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Lab Members

⇩ 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	Willow Gatewood BS ’22-23 Catawba ⇩ Listening to fungi through biosonification	Lyudmila Grodsky BS ’21-23 UNC Charlotte ⇩ Chronic inflammation in obesity	Janelle Gutierrez Intern ’22-23 MBA, ULACIT Costa Rica Nicaragua ⇩ TBD
Slavko Komarnytsky Principal Investigator ’11-23 •••	Reham Mhawish PhD ’22-26 MS, Jordan UST Jordan ⇩ Small phenolics for improving metabolic risk factors	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	Julia Roberson Intern ’22-23 Standard Process ⇩ Biomarkers of autophagy

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	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 [80]	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 [60]	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	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 [40]	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	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 [20]	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