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| First Name | Last Name | UGA College and Lab affiliation | UGA Email | Current standing | Lab Skills | Skills related to microscopy | Skills related to in-vivo | Scholarships/awards | Professional development programs/external competitions | Additional Comments |
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| Ian | Bachli | College of Public Health (Environmental Health Science) Easley Lab | ian.bachli@uga.edu | PhD Student | PCR, Flow Cytometry (FACS Aria + some others), Cell Culture, Differentiation Models, RNA/DNA Extraction/Isolation, Bisulfite Conversion and Sequencing, Pyrosequencing (Pyromark Q48), Epigenetics, Primer Design, Dye Flux Assays, Transepithelial Electrical Resistance, Dissections, Some Data Analysis with Rstudio. | Standard Microscopy | Human Anatomy & Physiology Cadavers, Drosophila melanogaster dissections and breeding | Frontiers in Aging and Development, Frontiers in Cancer and Stem Cells, Frontiers in Drug Use and Pregnancy, Society of Toxicology | Skilled in Wildlife Management, particularly venomous reptiles. | |
| Jarrod | Call | VetMed, Call Lab | call@uga.edu | PI | In vivo whole-body metabolism and cage activity monitoring system (Sable System, promethion), Mitochondrial respiration/oxygen consumption (Oroboros O2k), metabolic enzyme kinetic assays (HORIBA fluorometer, M2 spectrophotometer), cellular reactive oxygen species production and emission (fluorometer/spectrophotometer), cellular antioxidant buffering capacity (fluorometer/spectrophotometer), Western blot (Bio-Rad), PCR (Bio-Rad), in vivo mouse/rat/pig hindlimb muscle contractility (Aurora Scientific Systems), in vitro mouse isolated muscle contractility (Aurora Scientific) | None | Survival surgery (denervation, muscle injury, ovariectomy, parabiosis), in vivo metabolic cage testing (Sable Systems), in vivo hindlimb muscle contractility (Aurora Systems), in vivo exercise test (Columbus instruments treadmill), glucose tolerance testing | N/A | N/A | |
| Kendall | Clay | Neuro; Roberts-Galbraith Lab | kendall.clay@uga.edu | PhD Student | PCR, DNA gels, cloning into plasmid vectors, chemically competent E. coli synthesis, yeast RNA synthesis, riboprobe and dsRNA synthesis | fluorescent in situ, confocal 880 and 900, colorimetric in situ, IF, EdU pulse chase | planarian husbandry, amputations and dissections, RNAi by feeding of dsRNA | Genetics T32 (awarded 2x), ARCS scholarship (awarded), NSP through SfN (honorary mention), Travel funds for conferences (Gordon conference in neural development, SfN) | Atlanta ComSciCon science communication conference, Athens Science Observer SciRen Neuro4Kids with the local elementary school Outreach at the Y – taught a lesson on parts of neuron to 5 year olds SCOPE – online scicomm workshop hosted by Northwestern Archy Ready certificate at UGA Certificate in DEI UGA Data viz course on Domestika hosted by Sonja Kuijpers Bioinformatics for Biologists: An Introduction to Linux, Bash Scripting, and R. Wellcome Genome Campus | Adept at Illustrator, prism, R, data visualization, and stats |
| Kanupriya | Daga | CMBE, Marklein lab | kanupriya.daga@uga.edu | PhD Student | Mammalian cell culture, fluorescence microscopy, high throughput screening, immunocytochemistry, high dimensional data analysis, extracellular vesicle isolation, particle counting, total protein assays (BCA assay), nano flow cytometry (NanoFCM), HPLC | Immunofluorescence, Cytation 5, CellProfiler for single cell image analysis | Summer Research Grants for Doctoral Students, Graduate School Travel Grant, Research and Communication Grant, Brahm Verma Graduate Leadership Award (College of Engineering students) | UGA Global health case competition, I-Corps, Innovation Bootcamp, UGA Emerging Leaders Program, Merck KGaA Innovation Cup, 3MT | Softwares: Jmp, GraphPad Prism, Cytobank, Jupyter Notebook (Python) | |
