Current Members
Karl Kandler, PI
Jongwon Lee, Postdoc (co-mentored with Vatsun Sadagopan)
Shang Ma, CNUP graduate student
Mahmoud Khalil, CNUP graduate student
Alumni
Brian Brockway, Lab Manager
Maryanna Owoc, PhD. (MSTP; co-mentored with Vatsun Sadagopan)
Current Position: Medical student, University of Pittsburgh.
Paul Kullmann, PhD. Postdoctoral fellow, 1998 – 2001.
Current Position: Research Assistant Professor, Dept. of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh.
Aura Kullmann, PhD (published under Ene). CNUP graduate student, 1999 – 2003.
Current Position: Research Assistant Professor, Dept. of Medicine, Renal Division, University of Pittsburgh.
Gunsoo Kim, PhD. CNUP graduate student, 2000 – 2004.
Current Position: Investigator, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea.
Deda Gillespie, PhD. Postdoctoral fellow, 2001 – 2005.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychology, McMaster University, Canada.
Hanmi Lee, PhD. CNUP graduate student, 2002 – 2007.
Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow with Dr. C. Shatz, Stanford University.
Seung Cheol Ahn, PhD. Postdoctoral fellow, 2004 – 2005.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Dept. of Physiology, College of Medicine, Dankook University.
Abigail Kalmbach, PhD. Masters student, 2004 – 2008.
Current Position: Research Fellow, Columbia University.
Ji Hyuan Noh, PhD. Postdoctoral fellow, 2006 – 2009.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Dankook University, South Korea.
Amanda Clause, PhD. CNUP graduate student, 2006 – 2011.
Current Position: Staff member, Illumina.
David Chi, MD. Clinical scientist, 2008 – 2010.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Dept. of Otolaryngology; Clinical Director, Division of Pediatric Oncology, University of Pittsburgh.
Tuan Nguyen, PhD. Postdoctoral fellow, 2007 – 2012.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics, The College of New Jersey.
Jason Castro, PhD. Postdoctoral fellow, 2008 -2012.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Bates College, Lewiston, ME.
Elisabeth Garcia Pino, PhD. Postdoctoral fellow, 2009 – 2012.
Current Position: Research Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Chieri Hayashi, MD. Clinical scientist, visiting scholar from Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan, 2011 – 2014.
Current Position: Associate Director, Astellas Pharma.
Jineta Banerjee, PhD. CMU Biology graduate program, 2009 – 2014.
Current Position: Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington.
Catherine Weisz, PhD. Postdoctoral fellow, 2011 – 2015.
Current Position: Chief, Section on Neuronal Circuitry, NIDCD.
Kirsten Fantetti, PhD. Postdoctoral fellow (co-mentored with Dr. Rebecca Seal), 2014 – 2015.
Current Position: Regulatory affairs scientist, Cook MyoSite, Pittsburgh, PA.
Joshua Sturm, MDPhD, MSTP program, 2013 – 2015.
Current Position: Resident, Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Columbia University.
Eva Bach, PhD. Postdoctoral fellow, 2013 – 2016.
Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Barry Stein, Wake Forest School of Medicine.
Wendy Zhang-Hooks, PhD. Postdoctoral fellow, 2015 – 2017.
Current Position: Management Consultant.
Kacey Womeldorf, Lab technician, 2017 – 2020.