People
Justin Kenney
Principal Investigator
Postdoc, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada (w/ Paul Frankland)
Postdoc, University of Southampton, UK (w/ Christopher Proud)
PhD, Psychology/Neuroscience, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA (w/ Thomas Gould)
BS & BA, Physics & Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
Hometown: Whitehouse Station, NJ, USA
Superpower: Beard growing
Inspiration: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, Nietzche's aphorisms, landscape art, poetry of Mary Oliver
Graduate Student
M. Tech, Biotechnology, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India
B. Tech, Biotechnology, Jayoti Vidyapeeth Women's University, India
Hometown: Najibabad, India
Superpower: Persistence
Inspiration: India, the Shiva Trilogy by Amish Tripathi & Chanakya Chants by Ashwin Sanghi
Aliyah Goldson
Graduate Student
BS, Biomedical Sciences (w/ Honours), York University
Hometown: Toronto, ON, Canada
Superpower: Persistence, creativity, and positivity!
Inspiration: Wonders of the world around me
Jake Hudock
Graduate Student
BS, Biology, Wayne State University
Hometown: Rochester, MI
Superpower: Staying awake until 5AM
Inspiration: Dune, Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit, The natural world and its mysteries!
Dinh Luong
Research Assistant
BS, Biology, Wayne State University
Hometown: Sterling Heights, MI
Superpower: Playing Genshin for 10 hours straight
Inspiration: Family, friends, and her dog
Evan DeFrancesco
Research Assistant
BS, Biology, Wayne State University
MA, Chemistry (in progress), Wayne State University
Hometown: Royal Oak, MI
Superpowers: Talking a lot, piano, guitar
Inspiration: Lofi hiphop beats
Ezra Roberts
Undergraduate
Major: Neuroscience & Art
Hometown: Wyandotte, MI
Superpowers: Note-taking, composition, and analyzing the literature
Inspiration: Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, overlaps betwen art & science, the natural world, ancient history, and comparative biology
Sarah Dabaja
Undergraduate
Major: Neuroscience
Hometown: Canton, MI
Superpowers: Compassion, self discipline, and making a great matcha!
Inspiration: Interstellar movie, family, and the unknown
Jennifer Goullet
Undergraduate
Major: Neuroscience
Hometown: Marine City, MI
Superpowers: Persistence
Inspiration: Outdoors, Danielle Dennett
Anand Brijesh
Undergraduate
Major: Biology
Hometown: Novi, MI
Superpowers: Consistency, and ear wiggling!
Inspiration: Lightning McQueen
Alumni
(And their position after leaving the lab)
Postdoctoral Fellows
Barbara Fontana, PhD (2021-2023; post-doc at Universidade Federal de Santa Maria)
Graduate Students
Muntasir Rahman, MS (2019-2021; Research Associate at BIAL biotech)
Visiting Fellows
Tripatchara Atiratana (2023-2024). Visiting PhD student from Srinakharinwirot University in Bangkok, Thailand.
Fatemeh Beigloo, PhD (2022-2023). Visited from the Iranian Food and Drug Administration.
Technicians
Jake Hudock, BS (2021-2022). Now a graduate student in the lab!
Maris Polanco, MS (2020). Teaching at Henry Ford College)
Undergraduates
Paul Meram (2023; applying to medical school)
Joe Gjonaj (2022-2023; applying to medical school)
Dea Kanani (2022-2023; MD student at Wayne State School of Medicine)
Ada Squires (2022; Research Assistant at the Wayne State School of Medicine)
Matheu Wong (2021 - 2022; medical student at Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine at A.T. Still University )
Kailyn Fields (2021 - 2022; PhD student in Chemistry at Wayne State University)
Kristopher Covert (2021; software engineer at IBM)
Saba Dubaishi (2019 - 2021; MA student in Philosophy at Wayne State University)
Olivia Young (2019 - 2021; PhD student in Biomedical Sciences at University of North Texas Health Science Center)
Stiven Roytman (2020 - 2021; research assistant at University of Michigan)
Meng Ting Shi (2019 - 2020; physicians assistant school at Western Michigan University)
Daniel Rickard (2019 - 2020; nursing school at Wayne State University)
Highschool students
Kush Parikh (2021-2024; currently a student at University of Pennsylvania)