People
Principal Investigator

Daniel Gioeli, PhD
Associate Professor, Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology
Email: dgg3f@virginia.edu
Phone: 434-982-4243
Graduate Students

Tommy Scott
UVA MSTP student working in the Gioeli lab, co-supervised with Dr Guertin, UCONN (http://www.guertinlab.org/)
Lab Specialists

Adam Spencer
Laboratory Specialist
Undergraduate Students

Cristen Huynh
Undergraduate Student
Biology

Christopher Xie
Undergraduate Student
Statistics and Biology
Former Lab Members
Postdoctoral trainees:
Dr. Samson Amos, 01/2010 – 01/2011 Research Scientist
Dr. Yulia Koryakina, 03/2009 – 05/2014 UVA Cancer Center Farrow Fellow
Dr. L. Morgan-Obrien (MD), 2013 – 2014 UVA Cancer Center Farrow Fellow
Dr. Kate Owen, 06/2016 – 12/2017 Instructor in MIC
Dr. Huy Ta, 9/2011 – 1/2019 Research Scientist
Graduate Students:
Agata Leśniewska, Fulbright visiting graduate student, Poland, July 2020 – August 2022
Patryk Krakowiak, Fulbright visiting graduate student, Poland, July 2019-August 2020
Sylwia Hasterok, Fulbright visiting graduate student, Poland, July 2019-August 2020
Anna Piasecka, visiting MS student from Warsaw University, 07/2010 – 08/2011
Ann Kolodziejczak, visiting MS student from Institute of Human Genetics, Poznan, 05/2014 – 06/2015
Laboratory Specialists:
Shriti Bhadel, 06/2008 – 07/2010
Sam Jackson, 06/2015 – 01/2016
Mel Ivey, 09/2010 – 08/2013
Garnett Mingledorff, 9/2016 – 10/2018
Madison Ramsden, 06/2014 – 06/2015
Natalie Dworak, 10/2016 – 3/2019
University of Virginia Undergraduate Mentoring, Senior Honors Thesis supervisor:
Hannah Ashe, Chemistry, UVA Class of 2021. Saxon Undergraduate Scholar. Project: Tumor Oncogene Driven Differences in the Expression of Immune Modulatory Proteins in Endothelial Cells in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.
Sarah Hall, Biomedical Engineering, UVA Class of 2021. Project: The Additive Cytotoxic Effect of BMS754807 and BMS599626 on the Head and Neck Cancer Proteome.
David Aaronson; Chemistry, UVA class of 1999. Project: AR phosphorylation in prostate cancer progression.
James Edwards; Chemistry, UVA class of 2006. Project: Development of Polymeric Metal Complexes for prostate cancer therapy.
Chris Reynolds; Chemistry, UVA class of 2006. Project: Brm and Brg1 regulation of AR transcription.
Daniel Neitzke; Biology, UVA class of 2009, Harrison Fellow. Project: Combinatorial therapeutic targets in bladder cancer signaling pathways.
Michelle Kew; Biology, UVA of 2011, Harrison Fellow. Project: Targeting the EGFR and STAT3 pathways in melanoma
Hilary Whitworth; Biology; UVA class of 2011, Harrison. Fellow Project: Signaling pathways targeting AR transcriptional activity
Kurtis Jungersen; Engineering; UVA class of 2015 Project: Development of an Inventory Management System for Research Laboratories
Rose Sleppy; Chemistry, UVA class of 2018, Harrison Fellow. Project: Therapeutic Potential of Inhibiting CHK2 Signaling for Prostate Cancer
Ashe (Jeffrey) Allende; Engineering, UVA class of 2018, Harrison Fellow. Project: Designing a Cardiac Metastasis Model
Samantha Reiss; UVA class of 2019, Project: The Effect of Disrupted and Healthy Sleep on Pancreatic Cancer Growth
Jamison Burkes; UVA Class of 2019, Project: Optimization of a Dynamic Culture System for Tumor Microenvironment
Additional Undergraduate mentees:
Marissa Minor; Chaminade University; Summer Research Intern Program UVA 2009. Project: Effect of Cortactin on AR Tyrosine Phosphorylation and Transcription.
Angélica M. Gonzalez-Sanchez; University of Puerto Rico; Summer Research Intern Program UVA 2012. Project: Effect of Aurora kinases on AR mediated prostate cancer cell growth.
Alyssa Dixon; Chaminade University; Summer Research Intern Program UVA 2013. Project: Combinations of targeted small molecule kinase inhibitors in HNSCC.
Nicole Williams; Megar Evers University CUNY; Summer Research Intern Program UVa 2016. Project: Effect of CHK2 signaling inhibitors on AR mediated prostate cancer cell growth.
Ashley Fox; Middleburry College. Summer Intern with fellowship from Middlebury 2016. Project: Chemotherapeutic response of NSCLC in a 3D in vitro TME model.
Shirin Parsa; University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Summer Research Intern Program UVA 2018. Project: Effect of sleep hormones on NSCLC growth.
Volunteers:
Colleen Geraghty, 04/2015 – 08/2015
April Pisano, 08/2015 – 05/2016