Current Fellows


Cohort 15

Camila Barrios-Camacho, Ph.D.

Camila Barrios-Camacho, Ph.D.

Department of Neuroscience
 camila.barrioscamacho@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
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Research Topic: My project explores how the intracellular domain (ICD) of the Frazzled/DCC receptor functions as a non-canonical transcription factor to shape gene regulatory networks underlying midline axonal crossing in Drosophila melanogaster.

Tess Cherlin, Ph.D.

Tess Cherlin, Ph.D.

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
 tess.cherlin@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Topic: Investigating women’s health and disease using multiomics approaches. 

Christopher Panebianco, Ph.D.

Christopher Panebianco, Ph.D.

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
 christopher.panebianco@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Topic: Mechanobiology of bone development and regeneration.

Helen Schmidt, Ph.D.

Helen Schmidt, Ph.D.

Department of Genetics
 schmidth@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Topic: Using C. elegans model to investigate apical extracellular matrix assembly during epithelial tube formation on a single cell level.


Cohort 17

Jennifer I. Alexander, Ph.D.

Jennifer I. Alexander, Ph.D.

Department of Biomedical Sciences
 jennalex@upenn.edu

Research Topic: My research focuses on understanding the interplay between cells and their niche as they age, querying their role in cancer predisposition.

Erin Lottes, Ph.D.

Erin Lottes, Ph.D.

Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
 erin.lottes@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Topic: Investigating the isoform-specific roles of AnkyrinB in the central nervous system. 

Blair Schneider, Ph.D.

Blair Schneider, Ph.D.

Department of Neonatology
 schneideb1@chop.edu

Research Topic:  tRNA fragments (tRFs) and their impact on fertility and development.


Cohort 18

Courtney Dresden, Ph.D.

Courtney Dresden, Ph.D.

Department of Biology
 cdresden@sas.upenn.edu

Research Topic: Investigating the role of chromatin regulation in the development of diverse Brassica species.

Erin Gibbons, Ph.D.

Erin Gibbons, Ph.D.

Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis Program, The Wistar Institute
 egibbons@wistar.org

Research Topic: Interrogating the role of bile acids in pdac in the context of chemotherapy and immunotherapy treatment response.

Caela Long Ph.D.

Caela Long Ph.D.

Department of Neurosurgery
 caela.long@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Topic: Investigation of the role of glia following a traumatic brain injury.

Ralph White III, Ph.D.

Ralph White III, Ph.D.

Department of Cancer Biology
 ralph.white@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Topic: Investigating the utilization of chemical biology to uncover metalloprotein vulnerabilities in cancer.

Josiah Zoodsma, Ph.D.

Josiah Zoodsma, Ph.D.

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
 zoodsmaj@chop.edu

Research Topic: Investigating the spatiotemporal roles of calcium in neural regeneration.


Cohort 19

Gabriela Vida, Ph.D.

Gabriela Vida, Ph.D.

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine / Center for Computational and Genomic Medicine, CHOP
 vidag@chop.edu

Research Topic: Investigating the effect of transcription elongation rates on cell fate decisions in the developing C. elegans embryo.

Cody Lloyd, Ph.D.

Cody Lloyd, Ph.D.

Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
 ctl62@upenn.edu

Research Topic: Investigating the biological C(sp3)-C(sp3) coupling reaction mechanism performed by the radical S-adenosylmethionine enzyme, tetraether synthase.