Sombers Lab

Lab Alumni

 

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Previous alumni

Professional Graduates

  • Dr. Alexandra Forderhase (PhD 2023)

  • Dr. Dylan Denison (PhD 2023)

  • Dr. Carl Meunier (PhD 2020) - Boehringer Ingelheim

  • Eliska Klimentova (MS 2020) - Lab Specialist, UVA

  • Dr. Sarah Calhoun (PhD 2020) - ExxonMobile

  • Dr. Leslie Wilson (PhD 2018) - National Institutes of Health

  • Dr. Samantha Smith (PhD 2018) - Nektar Therapeutics

  • Dr. Lars Dunaway (PhD 2017) - RHO, Inc.

  • Nastassja Rhodes (MS 2017) - Law student, UC Berkeley

  • Dr. Edwin Mitchell (PhD 2017) - Quality Chemical Laboratories

  • Lingjiao Qi (PhD 2015) - Research Point Global

  • Andreas Schmidt (PhD 2015) - Sealed Air

  • Stephanie Hughes (MS 2013) - bioMerieux USA

  • Leyda Lugo-Morales (PhD 2013) - Dexcom

  • Dr. James Roberts (PhD 2013) - US Naval Research Laboratory

Postdoctoral Advising

  • Dr. Alexander Gomez-A (2022-2023) - UNC Chapel Hill

  • Dr. Nathan Burnham (2019-2020) - IQVIA Biotech

  • Dr. James Roberts (2013 - 2018) - US Naval Research Laboratory

  • Dr. J. Vincent Toups (2010 - 2012) - Agri-Espirit Corp.

  • Dr. Marina Spanos (2010 - 2013) - Duke University Medical Center

  • Xiaohu Xie, Research Assistant Professor (2013 - 2016) - Eva Garland Consulting, LLC.

Research Scientists

  • Christine Randall - Penn. State University

  • Dr. Audrey Sanford - U. of Illinois, Emergency Medicine

  • Julie Gras-Najjar - RTI International

Over the past 13 years, the Sombers lab has mentored 57 undergraduates, representing a combined 156 semesters and 83 summers of supported research. These undergraduates have received NCSU research awards, and have won their own external funding to be first author presenters at national/international meetings. They have also been first author presenters at regional meetings, winning several awards for these presentations, including the I. M. Kolthoff Award sponsored by the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry. Many of these undergraduates have gone on to graduate school in chemistry or engineering programs, including one that won an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to study at MIT. Several high school students and visiting undergraduate scholars have also been supported. They are:

NC State Student Researchers

  • Laney Kimble (Summer ‘21 - Sumemr ‘23) ⌂

  • Emilee Norwood (Summer ‘21 - Spring ‘23)

  • Ruby Shah (Spring ‘19 - Spring ‘22)

  • Lailah Ligons (Summer ‘21 - Spring ‘22)

  • Catherine Denisowski (Spring ‘21 - Spring ‘22) §

  • Kalynn Turner (Spring ‘20 - Spring ‘22) ✦º

  • Hannah Styers (- Spring ‘20)

  • Alicia Clark (- Spring ‘20)

  • Erica Cullison (Spring ‘18 – Summer ‘19)

  • Tooba Rashid (Spring ’16 – Spring ‘19)

  • Tarik Dahnoun (Fall ‘17 – Summer ‘18)

  • Saahj Gosrani (Spring ’16 – Spring ‘18) *

  • Catie Mason (Spring ’15 – Spring ‘18)* †&^

  • Sambit Panda (Spring ’15 – Spring ‘18) ††#

  • Kasey Potts (Fall ‘17 – Spring ‘18)^

  • Matt Dausch (Spring ’15 – Spring ‘18)*

  • Jennifer Choy (Summer ’16 – Summer ‘17)

  • Deepthi Rao (Spring ’16 – Summer ‘17)#

  • Mitchell Kessler (Fall ’15 – Spring ‘17)

