Directory
Graduate Students

NTMS Students
Name | Degree | Advisor |
---|---|---|
Amr Tolba | NTMS-Bio | James Riordan |
Austin Boucher | NTMS-MS-Micro | James Riordan |
Darryl Gibson | NTMS-Bio (self-fund) | James Riordan |
Grant Hathaway | James Riordan | |
Koushik Majumder | James Riordan | |
Nataliya Galagan | James Riordan |
M.S. Students

BIO
Advisor: Kristina Schmidt

BIO
Advisor: Prahathees Eswara

BIO
Advisor: Kristina Schmidt

BIO
Advisor: Libin Ye

BIO
Advisor: Sandy Westerheide

BIO
Advisor: Sandy Westerheide
Ph.D. Students

Bio
Aidan received his Bachelor's Degree in Biotechnology with a minor in Education from the University of Central Florida. As a PhD candidate, he is studying the underlying mechanisms of bioluminescence in red tide algae with Dr. Libin Ye's GPCR lab. His topics of interest include biodiversity, bioluminescence, and education
Advisor: Libin Ye

Bio
Alexis is currently investigating hepatic epigenetic mechanisms of alcohol use disorder in vivo and in vitro utilizing techniques in mass spectrometry, immunofluorescent microscopy, flow cytometry, and qRT-PCR.
Advisor: Stanley Stevens

Bio
The current research is centered on stalled replication forks and the various proteins that participate in this matter using techniques such as Western blotting, DNA cloning, Mass spectrometry and Immunofluorescent microscopy.
Advisor: Huzefa Dungrawala

BIO
Advisor: Huzefa Dungrawala

BIO
Advisor: Marcus Cooke

BIO
Advisor: Prahathees Eswara

BIO
Advisor: Lindsey Shaw

BIO
Advisor: Lindsey Shaw

BIO
Advisor: Lindsey Shaw

BIO
Advisor: Prahathees Eswara

BIO
Advisor: Kristina Schmidt

BIO
Advisor: Sameer Varma

BIO
Advisor: Marcus Cooke

BIO
Advisor: Yu Chen

Bio
Irene earned her Master’s degree in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from USF. Joined the department as a PhD student in Spring 2023 and is currently developing coarse-grained models for simulating biopolymers.
Advisor: Sameer Varma

BIO
Advisor: Marcus Cooke

BIO
Advisor: Sandy Westerheide

BIO
Advisor: Sameer Varma

BIO
Advisor: Gary Daughdrill

BIO
Advisor: Prahathees Eswara

BIO
Advisor: Prahathees Eswara

BIO
Advisor: Gary Daughdrill

Maria Cubero
BIO
Advisor: Wenqi Yu

BIO
Advisor: Lindsey Shaw

BIO
Advisor: Sameer Varma

BIO
Advisor: Lindsey Shaw

BIO
Advisor: Wenqi Yu

BIO
Richard is a PhD student at the Bobrovskyy lab working on the mechanism of T7bSS in Staphylococcus aureus and the role of peptidoglycan hydrolase in T7bSS. He completed his Bachelors and initial Masters at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana. Richard completed a second Master's at the University of Michigan.
Advisor: Maksym Bobrovskyy

BIO
Advisor: Wenqi Yu

BIO
Advisor: Wenqi Yu

BIO
Advisor: Kristina Schmidt

BIO
Advisor: Libin Ye

BIO
Advisor: Libin Ye

BIO
Advisor: Wenqi Yu