Current Postdocs
Dr. Thomas Boothby

Past Postdocs and where they are now
Dr. Conggang "Charlie" Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan
Dr. Guifang Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan
Dr. Austin Smith, KBI

Current Graduate Students
Mr. Alex Guseman
Ms. Pixie Piszkiewicz
Ms. Samantha Stadmiller
Ms. Shannon Speer
Ms. Candice Crilly
Mr. Joey Thole

Past Graduate Students and where they are now
Ms. Xuhong "Sunny" Wang, Synermore Biologics
Dr. Douglas Auld, Novarits
Dr. Stephen Betz, Crinetics
Dr. Sharon Hilgen-Willis, Integral Molecular
Dr. Zoey Fredericks, Amgen
Dr. James R. Beasley, Venenum
Dr. Jennifer Marmorino
Dr. Donald F. Doyle, Georgia Tech
Dr. Lixin Chen, New England Biolabs
Dr. Aleister Saunders, Drexel
Dr. David S. Cohen, Advanced Liquid Logic
Dr. Jennifer Waldner
Ms. Devon Allen, Diosynth
Dr. Paula Davis-Searles, Diosynth
Mr. Xuming Wang, Intel
Dr. Gresham Weatherly, AbbVie
Dr. Sorina Morar, GlaxoSmithKline
Dr. Chetan Patel, Eli Lilly
Dr. Dana Albon, Moses Cone Mem Hosp
Dr. Fang Yi, Centocor
Dr. Alina Olteanu, Private practice
Dr. Julie Bryant, Merck
Dr. Brian McNulty, Monsanto
Dr. Lisa Charlton, ERT
Dr. Kristin Slade, Hobart & William Smith Colleges
Mr. Matthew Hrabak, Naval Surface Warfare Center
Dr. Rebecca Sutton
Dr. Christopher Barnes, Caltech
Dr. Andrew Miklos, NIH
Dr. Alexander Schlesinger, AgBiome
Dr. Imola Zigoneanu, Intel
Dr. Yaqiang Wang, UCLA
Ms. Laura Benton, Holy Orders
Dr. Jillian Tyrrell, Truvian
Dr. Mohona Sarkar, St. Judes
Dr. William Monteith, Alector
Ms. Torii Sutherland, USCG
Dr. Austin Smith, KBI
Dr. Rachel Cohen, Impact Pharmaceutical Services
Dr. Annelise Gorensek, Wake Forest University

Current Undergraduates
Mr. Jhoan Aguilar
Mr. Owen Warmuth
Mr. Francis Lauzier

Past Undergraduates and where they went next
Ms. Tori Williams (Grad. School, Yale)
Ms. Jennifer Fencl (Grad. School, UNC)
Mr. Mark Dransfield (Med. School, UNC)
Ms. Andrea Lee (Grad. School, Scripps)
Mr. Richard Bruick (Grad. School, Scripps)
Mr. Sudip Parikh (Grad. School, Scripps)
Ms. Kara Bortone (Grad. School, U. Texas)
Mr. Harvey Chui (Med. School, UNC)
Mr. Luiz Alcazar-Roman (Grad. School, Yale)
Ms. Shelly Finger (Vet. School, Texas A&M)
Ms. Xecerla Littles (Med. School, Tulane)
Mr. Bryan Fine (Med. School, U South Florida)
Ms. Sonja Trojak (Med. School, UNC)
Mr. Chetan Patel (Grad. School, UNC)
Mr. Sherif Ghobrial (Grad. School, UNC)
Mr. Phil Hardwidge (Grad. School, Mayo Clinic)
Ms. Melisa Lehti (Grad. School, Wisconsin)
Mr. Daniel Hostetter (Grad. School Stanford)
Ms. Amret Thompson (Med. School, Wake Forest)
Ms. Kimberly Clay (Med. School, UNC)
Mr. Ikey Kakouras (Duke)
Ms. Maria Lind (Grad. School, UGA)
Mr. Scott Kennedy (Grad. School, UNC)
Mr. Matthew Dedmon (Grad. School, Cambridge, UK)
Mr. Joseph Batchelor (Grad. School, UC Berkeley)
Mr. Chris Kragel (Med. School, ECU)
Mr. C. Michael Minder (Med. School, Duke)
Ms. Michelle Mian (Dental School, Harvard)
Ms. Essraa Bayoumi (Medical School, UNC)
Mr. Hao Wu
Ms. Hayley Fischer (Med. School, ECU)
Ms. Sandy An (MD/PhD, Wake Forest)
Mr. Evan Lutz (Med. School, ECU)
Ms. Naima Sharaf (Grad. School, Pitt)
Mr. Christopher Barnes (Grad. School, UNC)
Mr. Emmanuel Chan (Technician, UNC)
Ms. Heidi Scronce (Technician, Duke)
Ms. Kristen Black (Colegio Bilingüe New Horizons, Dominican Republic)
Ms. Amanda Rosett (SURE, back to Susquehanna U.)
Ms. Yuri Yang (Technician, University of Toronto)
Mr. Alexander Krois (Grad. School, Scripps)
Mr. Vishavpreet "Ricky" Singh (Med. School, UNC)
Ms. Beth Williard (NC Zoo)
Mr. Joe Lu (Grad. School Georgia State University)
Mr. Emilio Guzman (Med School, UNC)
Mr. Eduardo Guizan (Pharmacy School)
Mr. Larry Zhou (NIH)
Mr. Stephen Lanier (UNC)
Mr. Matt Gilleskie (UNC)
Mr. Luis Acosta (Postbac. UNC-Greensboro)
Mr. Aakash Mehta (NIEHS)
Mr. Cody Weyhrich (Virginia Tech)
Mr. Gerardo Perez (MIT)

Past High School Students and where they went next
Ms. Hannah Qu (back to Research Traingle High School)
Ms. Ashlee Propst (NC State)
Ms. Melanie Wiley (U. Maryland, then MD/PhD. U. South Carolina)
Ms. Malika Rauf (back to North Chapel Hill High)

Do you want Dr. Pielak on your Graduate Committee?  

You must provide a copy of your prospectus at least two weeks before your oral.

Your prospectus must be twelve or fewer pages (12-point type, double spaced, 1-inch margins). The page total includes figures and figure captions, but not the title page or literature citations.

I must have a complete dissertation (i.e., approved by your advisor) at least two weeks before your defense.

Current Group

Left to right Gary Pielak, Alex Guseman, Cody Weyhrich, Pixie Piszkiewicz, Candice Crilly, Ashlee Propst, Anthony Arrington. (not shown: Aakash Mehta, Thomas Boohby, Gerardo Perez)