Meet our fantastic researchers!
Graduate Students:

Hillary Dapsauski - MS Bioinformatics

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Peyton Fay - MS Bioinformatics

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Olive Kolar - MS Bioinformatics

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Megan Martinez - MS Bioinformatics

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Lila Nelson - MS Bioinformatics

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Lizzie Proctor - MS Biology

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Undergraduate Students:

Zoe Berge - BS/MS Bioinformatics
Zoe joined the lab in Summer 2024. Her research adventure began looking at the phage diversity infecting the bacterium Enterobacter hormaechei.

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Ashlyn Berra - BS Biology
Ashlyn joined the lab in Spring 2024.

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Elena Bright - BS Forensic Science
Elena joined the lab in Summer 2025.

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Shulaine Byrne - BS Biology
Shulaine joined the lab in Summer 2025.

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Nidia Espinoza Morales - BS Biology
Nidia joined the lab in Summer 2025.

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Grace Finger - BS/MS Bioinformatics
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Sanjana Nekkanti - BS Biology
Sanjana joined the lab in Summer 2025.

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Maria Steiling - BS Biology/Bioinformatics
Maria joined the lab in Spring 2023. Maria received a Carbon Research Fellowship to explore phages of the pathogen Klebsiella pneumoniae.

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