Niko Churchill
Undergraduate
Email: nic2dv@virginia.edu
Niko is investigating mitochondrial fusion/fission dynamics in lung cancer cells.
Christopher Prevost
Graduate Student
Email: cp2me@virginia.edu
Chris received both his B.S. (2013) and M.S. (2015) in Biology from SUNY Brockport. He is currently investigating how DNA damage and other cellular stresses impact organelle dynamics and how these processes contribute to tumor growth.
Dane Sessions
Graduate Student
Email: dts5ff@virginia.edu
Dane received his B.S. in Biology from the University of Michigan in 2014. He is using high-throughput, high-content imaging to identify new signaling pathways that regulate mitochondrial dynamics.
Salma Sharmin
Graduate Student
Email: ss2cm@virginia.edu
Salma received both her B.S. (2011) and M.S. (2012) in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh. She is currently using patient-derived xenografts to explore how mitochondrial heterogeneity contributes to pancreatic tumor growth.
Tuyet-Minh Tran
Undergraduate Student
Email: tt2ed@virginia.edu
Tuyet is studying the role of RalA in starvation induced lipid droplet formation.