THE DINMAN LABORATORY
Current Lab Members
Professor and Chair
[ dinman@umd.edu]
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Graduate Student
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Graduate Student
• NIV T32 Virology Training Grant Fellow
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Alexandra Schneider
Undergraduate Student
• Dr. Normal Laffer Scholarship, 2019
Undergraduate student
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Lab Alumni
Undergraduate Students
1. Victoria Lilling. Fall 2002 – Spring 2004.
• HHMI Undergraduate Fellow.
• Graduated SUNY Rochester Med. School.
2. Sara Roshwalb. Spring 2003 – Spring 2006.
• HHMI Undergraduate Fellow
• P. Arne Hansen Memorial Award.
• EAO inductee, graduated with Highest Honors.
• Graduated Vet. Med. Program in exotic animals, Vanderbilt, Univ.
3. Mark Connelly. Fall 2005.
4. Nicholas Hepler. Fall 2006 – Spring 2008.
• HHMI Undergraduate Fellow.
• EAO inductee, graduated with Honors.
• PhD in Bioinformatics, U.C. San Diego.
5. Minal Mehta. Spring 2007 – Spring 2008.
• HHMI Undergraduate Fellow.
• Ph.D., Pennsylvania School of Medicine
• Currently a Research Scientist, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolic Disease (CVRM) at MedImmune
6. Rachel Niederer. Fall 2007 – spring 2009.
• HHMI Undergraduate Fellow,
• CBMG Honors program,
• P. Arne Hansen Memorial Award.
• Ph.D. JHU BCMB doctoral program.
• Currently a postdoctoral fellow at MIT
7. Sheveir Ross. Spring 2008.
• Currently an Environmental Health Specialist, Prince George’s County Health Department
8. Hannah Silverman. Spring 2008 – Fall 2008.
9. Brian Garvey. Spring 2008 – spring 2009.
• Graduated Georgetown Medical School 2014.
10. Jack Quisenberry. Fall 2008 – Fall 2011
• Currently, Core laboratory Technologist, GeneDx.
11. Curt Kugel. Fall 2009 – Spring, 2010.
• PhD., Thomas Jefferson University
• Postdoc at the Wistar Institute.
• Currently an Associate Consultant with ZS Management Consulting
12. Michelle Pondlik. Fall 2010.
13. Krzysztof Franaszek. Fall 2010 – Spring 2013.
• HHMI Undergraduate Fellow; CBMG Honors;
• Goldwater Scholarship Honorable Mention, 2012;
• Gates-Cambridge Scholarship 2013;
• Outstanding CBMG Undergraduate Award 2013.
• Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans recipient.
• Completed Ph.D. at Cambridge University, UK
• Currently at MIT Medical school.
14. Mary Mervis. Fall 2010 – Spring 2013.
• PhD, Molecular Biosciences, Stanford University.
15. Megan Lin. Fall 2011 – Spring 2012.
16. Tyler Thrasher. Fall 2011 – Spring 2014.
• Graduated with CBMG Honors.
• Clinical Trials Assistant, Duke University Medical School
17. Maliha Zainib, Spring 2012 – Fall 2013.
18. Christine Moomau, Fall 2012 – Fall 2014.
• College Park Scholars
• Graduated CBMG Honors with High Honors
• Student Speaker, CMNS Convocation, Dec. 2014.
• PhD program, MIT. NSF Predoctoral Fellowship, Spring, 2016.
19. Vanessa Frontz, Fall 2013 – spring 2014.
20. Rajan Patel, Fall 2013 – Spring 2016.
21. Christin Langen, Fall 2013 – spring 2014.
22. Elizabeth Mahoney (U. Pittsburgh). Summer 2013.
• Director of Childrens Education, Colorado Museum of Natural History
23. Joseph Dong, Summer 2014 – Spring 2016.
24. Ki Kim. Summer 2014 – Spring 2016.
25. Leanne Young. Fall 2015 – Spring 2016.
• Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine full tuition scholarship
26. Yousuf Khan. Summer 2014 – Summer 2017.
• Banneker-Key Scholar, 2014- 2018
• Maryland Summer scholarship, 2015.
• Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Scholarship, 2016 - 2018.
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Research Fellowship, 2017 – 2018.
• Churchill Scholar. 2018.
• Knight-Hennessy Scholar. 2019
• MD/PhD program, Stanford University.
27. Avan Antia, Fall 2014 – Spring 2016.
• Winner, Best Undergraduate Poster, 17th Annual Rustbelt RNA meeting, Huron OH, 2014.
• Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) 2014.
