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Principal Investigator

 

   Brian Diekman (he/him/his): bdiekman@email.unc.edu

      • Principal Investigator, March 2017 –
      • Associate Professor with tenure, 2024 –
        • Biomedical Engineering: Joint Department between UNC and NCSU
      • Member, Thurston Arthritis Research Center
      • Curriculum Member, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology
      • Member, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

 

 

Staff

 

 

      Jacqueline Shine (she/her/hers): yalins@med.unc.edu

    • Research Specialist, March 2021 –
    • Senior Staff Scientist, April 2024 –
 

   

 

 

Elena Filippova: Elena_Filippova@med.unc.edu

        • Research Specialist, April 2024 –
        • Lab Manager, April 2024 –

 

 

 

 

 

PhD Students

   Garrett Sessions: gasessio@email.unc.edu

  • Research technician, March 2017 – July 2021
  • BBSP Graduate Student Fall 2021 –
    • Co-mentored by Jeremy Purvis (Genetics)
  Samantha (Sam) Stuppy (she/her/hers): srstuppy@ncsu.edu

  • NCSU Genetics PhD student
  • Thesis work in Diekman lab: May 2024 –
  • Provost’s Doctoral Fellow: 2021
  • Genetics and Genomics Scholar: 2021
  • GAANN Fellow: 2023-2024
  Mingqian (Michelle) He: mingqian.he@unc.edu

  • UNC/NCSU Biomedical Engineering PhD student
  • Graduate work in labs of Ke Cheng and Ke Huang, UNC/NCSU Biomedical Engineering
  • Thesis work in Diekman lab: July 2024 –

Medical Students and Undergraduates

 

   John (Jack) Felkner

    • UNC Medical Student, August 2023 –
    • UNC Sports and Exercise Science undergraduate student, Oct 2020 – May 2022
   Ishani Deliwala

    • UNC Medical Student, April 2024 –
    • MSTAR propgram, Summer 2024
   Carson Shepler

  • BME undergraduate student, Lucas Scholar, January 2022 –
  • NCSSM high school student,
    • Research in lab (virtual): September 2020 – June 2021
   William (Andrew) Cowan

  • Neuroscience undergraduate student, January 2023 –

 

 

  Stefano Braho 

    • Biology undergraduate student, August 2024 –
   Miguel Martinez Leal

  • BME undergraduate student, January 2024 –
   Antony Shaju Ponmany

  • Biology / Chemistry undergraduate student, August 2023 –
   Stephanie Haro

  • BME undergraduate student, January 2023 –

 

 

Former Members

 

Full time / PhD students

Susan D’Costa: Lab manager (2017-2021)

Michaela Copp: PhD student, Biomedical Engineering (2018-2023)

Matthew Rich: PhD student, Biomedical Engineering (2017 – 2023) ; collaborator (2023 – )

 

Short-term / Medical Students and Undergraduates

Xinyi (Melissa) Li: BME undergraduate student, Lucas Scholar, November 2022 – May 2024

Will Frickhoeffer: BME undergraduate student, June 2023 – May 2024

Hannon Brown: BME undergraduate student, Abrams Scholar, August 2022 – May 2024

Oliver Hansen: UNC Medical student, MSTAR scholar, Summer 2023

Rohan Krishnan: BME undergraduate student, Abrams Scholar, January 2021 – May 2023

Helen Tran: BME undergraduate student, Lucas Scholar, January 2021 – May 2023

Kirti Nimmala: BME undergraduate student, Lucas Scholar, August 2021 – May 2023

Savannah Muron: BBSP rotation student (Fall 2023)

Alyssa Edwards: BBSP rotation student (Fall 2021)

Tanner Orders: UNC Medical student (Summer 2020)

Alex Roupas: Part-time post-bac (2020)

Taylor Abele: BBSP rotation student (Fall 2019)

Chase Binion: NCSU-based BME undergraduate student, Lucas scholar (2019)

Kayla Darris: University of Arizona medical student, MSTAR (Summer 2019)

Svetlana Griego: UNC-based BME undergraduate student (2019)

Maggie Sinkler: Medical College of Georgia student, MSTAR (Summer 2018)

Xiangxiang (Allen) Hu: BBSP rotation student (Spring 2018).

Karthik Kaundinya: UNC-based BME undergraduate student (2018, 2019)

Maggie Flanders: NCSU undergraduate student: (2017 – 2019)

Noah Pieper: UNC-based BME Undergraduate student (2017 –2018)