
Christopher Vollmers
Associate Professor
“We are just graduate students, sir. We are meant to be expendable!”
“Not to me”
Current Graduate Students

Roger Volden
Graduate Student Ph.D.
“Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise? I thought not. It’s not a story the Jedi would tell you.”

Matthew Adams
Graduate Student Ph.D.
“So this is how liberty dies… With thunderous applause.”

Kayla Schimke
Graduate Student Ph.D.
“Mom, you said that the biggest problem in the universe is no one helps each other.”

Dori Deng
Graduate Student Ph.D.
“That’s How We’re Gonna Win. Not Fighting What We Hate, Saving What We Love.”
Junior Specialists

Honey Mekonen
“ I am not afraid to die. I’ve been dying a little bit each day since you came back into my life.”
Current Undergraduate Researchers

Sophia Campos
Martin Flores
Alumni

Dr. Charles Cole
Graduation Summer 2019
Position after graduation:
Scientist II at East Coast Medical Company

Dr. Ashley Byrne
Graduation Fall 2019
Position after graduation:
Scientist at CZI Biohub
Previous Undergraduate Researchers
Sara Gerdom
Hugh Leonard
Samaneh Kiany
Imon Islam
James Carbajal
McKenna Hicks
Alex Tseng
William Ridley
Henry Hinton -> now Graduate student at Harvard University
Theron Palmer -> now Graduate student at Johns Hopkins
Alejandro Alejandrez -> now Medical School