{"id":824,"date":"2015-12-07T12:25:15","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T17:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.grad.uchc.uconn.edu\/?page_id=380"},"modified":"2025-06-05T14:11:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T18:11:51","slug":"students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-school\/academics\/programs\/ph-d-biomedical-science\/cell-biology-graduate-program\/students\/","title":{"rendered":"Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma Beard<\/strong>
\nPrevious Education: B.S., University of Connecticut
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Mayu Inaba-Oguro
\nEmail: beard@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Brenna McAllister<\/strong>
\nPrevious Education: B.S., Fairfield University
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Leslie Caromile
\nEmail: bmcallister@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Sophia Bizink<\/strong>
\nPrevious Education: B.S., Kean University
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Mayu Inaba-Oguro
\nEmail: bizink@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Iris Nakashima<\/strong>
\nPrevious Education: B.S., California State University- Dominguez Hills
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Laurinda Jaffe
\nEmail: inakashima@uchc.edu\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Yu-Chieh Chen<\/strong>
\nPrevious Education: B.S.,M.S, National Tsinghua University
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. J. Travis Hinson
\nEmail: yucchen@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Clement Ojo
\n<\/strong>M.D.\/Ph.D. Student
\nPrevious Education: B.S., M.S., Johns Hopkins University
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Hideyuki Oguro
\nEmail: ojo@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Samantha Derosa
\n<\/strong>M.D.\/Ph.D. Student
\nPrevious Education: B.S., Northeastern University
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Patrick Murphy
\nEmail: sderosa@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Omar Moustafa Omar
\n<\/strong>M.D.\/Ph.D. Student
\nPrevious Education: B.S., Vanderbilt University
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Patrick Murphy
\nEmail: oomar@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Hayden DiMaio<\/strong>
\nPrevious Education: B.S., St. John's University
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Leslie Caromile
\nEmail: dimaio@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Swati Pandey<\/strong>
\nPrevious Education: B.S., Lafayette College
\nThesis Advisor: Drs. Patrick Murphy and Abhijit Deb Roy
\nEmail: swpandey@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Olivia Durham<\/strong>
\nPrevious Education: B.S., University of Connecticut- Storrs
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Patrick Murphy
\nEmail: durham@uchc.edu\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Chris Pathoulas
\n<\/strong>M.D.\/Ph.D. Student
\nPrevious Education: B.A., St. John's University (Minnesota)
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Patrick Murphy
\nEmail: pathoulas@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Perla El Ahmad
\n<\/strong>Previous Education: B.A., M.S., Lebanese American University
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Bruno Diniz
\nEmail: elahmad@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Sofia Possidento<\/strong>
\nPrevious Education: B.S., M.S., Quinnipiac University<\/span>
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Kimberly Dodge-Kafka
\nEmail: possidento@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Arundhati Gore<\/b>
\nPrevious Education: B.S., Union College
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Lixia Yue
\nEmail: cindli@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Travis Roeder<\/strong>
\nPrevious Education: B.A., Hamilton College
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Hideyuki Oguro
\nEmail:\u00a0troeder@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Sara Halili
\n<\/strong>M.D.\/Ph.D. Student
\nPrevious Education: B.A., Smith College
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Andrew Arnold
\nEmail: halili@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Melissa Scanlon<\/strong>
\nPrevious Education: B.S., Northeastern University
\nThesis Advisor: Drs. Stephen Chou and Laurinda Jaffe
\nEmail: mescanlon@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Joshua Lee<\/strong>
\nM.D.\/Ph.D. Student
\nPrevious Education: B.S., Rowan University
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Paul Robson
\nEmail: joshuaylee@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Khadija Wali<\/strong>
\nPrevious Education: B.S., Central Connecticut State University
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Kshitz Gupta
\nEmail: wali@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Nicholas Legere<\/strong>
\nPrevious Education: B.S., University of Connecticut-Storrs
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. J. Travis Hinson
\nEmail: nlegere@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Heather Wanczyk<\/strong>
\nPrevious Education: B.S., M.S., University of Connecticut- Storrs
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Christine Fink
\nEmail: wanczyk@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Cindy Li<\/strong>
\nPrevious Education: B.S., University of Connecticut
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Lixia Yue
\nEmail: cindli@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Emma Beard Previous Education: B.S., University of Connecticut Thesis Advisor: Dr. Mayu Inaba-Oguro Email: beard@uchc.edu Brenna McAllister Previous Education: B.S., Fairfield University Thesis Advisor: Dr. Leslie Caromile Email: bmcallister@uchc.edu Sophia Bizink Previous Education: B.S., Kean University Thesis Advisor: Dr. Mayu Inaba-Oguro Email: bizink@uchc.edu Iris Nakashima Previous Education: B.S., California State University- Dominguez Hills Thesis Advisor: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"parent":348,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 08:53:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5156,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/824\/revisions\/5156"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}