  • William Garrison (Fall ’15 – Spring ‘17) ††

  • Shelby Wincester (Spring ’16 – Fall ‘16)

  • Jason Hernandez (Summer ’16 – Fall ’16)

  • Justin Baird (Spring ‘16 – Fall ‘16)

  • Cassie Doster (Fall ‘15 – Fall ‘16)           

  • Jessica Canton (Spring ‘15 – Fall ‘15)

  • Juan Marin (Spring ‘15) ††

  • Oindree Banerjee*‡ (Spring ’10 – Spring ’13)

  • Kristen Blanton^ (Fall ’12 – Spring ‘16)

  • Amanda Corder** (Fall ’10 – Spring ’13)

  • Eyob Eyualem (Spring ’10 – Spring ’13)

  • Amber Gallagher (Summer ’10 – Fall ’10)

  • Brennan Guzik*,**,†  (Spring ’13 – Spring ’16)

  • Andrew Holt (Fall ’11)

  • Rochana Jayakumar* (Summer ’11 – Fall ’12)

  • Anirudh Kota* (Spring ’11 – Spring ’13)

  • Jeremy Letchworth (Fall ’09 – Summer ’10)

  • Anna Komsa (Spring ’13 – Fall ‘14)

  • Kendall Lough (Spring ’11 – Spring ’12)

  • Philip Loziuk (Spring ’09 – Spring ‘10)                

  • Kory Mack (Fall ’13)

  • William Kyle Martin (Fall ’13 – Summer ‘14)

  • Allyson Mentock (Summer ’10 – Summer ’11)

  • Hadeer Metwally* (Summer ’11 – Spring ’13)

  • Sebastian Murcia (Fall ’09)

  • Stephen Morton*■ (Fall ’08 – Spring ’10)

  • Hannah Oara (Fall ’08 – Spring ’09)

  • Camen Royse (Fall ’13 – Fall ‘14)

  • Deanna Tesch (Fall ’10 – Summer ’11)

  • Matthew Tucker (Spring ’11 – Summer ’11)

  • Kelsey Whitehouse (Spring ’09 – Summer ’10)

  • Andy Schmidt (Fall ’08 – Spring ’10)

Visiting Scholars

  • Eleanor Brightbill (Summer ‘19) - UNC Chapel Hill Undergraduate Research Fellowship

  • Diane Youngstrom (Summer ‘18) - UNC Chapel Hill

NSF REU Summer Researchers

  • Rebekah Krupa (St. Francis University, Summer ’16)

  • Keri (Kimes) Hamilton (Shippensburg University, Summer ’09)

  • Allyson Mentock (NC State University, Summer ’10)

High School Students (primarily through NC Project SEED)

  • Emily Barnett (Garner Magnet High School, Summer ’18)

  • Nicholas Williams (Green Hope High School, Summers ’16 – ‘18)

  • Chelsea Sumner†‡ (Knightdale High School, Summers ’09 –’10)

  • Eben Evbuomwan† (Knightdale High School, Summer ’11)

Note: ■ indicates that the student was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.  %indicates CMI U-TEAM Research Scholar, *indicates an Undergraduate Research Scholarship from the NC State Office of Undergraduate Research.  ** indicates an Undergraduate Research Scholarship from the NC State Dept. of Chemistry. ^ indicates a Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research       Award. † indicates a poster award at a national meeting, ‡ indicates a poster award at a regional meeting. & indicates the I. M. Kolthoff award sponsored by the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry. †† indicates a Goodnight Scholars undergraduate research grant, # indicates NIH Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity Scholar, # indicates the Richard L. Blanton Outstanding Capstone Award, ✦ indicates the Chancellor’s Leadership Development Program, º indicates the ACS Undergraduate Research award in Analytical Chemistry, ⌂ indicates Beckman Scholars Program through CMI, § indicates Young Scholar award through CMI.