• American India Foundation Clinton Fellowship
• NIH Intramural Research Training Fellowship
• MD/PhD program Washington University School of Medicine
28. Swaksha Rachuri, Fall 2014 – Spring 2017.
• JR Dorfman Prize for Undergraduate Research, 2017.
• Drexel Medical School, M.D./Ph.D. program. Sept 2018 – present.
29. Danyaal Jafrani, Fall 2015 – Spring 2017.
30. Jacob Blackmon. Spring 2016 – Fall 2016.
31. Mina Griffioen. Spring 2016 – Spring 2018.
• Poster Honorable Mention, 2016 Rustbelt RNA Conference.
• Best Poster, School of Public Health spring 2018 fair.
• Student Speaker, UMD School of Public Health Fall 2018 Commencement.
• Research Fellow, NCI Fredrick.
32. Hui-Ju Han. Spring 2016.
33. Liya Ketema. Spring 2016 – Fall 2017.
34. Tania Mamdouhi. Spring 2016 – Fall 2017.
35. Arvin Massoudi. Spring 2016 – Fall 2017.
36. Michael Wong. Spring 2016 – Fall 2016.
37. Brian Florenzoi. Fall 2016 – Spring 2017.
38. Hannah Bress. Spring 2017 – Spring 2019.
• Outstanding CBMG Student Award, 2019
• Graduated with High Honors in CBMG
39. Jinyi Zhu. Spring 2017 – Spring 2019.
40. Zaynah Ahmed. Spring 2018 – Spring 2019.
41. Bruck Negash. Spring 2018 – Fall 2018.
Master’s Degree
1. Jason Yasenchak. 1997 – M.S. awarded July 2, 1999.
2. Mary Rigsby. 2003 – M.S. awarded June 1, 2005.
3. Jessica Wilson-Neeriemer. 2006 – M.S. awarded January 18, 2008.
• NIH Virology Training grant Award.
4. Courtney K. Robinson. 2008 – M.S. Awarded December 18, 2009.
5. Shivani Rama Reddy. 2009 – 2013.
6. Zachary Flickinger. 2015 – 2016
• Cell and Molecular Biology Training Grant Fellowship. 2015-2016.
Doctoral Degree
1. Amy B. Hammell. 1996 – Ph.D. awarded December 12, 2000.
2. Jason W. Harger. 1999 – Ph.D. awarded October 2, 2003.
• NIH Host/Pathogen Interactions Training Grant Award.
• Postdoc, The Scripps Research Institute
• Associate Director, Corporate Program Management, Illumina, Inc.
3. Jonathan L. Jacobs. 2000 –Ph.D. awarded April 4, 2006.
• NIH NRSA fellow.
• Director of Global Product Management, Genomic Analysis at QIAGEN
4. Kristi Muldoon-Jacobs. 2001 – Ph.D. awarded May 1, 2006.
• Director, Global External Affairs at US Pharmacopeia
5. Alexey Petrov. 2003 – Ph.D. awarded June 28, 2006.
• Andrew J. Moyer Award, (2006).
• Postdoc, Stanford Univeristy
• Assistant Professor, Auburn University
6. Jennifer Baxter-Roshek. 2001 – Ph.D. awarded December 2006.
• NIH Virology Training Grant Award.
• Program Coordinator, Johns Hopkins University
7. Johnathan R. Russ. 2003 – Ph.D. Awarded August 2, 2007.
• NIH Minority/Disadvantaged Graduate Student Award.
8. Timothy Waaganer. 2003 – Ph.D. Awarded August 13, 2007.
• NIH Virology Training Grant Award, 2007.
9. Ashton Trey Belew. 2003 – 2011.
• NIH Virology Training Grant Award, 2007;
• Andrew J. Moyer Award, 2009;
• College of Chemical and Life Sciences Drs. Wayne T. and Mary T. Hockmeyer Doctoral Fellowship, 2009.
10. Michael Rhodin. 2006 – Ph.D. Awarded December 12, 2010.
• Isabel MacDonald Award (2008).
• First place poster in Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics and Proteomics category, University of Maryland Bioscience Day (2010).
11. Amanda Howard. 2006 – Ph.D. awarded October 26, 2010.
• NIH Virology Training Grant Award, 2007
12. Sharmishtha Musalgaonkar. 2008 – Ph.D. Awarded August 9, 2014.
• Dr. Abedin-ul Zain Memorial Scholarship, 2013;
• Deans Fellowship, Fall 2013;
• Goldhaber Travel Award, Summer 2013;
• MOCB-Concentration Area Travel Grant, 2013.