| Amin | Davarzani | College of Engineering, Karumbaiah and Mao lab | amind@uga.edu | PhD Student | Flow cytometry, Western blot, Cell culture | animal surgery assist | Microfluidics, Microfabrication, Photo lithography, 3D printing, CAD/CAM, MATLAB | |||
| Morgane | Golan | Stice Lab, CAES | meg92622@uga.edu | PhD Student | EV isolation (ultrafiltration ultracentrifugation), characterization (size, count, protein, miRNA), and storage (cryopreservation, lyophilization) | Confocal imaging (LSM710, LSM980, LSM880, MicroConfocal), ICC, Cell profiler, Imaris | ARCS, PEO | GradTeach Certificate, Future Faculty Fellowship, Emerging Leaders | ||
| Nathan | Gonsalves | Karumbaiah Lab, CAES | Nathan.Gonsalves@uga.edu | PhD Student | Western Blot, Flow Cytometry (Panel Designing – FluoroFinder, Data Acquisition – Agilent Quanteon & BC CytoFLEX), Aseptic Technique & Microbiological Work, PCR, Chromatin Immunoprecipitation, Immunoprecipitation, Agarose and Protein Gel Electrophoresis, Cell Culture, H1-NMR (Br600 and Br900), SEM (SU3900, SU9000, Thermo FE-SEM), Data Analysis in R-Studio for bulk RNA Sequencing, Rat MRI scans on 7T Varian and 1T Aspect, 3D STL printing, Softwares – Chemdraw, FlowJo, ImageJ, R-Studio, Byonic, Bruker TopSpin | Florescence and Color Microscopy (Confocal 710, 880; Epifluorescence and Color Scope Axioscope A1) , Light Sheet Imaging (LaVision), Immunofluorescence, Immunohistochemistry (Flash Frozen, OCT embedded), Tissue Cryosectioning | Rat Controlled Cortical Impact TBI surgery, Rat Suction Ablation TBI surgery, Mouse Glioblastoma surgery, Rat Cisterna Magna CSF draws, Rat Hydrogel Implantation Surgeries, Rat Skilled Reach Task (SRT) Behavior, Rodent Transcardial Perfusions, Blood Draws, Brain and Spleen Excision, C. elegans – Behavioral studies – Chemotaxis Assay, Developmental assays, IV, IP, SQ injections in rodents | UGA Graduate School Travel Award, UGA Franklin Foundation Neuroimaging Fellowship, UGA Graduate School Summer Grant | ||
| Junwon | Heo | College of Veterinary Medicine, Call Lab | Junwon.Heo@uga.edu | PhD Student | Western Blot, Mitochondrial-related enzyme kinetics, mitochondrial function (oxygen consumption rate, H2O2 emission, production, antioxidants buffering capacity, membrane potential, JATP production) | N/A | GFP-mitochondria tagged mice, treatment of mitochondrial-targeted antioxidant (SS-31) | |||
| Jessica | Hoffman | College of Veterinary Medicine, Call Lab | jessica.hoffman@uga.edu | PhD Student | Oroboros O2k Analysis (Fuel preference of tissue (SUIT) and fuel-specific changes in respiration (CK Clamp)) | cannula implantation and region specific drug administration | ||||
| Erin | Kaiser | CAES; Kaiser Lab | erin1019@uga.edu | PI | Immunohistochemistry | Laboratory Animal Handling, Emergency and Post-Operative Veterinary Care, Endotracheal Intubation, Anesthesia Induction and Monitoring, Intracerebral Stem Cell Transplantation, Injections (IM, IV, Subq, IP, IC), Tissue Handling/Processing, MRI Protocol Development, MRI Collection and Analysis | Certified grant writer | Instruments: Siemens and General Electric 3.0 Tesla MRI, Continuous-Flow Anesthesia Machine, Cortical Impactor, Stereotaxic injector | ||
| Lohitash | Karumbaiah | CAES; Karumbaiah Lab | lohitash@uga.edu | PI | Routine molecular biology and biochemistry tools and skills; Cell biology – flow cytometry; RNA-Seq data processing and analysis, and automated image analysis. | Fluorescence microscopy – epi, confocal, and light-sheet. | rodent (rat and ice) CNS studies – brain and spinal cord. IC, IP, IM, IV administrations. behavioral assessments, ephys, whole brain clearing, cryosectioning, and IHC. | Participated in two I-Corps cohorts to gain device and drug commercialization experience/knowledge. | ||
