Blerta Xhemalçe, PhD
PI / Lab head
PhD: Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
Post-Doc: Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Former Lab Members
- Shilpa Rumalla
Undergraduate Researcher
BSA in Biology; BSA in Human Development and Family Sciences, Class of 2023
October 1st, 2019 to May 6th 2023 - Enrique Navedo
Research Engineer
BS in Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin
September 1st, 2020-August 8th, 2022 - Le Hoang
Undergraduate Research Assistant
BS in Biochemistry, Class of 2022
February 8th to December 8th, 2021 - Alexia Harvey
Research Assistant
BSA of Public Health, University of Texas at Austin, Class of 2021
February 5th, 2018 to June 11th, 2021 - Calder Reinsborough
PhD student
Master of Biomedical Sciences, Mount Sinai, New York
February 17th, 2015 to January 15th, 2021 - Ellen Gouws
Lab manager/ Research Engineer
BS in Agricultural and Medical Biotechnology, University of Kentucky
August 20th, 2018 to August 19th, 2020 - Hélène lpas, PhD
Postdoc
PhD: University of Grenoble, Grenoble, France
September 15th, 2014 to September 14th, 2019 - Margot Gautier
Master student [Magistere of Genetics, Paris, France]
April 1st to August 31st, 2019 - Sarah Adilla Shaker
Undergraduate researcher
BSA of Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Class of 2019
October 10th, 2018 to July 20th, 2019 - Samantha Shelton, PhD
PhD student
BA: Molecular Biology, Scripps College, California
December 2nd, 2013 to January 16th, 2019 - Paige Williams
LiveStrong Cancer Institutes Summer Fellowship Researcher
BS of Cell and Molecular Biology, Texas Tech, class of 2019
May 29th to August 3rd, 2018 - Adam Sacks
Postbac Researcher
BSA of Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin
January 3rd to July 18th, 2018 - Christopher K Meilchen
Undergraduate Researcher (Biology/German Major, University of Texas at Austin)
October 1st to December 19th, 2017 - Mélina Blanco
Master student [Magistere of Genetics, Paris, France]
April 1st to August 31st, 2017 - Nakul Shah
Undergraduate researcher, class of 2015
January 17th, 2014 to July 10th, 2015 - Solène Hervé
Master student [Magistere of Genetics, Paris, France]
April 1st to August 31st, 2014
Rotation Students:
- Gary Kao (Winter 2014)
- Samantha B Shelton (Winter 2014)
- Kimberly Bowen (Spring 2014)
- Nathaniel Burkholder (Spring 2015)
- Calder Reinsborough (Spring 2015)
- Jason Ikkpat (Summer 2015)
- Ranjeet Kar (Spring 2016)
- Connor Park (Spring 2017)
- Sravan Devanathan (Spring 2019)
- Rosamaria Yvette Moreno (Fall 2019)
- Sidae Lee (Winter 2020)
- Ellen Gouws (Winter 2021)
- Cem Ozdemir (Spring 2022)
- Ruth Allard (Fall 2022)
- Yi-Ru Li (Winter 2022)
- Dharit Doshi (Spring 2023)
- Taylor Hays (Summer 2023)
- Laura Purkey (Winter 2024)
Work Study Students:
- Khoi Bui (Summer 2015)
- Jesús Vasquez (September 2015 to August 2017)
- Ariana Silva (August 2021 to December 2022)