Alumni
Our alumni have gone on to careers in academia, industry, government, museums, and nonprofit organizations across the United States. If you are an alum of our program and would like to be added to our list, please use the form at the bottom of this page.
Here’s where some of our alumni are today:
| Name | Current Organization (updated 7/26) | Vanderbilt Lab | Trainee Type | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charu Balamurugan | Stanford University School of Medicine | Rokas | Undergrad | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Noah Bradley | AbbVie | Eichman | Ph.D. | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Juan Carvajal Garcia | Institute of Parasitology and Biomedicine López-Neyra | Merrikh | Postdoc | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Christina Chavez | TBD | Rokas | Ph.D. | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Natalie Christian | University of Louisville | Abbot | Undergrad | ORCID, Lab Website, LinkedIn |
| John Gibbons | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Rokas | Ph.D. | ORCID, Lab Website, LinkedIn |
| Brandt Gibson | University of Tennessee, Martin | Darroch | Ph.D. | ORCID |
| Bryan Gitschlag | University of South Carolina | Patel | Ph.D. | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Annie Hatmaker | University of Georgia | Rokas | Ph.D. | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Sarah Hourihan | University of Southern California | Creanza | Undergrad | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Abigail LaBella | University of North Carolina - Charlotte | Rokas | Postdoc | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Jennifer Mandel | University of Memphis | McCauley | Ph.D. | ORCID, Lab Website, LinkedIn |
| Reese Martin | Seranova Bio | Tate | Ph.D. | |
| Joel McGlothlin | Virginia Tech | McCauley | Undergrad | ORCID, Lab Website, LinkedIn |
| Melissa Pardi | Illinois State Museum | DeSantis | Postdoc | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Andreia Olaru | American Museum of Natural History | Darroch | Undergrad | |
| David Rinker | Vanderbilt University | Zwiebel | Ph.D. | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Joyce Sanks | University of Alaska, Fairbanks | Racicot | Undergrad | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Jason Slot | Ohio State University | Rokas | Postdoc | ORCID, Lab Website, LinkedIn |
| Sam Smith | Pfizer | Rokas | Undergrad | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Kate Snyder | Vanderbilt University | Creanza | Ph.D. | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Jacob Steenwyk | UC Berkeley | Rokas | Ph.D. | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Carly Stewart | University of Cincinnati Medical Center | Tate | Undergrad | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Carl Stone | TBD | Behringer | Ph.D. | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Kelly Tingle | McGill University | Darroch | Ph.D. | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Kat Turk | Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History | Darroch | Ph.D. | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Michael Whitlock | University of British Columbia | McCauley | Ph.D. | ORCID |
| Taiye Winful | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Benn Torres | Ph.D. | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Jennifer Wisecaver | Washington State University | Rokas | Postdoc | ORCID, Lab Website, LinkedIn |
| Yan Yan | Harvard School of Public Health | Hillyer | Ph.D. | ORCID, LinkedIn |