| Andrew | Larey | College of Engineering, Marklein Lab | al76997@uga.edu | PhD Student | Mammalian cell culture, fluorescence microscopy, high throughput screening, immunocytochemistry, high dimensional data analysis, extracellular vesicle isolation, particle counting, total protein assays (BCA assay), flow cytometry (Quanteon, Cytoflex) | Immunocytochemistry, fluorescence microscopy (Cytation 5) | N/A | NSF GRFP, Summer Research Grants for Doctoral Students, Graduate School Travel Grant, Research and Communication Grant | N/A | |
| Md | Mamunur | CAES; Liu Lab | mr35762@uga.edu | PhD Student | PCR, qPCR, Gel electrophoresis, ELISA, Organoid culture, Organ culture, DNA extraction | Stereo-microscope for dissections, EVOS FL microscope for slide reading, Zeiss microscope for slide reading. | Mice line management (Breeding and husbandry), Intraperitoneal drug injection, Drug dosage by gavage, Transcardial perfusion, Surgery for organ collection, Specific tissue collection for organoid culture. | |||
| Md | Marzan | CAES; Stice & Karumbaiah lab | marzan@uga.edu | PhD Student | RNA extraction, cDNA synthesis, qRT-PCR, SDS-PAGE, Western Blotting | Confocal and Light Microscopy | Parkinson model preparation and Intracranial tumor inoculation by stereotaxic surgery, tumor progression monitoring by Bioluminescence imaging, IP/tail vein injection, oral gavage delivery, Blood collection from Inferior vena cava, mouse sacrifice and organ collection. Expert User of Open field maze, Eight-arm radial maze, Water maze, Elevated plus and Rota rod | Summer Research Grant 2024 | N/A | |
| Jessica | McAlpine | Zeltner Lab, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | jessica.mcalpine@uga.edu | PhD Student | Maintenance and differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells, generation and culture of organoids, RT-qPCR, immunofluorescence, cryosectioning, cloning | Fluorescence microscopy: Inverted (Biotek Lionheart FX), Confocal (Olympus FV1200) | NIH F31 and T32 (genetics) | |||
| Taylor | Medlock-Lanier | Franklin College of Arts & Sciences – Roberts-Galbraith Lab | temedlock@uga.edu | PhD Student | PCR; HSPCR; RNA extraction & purification (using Trizol – Invitrogen); cDNA synthesis; qPCR; cloning; his-tagged protein synthesis (RNA polymerases, Taq); whole-mount ISH; fluorescent ISH (and double FISH); dsRNA synthesis; RNA interference; ssRNA synthesis (riboprobes for ISH) | Future Faculty Fellows Program (aka 3FP @ UGA); Advanced Techniques in Molecular Neuroscience Course (@ Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories) | ||||
| David | Miller | College of Veterinary Medicine, Call Lab | david.miller2@uga.edu | PhD Student | in vivo contractility (a muscle strength/function assay), enzyme kinetics (specifically metabolic/mitochondrial enzymes), RNA-seq analysis (specifically pathway analysis and coded in R), and western blot | N/A | In mouse model: in vivo contractility, general anesthesia (isoflurane) and drug administration (IM and Subcutaneous), muscle biopsy, and suturing | A key technique our lab (not me) specializes in is OCR (oxygen consumption rate) using our Oroboros O2ks | ||
