People

 

 

          CURRENT LAB MEMBERS

Dr. Greg Copenhaver (PI)

Associate Professor

gcopenhaver@bio.unc.edu

919-843-4026

Click HERE for a Brief Biography

Yujin Sun

Yujin Sun

Postdoctoral Associate

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Fernando Ferreira

Postdoctoral Associate

Mario

Mario Izaguirre-Sierra

Postdoctoral Associate

Mario is a shared postdoc between our

lab and the lab of Dr. Greg Matera

Click HERE to go to the Matera lab page

Luke for webpage 

Luke Berchowitz

Graduate Student - Biology

click HERE to see info on Luke's music

 

ROTATION STUDENTS

 

 

 

UNDERGRADUATES

Tam

Tam Le

Ashu Singh

Ashu Singh

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Brena Haughey

 

VISITING SCIENTISTS

 

 

 

PAST UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Travis Brook

 

Daniel Hall

Plans to apply to dental school

Pinar Gurel         

Went to graduate school at Dartmouth

Cath Lee

 

Andrew Kerkoff  

  • Went to be a Research Consultant for UNAIDS/WHO
  • 2009 – Andy’s band Fullproof releases their album Sweeter Side

Alex Bey            

Went to medical school at Duke

Daniel Kao

 

Sean Hemp

 

Mary Beth Danforth

 

 

 

PAST ROTATION STUDENTS

 

Jacinth Mitchel (BBSP)     

Joined Shawn Ahmed’s lab as a graduate student

John Calaway (BBSP)

Joined Fernando Pardo Manuel de Villena’s lab as a graduate student

Tracy Hargiss (Genetics)

Joined Joe Kieber’s lab as a graduate student

Jim Ericksen (Biology)

 

Sarah Radford (Genetics)

Now a postdoc at the Waksman Institute

Tim Eitas (Biology)

Joined Jeff Dangl’s lab as a graduate student

Ben Harrison (Biology)

Joined Kerry Bloom’s lab as a graduate student

 

PAST GRADUATE STUDENTS

 

 

 

PAST POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATES

 

Jennifer To

Now at GrassRoots Biotechnology Inc.

Kirk Francis

Now at BASF

 

PAST TECHNICIANS

 

Tyler Webster

Went to Columbia University/Hunter College in New York to work in HIV/AIDS research

Sarah Nicholls

Went on to medical school at UNC Chapel Hill

Emily Wellman

Now an Emergency Medical Technician

Sandy Lam

Went on to law school at NC Central

Sarah Horn

Went on to graduate school at Duke

 

PAST VISITING SCIENTISTS

 

Erik Wijnker

(2008)  from Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Bernd Edlinger

(2008) from The University of Vienna, Austria

Gerd Jürgens

(2006) from The University of Tübingen, Germany

Ulli Mayer

(2006) from The University of Tübingen, Germany