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Lab Members

Malak Alghamdi PhD ’19-25 MS, Kent State King Abdulaziz Saudi Arabia ⇩ Plant minerals and metabolic adaptation of immune cells	Connor Balfany PhD ’20-24 P2EP Intern ’17 Gustavus Adolphus ⇩ Novel plant based proteins and food applications	Lyudmila Grodsky BS ’21-22 UNC Charlotte ⇩ Chronic inflammation in obesity	Slavko Komarnytsky Principal Investigator ’11-22 •	Reham Mhaswish PhD ’22-26 Education Jordan ⇩ Phenolic metabolites in metabolic and gut health	Fadia Milhem PhD ’21-24 MS, Jordan UST Jordan ⇩ Personalized response to obesity: diet-microbiome interactions
Thirumurugan Rathinasabapathy Postdoc ’16-22 PhD Birla (BITS) Tamil Nadu, India ⇩ Analytical and medicinal chemistry of plant natural products

Lab Alumni

Primary advisor (thesis chair): PhD 1 2 3 • MS 1 2 3

	Chi In Vong MS ’20-22 Georgia State Macau	Cole Walker BS ’20-21 Catawba	Niki Viradia BS ’20-21 NC State	Kagan Hall BS ’21 Catawba	Ivonne Valverde Justo BS ’21 Catawba [90]
Jacob Hiatt BS ’21 Catawba	Hailey Barajas BS ’21 Catawba	Alexandria Snider BS ’21 Catawba	Everette Rhymer BS ’21 Catawba	Makenzie Bonner BS ’21 Catawba	Shaun Gorman BS ’21 Catawba
Jade Lomax Technician ’17-20 Piedmont Research NC State	Charles Wagner PhD ’16-20 P2EP Intern ’16 Undergrad ’15-16 NC State	Sydney Goertzen BS ’19-20 Catawba	Nicole Hall BS ’19-20 Catawba	Nathaniel Robbins BS ’19-20 Catawba	Kory Ly BS ’19-20 Catawba
Diego Ugarte BS ’19 Catawba	Dariana Saligan BS ’19 Catawba	Mitchell Harris BS ’19 Catawba Grad school Wake Forest	Ashley Fondren BS ’19 Catawba	Ethan Aguilera BS ’19 Catawba	Josi Rogers BS ’19 Catawba
Mickey Wilson Technician ’12-19 Intern ’11 Rowan-Cabarrus CC	Kavin Srikanth BS ’19 UNC Asheville	Stevie DeSimone BS ’18-19 Catawba	Libby Bickenbach BS ’17-19 Catawba	Madison Moore MS ’18-19 BS ’17-18 Catawba	Abby Kluttz BS ’19 Catawba
Justin Leonard BS ’19 Catawba	Dina Reyes Melendez BS ’19 Catawba	Laura Esposito BS Scholar ’19 UFV Viçosa Brazil	Claudia Tello Villavicencio BS Scholar ’19 Zamorano Ecuador	Xueying Xie MS ’17-19 Northwest A&F China »»	Lee Brackman P2EP Intern ’18 Catawba Grad school U Georgia [60]
Aarushi Patil HS ’15-19 NCSSM Cox Mill Undergrad Stanford	Luke Humble BS ’18-19 Catawba »»	Claire Levitt BS Intern ’18 Ithaca Assc Scientist Shoreditch	Emily Newman BS Intern ’18 Massachusetts Grad school UC Davis	Jeremiah Nance BS ’18 P2EP Intern ’17 Pfeiffer »»	Srikanth Vedamoorthy Scientist ’18 Consultant DHMRI
Julia Weaver BS ’18 NC State »»	Oscar Needham P2EP Intern ’18 UNC Chapel Hill »»	Taylor Wiggins HS ’18 JC Carson »»	Karina Noyola-Alonso BS ’17-18 Catawba »»	Emily Skates BS Scholar ’17 Surrey, UK Grad school Warwick	Viridiana Mandujano BS ’17 Catawba Grad school NCSU
Mahwish Tanveer PhD Scholar ’17 NIFST Pakistan »»	Belony Joseph BS ’17 Catawba Technician Thermo Fisher	Weston Bussler PhD ’13-17 Minnesota Scientist Std Process	Kimberly Palatini PhD ’12-17 Rutgers Scientist Curl Bio	Mikayla Bowen P2EP Intern ’16-17 UNC Chapel Hill Med school U Miami	Nikhita Vemulapalli P2EP Intern ’16-17 UNC Chapel Hill HS ’16-17 Lake Norman »»
Katelyn DeZego Technician ’16-17 P2EP Intern ’16 Catawba Associate Seqirus	Jessica Wiltshire BS ’16-17 P2EP Intern ’14-15 JCS University »»	Kimberley Odwin BS Scholar ’16-17 Surrey UK »»	Barney Beermann BS ’16-17 Davidson Associate Env Profiles	Nilton Ribeiro PhD Scholar ’16 UFV Brazil Professor IFMT, Brazil	Simran Bhatia K8 ’15-16 Metrolina Regional »»
Marco De Canha PhD Scholar ’16 Pretoria South Africa Postdoc U Pretoria	Jessica Williams-Wilborn P2EP Intern ’16 UNC Charlotte Assistant UNC Charlotte	Jocsa Cortes Technician ’15-16 P2EP Intern ’15 UNC Charlotte Grad school NC State	Holli Chandler Technician ’15-16 P2EP Intern ’15 Catawba Pharm school Auburn	Kayley Marchena BS ’15-16 Queens Grad school Toronto	Enrique Garcia P2EP Intern ’16 Catawba Grad school NC State [30]
Ashley Buige P2EP Intern ’16 UNC Chapel Hill Pharm school UNC Chapel Hill	Darien Mariarossi BS ’16 NC State Grad school NC State	Michelle Myers BS ’16 NC State »»	Madina Alexyuk PhD Scholar ’15 IMV Almaty Kazakhstan Researcher Almaty IPT	Jessica Alley Technician ’14-15 P2EP Intern ’14 Appalachian State Grad school Iowa State	Johnathon Boles P2EP Intern ’15 Catawba Assc Director Lilly Center
Brittani George Technician ’14-15 Winston-Salem State Teacher JM Alexander Middle	Pier-Jean Durand MS Scholar ’15 Agrosup Dijon France Technician Monsanto	Chika Igba P2EP Intern ’15 UNC Charlotte Technician Duke	Briana Lund P2EP Intern ’14-15 Western Carolina »»	Ashley Stabel BS ’15 Rowan-Cabarrus CC »»	Claire Thetford P2EP Intern ’15 NC State PA school Gardner Webb
Burley Levette III P2EP Intern ’14 Winston-Salem State Instructor Winston-Salem State	Mason Forrest P2EP Intern ’14 UNC Chapel Hill Technician UNC Chapel Hill	Kathryn Heidt BS ’14 Catawba Grad school Auburn	Amelia Chen BS ’13 Duke Grad school Wisconsin-Madison	Yiwen Thor BS ’13 NC State Grad school NC State	Amber Williamson P2EP Intern ’13 Catawba PA school MUSC
Tamara Marlowe P2EP Intern ’13 Rowan-Cabarrus CC Technician UNCNRI	Jordan Hartman P2EP Intern ’13 Wingate Grad school NC State	JM Dikunduakila BS ’13 Rowan-Cabarrus CC Technician DHMRI	Haley Holway BS ’12-13 Davidson Med school UNC Chapel Hill	Egypt Baskett BS ’12 UNC Charlotte »»	Franco Canales Technician ’11-12 Pfeiffer Manager UNMSM