Lab Members







Principal Investigator

Jill Dowen, PhD (officially trained mentor)

(919) 962-8132


Post Doctoral Researchers

Audra Bryan Ph.D. (officially trained mentor)

* Outstanding Mentor Award 2022


Graduate Research Assistants

Alex Stutzman

(Joint with Dr. Dan McKay)


Geoffrey Fox

(Joint with Dr. Brian Strahl)



Graduate Rotation Students

none currently

Undergraduate Research Assistants

Becca Lewis

Zhihan Gao

June Arricastres


Business Officer

Delphine Bull

(919) 962-4559


Former Lab Members and position after lab

  • Nicole Arruda, Genomics Applications Scientist at Volta Labs
  • Zachary Carico, Senior Scientist at Tavros Therapeutics
  • Megan Justice, Postdoctoral Researcher at NIEHS
  • John Pressey, Undergraduate at UNC
  • Emily Shen, Computational Research Assistant, UNC Lineberger Cancer Center
  • Holden Stefan, Mako Medical Laboratories
  • Caitlin Vickery, Intern at Maxar Technologies
  • Askar Yimit, Willow Biosciences Inc.
  • Blythe King, Graduate student at UC Santa Barbara
  • Supin Koh, Postdoc at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
  • Alison Homstad, Graduate student, Ideraabdullah Lab at UNC
  • Ying Frances Liu, Operational Manager at ASRC Federal
  • Saumil Patel, Data Scientist at Ivy.ai


Tell your pet we said “Hi”

Kona


Simcoe (aka Simi)


Rosie (aka Rosalind)


Charles, Wadsworth, and Samantha
(pictured top to bottom)