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People

 

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Click HERE for a map of where Copenhaver Lab people come from.

 

Click HERE for a chart of what Copenhaver Lab people go on to do.

 

          CURRENT LAB MEMBERS

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Dr. Greg Copenhaver (PI)

Associate Professor

gcopenhaver@bio.unc.edu

919-843-4026

Click HERE for a Brief Biography

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Yujin Sun

Postdoctoral Associate

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Daniela Muñoz

Graduate Student (Genetics)

·         Received a Alma Holland Beers Fellowship and a Dr. W.C. Coker Fellowship for her work in 2011 and 2012

·         Received a W.C. Coker Fellowship for her work in 2012

·         Check out Dani in the videos on the NC DNA DAY website (in the welcome and forensics videos)!

 

ROTATION STUDENTS

 

UNDERGRADUATES

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Brena Haughey

·         Has been accepted to The  Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine

·         Received a US Air Force Health Professions Scholarship Program award to attend medical school

·         Received a competitive Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) award to work in the lab this summer!

Scott Lewis

Ziad El Tannir

Neelesh Dewan

(starting Summer 2012)

Ashley Albright

(starting Summer 2012)

Sarah Lowder

(starting Summer 2012)

Ben Jepson

(Starting Summer 2012)

 

VISITING SCIENTISTS

This could be you!

 

 

PAST UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

David Moore

Went to Medical College of Georgia in Augusta

Ashu Singh

Graduated in 2011 and is applying to medical schools

Shalom Cherian

Went to Nursing School at East Carolina University

Tam Le

Went to work in Dr. David Pfennig’s lab

Travis Book

Went to graduate school in UNC’s Department of Environmental Science and Engineering in the lab of Ivan Rusyn

Daniel Hall

Planed to apply to dental school after leaving the lab

Pinar Gurel         

Went to graduate school at Dartmouth

Cathy Lee

 

Andrew Kerkoff  

  • Joined UNAIDS/WHO as a consultant for the prevention of HIV for at risk populations.
  • Got a MSc in Control of Infectious Diseases from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
  • Is in medical school at George Washington University
  • 2009 – Andy’s band Fullproof releases their album Sweeter Side

Alexandra Bey            

·         Graduated in 2007 with dual major in Biology & Romance Languages (minor in Chemistry)

·         Did a Post-baccalaureate at NIDCR/NIH in Thomas Bugge’s lab

·         Went to an MD/PhD program at Duke (Neurobiology research in Yong-Hui Jiang’s lab)

Daniel Kao

Went to medical school at Boston University

Sean Hemp

Went to graduate school at Virginia Tech

Mary Beth Danforth

 

 

 

PAST ROTATION STUDENTS

Andrew Goike (BBSP)

 

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 in Kim McKim’s lab

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

Luke Berchowitz

·         Now a postdoc at MIT in Angelika Amon’s lab

·         click HERE to see info on Luke's music

 

PAST POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATES

Fernando Ferreira

Now a Senior Scientist at BASF

Mario Izaguirre-Sierra

Now a postdoc at the Carnegie Institution in Joseph Gall’s lab

Jennifer To

Now at GrassRoots Biotechnology Inc.

Kirk Francis

Now a Senior Scientist at BASF

 

PAST TECHNICIANS

Jonathan Ambrose

Went to law school

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

Will be attending Medical school at UNC Chapel Hill in the Fall of 2010

Sandy Lam

Went on to law school at NC Central

Sarah Horn

·         Went to graduate school at Duke in the lab of Sally Kornbluth and graduated in 2010

·         Now doing a three-year fellowship at Duke in Clinical Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics through the American Board of Medical Genetics

 

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