genes and the therapeutic modulation of APA isoforms using antisense oligonucleotides. 
Brian Farrell
Abl Kinase Allosteric Resistance Mechanisms Advisor: Seeliger, M. 
Michael Fiore
Characterization of specific disease associated variants (DAVs) in the C- Terminal domain of the GluN2B subunit of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors Advisor: Wollmuth 
Rulan Jiang
Structural and Functional study of INO80 chromatin remodeler in DNA damage response Advisor: Tan 
Yushan Wang
Determining Chronic Arsenic Exposure Links to Brain Vascular Damage and Dementia Advisor: Liu, Ke Jian 
Sabrina Hafeez
Elucidating the role of NMDA receptors on the development of neural crest cells. Sabrina.Hafeez@stonybrookmedicine.edu
Advisor: Martin 
Natalie Lo
My project studies how genotoxic anti-cancer therapies trigger DNA replication fork instability to modulate cell fate from therapy-induced senescence towards cell death in the context of ovarian cancer natalie.lo@stonybrookmedicine.edu
Advisor: Kim 
William Sander
Early epigenetic reprogramming primes the emergence of revival stem cells following intestinal injury William.Sander@stonybrookmedicine.edu
Advisor: Bialkowska YEAR 2
Allison Galante
Structure of peptide-NMDAR interaction in alzheimer's disease allison.galante@stonybrookmedicine.edu
Advisor: Furukawa, H (CSH) 
Raisa Karim
characterizing the role of Klf5 in DSS-induced colitis (inflammation and recovery) using a VillinCreERT2 Klf5 fl/+ mouse model Raisa.Karim@stonybrookmedicine.edu
Advisor: Bialkowska 
Yuxuan Lin
Investigating the role of TH in Pituitary Stem Cell Differentiation Advisor: Cheung, Leonard 
Stilianos 'Steve' Papazahariou
Identifying epigenetic lesions in IDH-mutant gliomas Stilianos.Papazahariou@stonybrook.edu
Advisor: Rahme 
YEAR 1
- MS students
CURRENT STUDENTS
Morgan Flaherty
Mohamed Abdullah Hasanin
Kirankumar Sriramulu Indhu Kumar
Danielle Lambadis
Samira Akthar Uzzaman
Samantha Rose (Rosie) Walter
Jina Yim
Jiaying Zheng