Alumni

Dr. Springer has trained numerous students, postdoctoral fellows and technicians in his Translational Cell Biology of Parkinson's Disease Laboratory.

Alumni

  • Tyrique Richardson, Graduate Research Education Program (GREP), 2021-2024.
    • Ph.D. student, Vilcek Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York City.
  • Zahra Baninameh, GREP, 2020-2023.
    • Ph.D. student, Biomedical and Biological Sciences Program, Cornell University, Ithaka, New York.
  • Briana N. Markham, GREP, 2021-2023.
    • Ph.D. student, Graduate Program in Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
  • Paige K. Boneski, research technician, 2021-2023.
    • Project management associate, MMS.
  • Sanjay Kumar, Ph.D., research fellow, 2021-2022.
    • Research associate, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worchester, Massachusetts.
  • M. Jenny Bredenberg, M.S., research technician, 2018-2021.
  • Caleb S. Hayes, M.S., research technician, 2018-2021.
    • Ph.D. student, Graduate Program in Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville.
  • Chloe Ramnarine, B.S., GREP, 2019-2021.
    • Research associate, Rocket Pharmaceuticals Inc., Cranbury, New Jersey.
  • Alexandre A. Zaragoza, B.S., research technician, 2019-2020.
  • Dominika Truban, M.D., Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, 2016-2019.
    • Laboratory director, Parkinson's Disease Research, Institute of Neuroimmunology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia.
  • Jing Zou, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, 2018.
  • Iris M. Willemsen, M.S., research technician, 2017-2018.
  • Elle D. James, M.S., research technician, 2015-2017.
    • Research Technologist, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida.
  • Roman Hudec, Ph.D., senior postdoctoral fellow, 2014-2017.
    • Medical affairs manager.
  • Anneliese Hill, B.S., research technician, 2014-2016.
    • Research technologist, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville.
  • Ando Maya, M.D., Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, 2013-2016.
    • Neurologist, Department of Neurology, Juntendo Shizuoka Hospital, Izunokuni-shi, Japan.
  • Elisabeth L. Moussaud-Lamodiere, Ph.D., lab manager, 2012-2016.
    • Senior lab manager, Department of Oncology and Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Undergraduate and graduate students

  • Mohammed Kehili, visiting graduate student, University of Paris, Paris, France, 2024.
  • Layevska Jimenez-Hernandez, Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, 2024.
  • Szymon L. Lewicki, Biomedical Sciences International Internship, University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K., 2023-2024.
  • Tyler Kopf, Undergraduate Biomedical Research Internship (U-BRI), Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, 2023-2024.
    • Ph.D. student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Program, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
  • Jacob Lawson, SURF, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, 2023
    • Ph.D. student, Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee.
  • Irina Djuraskovic, SURF, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, 2023.
    • Ph.D. student, Interdepartmental Neuroscience Ph.D. Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
  • Krishi Kapuriya, visiting graduate student, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 2023.
  • Savannah Tiemann, SURF, Rice University, Houston, Texas, 2022.
    • Ph.D. student, Neurosciences Ph.D. Program, Roy and Diana Vagelos Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.
  • Lena Kwaspen, visiting graduate student, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 2022.
    • Ph.D. student, Institute for Experimental and Clinical Research, UCLouvain, Brussels, Belgium.
  • Liam T. Cocker, Biomedical Sciences International Internship, University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K., 2021-2022.
    • Flow cytometry laboratory technician, Medical Research Council Toxicology Unit, Cambridge, U.K.
  • Julian Rubiano, SURF, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 2021.
    • M.S. student, Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta.
  • Hsuan-Yu (Taylor) Chen, SURF, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, 2019.
    • M.D. student, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
  • Songeun (Song) Kim, SURF, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 2019.
    • Ph.D. student, Cellular and Molecular Biology Graduate Program, University of Wisconsin — Madison, Madison, Wisconsin.
  • Benjamin J. Broadway, Biomedical Sciences International Internship, University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K., 2018-2019.
    • Ph.D. student, Doctoral Training Programme, Institute of Cancer Research, London, U.K.
  • Peyton Blount, Basic Research Internship in Neuroscience and Cancer (BRINC), University of North Florida, Jacksonville, 2018-2019.
    • M.S. student, Biology Program, Indiana State University, Indianapolis, Indiana.
  • Arthur M. McCarty, BRINC, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, 2016-2017.
    • M.D. student, Augusta University, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia.
  • Stuart Dickens, Biomedical Sciences International Internship, University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K., 2014-2015.
    • Ph.D. student, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K.
  • Femke Soetewey, visiting graduate student, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, 2012-2013.
  • Crystal A. Mendoza, SURF, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, 2012.
    • Ph.D. student, Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Rochester, Minnesota.
  • Volha (Olga) A. Sachkouskaya, SURF, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, 2012.
    • Engineering Analyst, Johnson & Johnson.

Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences laboratory rotations

  • Gisela Xhafkollari, Neuroscience, 2023.
  • Ngan L. Tran, Clinical and Translational Science, 2022.
  • Gabriella Fiorino, Neuroscience, 2021.
  • Utkarsh Tripathi, Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 2018.
  • Thomas R. Larson, Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 2017.
  • Crystal A. Mendoza, Virology and Gene Therapy, 2013.
  • Erika K. Ross, Neurobiology of Disease, 2012.