People
Principal Investigator
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Felipe Santiago-Tirado
Join Our Team!
Graduate and Undergraduate research positions are currently open. Come join our fun and fascinating lab.
Post Docs
Graduate Students
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Alyssa La Bella
PhD graduate student co-advised by Felipe (primary advisor is Dr. Flores-Mireles)
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Undergraduate Students
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Margaret Kustoff
Undergraduate researcher (working with Robbi)
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Colin Larson
Undergraduate researcher (working independently in PDR project)
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Ysabella Liu
Undergraduate researcher (working with Robbi)
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Maria Souder
Incoming undergraduate researcher (Fall 2026)
Alumni
| Name | Years in the lab | Where headed after |
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| Rylie O’Meara | Undergraduate researcher (2018 – 2019) | Gap year before med school |
| Rachel Bartnett | Undergraduate researcher (2018-2020) | Medical School |
| Mitchel DeBoskey | Undergraduate researcher (2018-2020) | Army officer |
| Paola Goyco Fergelec | REU Summer student (2019) | Back to University of Puerto Rico; then Pharmacy student at University of Puerto Rico Medical School |
| Liara Ortiz | Undergraduate researcher (2019-2020) | Medical School |
| Emmanuel Santiago | MS graduate student (2020-2022) | Research technician at Imanis Life Sciences, LLC, Rochester, MN |
| Alex Molesan | Lab technician/manager (2020-2022) | University Biosafety Officer at Risk Management and Safety |
| Chris Elwell | Undergraduate researcher (2021-2023) | Gap year before med school (medical assistant at Block Island Medical Center) |
| Meghan Figueras | Undergraduate researcher (2021-2023) | Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) Teaching Fellow |
| Aliyah Collins | REU Summer student (2023) | Back to Tennessee Wesleyan University; then Graduate School at University of Tennessee, Knoxville. |
| Elizabeth Arsenault-Yee | PhD graduate student (2019-2023) | Postdoc at The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard |
| Dorrian Cohen | Visiting undergraduate student (2022-2023) | Student in the Lee lab (2021-2024) that did fungal work in our lab. Taking a gap year before med school. |
| Julia Marine | Undergraduate researcher (2021-2024) | Gap year before med school (research assistant at Brigham and Women's Hospital) |
| Gavin Sullivan | Undergraduate researcher (2022-2024) | Gap year before med school (working at an orphanage in the Dominican Republic) |
| Evan Peters | Undergraduate researcher (2023-2024) | Graduate School at the University of Cincinnati |
| Kayla Anderson | Post-baccalaureate student (2023-2024; former ND-PREP, now ASPiRE-ND) |
Quality control technician, McCormick & Co Inc., South Bend |
| Christopher Winski | PhD graduate student (2020-2024) |
Postdoc at NIH's Rocky Mountain Laboratories |
| Peter Stuckey | PhD graduate student (2019-2024) |
Postdoc at the University of Notre Dame |
| David Castillo |
Undergraduate researcher (2022-2025) |
Gap year before med school working as a medical assistant in Oklahoma City. |
| D. Rebeca Candescu | Undergraduate researcher (2024-2025) |
Gap year before med school working as a medical scribe in South Bend. |
| Tamanna Urmi | MS graduate student (2023-2025) |
Laboratory Instructor at the Department of Biology, St. Mary's College, Notre Dame |
| Zane Douglass | Undergraduate researcher (2024-2025) |
Moved to the Lane lab to conduct neuroscience research for his senior year. |
| Hallie H. Gleeson | REU Summer student (2025) |
Back to Centre College, Danville, KY, to finish her degree in Biochemistry. |
| Timothy (Tim) Theisen | Undergraduate researcher (2024-2025) |
Gap year before med school working with the Patient Advocacy Initiative at the College of Science. |
| Akash Nooka | Undergraduate researcher (2023-2026) |
Gap year before med school working as a medical assistant. |
| Federico (Fede) Celis | Undergraduate researcher (2024-2026) |
Gap year before med school working as a medical assistant in Houston. |