MICaB

Sarah M. Wall

Biography


Education: 
Middlebury College
Neuroscience major, Spanish minor
B.A., 2016

MSTP Student Governance:

  • Student Advisory Committee, 2020-22
  • Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, 2022-24

Thesis advisor: Stephen Jameson, Ph.D.

Thesis Research

Nature and function of a lethal response to secondary bacterial infection in an immune memory chimera mouse model.

Publications 

For work prior to the UMN MSTP:

UMN MSTP student Sarah Wall

José C. Valentín López

Biography


Education:
University of Puerto Rico, Cayey
Chemistry major
B.S., 2019

MSTP Student Governance:

  • Student Advisory Committee, 2021-23
  • Student Admissions and Recruitment Committee, 2022-24 (co-chair 2023-24)
  • Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, 2022-24

Thesis advisor: Scott Dehm, Ph.D.

Thesis Research

Androgen receptor variants and prostate cancer progression.

UMN MSTP student Jose Valentin Lopez

Olivia C. Smith

Biography


Education:
University of South Florida
Cell and Molecular Biology major, Psychology minor
B.S., 2015

MSTP Student Governance:

UMN MSTP student Olivia Smith

Adrianna M. Rivera-León

Biography


Education: 
University of Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras
Cellular and Molecular Biology major
B.S., 2019

MSTP Student Governance:

  • Student Advisory Committee, 2023-24
  • Student Admissions and Recruitment Committee, 2023-24
  • Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, 2022-24

Thesis Advisor: Kristin Hogquist, Ph.D.

Publications

For work prior to the UMN MSTP:

UMN MSTP student Adrianna Rivera-Leon

Joel Pardo

Biography


Education:
University of Miami
Biology major, Chemistry Minor
B.S., 2017

Thesis Advisor: Douglas Yee, M.D.

Joel Pardo

Elizabeth C. Okafor

Biography


Education:  
University of Missouri, Columbia
Biological Sciences, Romantic Languages and Literatures and French majors
B.A./B.S., 2017

Honors and Awards:

Elizabeth C.

John R. Lozada

Biography


Education: 
University of Rochester
Molecular Genetics major, Business minor
B.S., 2021

MSTP Student Governance:

John R.

Anders J. Lindstedt

Biography


Education: 
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Neurobiology, Pharmacology and Toxicology majors
B.S., 2017

Thesis Advisor: Tanya Freedman, Ph.D.

UMN MSTP student Anders Lindstedt

Thomas R. Hougard

Biography


Education:
University of Minnesota
Biochemistry major, Computer Science minor
B.S., 2017

Thesis Advisor: Michael Farrar, Ph.D.

Thesis Research

Role of regulatory T cells in Alzheimer's Disease.

UMN MSTP student Thomas Hougard

Paarth B. Dodhiawala

Biography


Education: 
Saint Louis University
Biology major
B.S., 2017

MSTP Student Governance:

  • Student Advisory Committee, 2021-23

Thesis Advisors: Jeff Miller, M.D. and Paulo Provenzano, Ph.D. 

Paarth B.