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PEOPLE

Current Members

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Kelsey Swinter

Biology Ph.D Student

kaswinte@buffalo.edu

PolyQ and Mitochondria

Homeostasis

Shermali Gunawardena
Principle Investigator
Ph.D. University of Arizona

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Rasika Rathnayake 

Biology Ph.D Student 

rasikara@buffalo.edu

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Jayavardini Vasanthan 

Biology Master's Student 

jvasanth@buffalo.edu

Effects of phosphorylated HTT in axonal transport

Aliya Hyman  

Biological Sciences 

Undergraduate student 

aliyahym@buffalo.edu

Cali Frabizio

Biological Sciences 

Undergraduate student 

califrab@buffalo.edu

Isshaq Jajah

Biological Sciences 

Undergraduate student 

isshaqja@buffalo.edu

Lab Pictures

LAB PICTURE MAY 2023
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Lab Group Picture 2018

Former Members

PhD/MS/MA

Rupkatha Banerjee

Currently Postdoc at Scripps Research, FL

Thomas Krzystek

Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow at Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Amanda Teo

Pratima Bajgain

ORISE Research Fellow,

FDA

Navid Rahman

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Anthony Marino

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Piyali Chakraborty

Abshiro Ali

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Joe White

currently Postdoc at Duke University, NC

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Eric Anderson

currently Postdoc at Children’s Medical Center Pittsburg, PA

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Yichen Li

PhD student at Roswell Park

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Derek Power,

Lab Tech, Albany Med. Center​

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Kunsang Dolma (Fulbright scholar)  

High School Teacher in Tibetan School, India

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Shruthi Srinivasan

Lab Tech, Indiana University medical school​

David Carey

Med School Albany

Amanda

Abby

Undergraduate Students

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Madeline Bartz

Rakibul Islam

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Layne Thurston

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Nicco Ruggio

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Tami Kwong

Pharmacy    

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Claire Thant

Tech Mount Sinai

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Katherine Zimmerman

UB medical school

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Timothy Hansen (2012-2015)

UB Medical School

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Tenzin Kelsang

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Megan Lamb  

UB Dental School

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E’Lissa Flores

MS (Stony Brook University)

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Andrew Kosterman

Tech at UPMC Hamot, Erie PA

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Anna Park

Pharmacy

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Gary Iacobucci 

UB Neuroscience PhD 2018, Postdoc UB

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Farda Barandeh

UB MS program in Physiology                          

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Christine Zhang (2011-2013)

DO school, Erie Pennsylvania

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Phuong-Lan Nguyen

Inspector NYC Health Department                        

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Min Jung Kang

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Amrita Herkal

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Katelyn Carr

Dania Salah

Breanna Roper

Sam D'Angelo

Alexander Schafer 

Anita Yun

Medical Technology    

Hasan Hasanov

computer science

Hayley Hofmar-Glennon

MA Cornell University

Bhasirie Thuamsang

UC Davis MS Forensic 

Crystal Naylor (CSTEP)

Zoe Rudloff 

Hae Min Park

Mingjun Liu

computer science  

Ndidiamaka Okorozo (CSTEP)

Drexel School of Medicine.​

Monique Mickiewicz

Daemon College PA program

Nisha Nair 

Delnessaw Hirpa

Howard Medical School

Garlenys Quezada 

Tierney Day

Aida Andrades Valtueña

MS at University of Tübingen, Germany

Tadeusz Kaczynski

UB Neuroscience PhD, Postdoc UB

Marianna Butts

Medical Technology      

Michelle Kuznicki

UB Medical School

Elizabeth Spina

NYIT DO School

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