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Trainees

Graduate Students

Mahfuz Rahman Adnan

MS in Animal Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa MS in Pathology, Sylhet Agricultural University, Bangladesh DVM, Sylhet Agricultural University, Bangladesh

Mentors

Michael J. Soares, Ph.D.

Research Focus Areas

Placenta, Trophoblast, Pregnancy

Skylar Bird

Kalia Burnette

Purbasa Dasgupta

Ming Huang

Bachelor of Medicine in Clinical Medicine at Sun Yat-sen University

Mentors

Ning Wang, Ph.D.

Research Focus Areas

Neuronal aging, Cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease

Brittany M. Hufft-Martinez

BS with Honors in Anatomy and Cell Biology from Rockhurst University

Mentors

Irfan Saadi, Ph.D.

Research Focus Areas

Cleft palate, rescue, Thm1, maternal environment

Jarrid Jack

Mentors

Gustavo Blanco, MD, Ph.D.

Mumtarin Jannat Oishee

B.Sc and M. Sc in Microbiology

Mentors

Gustavo Blanco, M.D., Ph.D.

Paige Minchella

BS from Oakland University

Mentors

Warren B. Nothnick, Ph.D., HCLD

Research Focus Areas

Early life stress, Uterine physiology

Diana Najera

Asef Jawad Niloy

MSc - Kings College London, B. Pharm - North South University, Bangladesh

Mentors

Soumen Paul, Ph.D.

Research Focus Areas

Decipher Ion channels function in the placenta, electrophysiology

Riley Peterson

Emily Roberts

BS in Biomedical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Mentors

Vargheese Chennathukuzhi, Ph.D.

Research Focus Areas

Endometrium, Endometrial Epithelium, Uterine Leiomyoma, Wnt/Planar Cell Polarity Signaling

Namrata Roy

MS in Biotechnology from St. Xavier's College

Mentors

Soumen Paul, Ph.D.

Research Focus Areas

Hippo signalling component, WWTR1 in placental development

Regan Scott

BS - Kansas State University, MS - Kansas City University

Mentors
Michael J. Soares

Research Focus Areas
Placenta, reproduction, development, molecular biology

Madison Shay

BS in Biochemistry from Newman Univeristy

Mentors

Konstantine Halkidis, M.D., Ph.D. and Long Zheng, M.D., Ph.D.

Research Focus Areas

Protein Biochemistry, Thermodyanmics and Kinetics of Allosteric Enzyme Systems, Thrombosis and Hemostatsis, ADAMTS13 and Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (TTP)

Vinay Shukla

Miki Simon

MS in Kinesiology at Kansas State University, BS in Kinesiology at Kansas State University

Mentors

Michael J. Soares, Ph.D.

Research Focus Areas

Placenta development, invasive trophoblast cells, hemochorial placentation, rat, FSTL3, Activin, pregnancy

Ashley Teate

Dana Thalman

Lan Wu

Bachelor of Medicine at XiangYa School of Medicine

Mentors

Ning Wang, Ph.D.

Research Focus Areas

Stra8, germ cells, meiosis, reproduction, genetic, genomics

Postdoctoral Fellows

Esteban Dominguez

Rajnish Kumar

Ph.D. in Bioinformatics at Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad

Mentors
Soumen Paul, Ph.D.

Research Focus Areas
Genomics, Transcriptomics & Epigenetics, Bioinformatics, Placental Biology, Developmental Biology

Ayelen Moreno

Abhik Saha

Savannah L. Speckhart

BS in Animal Science at Kansas State University, MS in Animal Science at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville, PhD in Reproductive Biology at Virgina Tech University

Mentors

Michael J. Soares, Ph.D.

Research Focus Areas

Hemochorial placenta, uterine-placental interface, invasive trophoblast cells