| Graduate Students and Post Docs | |||||||||||||||
| Alumnus | Degree | Year | Current Employer | ||||||||||||
| Graduate Students | |||||||||||||||
| Grishma Parikh | PhD | 2011 | California Department of Agriculture | ||||||||||||
| Jon Oliver | PhD | 2011 | University of Minnesota | ||||||||||||
| Jeff Alfred | MS | 2011 | USDA | ||||||||||||
| Patrick Jennings | MS | 2011 | Harrisvaccines, Inc. | ||||||||||||
| Graduate Students with Co-Major Professors | |||||||||||||||
| Gretchen Paluch (Joel Coats) | PhD | 2009 | Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship | ||||||||||||
| Mark Mogler (Glenn Songer) | PhD | 2012 | Harrisvaccines, Inc. | ||||||||||||
| Postdoctoral Associates | |||||||||||||||
| Alex Osanya | Boerhinger Ingelheim | ||||||||||||||
| Huarong Li | Dow Agrosciences | ||||||||||||||
| Undergraduate Researchers | ||||||||
| Name | Program and Project Title or Research Area of Emphasis | Year | ||||||
| Tasha Obrin |
Independent Research Biological Illustration/Video production - filarial worm life cycle |
2012 | ||||||
| Jordan Angell |
Independent Research Biological Illustration - mosquito eggs |
2011 | ||||||
| Ross Isley |
Science with Practice Mosquito population dynamics in Iowa |
2011 | ||||||
| Lisa Fraser |
Independent Research Developing RNAi for gene silencing in the nematode parasite, Brugia pahangi |
2010 | ||||||
| Patrick Jennings |
Independent Research Cloning and characterization of Aedes triseriatus Target of Rapamycin |
2009 | ||||||
| Ross Bausman |
Science with Practice Developing a technique to quantify the immune response in ticks |
2009 | ||||||
| Joe Ballenger |
Independent Research Ticks under hypoxic conditions: a laboratory analysis |
2009 | ||||||
| Jennifer Estrada |
Freshman Honors Optimizing techniques to explore mosquito blood cell development |
2008 | ||||||
| Meagan Hennesey |
Science with Practice Lowering mosquito hemocyte numbers in the mosquito, Aedes aegypti |
2008 | ||||||
| Daniel Au |
Independent research Exploration and comparative analysis of arthropod hemocytes Characterizing cell death events in the mosquito ovary |
2007 2008 |
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| Erica Hellmich |
Science with Practice Exploring new means to challenge mosquito immune responses |
2007 | ||||||
| Brendan Dunphy |
Undergraduate Research Assistantship and Independent research A taxonomic checklist of the mosquitoes of Iowa |
2006 | ||||||
| Jerry Nwobodo |
Independent Research Economic theory applied to HIV |
2006 |
