{"id":827,"date":"2015-12-09T13:54:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T18:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.grad.uchc.uconn.edu\/?page_id=426"},"modified":"2026-09-22T11:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T15:37:18","slug":"students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-school\/academics\/programs\/ph-d-biomedical-science\/genetics-and-developmental-biology-area-of-concentration\/students\/","title":{"rendered":"Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sanjucta Adak
\n<\/strong>Previous Education: BA, Biotechnology, IIT Guwahati
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Jean-Denis Beaudoin
\nEmail:\u00a0 adak@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Sarah Alshawi<\/strong>
\nPrevious Education: BS, Neurobiology, Georgetown University
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Jean-Denis Beaudoin
\nEmail:\u00a0alshawi@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Allison Andrade
\n<\/strong>Previous Education: BS, Biology, Castleton University
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Pedro Miura
\nEmail:\u00a0 alandrade@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Redwan Bhuiyan
\n<\/strong>M.D.\/Ph.D. Student
\nPrevious Education: BA, Moleculaar Biology and Biochemistry, Neuroscience, Wesleyan University
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Michael Stitzel
\nEmail:\u00a0\u00a0rbhuiyan@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Tylor Brewster
\n<\/strong>Previous Education: MS, Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics, Drexel University
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Christine Beck
\nEmail:\u00a0 brewster@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Megan Callender
\n<\/strong>Previous Education: BS, Biomolecular Sciences, Central Connecticut State University
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Frederick Varn
\nEmail:\u00a0 callender@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Owen Chambers
\n<\/strong>Previous Education: BA, Biology, Bowdoin College
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. James (Yuanhao) Li
\nEmail: ochambers@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Cullen Clairmont
\n<\/strong>M.D.\/Ph.D. Student
\nPrevious Education: BS, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Ching Lau
\nEmail:\u00a0 clairmont@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Patrick Fleming<\/strong>
\nPrevious Education: BS, Biochemistry, University of Maine
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Paul Robson
\nEmail: pfleming@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Titas Grabauskas
\n<\/strong>M.D.\/Ph.D. Student
\nPrevious Education: BA, Biology, Whittier College
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Duygu Ucar
\nEmail:\u00a0tigrabauskas@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Sether Johnson
\n<\/strong>M.D.\/Ph.D. Student
\nPrevious Education: MS, Stem Cell Biology, University of Minnesota
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Eric Wang
\nEmail:\u00a0sejohnson@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Sadik Karma
\n<\/strong>M.D.\/Ph.D. Student
\nPrevious Education: BA, Biology, Johns Hopkins University
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Eric Wang
\nEmail:\u00a0 \u00a0karma@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Sai Nivedita Krishnan<\/strong>
\nPrevious Education: MSc, Human Anatomy & Cell Science, University of Manitoba
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Michel Stitzel
\nEmail:\u00a0skrishnan@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Kevin Liu
\n<\/strong>M.D.\/Ph.D. Student
\nPrevious Education: BA, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Wesleyan University
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Michael Stitzel
\nEmail:\u00a0\u00a0 keliu@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Srihari Madhavan
\n<\/strong>Previous Education: MS, University of Connecticut, MS, India Institute of Technology, BTech, Anna University
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Jean-Denis Beaudoin
\nEmail: smadhavan@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Avinash Satyanarayan Mahajan
\n<\/strong>Previous Education: MS, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Wright State University
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Duygu Ucar
\nEmail:\u00a0\u00a0 amahajan@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Bianca-Maria Marin
\n<\/strong>M.D.\/Ph.D. Student
\n<\/strong>Previous Education: BA, Biological Sciences, Psycology, Northwestern University
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Roel Verhaak
\nEmail:\u00a0\u00a0marin@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Juan Manuel Martinez Villalobos
\n<\/strong>Previous Education: BS, Genomic Biotechnology, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Jeffrey Chuang
\nEmail:\u00a0martinezvillalobos@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Rachael Massey
\n<\/strong>Previous Education: MS, Health Care Genetics, University of Connecticut
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Stefan Pinter
\nEmail:\u00a0rmassey@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Martina Ysabel Miranda
\n<\/strong>Previous Education: BS, Biology, Grand Canyon University
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. James Li
\nEmail:\u00a0mmiranda@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Zengshuo Mo
\n<\/strong>Previous Education: MS, Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Johns Hopkins University
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Xiaoyan Guo
\nEmail:\u00a0 zmo@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Sakthi Harini Rajendran
\n<\/strong>Previous Education: MS, University at Buffalo
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Eric Wang
\nEmail:\u00a0 srajendran@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Mark Salib
\n<\/strong>Previous Education: BS, University of Connecticut
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Xiaoyan Guo
\nEmail: salib@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Pooja Sonawane
\n<\/strong>Previous Education: MS, Biological Sciences, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Justin Cotney
\nEmail:\u00a0sonawane@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Anna Struba
\n<\/strong>Previous Education: BSc, Biochemistry and Molecular & Cell Biology, University of Maine
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Jean-Denis Beaudoin
\nEmail:\u00a0 struba@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Siyu Sun
\n<\/strong>Previous Education: B.S, SUNY Stony Brook, M.S. New York University
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Gordon Carmichael
\nEmail:\u00a0ssun@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Marcell Szabo
\n<\/strong>M.D.\/Ph.D. Student
\nPrevious Education: BS, Neuroscience, University of Washington
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Olga Anczuk\u00f3w
\nEmail:\u00a0mszabo@uchc.edu<\/p>\n

Adam Thiesen
\n<\/strong>M.D.\/Ph.D. Student
\n<\/strong>Previous Education: MS, Biochemistry, Occidental College
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Jeffrey Chuang
\nEmail:\u00a0Thiesen@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Isha Walawalkar
\n<\/strong>M.D.\/Ph.D. Student
\nPrevious Education: BA, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Public Health Science, Boston University
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Olga Anczukow
\nEmail:\u00a0 walawalkar@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Xiaonan Wang
\n<\/strong>Previous Education: MS, Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Connecticut
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Jean-Denis Beaudoin
\nEmail:\u00a0 xiaonwang@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Xiyue Wang
\n<\/strong>Previous Education: BS, Clinical Medicine, Tongji University
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Paul Robson
\nEmail:\u00a0 xiywang@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Dacheng Zhao<\/strong>
\nPrevious Education: MA, BA, Wesleyan University
\nThesis Advisor: Dr. Roel Verhaak
\nEmail: dzhao@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Recently Completed the Biomedical Science Ph.D. Program in The Genetics and Developmental Biology Area of Concentration<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

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Sanjucta Adak Previous Education: BA, Biotechnology, IIT Guwahati Thesis Advisor: Dr. Jean-Denis Beaudoin Email:\u00a0 adak@uchc.edu Sarah Alshawi Previous Education: BS, Neurobiology, Georgetown University Thesis Advisor: Dr. Jean-Denis Beaudoin Email:\u00a0alshawi@uchc.edu Allison Andrade Previous Education: BS, Biology, Castleton University Thesis Advisor: Dr. Pedro Miura Email:\u00a0 alandrade@uchc.edu Redwan Bhuiyan M.D.\/Ph.D. Student Previous Education: BA, Moleculaar Biology and Biochemistry, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"parent":387,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-827","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-22 09:23:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5758,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/827\/revisions\/5758"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}