Current Members:
Bethlehem Abebe, Ph.D. Candidate
Graduate Student, appointed to the T32 grant (2023-2025)
Joined the lab in January, 2023
Area of Concentration: Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Office: L3080
Email: abebe@uchc.edu
Wen Liu, Ph.D. Candidate
Graduate Student
Joined the lab in August, 2023
Area of Concentration: Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Office: L3080
Email: wenliu@uchc.edu
Melissa Scanlon, Ph.D. Student
Graduate Student, co-mentored by Dr. Laurinda Jaffe
Joined the lab in March, 2025
Area of Concentration: Cell Biology
Office: L3080
Email: mescanlon@uchc.edu
Gabriella Chatman, YIIP Student
Graduate Student
Joined the lab in August, 2025
Area of Concentration: Molecular Biology and Biophysics
Office: L3083
Email: gchatman@uchc.edu
Abhirami Srivel
Undergraduate Student, HRP Fellow
Joined the lab in May, 2026
Office: L3083
Email: abhirami.srivel@uconn.edu
Former Members:
Jenny Guo, SRIP student from New York University, 2023 summer, jenguo0218@gmail.com
Jieun Park, Affiliated Undergraduate Student, HRP Fellow, 2023-2024, Email: jieun.park@uconn.edu, Now graduate student at Johns Hopkins University
Venessa Ochieng, SRIP student from Wesleyan University, 2024 summer, vochieng@wesleyan.edu
Seyam Naim, Undergraduate Student from UConn Storrs, 2024 summer, seyam.naim@uconn.edu
Stabonia Maji, rotation student, 2023 summer, maji@uchc.edu
Nina Wang, rotation student, 2024 spring, xiaonwang@uchc.edu
Hiep Le Dang Nguyen, rotation student, 2025 spring, hinguyen@uchc.edu
Hayden DiMaio, rotation student, 2025 spring, dimaio@uchc.edu
Zachary Halstead, HRP student from UConn Storrs, 2024-2025, zachary.halstead@uconn.edu
Andrew Kim, HRP student from UConn Storrs, 2025-2026, andrew.j.2.kim@uconn.edu
Mareen Ek, SRIP student from the University of Vermont, 2025 summer, mek@uchc.edu