Mark McCormick, PhD
Mark joined the UNM Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology after a postdoc at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, and a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of California, San Francisco. Before that, he received a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a BS in Biology from the University of Texas at Austin.
Christine Robbins
Christine is a PhD student in the UNM Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program. She received her BS in Biology from Sonoma State University.
Olivia Heath
Olivia is a PhD student in the UNM Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program. She received her BS in Biochemistry from the University of New Mexico. Olivia is an NIH AIM-AHEAD Prime Data Science Training Program participant.
Jack Peterson, PhD
Jack is a visiting scientist from INDY Labs. He did a postdoc at Stony Brook University, after receiving his PhD in Biophysics from the University of California, San Francisco.
Brendan Sanders is a UNM Biochemistry undergraduate student in the lab, and a U-RISE scholar. Brendan won honorable mention for his 2023 UNM Bio Day talk based on his research in our lab.
Izabelle Chavez is a UNM Biology and Nutrition undergraduate student in the lab and a New Mexico Alliance for Minority Participation Undergraduate Research Scholar. She is also an El Puente Research Fellow and recipient of a New Mexico Hispanic Women’s Council Scholarship. Izabelle won second place for her UROC 180 talk on her research in our lab at the 2023 UNM Undergraduate Research Opportunity Conference.
Alex Achusim is a postbac in the lab who started with us as a UNM Biology undergraduate student in the lab, first as part of the Undergraduate Pipeline Network program and then as a New Mexico Alliance for Minority Participation Undergraduate Research Scholar. Alex won second place at UNM Biology day 2022 for his talk on his research in the lab.
Jackson Taylor is a UNM Biochemistry graduate and postbac in the lab.
Hyemin Choi is a UNM Biochemistry undergrad in the lab.
William McCarter is a UNM Biochemistry undergrad in the lab.
Former Mentees
Hannah Ahr, former undergraduate, currently an MD student at the University of New Mexico.
Joy Armendariz, former undergraduate, currently a PhD student in Biochemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Stella Breslin, former postbac, currently a Senior Research Associate at the Buck Institute.
Ryla Cantergiani, former undergraduate, graduated magna cum laude in Biochemistry from UNM, currently a PhD Student at NYU. Ryla was previously an Undergraduate Pipeline Network student in the lab, and was awarded both a Lane Scholarship and a Goldwater Scholarship based on her research with us, as well as a first place award for her short talk on our work at UNM UROC 2022.
Danielle DeFever, former postbac, currently an Instructor in the Biological Sciences Department at Santa Rosa Junior College.
Sean Delica, former undergraduate, currently a Masters student in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine.
Darren Frank, former undergraduate, went on to complete a Master of Public Health program at the University of California Berkeley, currently at the Epidemiology Resource Center for the Indiana Department of Health.
Katrina Gianopulos, former undergraduate, completed a PhD in Molecular Biosciences at Washington State University.
Xiaoshan Guo, former undergraduate, completed MD at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, currently MED-PEDS resident at University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix.
Rae Harris, former Undergraduate Pipeline Network (UPN) summer undergraduate student. Rae won Outstanding Poster Award for their presentation at the 2023 UPN Research Day, and they are currently continuing their BA in Neurobiology and Classical Studies at the College of Wooster.
Vanessa Krajeck, former undergraduate, currently an MD student at the University of New Mexico.
Harold Marin, former undergraduate, currently a PhD student in the Tetrad program at the University of California San Francisco.
Mariam Mohagheghi, former undergraduate, went on to complete a Master of Science in Medical Science at Creighton University, currently a Research Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Bhumil Patel, former postbac, currently a PhD student in the Biology program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Christopher Pobre, former student, went on to receive a Master of Science in Nursing degree from the University of San Francisco, now an MSN/RN/CNL at Kaiser Permanente.
Brett Robison, former undergraduate, went on to a PhD at UC Berkeley, currently a Principal Scientist at Bristol-Myers Squibb.
Aaron Romero, former undergraduate, now a PhD student in the UNM Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program.
Danielle Sawyer, former undergraduate, currently a combined MD / PhD student at the University of Arizona.
Michelle Soulé, former undergraduate, currently a Master’s student in Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University.
Marc Ting, former undergraduate, currently a Senior Research Associate at PACT Pharma.
Scott Tsuchiyama, former undergraduate, currently Head of Engineering at Everly.
Marissa Westenskow, former undergraduate and UPN student. Graduated Summa cum laude in Biochemistry, and received a Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society Outstanding Undergraduate Award, both based on her research in our lab. Currently a PhD student in the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program at the University of New Mexico.
Jason Zhang, former undergraduate, now a Pharmacy student at the University of New Mexico.