| Arunachalam | Ramanathan | College of Engineering | ar69701@uga.edu | PhD Student | Fused deposition modeling, direct ink writing, SLA is used for 3D printing and thermal and mechanical testings also done | Optical microscopy | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Shanmathi | Ramasubramanian | CAES; Karumbaiah Lab | rshanmathi@uga.edu | PhD Student | Flow Cytometry (panel design, acquisition, and analysis), RT-qPCR, DNA/RNA/protein isolation, Agarose/SDS gel electrophoresis, Ni-NTA chromatography, Microbial and mammalian cell culture, bulk and single-cell RNASeq data analysis in RStudio, Glycoproteomics data analysis, 7T and 1T MRI handling and data analysis for mice, BLI imaging for mice, | cryosectioning using a cryostat, IHC, ICC, epifluorescence, and confocal imaging, Imaging Mass Spec data analysis | Rat handling and craniotomy surgery, mice – handling, brain tumor inoculation, intra-peritoneal injections, intravenous injections, Intracerebroventricular injections, zebrafish handling | Franklin Foundation Award, UGA Summer Research Grant, Janelia Imaging Retreat | Softwares – MATLAB, RStudio, GraphPad Prism, GlycoWork Bench, PMI-Byonic, ImageJ, Conda (for bulk RNA data analysis), FlowJo | |
| Rachel | Roberts-Galbraith | Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, Roberts-Galbraith lab | robertsgalbraith@uga.edu | PI | molecular biology, imaging, animal husbandry, in situ hybridization, protein work (purification, western blotting), transcriptomics | all things planarian | Have reviewed for GRFP and graduate school grants, so can provide info on those! | Choose Development (summer undergraduate research program), NSURE | ||
| Kejie | Rui | College of Engineering | rk62958@uga.edu | PhD Student | flow cytometry on ImageFlow; Image processing and data visualization through python and R | Confocal microscopy for fluorescent, bright-field, and differential phase contrast imaging; | N/A | |||
| Tripti | Saini | Zeltner lab | ts49498@uga.edu | PhD Student | Cell culture, flow cytometry, qPCR | Confocal and wide field microscope | ||||
| Skylar | Settles | Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, Roberts-Galbraith lab | skylar.settles@uga.edu | PhD Student | Cloning, PCR, SDS-PAGE, in-situ hybridization, confocal imaging | confocal 880 | planarian model, rna-interference | Genetics T32 Training grant | ||
| Thomas | Spoerer | College of Engineering, Marklein’s lab (RAMLAB) | tms85694@uga.edu | PhD Student | High-Content Screening Mammalian cell culture in biomaterials Biomaterials Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) assay ELISA Multi-dimensional data analysis | Fluorescence imaging (BioTek Cytation5) Confocal imaging (ImageXpress Micro Confocal, Zeiss LSM 900) | NSF GRFP UGA Graduate School Doctoral Fellow Award 2023 UGA Summer Research Grant Award 2022 UGA Summer Research Grant Award 2022 UGA Communication Grant Award | I-Corps | Section denoting what assays/instruments/techniques the person taking the survey would like to learn or are seeking out – thus making it easier to connect people with each other who are trying to learn the same thing. | |
| Elijah | Sterling | CAES; Yao Lab | elijah.sterling@uga.edu | PhD Student | Nano analyzer (NanoFCM), Extracellular/Nanovesicle Isolation, Ultracentrifugation, RNA sequencing | NSF GRFP, Summer Research Grant | ||||
| Kylie | Tager | Environmental Health Science | Krt72321@uga.edu | PhD Student | Cell Culture Millipore MUSE assays RNA and DNA isolation PCR Gel Electrophoresis | Basic microscopy Trypan blue dead cell counting | None | Society of Toxicology Meeting 2023 FrSADP3 Course 2024 | ||
| Taotao | Wu | College of Engineering | taotao.wu@uga.edu | PI | MRI | N/A | mouse handling | Computational modeling | ||
| Shanita | Zaman | College of Veterinary Medicine, Samanta Lab | shanita.smrity@uga.edu | PhD Student | Western Blot, PCR | Confocal Imaging, Immunofluorescence | Animal Models | |||
| Yaochao | Zheng | CAES; Yao Lab | yz14506@uga.edu | PhD Student | Western blot, PCR, FACS, ICC, Bacterial culture, etc. | Immunostaining, Imaging using NIKON | Injection (IP, ICV, IV, IM), Rodent behavioral tests, ALS relevant transgenic models. | Graduate summer research grant | ||