John Cuningham
2012-2016
Hometown: Fayetteville NC
Currently: Medical Student at UNC
Honors: UNC SURF Fellow
Project: Defining how centrosomes and the Spindle Assembly Checkpoint modulate genome stability and creating a Drosophila model of microcephaly
Natalie Deuitch
2012-2015
Hometown: Boone NC
Currently: MS Program in Genetic Counseling, Stanford University School of Medicine
Honors: Taylor SURF Fellowship, IRTA Postbaccalaureate Research Fellow at NIH
Project: Defining the mechanism by which APC and Axin regulate Wnt signaling
Frank Mu
2009-2012
Hometown: Charlotte NC
MD, Wake Forest SOM 2016
Currently: Emergency Medicine Resident, Wake Forest SOM
Honors: SURF Fellowship
Project: Regulation of genome stability by the tumor suppressor APC
Elise Stephenson
2008-2010
Hometown: Durham NC
MD UNC-CH, 2017
Currently: Resident in Psychiatry, Vanderbilt
Project: Mechanism of action of the tumor suppressor APC
Jon Waldmann
2008-2010
Hometown: Centennial, Colorado
Education: MD, University of Michigan
Currently: Resident in Family Medicine, UNC-CH
Project: Mechanism of action of the tumor suppressor APC
Jamie Mahaffey
2002-2006
Hometown: Raleigh NC
Education: Ph.D, 2013 with Kathryn Anderson’s lab, Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Currently: Postdoc, Mark Philips Lab, NYU
Honors: Goldwater Scholarship
Project: Ena function during oogenesis and embryogenesis
Meredith Price
1999-2002
Hometown: Wake Forest, NC
MS, Bruce Bowerman’s lab, University of Oregon
Currently: Imaris Product Manager at Bitplane Scientific Software
Project: Planar cell polarity
Charlie Anderson
1998-2002; Hometown: Lancaster PA
Ph.D.: Stanford University 2008; Postdoc Fellow, Energy Biosciences Institute, UC Berkeley
Currently: Associate Professor, Penn State
Honors: NSF Grad Fellowship; Wilson Award for Cell & Molecular Biology
Project: p120’s role in cell adhesion
Mark Dodson
Hometown: Clearwater FL
MD/Ph.D: Guo lab, UCLA, 2013, Resident at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
Currently: Pulmonary Medicine Fellow, University of Utah
Honors: Goldwater Schlarship
Project: Integrin function during dorsal closure
Gene Bain
2001-2004
Hometown: Sanford NC
MD: UNC-Chapel Hill 2009; Dermatology Resident, Univ. of Buffalo
Currently: Bain Dermatology, Raleigh
Honors: Morehead Scholar
Project: Rho regulation of cadherin function
Laura Koontz
2001-2004
Hometown: Raleigh NC
Currently: Ph.D. 2011. Postdoc, Duojia D.J. Pan’s lab, Johns Hopkins, Currently Genetics and Public Policy Fellow, US Rep. Louise M. Slaughter
Honors: Wilson Award for research in Cellular and Molecular Biology
Project: The effects of the oncogene Bcr-Abl
Tina Tuskey Lockwood
1998-2001
Hometown: Chapel Hill NC
Ph.D.: 2007 University of Wisconsin
Currently: Assoc. Professor, Pathology, Washington University
Project: The role of the MAPK Phosphatase Puckered
Joel Stein
1995-1998
Hometown: Chapel Hill NC
MD/Ph.D: U Penn, PhD. with Ted Abel; Radiology Resident, U Penn & member of Tsourkas Lab
Currently: Assistant Professor of Radiology, U Penn
Honors: Wilson Award for research in Cellular and Molecular Biology
Project: The structure and function of Armadillo in signaling and adhesion
Michael Casey
1992
Hometown: Rocky Mount, NC
MD: UNC 1997
Currently: MD, Wake Nephrology, Duke Raleigh Hospital
Project: How do Wnt signals regulate Armadillo?
Kathy Smith
1992-1995
Ph.D.: Univ. of Virginia 2002
Currently: Senior Scientist, Arbovax
Project: the role of Exd in segment identity