People | Lyssiotis Lab

POSTDOCTORAL TRAINEES

Megan Radyk, PhD - 9/2020-3/2026
Lab Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Next Step: Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY

Zeribe Nwosu, PhD - 7/2018-9/2023
Lab Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Next Step: Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Mengrou Shan, PhD - 1/2018-6/2023
Lab Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Next Step: Senior Scientist, Odyssey Therapeutics, Ann Arbor, MI

Nneka Mbah, PhD - 3/2017-3/2022
Lab Position: Postdoctoral Fellow 
Next Step: Senior Scientist, Odyssey Therapeutics, Ann Arbor, MI

Christopher Halbrook, PhD - 12/2015-10/2020
Lab Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Next Step: Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA

Ilya Kovalenko, PhD - 1/2017-1/2019
Lab Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Next Step: Scientist, Insitro, San Francisco, CA

Ho-Joon Lee, PhD - 6/2016-5/2018; 5/2018-12/2019
Lab Position: Postdoctoral Fellow; Research Investigator
Next Step: Associate Research Scientist, Department of Genetics, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Lauren Rodenbarger, PhD - 7/2016-6/2019
Lab Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Next Step: Scientist, Covance, Inc. (now LabCorp), Zionsville, IN

Vinee Purohit, PhD - 7/2015-1/2018
Lab Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Next Step: Postdoctoral Fellow, Kuchroo Lab, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Zachary Tolstyka, PhD - 8/2015-7/2016 
Lab Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Next Step: Medical Student, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

PHD GRADUATE STUDENTS

Noah Nelson - 5/2020-1/2026
Lab Position: Graduate Student
Next Step: Research Area Specialist Senior, Buchman Lab, University of Michigan

Narges Pourmandi – 5/2021-3/2025
Lab Position: MSTP Graduate Student
Next Step: MD Branches of MSTP program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Brandon Chen - 5/2020-1/2025
Lab Position: Graduate Student
Next Step: Postdoctoral Fellow, Birsoy Lab, Rockefeller University, New York City, NY

Heather Giza - 5/2020-12/2024
Lab Position: Graduate Student
Next Step: Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Loebel Lab, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 

Hanna Hong - 1/2017-11/2023
Lab Position: Graduate Student
Next Step: Postdoctoral Fellow, Jacks Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Peter Kim - 5/2018-7/2023
Lab Position: Graduate Student
Next Step: Laboratory Manager, Erwin Lab, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Sam Kerk - 5/2018-5/2023
Lab Position: Graduate Student
Next Step: Postdoctoral Fellow, Metallo Lab, Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA

Jennifer Jimenez - 6/2020-4/2022
Lab Position: Graduate Student
Next Step: Medical Communications Fellow, JB Ashtin, Plymouth, MI

Daniel Kremer - 1/2016-8/2020
Lab Position: Graduate Student
Next Step: Postdoctoral Fellow, Schultz Lab, Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, CA

Barbara Nelson - 9/2015-8/2020
Lab Position: Graduate Student
Next Step: Postdoctoral Fellow, Chinnaiyan Lab, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

MASTER'S STUDENTS

Avi Weingarten - 9/2024-6/2025
Lab Position: Master's Student
Next Step: Research Technician, Wubben Lab, University of Michigan

Arjun Jha - 1/2023-6/2024
Lab Position: Master's Student
Next Step: Medical Student, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Alexander Wood - 8/2021-6/2022
Lab Position: Master's Student
Next Step: Medical Assistant, Helen Devos Children's Hospital, Grand Rapids, MI

Abhinav Anand - 8/2019-8/2020
Lab Position: Master's Student
Next Step: Research Technician Associate, Hsu and Spence Labs, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Olivia Babich - 8/2019-8/2020
Lab Position: Master's Student
Next Step: Clinical Research Associate, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA

Seth Boyer - 8/2019-8/2020;  8/2020-9/2021
Lab Position: Master's Student; Junior Technician
Next Step: Leather Finishing Engineer, Lear Corporation, Southfield, MI

Galloway Thurston - 8/2018-8/2020
Lab Position: Master's Student/Junior Technician
Next Step: Medical Student, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI

Zirui Zhu - 9/2018-4/2019
Lab Position: Master's Student
Next Step: Graduate Student, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Corbin Pontious - 8/2016-5/2018
Lab Position: Master's Student/Junior Technician
Next Step: Medical Student, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Chris Granados - 9/2017-4/2018
Lab Position: Master's Student in Chemical Biology
Next Step: Cherokee Nation Businesses

Pradeep Gunasekaran - 9/2016-12/2017
Lab Position: Master's Student
Next Step: Research Technician, Byrd Lab, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Aaron Lotvola - 9/2016-4/2017
Lab Position: Master's Student
Next Step: Graduate Student, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS

Damien Sutton - 5/2021-4/2022; 4/2022-7/2025
Lab Position: Undergraduate Researcher mentored by Sam Kerk; Laboratory Technician
Next Step: MSTP Graduate Student, University of Michigan

Lucie Salvatore - 1/2023-5/2025
Lab Position: Undergraduate Researcher mentored by Megan Radyk, PhD
Next Step: Medical School, Central Michigan University

Ridwana Khan - 8/2023-12/2024
Lab Position: Undergraduate Researcher mentored by Narges Pourmandi
Next Step: Graduate, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Kyle Lockwood - 6/2024-8/2024
Lab Position: Undergraduate Researcher mentored by Tran Phuc Khoa Le, PhD
Next Step: Graduate, Wartburg College, Waverly, IA

