{"id":34,"date":"2019-09-11T12:57:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T16:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/bae-lab\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2025-10-28T16:31:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T20:31:19","slug":"our-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/vargas-rodriguez-lab\/our-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vargas-Rodriguez Lab – Summer 2025<\/h3>\"Vargas-Rodriguez

We are always looking to welcome new members. If you are interested in our research and would like to be part of our lab, please contact Oscar (vargasrodriguez@uchc.edu).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

The Team<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"Oscar

Oscar Vargas-Rodriguez, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/ br><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Education and Training<\/h3>\n

Postdoctoral Associate<\/strong>, Yale University (2014-2022)<\/p>\n

Ph.D.<\/strong>, The Ohio State University (2014)
\nChemistry & Biochemistry<\/p>\n

B.S. Chemistry<\/strong>, Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico (2008)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

\"Alex

Alex Radecki<\/strong><\/br> Graduate Student<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Education and Training<\/h3>\n

B.S. Biomolecular Sciences<\/strong>, CCSU (2019)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

\"Gabriela

Gabriela Soriano<\/strong><\/br> Graduate Student<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Education and Training<\/h3>\n

B.S. Structural Biology and Biophysics<\/span><\/strong>, UConn (2024)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

\"Juan

Sharva Karthikeyan<\/strong><\/br> Undergraduate Researcher<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Education and Training<\/h3>\n

B.S. Biological Sciences<\/strong>, UConn (expected 2027)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

\"Juan

Grace Hovey<\/strong><\/br> Undergraduate Researcher<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Education and Training<\/h3>\n

Molecular and Cell Biology Major<\/strong>, UConn<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

\"Anushree

Anushree Ajgaonkar<\/strong><\/br> Undergraduate Researcher<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Education and Training<\/h3>\n

 <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Former lab members<\/h3>

Juan Maldonado<\/strong>, UConn HRP and Research Assistant, Summer 2023-Summer 2025.<\/p>\n

Ashna Hoque<\/strong>, Research Assistant, Winter 2025-Summer 2025.<\/p>\n

Angela Cupo<\/strong>, PhD Rotation, Spring 2025.<\/p>\n

Arundhati Gore<\/strong>, PhD Rotation, Spring 2025.<\/p>\n

Sophia Bizink<\/strong>, PhD Rotation, Winter 2025.<\/p>\n

Eric Kim<\/strong>, Avon High School, 2024-2025.<\/p>\n

Joshua Mann<\/strong>, Undergraduate Researcher and Research Assistant, 2023-2024. (Currently a Graduate student at Boston University)<\/p>\n

Ivan Merced<\/strong>, Research Assistant, 2023-2024.<\/p>\n

Edwin Cruz<\/strong>, Research Assistant, 2023-2024. (Currently a MD student at San Juan Bautista School of Medicine, PR)<\/p>\n

Aya Awawdeh<\/strong>, Research Assistant, 2022-2024.<\/p>\n

Ariana Fantasia-Davis<\/strong>, MD\/PhD Lab Rotation, Summer 2023.<\/p>\n

Pearl Morosky<\/strong>, Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2023.<\/p>\n

Stephanie\u00a0<\/strong>Sepulveda<\/b>, Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2023.<\/p>\n

Sreetama Kushari<\/strong>, Avon High School, Summer 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-23 23:07:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/vargas-rodriguez-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/vargas-rodriguez-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/vargas-rodriguez-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/vargas-rodriguez-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/vargas-rodriguez-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":63,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/vargas-rodriguez-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/vargas-rodriguez-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions\/683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/vargas-rodriguez-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}