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Alexis Santana was a BD student at Stony
Brook from 2008 to 2010. She has passed her
qualifiers and is completing her Ph.D. in
Genetics. As a BD student she has actively
recruited UREP STEM students to graduate
school at the ABRCMS conference and in
other venues. Alexis graduated from SUNY
New Paltz with a B.S. in biology in August 2008. She worked
on two research projects on campus: “Characterization of
Mitotic Proteins” which she presented at the2006 SUNY New
Paltz AC 2 Summer Research Program and “Changes in
Structure and Electron Density of Cadmium Sulfide Clusters
With Zero to Four Organic Ligands Attached”
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Cindy Thomas was a BD student at
Stony Brook from 2008 to 2010. She
has passed her qualifiers, has
successfully defended her thesis
proposal and is completing her
doctorate in Molecular Genetics and
Microbiology.
Emmanuel Asare was a BD student
at Stony Brook from 2009 to 2011 in
Genetics. He is currently working on
completing his Ph.D. Recently he did
an oral presentation at the Preparing
for the Professoriate Conference in
Albany on “Alanine scanning
mutagenesis of poliovirus protein 2C.”
Luisa Torres was a BD student at
Stony Brook from 2009 to 2011. She is
a doctoral student in pharmacology.
She received an honorable mention
from the NSF Graduate Research
Fellowship in 2011. Luisa recently coauthored
an article: Sun, K., L. Torres,
and D.W. Metzger, A detrimental effect
of interleukin-10 on protective pulmonary humoral immunity
during primary influenza A virus infection. J. Virol, 2010.
Vladimir Valdez was a BD student at
Stony Brook from 2009 to 2011. He
received him MS in Computer and
Electrical Engineering this summer and
is currently employed at MITEQ and
plans to go on for his Ph.D. in a few
years.
Tracey Evans was a BD student at
Stony Brook from 2006 to 2008. She
completed an MS in Atmospheric
Sciences and is currently a
laboratory manager at the Marine
Sciences Center at Stony Brook. She
is currently applying to doctoral
programs to resume her studies.
William Caraballo was a BD student
at Stony Brook from 2006 to 2008. He
received his MS in Electrical and
Computer Engineering and is currently
employed as an engineer by Otis
Elevator in New York.
Andrew Henry was a BD student at
Stony Brook from 2006 to 2008. While
there he did research at the Department
of Defense. He received his masters in
Engineering Science and is currently
employed at Cardinal Health in Phoenix
Arizona as a Chem/Pharm Tech.
Baaba Blankson was a BD student at
Stony Brook from 2009 to 2011. She
completed her Masters degree in
Biopsychology this summer and is
applying to MD/Ph.D. programs for the
following year.