13. Gina Della Togna. 2008 – Ph.D. Awarded August 7, 2015.
14. Vanya Paranalov. 2008 – Ph.D. Awarded April 21, 2014.
15. Sergey Sulima. 2009 – Ph.D. Awarded October 31, 2013 .
• NIH Training Grant “Training Program in Cell and Molecular Biology”
• The Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Grant, 2013;
• Molecular and Cell Biology Travel Award, June 2013;
• Dean's Fellowship, January 2013.
16. Ryan Kobylarz. 2010 – Ph.D. Awarded July 23, 2015.
• Sampugna/Keeney Travel Award, 2014.
17. Alicia Bowen. 2010 – Ph.D. Awarded March 23, 2015.
• NOBCChE Advancing Science Award, 2013.
• NSF NOBCChE Chairman’s Travel Award, 2013.
• Sampugna/Keeney Travel Award, 2014.
• NOBCChE Winifred Burks-Houck Graduate Student Leadership Award, 2014.
18. Suna Gulay. 2010 – Ph.D. Awarded February 9, 2015.
• CBMG Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award, 2012 -13;
• Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship, 2013;
• Center for Teaching Excellence Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award,
• Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Grant, 2013, UMD;
• Molecular and Cell Biology Concentration Area Travel Award, 2013;
• Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship, 2014.
• Chosen to present a platform talk at the 2014 Cold Spring Harbor Meeting on Translational Control entitled “Computational refinement and visualization of high throughput SHAPE analyses in conjunction with atomic resolution structures”.
• MOCB-CA travel Grant, 2014 to attend Cold Spring Harbor Meeting on Translational Control.
19. Vivek Advani. 2010 – Ph.D. Awarded April 14, 2015.
• Best research poster in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, UMD Bioscience Research Day 2013.
• Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, 2014-15.
• Selected to present a platform talk at the FASCEB meeting on Post – transcriptional control of gene expression: mechanisms of mRNA decay, July 2014.
• MOCB-CA travel Grant, 2014 to attend FASCEB meeting.
• Goldhaber travel award, 2014.
• FASCEB Travel Award, 2014.
• “Outstand Oral Presentation” Award, Rustbelt RNA Meeting, October 2014.
• Poster Winner in the area of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, UMD Bioscience Day, November 20, 2014.
• Dr. Abedin-ul Zain Memorial Scholarship, November 21, 2014.
20. Joseph Kendra. 2013 – 2018. Ph.D. Awarded September 17, 2018.
• NIH Virology Training Grant Award, 2013, 2016 – 2018.
21. Carolina Marques dos Santos Vieira. 2014 – 2018. Ph.D. Awarded July 2, 2018.
• Dean’s Fellowship, Fall 2014.
• International Conference Student Support Award, 2016
• Goldhaber Travel Award, 2016
• Best poster, Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics, and Proteomics. UMD Bioscience Day, 2016
22. Alexandra Olsen. Spring 2018 – present.
23. Jamie Kelly. Spring 2019 – present.
• NIH Virology Training Grant Fellowship, 2019-2020.
Post-doctoral
1. Arturas Meskauskas, January, 1999 – December, 2001.
2. Pinger Wang. August, 1999 – December, 2001.
3. Maria Smith, January, 2000 – January, 2001.
4. Ewan Plant, September, 2000 – January, 2007.
5. Bani Mukhopadhyay. March 2003 –January, 2005.
6. Rasa RakauskaitÄ—. December 2003 – January, 2011.
7. Karen Jack. June 2007 – January, 2011.
8. Jonathan Leshin. November 2008 –October 2011.
9. Denis Nyongesa Wafula, November 16, 2014 – January, 2017.
Supervision of Research Track Faculty.
1. Arturas Meskauskas. Associate Research Professor, January, 2002 – November 2014.
• American Heart Assn. Scientist Development Grant awardee, 2007 – 2010.
2. John Jones. Research Associate Professor, October 2015 – 2018.
3. Vivek Advani. Clinical Assistant Professor. 2014 – 2018.
• Dean’s Outstanding Lecturer Award, 2016.
4. Joseph Briggs. Assistant Research Professor. Spring 2016 – Spring 2018.
5. Bin Chen. January 2015 - May 2019.
Supervision of visiting scientists/sabbatical leave.
1. Petr Sergiev (visiting scientist, Moscow State Univ.), February – May, 2003.
2. Alexey Kiparisov (visiting scientist, Moscow State Univ.), June – August, 2004.
3. Tatiana Watanabe (visiting scientist, São Paulo State University). June 2013 – June 2014.
4. Wolf Hirschmann (visiting scientist, University of Tübingen) March 2014.
