Trainees
Jennifer (Jenny) Miller | Graduate Student | 2023–2026
Kayla Komondor | Graduate Student | 2019–2024 | Ph.D. 2024
Dissertation: Fertilization Unconventionally Activates Phospholipase C During the Fast Block to Polyspermy in the African Clawed Frog, Xenopus laevis
Awards: NIH Graduate Fellowship | NSF GRFP Honorable Mention | SSR Travel Award (2022) | Biophysical Society Travel Award (2024)
Rachel Bainbridge | Graduate Student | 2017–2022 | Ph.D. 2022
Dissertation: Signaling Mechanisms of Polyspermy Blocks
Awards: Mellon Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship | NIH Predoctoral Fellowship | Outstanding Presenter, Pitt Grad Expo (2021) | Mary P. Edmonds Award for Outstanding Publication (2021) | Elizabeth Dillon Travel Award (2022)
Maiwase (Wase) Tembo | Graduate Student & Postdoctoral Fellow | 2015–2021 | Ph.D. 2020
Dissertation: Uncovering the Signaling Mechanisms of TransMEMbrane 16A
Awards: American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship | Biophysical Society Student Research Achievement Award (2019, 2020) | CPLC Summer School Fellowship (2018) | Biophysical Society Travel Grant | Outstanding Presenter, Pitt Grad Expo
Katherine (Katie) Wozniak | Graduate Student | 2014–2019 | Ph.D. 2019
Dissertation: Polyspermy Blocks Used by the African Clawed Frog Xenopus laevis
Awards: Mellon Fellowship | Margaret A. Oweida Fellowship | Larry Ewing Trainee Travel Fellowship, SSR | Biophysical Society Travel Grant | Outstanding Presenter, Pitt Grad Expo
Senior Scientists
Joel Rosenbaum | Research Assistant Professor | 2019–2024 | Ph.D. 2011
Research Technicians
Kloee Connelly | Research Technician | 2025–2026
Abigail (Abi) Trauffer | Research Technician | 2025–2026
Kamillia Czachor | Research Technician | 2024–2025
Maia Genta | Research Technician | 2024–2025
Dominique Summerville | Research Technician | 2019–2022
Brianna Mayfield | Research Technician | 2015–2016
Undergraduate Students
Aidan Feehan | Undergraduate Technician | 2025
Kayla Roundtree | Undergraduate Researcher | 2024–2025
Imaan Saeed | Undergraduate Technician | 2024
Aileen Li | Undergraduate Technician | 2024
Nathaniel Ratica | Undergraduate Researcher | 2024
Sophia Mancinelli | Undergraduate Researcher | 2024–2025
Kloee Connelly | Undergraduate Researcher | 2024–2025
Alec Roces | Undergraduate Technician | 2024
Helena Orth | Undergraduate Researcher | 2023–2026
Sara Carlton | Undergraduate Researcher | 2023–2025
Melissa Akay | Undergraduate Researcher | 2022–2023
Angela Cecco | Undergraduate Researcher | 2022–2023
Shreeya Mamidipaka | Undergraduate Researcher | 2022–2023
Khaalis Harris | Undergraduate Researcher | 2022–2024
Risha Musuku | Undergraduate Researcher | 2022–2023
Olivia Brado | Undergraduate Researcher | 2022–2023
Julia Schack | Undergraduate Researcher | 2021–2024
Paushaly Sau | Undergraduate Researcher | 2020–2022
Beatrice Milnes | Undergraduate Researcher | 2020–2022
Sarah Khanzada | Undergraduate Researcher | 2020–2023
Eirlys Barbara | Undergraduate Researcher | 2020–2023
Cam Sherlock | Undergraduate Researcher | 2020–2021
Ethan Lorence | Undergraduate Researcher | 2019–2020
Joseph Brigidi | Undergraduate Researcher | 2019–2020
Madison Boehm | Undergraduate Researcher | 2018
Madelyn Czekalski | Undergraduate Researcher | 2018–2019
Catherine (Cat) Luu | Undergraduate Researcher | 2018–2019
Meghan Hanson | Undergraduate Researcher | 2017–2020
Melania Linderman | Undergraduate Researcher | 2017–2018
Srikavya Pasumarthy | Undergraduate Researcher | 2017–2019
Alexis Duray (Jancosko) | Undergraduate Researcher | 2016–2017
Bennett Wisner | Undergraduate Researcher | 2016–2018
Monica Sauer | Undergraduate Researcher | 2016–2018
David Leftwich | Undergraduate Researcher | 2015
Danielle Berlin (Buglak) | Undergraduate Researcher | 2015
Marc Napolitano | Undergraduate Researcher | 2015–2017
Philip Carlucci | Undergraduate Researcher | 2015–2016
David Beleny | Undergraduate Researcher | 2015–2017