Current Lab Trainees

 

Zach Hilvano

Co-mentor: Hanna Wetzel, Ph.D.

Major: B.S. in Psychology, minor in Biology 

Class Level: Junior (2025)

Career Goals: M.D.

Lab Projects: 

1. Development of stain-based assays to quantitate metabolic ang ageing changes in fission yeast and nematodes
2. Quantification of changes to mitochondrial structure and potential in response to ageing accelerants
3. Quantification of changes to insect gut morphology in response to ageing disruptors

 

Evelyn Kuhns 

Co-mentor: Hanna Wetzel, Ph.D.

Major: B.S. in Biology 

Class Level: Sophomore (2025)

Career Goals: M.D.

Lab Projects: 

1. Development of stain-based assays to quantitate metabolic ang ageing changes in fission yeast and nematodes
2. Quantification of changes to mitochondrial structure and potential in response to ageing accelerants
3. Quantification of changes to insect gut morphology in response to ageing disruptors

 

 

Payton Gallant

Major: B.S. in Biology

Class Level: Sophomore (2025)

Career Goal: M.D.

Lab Project(s):

1. Role of lipid regulators in human cancers (Bioinformatics)
2. The lipid response to genotoxic stress in fission yeast (Genetics, bioinformatics, physiology, microscopy)

 

Anta Thiam

Major: B.S. in Biophysics 

Class Level: Junior (2026)

Career Goal: M.D.

Lab Project(s):

1. Role of epigenetic regulators in human cancers (Bioinformatics)
2. The epigenetic response to genotoxic stress in fission yeast (Genetics, bioinformatics, physiology, microscopy)

 

Nathaniel King

Co-mentor: Hanna Wetzel, Ph.D.

Major: B.S. in Psychology 

Class Level: Sophomore (2026)

Career Goal: M.D.

Scientific Meeting Presentation(s)

Lab Project(s):

1. Structural disruption of CYP genes in human cancers (Bioinformatics, folding analysis)
2. Analysis of driver and passenger mutations in clinically-relevant CYP genes (Bioinformatics, genetics, statistics)