Former Postdocs (since 1994)

Dr. Nathan Alder

B.S., 1994, University of Utah
Ph.D., 2001, University of California, Davis

Current Position:  Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of Connecticut

Dr. Greg Caputo

B.S., 1998, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ph.D., 2003, Stony Brook University

Current Position:  Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Rowan University

Dr. Alison Davis

B.A., 1994, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
Ph.D., 2000, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Tufts University School of Medicine

Dr. Nora Gardner

B.S., 1994, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Ph.D., 1999, Duke University, Durham, NC

Current Position: Associate, McKinsey & Co., Washington, D.C.

Dr. Brian Hamman

B.S. 1989, Western Michigan University
Ph.D.1993, University of Hawaii

Current Position: Associate Director, Pharmaceutical Discovery, Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc., The Woodlands, TX

Dr. Alejandro Heuck

Licentiate, 1991, Buenos Aires University
Ph.D., 1997, Buenos Aires University

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts

Dr. Andrey Karamyshev

M.Sc., 1985, Kuban State University, Krasnodar, Russia
Ph.D., 1994, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow Region, Russia

Current Position: Assistant Research Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX

Dr. Jialing Lin

B.S. 1983, Peking University, China
Ph.D. 1994, University of Tennessee at Memphis

Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, The University of Oklahoma Health Science Center , Oklahoma City, OK

Dr. Peter Mayerhofer

Ph.D., 2003, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Current Position: Senior Scientist, Cellular Biochemistry, Institute of Biochemistry, Johan Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

Dr. Christine McCallum

B.S. 1990, McMaster University, Canada
Ph.D. 1995, McMaster University, Canada

Current Position: Franchise Manager, Vaccines/Infectious Diseases, Merck & Co., Inc., North Wales, PA.

Dr. IngMarie Nilsson

B.Sc., 1993, Stockholm University
Ph.D., 1999, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm University

Current Position: Faculty, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Dr. Kathleen Ryan

B.A. 1990, Harvard University
Ph.D. 1997, Johns Hopkins University

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Dr. Michael van Waes

B.S. 1987, University de Buenos Aires, Argentina
M.S. 1990, Washington State University
Ph.D. 1996, University of Montana

Current Position: Applications Scientist, Li-Cor, Lincoln, NE

Dr. Cheryl Woolhead

B.Sc., 1998, University of Warwick, England
Ph.D., 2001, University of Warwick, England

Current Position: Lecturer, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK

Former Graduate Students (since 1994)

Holly Cargill

B.S. 1999, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
M.S. 2006, Texas A&M University

Current Position: Senior Associate Scientist, Pfizer, Inc.

Dr. Jui-Chang Chen

B.S. 1982, University of Tunghai, Taiwan
M.S. 1988, Lamar University
Ph.D. 1997, Texas A&M University
Postdoctoral Training at Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, National Chia-Yi University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan

Dr. Hung Do

B.S. 1990, University of Oklahoma
Ph.D. 1997, Texas A&M University
Postdoctoral Training at Emory University

Current Position: CEO, Callidus Biopharma, Bensalem, PA

Dr. Stephanie Etchells

B.Sc. Honors, 1996, Queen's University, Canada
Ph.D. 2003, Texas A&M University
Postdoctoral Training at Max Planck Institute, Martinsried, Germany

Current Position: Patent Examiner, Canadian Intellectual Property Office

Dr. Peter McCormick

A.B. 1996, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
Ph.D. 2003, Texas A&M University
Postdoctoral Training: NIH/NICHD

Current Position: Research Fellow, National Cancer Institute, NIH

Heidi Felix

B.S., 2000, Bethany College, Bethany, WV
M.S., 2003, Texas A&M University

Current Position: Pharmaceutical Sales Representative, Eli Lily & Co.

Dr. John Flanagan

B.S. 1996, Cornell College, Iowa
Ph.D. 2003, Texas A&M University
Postdoctoral Training at Dartmouth Medical School

Current Position: Research Scientist, Amicus Therapeutics, Cranbury, NJ 

Dr. Candice Jongsma

B.S., 2002 Grand Valley State University, Michigan
Ph.D. 2008, Texas A&M University

Current Position: Research Chemist, National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST)

Dr. Shuren Liao

B.S. 19/84, Nanjing University, China
Ph.D. 1997, Texas A&M University

Current Position: Research Associate, Fox-Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA

Dr. Rajesh Ramachandran

B.Sc. 1996, University of Madras, India
M.Sc., 1998, University of Madras, India
Ph.D., 2004, Texas A&M University
Postdoctoral Training at Scripps Resarch Institute

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH

Dr. Judit Wahlman

B.Sc. 1994, Szechenyl Istvan University, Gyor, Hungary
B.Sc. Honors, 2001, University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada
Ph.D., 2007, Texas A&M University

Dr. Subramanian Yegneswaran

B.S. 1988, University of Madras, India
M.Sc. 1990, University of Madras, India
Ph.D. 1997, Texas A&M University

Current Position: Senior Research Associate, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA