GRADUATE STUDENTS

Saif Mohammad Ishraq Bari
2017-present
Ph.D. Engineering
Micro/Nanoscale Systems
Ph.D. Project: Microfluidics platform for cell co-culture and calorimetric immunoassays.

M.S. Molecular Science and Nanotechnology, November 2018 
M.S. Practicum Project: COMSOL simulations of heat transfer in a microfluidic device with an integrated thermoelectric sensor

• 2018 CBERS research award

• 2019 CBERS research award
• 2018-19 TL James Endowed Scholarship
• 2019-20 Tech’s Best Scholar Scholarship
• 2020 CBERS research award
• 1st place oral presentation, 94th LAS meeting, Material Science and Engineering
  

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​Chukwumaobim D. Nwokwu
2017-present
​Ph.D. Molecular Sciences and Nanotechnology

Ph.D. Project: Short Regulatory RNAs: Functional Studies and Experimental Strategies for Exosomal miRNA Purification

• 2018 COES Research Symposium, 1st place oral presentation
• 2018-2019 TL James Endowed Scholarship 
• 2019-2020 Smith PK Scholarship
  
• 2nd place oral presentation at 94th LAS meeting, Molecular and biomedical biology cathegory
  

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Deriesha Gaines 
2018-present                            
​Ph.D. Molecular Sciences and Nanotechnology

Ph.D. project: Single-step gene sampling tool for transcriptome analysis on the International Space Station

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Kristen H. Hutson
2017-present
M.S. Molecular Sciences and Nanotechnology

M.S. Thesis Project: 
Characterization of microprobe-based approach for on-chip immunocapture of exosomes

B.S. Biology, November 2019
Undergraduate project: investigating the effect of high energy radiation on DNA repair capabilities of human astrocytes.
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• 2018-19 LaSPACE LURA

• 1st place poster award, 2019 RAID Conference,     Shreveport
• 1st place graduate poster presentation, 94th LAS, Molecular and Biomedical Biology/Microbiology
• 2020 Davis-Flournoy Endowed Scholarship
  

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UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Raye Ledbetter
2019-present
B.S. Biology/Chemistry

Chemistry Senior Design Project: Development of biotin-streptavidin method for immobilization of  synthetic nucleic acid on the surface of stainless-steel microprobes.

•  2020 CBERS undergraduate scholarship

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Francesca Weis
2019-present
B.S. Biology 

Clay Brasuell
2020-present
B.S. Biology

FORMER LAB MEMBERS

Kaitlynn Willis, BS Biology, 2016-2020​

• 2017-18 LaSPACE LURA
• 2018-19 LaSPACE LURA 
• 2019 ANS featured student
• 1st place poster award, 2019 RAID Conference, Shreveport
  
• 2020 CBERS undergraduate scholarship

​Thomas Holland, BS Biomedical Engineering, 2019-2020

• 2nd place undergradute poster presnetation, 94th LAS meeting, Material Science and Engineering

Eric Thomas, BS Biology, 2019-20

Carolina Vazquez, BS Biology, 2017-19

Parker Willmon, BS Biomedical Engineering, 2017-18

Tatiana Pham, BS Biomedical Engineering, 2016-17

•  2017 CBERS research award

Mohamad Hamideh, BS Biomedical Engineering 2016-17

• 2017 CBERS research award