SARAFIANOS LAB - Key Persons


Aakansha Singh

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Scholar, India )

Aaron Wei


Alan C. Leslie

Job Titles:
  • Technician at ABC Labs, Columbia MO ) EXPRESS Fellow

Alexa Snyder

Job Titles:
  • Education

Amanda Pelletier

Job Titles:
  • Biological Sciences

Amelie Olga

Job Titles:
  • Mafotsing Fopoussi, Biological Sciences McNair Fellow, Accepted at the Graduate School of Public Health at Ann Arbor Michigan

Andres Emanuelli

Job Titles:
  • Research Specialist

Andrew Huber

Job Titles:
  • Biological Sciences

Ariel Hagedorn HHMI

Job Titles:
  • Fellow McNair Fellow

Arzoo Singh

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Scholar, India )

Candace Clayborne-Harris

Job Titles:
  • Biological Sciences

Ciro Carrillo Marcano Jr.

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  • Student, the Universidad Central Del Caribe

Claudia Wahoski

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  • Student, Vanderbilt Microbiology & Immunology

Connor V. Abbott

Job Titles:
  • Senior Process Engineer, Nestlé Purina North America

Dallas Pineda

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  • Biochemistry EXPRESS Fellow, LSUROP Fellow

Daniel Sietsema

Job Titles:
  • Technician at the University of Colorado, Denver

Debbie Kitzler

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  • Biomedical Engineering Student, Georgia Institute of Technology

Dominique Stephens

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  • Post - Doctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University Molecular Physiology and Biophysics

Dr. Adeyemi Adedeji

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  • Post - Doctoral Fellow, Summer 2012

Dr. Atsuko Hachiya

Job Titles:
  • Fellow

Dr. Bruno Marchand

Job Titles:
  • Fellow

Dr. Devendra Kumar Rai

Job Titles:
  • Fellow

Dr. Eleftherios Michailidis

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  • Fellow

Dr. Kamal Singh

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  • Research Assistant Professor, 2008 - 2018 )

Dr. Philip Tedbury

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  • Research Assistant Professor, 2016 - 2023 )

Dr. Robert Ralston

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  • Research Assistant Professor, 2012 - 2014 )

Dr. Stefan Sarafianos

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  • Principal Investigator
  • Chairman, Professor

Dr. Tanya Ndongwe

Job Titles:
  • Post - Doctoral Fellow 2015

Dr. William Cantara

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  • Research Assistant Professor, 2020 - 2023 )

Emily Coonrod

Job Titles:
  • Discovery Fellow

Emily M. Ryan

Job Titles:
  • HONORS Biological Sciences LSUROP Fellow, a.T. Still University Osteopathic Medical School

Grace Neilsen

Job Titles:
  • Education

Hilary A Schmidt

Job Titles:
  • Biological Engineering HHMI Fellow

Huanchun Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Research Specialist

Ipsa Chaudhary

Job Titles:
  • Consultant, Cerner Corporation

Ivo Melčák

Job Titles:
  • Education

Jason Jiang

Job Titles:
  • Student, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University

Jasper Lee

Job Titles:
  • Post - Doctoral Fellow
Education: PhD, Microbiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center; BS, Microbiology, The Ohio State University Fields of Interest: Virology, RNA viruses, drug resistance Project(s): Interaction of HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase with Host Restriction Factors, Screening and Characterization of Small Molecule Inhibitors to SARS-CoV2 Replication Email: jasper.

Jeremy Clincy

Job Titles:
  • Biochemistry McNair Fellow

Jonathan (Nathan) Winkjer

Job Titles:
  • Research Specialist
Education: BS in Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Southern Polytechnic State University.

Jose Castro

Job Titles:
  • Education
Education: M.S. in Biochemistry, University of Texas

Kanwal Momin

Job Titles:
  • Student, UTMB Galveston Medical School

Karen Kirby

Job Titles:
  • Education

Kristin Edwards


Leonard Rogers

Job Titles:
  • Student, Washington University of St. Louis Molecular Cell Biology

Leslie Chiang

Job Titles:
  • Biological Sciences

Madeline Lazar

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate, GreenLight Biosciences

Maxwell D. Leslie

Job Titles:
  • Biological Sciences and Psychology HHMI Fellow, Veterinary Medicine Program at Virginia - Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine

Melina Khorrami

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Research Associate at Syneos Health

Michael O. Boyd

Job Titles:
  • Biological Sciences

Michael Owens

Job Titles:
  • History

Nicholas E. Calcaterra

Job Titles:
  • Biochemistry LSUROP Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, UC Berkeley School of Law

Nicholas Wiegers

Job Titles:
  • Biological Sciences

Nicole Lulkin

Job Titles:
  • Medical Assistant at Erie Family Health Center

Niki Azadi

Job Titles:
  • Research Specialist

Nnamdi Ihenacho

Job Titles:
  • Medical Lab Manager, University of Missouri Health Care

Patrick Mulligan

Job Titles:
  • Biological Sciences

Phuong Bich

Job Titles:
  • HONORS Biological Sciences McNair Fellow, Graduate School of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri

Riley Aiken


Ryan Slack

Job Titles:
  • Post - Doctoral Fellow

Samuel Min

Job Titles:
  • VP, Functional Genomics and Host - Directed Therapy

Sandor F. Jones

Job Titles:
  • Biological Sciences

Sarah Prewoznik

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Coordinator

Shannon D. Arnold

Job Titles:
  • HONORS Biological Sciences McNair Fellow

Shreya Ravichandran


Skyler Kramer

Job Titles:
  • Student, University of Missouri - Columbia Informatics Institute

Timothy J. Graven

Job Titles:
  • Biological Sciences

Will McFadden

Job Titles:
  • Education
Education: B.S. in Molecular Biology & B.A. in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh

Yun Pan

Job Titles:
  • Biological Sciences

Zach Lorson

Job Titles:
  • Research Specialist