Alumni
Our alumni have gone on to careers in academia, industry, government, museums, and nonprofit organizations across the United States and beyond. If you are an alum of our program and would like to be added to our list (or need your information updated), 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ugonna Adugba | US House of Representatives | DeSantis | Undergrad | |
| James Baker | UK Forest Research | DeSantis | Undergrad | |
| Charu Balamurugan | Stanford University School of Medicine | Rokas | Undergrad | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Jordyn Barr | University of Florida | Hillyer | Ph.D. | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Isabella Bautista | University of Pittsburgh | Castiglione | Undergrad | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Noah Bradley | AbbVie | Eichman | Ph.D. | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Alec Brown | Ramsey Solutions | Rokas | Ph.D. | |
| 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 |
| Sarah Corapi | University of Illinois, Chicago | DeSantis | Undergrad | |
| Justin Critchlow | LabCorp | Tate | Ph.D. | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Nia Crowley | Atrium Health | Behringer | M.S. | |
| Dillon Davey | Columbia University | DeSantis | Undergrad | |
| Scott Egan | Rice University | Funk | Ph.D. | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Stephen Ferguson | Shenzhen Bay Laboratory | Zwiebel | Ph.D. | |
| Brandt Geist | Duke University | Meng | M.S. | ORCID |
| Ethan Gibbons | John Deere | Clayton | Ph.D. | |
| 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 |
| Carla Gonçalves | NOVA University, Lisbon | Rokas | Postdoc | ORCID, Lab Website |
| Michael Greshko | Science Magazine | DeSantis | Undergrad | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Marie-Claire Harrison | Stanford University | Rokas | Ph.D. | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Ryan Haupt | National Youth Science Academy | DeSantis | M.S. | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Annie Hatmaker | University of Georgia | Rokas | Ph.D. | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Carson Hedberg | Tennessee State Parks | DeSantis | Undergrad | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| James Held | Van Andel Institute | Patel | Ph.D. | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Sarah Hourihan | University of Southern California | Creanza | Undergrad | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Emily Hudson | Jellycat | Creanza | Postdoc | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Miya Hugaboom | Harvard University Medical School | Rokas | Undergrad | ORCID |
| Maria Luísa Jabbur | John Innes Center | Johnson | Ph.D. | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Amishi Kumar | Rubicon Carbon | DeSantis | Undergrad | |
| Adi Kurre | University of Pennsylvania, Dental | DeSantis | Undergrad | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Abigail LaBella | University of North Carolina - Charlotte | Rokas | Postdoc | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Lucas Loffredo | Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | DeSantis | Undergrad | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Jennifer Mandel | University of Memphis | McCauley | Ph.D. | ORCID, Lab Website, LinkedIn |
| Lindsay Martin | BioCentury | Hillyer | Ph.D. | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Reese Martin | Seranova Bio | Tate | Ph.D. | |
| Robert McCarthy | Epic | Behringer | Undergrad | |
| Joel McGlothlin | Virginia Tech | McCauley | Undergrad | ORCID, Lab Website, LinkedIn |
| Cole Meier | John Hopkins University School of Medicine | Hillyer | Ph.D. | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| David Nannemann | Rosetta Commons | Bachmann | Ph.D. | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Juan Ortiz | Paratus Sciences | Rokas | Ph.D. | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Melissa Pardi | Illinois State Museum | DeSantis | Postdoc | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Gillian Patton | Washington University, St. Louis | Behringer | Undergrad | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Ansley Petherick | Zoo Atlanta | DeSantis | Undergrad | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Yakov Pichkar | Detect-ION | Creanza | Ph.D. | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Andreia Olaru | American Museum of Natural History | Darroch | Undergrad | |
| David Rinker | Vanderbilt University | Zwiebel | Ph.D. | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Christina Robinson | RF-SMART | Creanza | Ph.D. | |
| Ashley Rogers | Texas A&M Galveston | Flick & DeSantis | Undergrad | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Faith Rovenolt | SecureBio | Tate | Undergrad | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Kaitlyn Russell | Colorado State University | Castiglione | Undergrad | |
| Joyce Sanks | University of Alaska, Fairbanks | Racicot | Undergrad | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Ellie Scholtz | The Nature Conservancy | DeSantis | Undergrad | |
| Robert Scism | Pfizer | Bachmann | Ph.D. | |
| 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 |
| Timothy Thoner | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Ogden | 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 |
| Katie Wahl | Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine | Eichman | Undergrad | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Wonder Wei | Duke University | DeSantis | Undergrad | |
| Michael Whitlock | University of British Columbia | McCauley | Ph.D. | ORCID |
| Alissa Williams | University of Minnesota | Tate | Postdoc | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Taiye Winful | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Benn Torres | Ph.D. | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Jennifer Wisecaver | Washington State University | Rokas | Postdoc | ORCID, Lab Website, LinkedIn |
| Sarah Worthan | Montana State University, Billings | Behringer | Postdoc | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Chuyuan Xu | Arcsine Analytics | DeSantis | Undergrad | |
| Linhe Xu | Tsinghua University | Herculano-Houzel | Ph.D. | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Yan Yan | Harvard School of Public Health | Hillyer | Ph.D. | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Lindsey Yann | National Park Service | DeSantis | Ph.D. | ORCID, LinkedIn |
| Dan Zhou | Zhejiang University | Gamazon | Postdoc | ORCID |