Jason Lin - 5/2021-5/2024
Lab Position: Undergraduate Researcher mentored by Lin Lin, MD, PhD
Next Step: Graduate Student, Ruella Lab, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Hammad Khan - 2/2023-5/2024
Lab Position: Undergraduate Researcher mentored by Drew Scott, PhD
Next Step: Graduate, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Xiaoyi Li - 10/2022-4/2024
Lab Position: Undergraduate Researcher mentored by Li Zhang, PhD
Next Step: Graduate, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Shivam Panda - 2/2023-1/2024
Lab Position: Undergraduate Researcher mentored by Li Zhang, PhD
Next Step: Graduate, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Belal Sbei - 5/2023-8/2023
Lab Position: Undergraduate Researcher mentored by Peter Sajjakulnukit
Next Step: Graduate, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Jon Alektiar - 1/2019-4/2022; 4/2022-7/2023
Lab Position: Undergraduate Researcher; Junior Animal Technician
Next Step: Medical Student, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Nutley, NJ

Ayush Trivedi - 9/2019-4/2023
Lab Position: Undergraduate Researcher mentored by Peter Kim
Next Step: Medical Scribe at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital-University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Lauren Schultz - 5/2022-8/2022
Lab Position: Undergraduate Researcher mentored by Peter Sajjakulnukit
Next Step: Graduate, Ohio University, Athens, OH

Hadeer Saadeldin - 5/2022-8/2022
Lab Position: Undergraduate Researcher mentored by Heather Giza
Next Step: Molecular Clinical Research Scientist, Trinity Health, Ann Arbor, MI

Rachel Hinshaw - 5/2022-8/2022
Lab Position: Undergraduate Researcher mentored by Zeribe Nwosu, PhD
Next Step: Graduate Student, Grohar Lab, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Maya Nassif - 9/2019-4/2022
Lab Position: Undergraduate Researcher mentored by Zeribe Nwosu, PhD
Next Step: Fellow, Department of Public Health-City of Dearborn, Dearborn, MI 

Pilar Ibarra Noriega - 5/2021- 8/2021
Lab Position: Undergraduate Researcher mentored by Jennifer Jimenez
Next Step: Graduate, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Dani Maydan - 1/2019-4/2021
Lab Position: Undergraduate Researcher mentored by Nneka Mbah, PhD
Next Step: Master's Student, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Matthew Ward - 6/2018-8/2020
Lab Position: Undergraduate Researcher
Next Step: Graduate Student, Washington University, St. Louis, MO

Alison Chesnick - 1/2020-4/2020
Lab Position: Undergraduate Researcher
Next Step: Graduate, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 

Nnaemeka Unaegbu - 6/2019-8/2019
Lab Position: Undergraduate Researcher
Next Step: Research Lab Technician, Verhey and Ohi Labs, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Sean Hou - 6/2018-8/2019
Lab Position: Undergraduate Researcher mentored by Chris Halbrook, PhD
Next Step: Research Technician, Kesarwala Lab, Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

Nick Cusmano - 8/2018-04/2019
Lab Position: Undergraduate Researcher mentored by Dan Kremer
Next Step: Medical Student, Central Michigan University College of Medicine, Mount Pleasant, MI

Samuel Welling - 9/2017-1/2019
Lab Position: Undergraduate Researcher mentored by Chris Halbrook, PhD
Next Step: Graduate, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 

Kaylee Witte - 6/2018-8/2018
Lab Position: Undergraduate Researcher
Next Step: Laboratory Technician, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Joon Oh - 1/2018-8/2018
Lab Position: Undergraduate Researcher mentored by Barbara Nelson
Next Step: Master's Student in Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Tansy Massey-Green - 9/2016-1/2018
Lab Position: Undergraduate Researcher mentored by Barbara Nelson
Next Step: Intern, World Wildlife Foundation, Washington, DC

Kristen Loesel - 6/2016-8/2016 and 5/2017-8/2017; 7/2018-8/2018
Lab Position: Summer Undergraduate Researcher; Rotating Graduate Student
Next Step: Graduate Student, Parent Lab, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Ambreen Zaidi - 6/2017-8/2017
Lab Position: Undergraduate Researcher
Next Step: Graduate, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

Akash Vaidya - 6/2016-8/2016; 6/2017-8/2017
Lab Position: Undergraduate Researcher
Next Step: Master's Student, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

Ilana Kotliar - 6/2016-8/2016
Lab Position: Undergraduate Researcher mentored by Barbara Nelson
Next Step: Graduate Student, Tri-Institutional PhD Program in Chemical Biology, New York City, NY 

TECHNICAL STAFF

Anthony Andren - 8/2019-10/2023
Lab Position: Junior Metabolomics Technician
Next Step: Analytical Chemist, Metiri Group, Holt, MI

Xiaohua (Tina) Gao - 05/2017-9/2018
Lab Position: Senior Mouse Technician
Next Step: Research Lab Specialist Intermediate, Narla Lab, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Stephanie Wisner - 1/2017-4/2018
Lab Position: Junior Technician
Next Step: Booth School of Business Student, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Johanna Ramos - 8/2016-4/2018
Lab Position: Technician
Next Step: Office of Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI  

Steven Kasperek - 7/2015-8/2017
Lab Position: Junior Technician, Interim Lab Manager
Next Step: Master's Student, Auburn University, Auburn, AL