Alumni
Our alumni have gone on to careers in academia, industry, government, museums, and nonprofit organizations across the United States and beyond. If you are an alum of our program and would like to be added to our list (or need your information updated), please use the form at the bottom of this page.
Here’s where some of our alumni are today:
| Name | Current Organization (updated 7/26) | Vanderbilt Lab | Trainee Type | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charu Balamurugan | Stanford University School of Medicine | Rokas | Undergrad | , |
| Jordyn Barr | University of Florida | Hillyer | Ph.D. | , |
| Isabella Bautista | University of Pittsburgh | Castiglione | Undergrad | , |
| Noah Bradley | AbbVie | Eichman | Ph.D. | , |
| Alec Brown | Ramsey Solutions | Rokas | Ph.D. | |
| Juan Carvajal Garcia | Institute of Parasitology and Biomedicine L贸pez-Neyra | Merrikh | Postdoc | , |
| Christina Chavez | TBD | Rokas | Ph.D. | , |
| Natalie Christian | University of Louisville | Abbot | Undergrad | , , |
| Justin Critchlow | LabCorp | Tate | Ph.D. | , |
| Scott Egan | Rice University | Funk | Ph.D. | , |
| Stephen Ferguson | Shenzhen Bay Laboratory | Zwiebel | Ph.D. | |
| Brandt Geist | Duke University | Meng | M.S. | |
| Ethan Gibbons | John Deere | Clayton | Ph.D. | |
| John Gibbons | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Rokas | Ph.D. | , , |
| Brandt Gibson | University of Tennessee, Martin | Darroch | Ph.D. | |
| Bryan Gitschlag | University of South Carolina | Patel | Ph.D. | , |
| Carla Gon莽alves | NOVA University, Lisbon | Rokas | Postdoc | , |
| Marie-Claire Harrison | Stanford University | Rokas | Ph.D. | , |
| Annie Hatmaker | University of Georgia | Rokas | Ph.D. | , |
| James Held | Van Andel Institute | Patel | Ph.D. | , |
| Sarah Hourihan | University of Southern California | Creanza | Undergrad | , |
| Emily Hudson | Jellycat | Creanza | Postdoc | , |
| Miya Hugaboom | Harvard University Medical School | Rokas | Undergrad | |
| Maria Lu铆sa Jabbur | John Innes Center | Johnson | Ph.D. | , |
| Adi Kurre | University of Pennsylvania, Dental | DeSantis | Undergrad | , |
| Abigail LaBella | University of North Carolina - Charlotte | Rokas | Postdoc | , |
| Jennifer Mandel | University of Memphis | McCauley | Ph.D. | , , |
| Lindsay Martin | BioCentury | Hillyer | Ph.D. | , |
| Reese Martin | Seranova Bio | Tate | Ph.D. | |
| Joel McGlothlin | Virginia Tech | McCauley | Undergrad | , , |
| Cole Meier | John Hopkins University School of Medicine | Hillyer | Ph.D. | , |
| Juan Ortiz | Paratus Sciences | Rokas | Ph.D. | , |
| Melissa Pardi | Illinois State Museum | DeSantis | Postdoc | , |
| Ansley Petherick | Zoo Atlanta | DeSantis | Undergrad | , |
| Yakov Pichkar | Detect-ION | Creanza | Ph.D. | , |
| Andreia Olaru | American Museum of Natural History | Darroch | Undergrad | |
| David Rinker | 五一茶馆儿 | Zwiebel | Ph.D. | , |
| Christina Robinson | RF-SMART | Creanza | Ph.D. | |
| Ashley Rogers | Texas A&M Galveston | Flick & DeSantis | Undergrad | , |
| Faith Rovenolt | SecureBio | Tate | Undergrad | , |
| Kaitlyn Russell | Colorado State University | Castiglione | Undergrad | |
| Joyce Sanks | University of Alaska, Fairbanks | Racicot | Undergrad | , |
| Jason Slot | Ohio State University | Rokas | Postdoc | , , |
| Sam Smith | Pfizer | Rokas | Undergrad | , |
| Kate Snyder | 五一茶馆儿 | Creanza | Ph.D. | , |
| Jacob Steenwyk | UC Berkeley | Rokas | Ph.D. | , |
| Carly Stewart | University of Cincinnati Medical Center | Tate | Undergrad | , |
| Carl Stone | TBD | Behringer | Ph.D. | , |
| Timothy Thoner | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Ogden | Ph.D. | , |
| Kelly Tingle | McGill University | Darroch | Ph.D. | , |
| Kat Turk | Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History | Darroch | Ph.D. | , |
| Katie Wahl | Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine | Eichman | Undergrad | , |
| Michael Whitlock | University of British Columbia | McCauley | Ph.D. | |
| Alissa Williams | University of Minnesota | Tate | Postdoc | , |
| Taiye Winful | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Benn Torres | Ph.D. | , |
| Jennifer Wisecaver | Washington State University | Rokas | Postdoc | , , |
| Linhe Xu | Tsinghua University | Herculano-Houzel | Ph.D. | , |
| Yan Yan | Harvard School of Public Health | Hillyer | Ph.D. | , |
| Dan Zhou | Zhejiang University | Gamazon | Postdoc |