Connie Chin (OC Biology 2010) Hometown: Ada. MI
Connie began working in the lab during the summer of 2009 and continued to work throughout the ’09 -’10 academic year. In summer 2010 Connie will join Rupangi Vasavada’s research lab in the Division of Endocrinology at the University of Pittsburgh. Connie’s work will use genetically engineered mice to investigate Type 2 diabetes.
Liz Sanders (OC Biology 2010) Hometown: New Kensignton, PA.
Liz joined the lab during the summer of 2009. She continued her research during the fall and spring semesters with a brief break to volunteer in Honduras with the MAMA project, a health outreach network. Beginning in January 2011 she will be working in Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer.
Jamie Wagner (OC Biology & Neuroscience, 2010) Hometown: Pittsboro, NC
Jamie joined the Peters lab in spring of ’09 and worked until summer ’10. Jamie presented her findings at many scientific conferences including the American Physiological Society, the Ohio Physiological Society, Genetics 2010: Model Organisms to Human Beings, and the International C. elegans meeting. Jamie garnered two prizes for her presentations: the Peter Lauf Travel Award from the Ohio Physiology Society and the David S Bruce Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research from the American Physiological Society. Jamie is now working as a research technician in Edward Giniger’s lab at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, studying developmental neurobiology using Drosophila.
Ria Richardson (OC Biology and Hispanic Studies 2009)
Hometown:Hyattsville, MD
Ria joined the Peter’s lab for the summer of 2007 as a McNair scholar. After Oberlin, Ria traveled to Puerto Rico where she joined to the lab of Eduardo Rosa-Molinar at the University of Puerto Rico. There, she studied the cellular mechanisms of axonal retrograde transport. RIa has recently begun working with Alan Schwartz, at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. There, she is studying possible factors that contribute to sleep apnea in the mouse.
Bryne Ulmschneider (OC Biology and Neuroscience 2009) Hometown: Midland, TX
Bryne joined the Peters lab in the summer of ’08 as a Support of Mentors and their Students (SOMAS) mentee. She continued to work in the Peters lab for the remainder of the year. Bryne presented her research at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting and the Faculty of Undergraduate Neuroscience Meeting in the fall of ’08. Bryne moved to Boston to work as a research technician after she graduated. She is currently working in the Walter Fontana’s lab in the Systems Biology Department of Harvard Medical School. Her project focuses on aging in C. elegans.
Edward Anderson (OC Biology 2008) Hometown: MI
Ed joined the lab in the summer of 2007 and stayed on for one year. After leaving Oberlin Ed joined Anne Hart's lab to work on Notch signaling in C. elegans. He began working at the Cancer Research of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School's Department of Pathology. He has since relocated with the Hart lab to the Department of Neuroscience at Brown University.
Tim Kovanda (OC Neuroscience 2008) Hometown: Batavia, IL
Tim was a Neuroscience major who worked in the Peters lab as a research student (summer ’06 & academic year ‘06-’07) and as a research Honors student (academic year ’07-’08). Tim’s work was presented at the Ohio Physiology Society’s annual meeting in ’07. Following graduation, Tim immediately enrolled in the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.
Andrew Sinsheimer (OC Biology 2008) Hometown: Chevy Chase, MD
Andrew worked in the Peters lab during early 2007. After graduation he moved to Indianna where he has been doing research on epigenetics in the laboratory for the past couple of years.
Kiri Ulmschneider (OC Biology and Biochemistry 2008) Hometown: Midland, TX
Kiri joined the lab in summer ’07 and continued on as an Honors student for the next academic year. Kiri presented her work in a poster presentation at an International C. elegans meeting. Post-graduation she worked as a technician at the Midland Certified Reagent Co. and a laboratory instructor at Midland College for one year. In 2009 she entered the Molecular Cell Biology Ph. D. track of the Division Biological and Biomedical Sciences of Washington University. She recently joined the laboratory of Sarah Elgin where she will study epigenetics in Drosophila for her thesis.
Malcolm Hoshi (OC Biology and Biochemistry 2007) Hometown: Bala Cynwyd, PA
Malcolm did a brief stint in the Peters lab during the Spring 2006 semester. He continued on with research using C. elegans, but in Taylor Allen’s lab. Following graduation Malcolm taught English in Japan for two years as an Oberlin Shansi fellow. In 2009, Malcolm entered the M.D./Ph.D. program Western Reserve University.
Ashley Taylor (OC Biology 2007) Ashley worked in the lab during the summer of ’06 and the following year, academic year ’06-’07, when she completed the first Honors thesis of the Petes lab. She was awarded the Best Undergraduate Poster Prize for her poster presentation at the Ohio Physiology Society’s annual meeting in ’07. She also presented her work at an International C. elegans meeting the following summer. Ashley is now working in Boston as a science writer.
