Alumni
STMC Trainees now in Faculty & Academic Positions

Paulus Mrass
Research Assistant Professor, The University of New Mexico Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
Website: http://mgm.unm.edu/Faculty/Mrass.html
Email: PMrass@salud.unm.edu

Tatiana Marquez-Lago, PhD
Associate Professor, Informatics Institute, Department of Genetics and Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Medicine
Website: https://www.uab.edu/medicine/genetics/marquez-lago-laboratory
Email: tmarquez@uab.edu

Ryan Gutenkunst, PhD
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Website: http://gutengroup.mcb.arizona.edu/
Email: rgutenk@email.arizona.edu

Dipak Barua, PhD
Assistant Professor, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Website: http://web.mst.edu/~baruad/
Email: baruad@mst.edu

Flor Espinoza, PhD
Research Scientist, The Mind Research Network
Website: https://www.mrn.org/people/flor-a-espinoza-hidalgo/principal-investigators
Email: fespinoza@mrn.org

Arnaud Chauviere, PhD
Lecturer, Joseph Fourier University, TIMC-IMAG, Grenoble, France.
Website: http://ujf-grenoble.academia.edu/Arnaudchauviere
Email: arnaud.chauviere@imag.fr

Ksenia Matlawska-Wasowska, PhD
Assistant Professor, The University of New Mexico Department of Pediatrics, Albuquerque, NM
Website: https://vivo.health.unm.edu/display/n1137
Email: KMatlawska-Wasowska@salud.unm.edu

Karin Leiderman, PhD
Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics and Statistics at the Colorado School of Mines
Website: https://inside.mines.edu/~kleiderman/research.html
Email: kleiderman@mines.edu

Kathrin Spendier, PhD
Assistant Professor, Physics & Energy Sciences, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Website: https://www.uccs.edu/physics/faculty_and_staff/faculty-staff/kathrin_spendier
Email: kspendie@uccs.edu

Anza Darehshouri, PhD
Electron Microscopy Core Facility Applications Specialist, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
Website: https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/labs/emcf/contact-us/

Jennifer Pascal, PhD
Assistant Professor in Residence, Assistant Dept. Head & Director of Undergrad Studies, University of Connecticut
Website: https://cbe.engr.uconn.edu/person/jennifer-pascal/
Email: jennifer.pascal@uconn.edu
STMC Trainees now in Industry or at National Laboratories

Genevieve Phillips
Leica Microsystems, Pittsburg, PA
Email: Genevieve.Phillips@leica-microsystems.com

M. Frank Erasmus
Head of bioinformatics, Specifica, Santa Fe, NM
Website: http://www.specifica.bio/

Meghan McCabe Pryor, PhD
Rosa & Co. LLC, Independent Consultant
Website: http://meghanpryor.com/
Email: IAm@MeghanPryor.com/p>

Chris Valley, PhD
Computational Biologist, R&D Systems, Minneapolis, MN
Email: chrisvalley@gmail.com

Michael Monine, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate at LANL Center for Nonlinear Studies
Email: mmonine@lanl.gov

Amanda Carroll-Portillo, PhD
Research Associate Professor, UNM Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Independent Contractor at Sandia BioTech
Email: acarrol1@unm.edu

Bin Hu, PhD
Genome Data Scientist & Bioinformatics, Los Alamos National Laboratories

Michelle Archuleta Costa, PhD
Computational Scientist at Eisai Research Institute, Boston

Genie Hsieh, PhD
Scientist, Sandia National Laboratories

Mario Paz
Math Teacher at Amy Biehl High School, Albuquerque NM
Email: paz.mario.j@gmail.com

Jun Zhang, PhD
Scientific Software Developer at OpenEye Scientific Software, Inc.

Jesse Aaron, PhD
Application Scientist, Janelia Research Campus, Asburn, Virginia

Patrick Cutler, PhD
Research Scientist at Teledyne Scientific and Imaging
Email: patrick.cutler@teledyne.com

Yanli Liu
Staff Scientist, BD Biosciences
STMC Alumni now in Medicine

Krishnan Radhakrishnan, MD/PhD
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Email: Krishnan.Radhakrishnan@va.gov

Nicholas Andrews, Nicholas, MD/PhD
Assistant Professor/Physician, The University of New Mexico Ob/Gyn
Email: nandrews@salud.unm.edu
STMC Trainees now in Postdoctoral Positions

Alfreda Nelson
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Missouri

Matthew Graus
Post-Bac Researcher, UNM Department of Pathology
Website: https://sms.unsw.edu.au/katharina-gaus
Email: m.graus@unsw.edu.au/p>

Christina Termini
UCLA Health, Dept of Hematology/Oncology, lab of John Chute
Website: https://www.christinatermini.com/
Email: ctermini@mednet.ucla.edu

Kimberly Kanigel-Winner, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Colorado Pharmacology Department

Erin Zekas, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Laboratory of Nabil Seidah, Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal, Quebec Canada

Shalini Low-Nam, PhD
Assistant Professor at Purdue University
Email: slownam@gmail.com

Fang Huang, PhD
Assistant Professor in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University
Email: huang892@purdue.edu

Haralampos HatziKirou, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Helmholtz Center for Infectious Disease, Germany
Website: http://rcswww.urz.tu-dresden.de/~hatzikir/Home.html
Email: hatzikirou@gmail.com

Tomas Mazel, MD/PhD
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Germany

Anurag Sethi, PhD
Associate Research Scientist in the Gerstein Lab at Yale University
Website: https://sethianurag.weebly.com/contact.html
Email: anurag.sethi@yale.edu
STMC Undergraduates now in Graduate Programs

Maura Cotter
PhD Student, Physiological Sciences/ Minor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Email: mcotter@email.arizona.edu

Duncan Wadsworth
Graduate student in Statistics 2010-2012. December 2011 MS Statistics, analyzing data from the K. Lidke lab. Now a PhD student in Biostatistics at Rice University.

Yuna Guo
Completed postdoctoral fellowship at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. Currently pursuing MS in computer sciences
STMC Most Recent Alumni

Adrien Bosseboeuf
The University of New Mexico Department of Pathology
Mentor: Dr. Bridget Wilson
Co-Mentor: Dr. Diane Lidke

Emanuel Salazar Cavazos
National Cancer Institute-Center for Cancer Research
Email: sc.emanuel@gmail.com

Prashant Dogra
Pathology
Mentor: Elaine Bearer

Farzin Farzam
Physics
Mentor: Keith Lidke

Cristina Flores-Cadengo
Pathology
Mentor: Diane Lidke

Kasra Manavi, Ph.D.
Now in Industry
Website: http://www.simtable.com/

Charuta Palsuldesai
Research Associate, Dept. of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Michigan State University
Email: palsue1@msu.edu

Tess Shideler
Assistant Professor, Biology Dept. Los Medanos College, Pittsburg, CA
Email: tshideler@losmedanos.edu

Ryan Suderman
LANL
Mentor: Bill Hlavacek

Timothy Tavers
LANL
Mentor: Gnanakaran