The Weinert
Lab
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Current Lab Members
Graduate and undergraduate students
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Florian Fekete
Hometown: Budapest, Hungary
Education: B.S., Cal State University, Sacramento
Project: Bacterial Oxygen Sensing
Fun fact: I enjoy baking and building models
Awards: BMMB Service
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Haiyun Liu
Hometown: Dalian, China
Education: B.S., Fudan University
Project: Cyclic Nucleotides
Fun fact: I'm great at giving pills to cats
Awards:
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Ariana Santos
Hometown: Tiffin, OH
Education: B.S., University of Dayton
Project: Bacterial Oxygen Sensing
Fun fact: I've written several fantasy novels
Awards:
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Joe Lopez
Hometown: Riverton, Utah
Education: B.S., University of Utah
Project: Cyclic Nucleotides
Fun fact: I enjoy just about any game that you can play whether it be video, board, or card.
Awards:
Nyarie Moyo
Hometown:
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Project: Cyclic Nucleotides
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Mahib Ullah
Hometown:
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Project: Bacterial Oxygen Sensing
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Undergraduate students
Emily Short
Indigo Kim
Troy Alexander
Sanika Rane
Lab alumni
Graduate students
Benjamin Fontaine
Shannon Rivera
Xin Jia
Ph.D. 2015
Current position: Assistant Professor at China Agriculture University
Jacob Potter
Ph.D. 2022
Current position: postdoc, NCI
Jian-bo Wang, Ph.D.
Postdoc 2014
Current position: Professor at Hunan Normal University
Parth Jariwala
Shawn Walsh
Laura Briggs
Yuqi Wu
Paul Young
Carmern Metzler
Yitao Dai
Ph.D. 2018
Current position: Lifemine Therapeutics
Nushrat Hoque
Ph.D. 202 4
Current position: postdoc, FIU
Justin Burns, Ph.D.
Postdoc 2015
Current position: Assistant Director, Licensing at Emory University
Deanna Dailey
Hyerin Yoon
Elana Shaw
Adam Young
Lydia Jordache
Yashar Yaxiaer
Lauren Hendricks
Ph.D. 2019
Current position: Merck
Nick Marotta
Ph.D. 2024
Current position:
Johnnie Walker, Ph.D.
Postdoc 2019
Current position: U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Bobby Liu
Navin Rana
Noah Brady
Salina Mali
Dayna Patterson
Ph.D. 2021
Current position: Postdoc in Amy Rosenzweig's lab at Northwestern
Ariel Shuelke-Sanchez, Ph.D.
Postdoc 2020
Current position: Merck
Ph.D. 2021
Current position: Science writer for the Broad Institute
Shikha Singh Chauhan, Ph.D.
Postdoc 2022
Current position: Southern Illinois University