Meet the Team

Jamie is a MD/PhD student in the lab of Dr. Bryan Copits. Their research focuses on how the brain responds to pain and opioid medications, and how cutting-edge gene editing techniques can be used to alter that response. They have extensive experience writing and editing manuscripts, abstracts, personal statements, and articles for public-facing scientific and medical communication.

Areas of expertise: Cell Biology · Neuroscience · Educational Research · LGBTQ+ Health

Puneeth is a postdoctoral associate in the Shuo Wang Lab. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in Psychological and Brain Science. His research focuses on neural and computational mechanisms underlying cognitive abilities such as memory recall, decision making, object/image recognition, and visual search. He has experience with manuscript editing, scientific graphic design, mathematical derivations/proofs, and APA style statistical reporting guidelines. Outside of work, he enjoys reading about geopolitics, science and technology, and history.

Areas of expertise: Computational Biology · Neuroscience · Psychology, Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience

Catie is a graduate student in the Developmental, Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology program. She received her BS in Biology from Lafayette College in Pennsylvania and graduated with honors after completing her thesis under the excellent mentorship of Dr. Eric Ho and Dr. Robert Kurt. After spending 1.5 years as a technician in the single-cell biology lab of Dr. Samantha Morris, she now studies melanocyte development and melanoma pathogenesis in the lab of Dr. Charles Kaufman. Outside of her scientific interests, she is passionate about writing, illustration, and education and is excited to combine these passions and pursue a career in scientific communication.

Areas of expertise: Cell Biology · Genetics · Immunology · Molecular Biology · Cancer Biology · Molecular Biology Scientific Schema Design

Kevin is a graduate student in the Immunology program with an interest on how the development of immune cells influences immune responses. His work within the lab of Dr. Kenneth Murphy has focused on mechanisms of dendritic cell subset specification.  He has experience editing manuscripts, abstracts, and grant applications.

Areas of expertise: Biochemistry · Genetics · Immunology

Kaylee is a PhD student in the Molecular Cell Biology program. She received her BS in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia in 2020. Her current research in the lab of Dr. Katherine Weilbaecher focuses on tumor cell responses to extracellular acidosis through G-protein signaling, including promoting immune suppression and osteolysis in the breast cancer bone metastatic microenvironment. She has experience editing abstracts, manuscripts, and grants.

Areas of expertise: Biomedical Engineering · Cancer Biology · Cell Biology · Immunology · Molecular Biology · Scientific Schema Design

Ilana is an MD/PhD student in the Immunology program. Her current research interests include the gut microbiome and immunology. Ilana has experience editing manuscripts, grants, personal statements, and creative pieces. She is passionate about all forms of communication and enjoys working directly with people during presentation consultations.

Areas of expertise: Microbiology · Immunology

Suranjana’s research focuses on investigating genetic and activity-dependent mechanisms regulating cortical development in the mouse and fat-tailed dunnart marsupial. Suranjana obtained her PhD in developmental neuroscience from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India (2019). When she is not searching for intriguing patterns in the brain, Suranjana loves to dabble in painting and photography, travel to new places, and participate in science communication and outreach. She has extensive experience in manuscript/grant writing, preparating figures and illustrations for journal articles, and creating presentations for scientific and public talks.

Areas of expertise: Cell Biology · Genetics · Molecular Biology · Neuroscience · Scientific Schema Design

Amanda is a graduate student in the Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis program. As a current first year doing rotations, she is primarily interested in viral pathogenesis, virus-host interactions, innate immunity, emerging pathogens, and host defense. Her previous research focused on using both bioinformatics and immunological techniques to understand the pathogenesis and genetic variation of emerging RNA viruses. She is happy to help others in their scientific writing and communication.

Areas of expertise: Immunology · Molecular Biology · Microbiology · Computational Biology · Bioinformatics

Hannah is a PhD student in the Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology Program. She received her BS in biochemistry from Purdue University and worked in a structural biology lab. Now, she is in the lab of Dr. Natalie Niemi studying mitochondrial metabolism and regulation by phosphorylation. Hannah is passionate about science communication and is excited to give feedback on various forms of science writing.

Areas of expertise: Biochemistry & Biophysics · Cell Biology · Molecular Biology

Alexis is a first-year PhD student in the Neurosciences program and an Olin-Chancellor’s Fellow. She earned her BS in Neuroscience at Rhodes College and subsequently worked as a research technician in the lab of Dr. Charles W. M. Roberts at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Her research interests center on the role of epigenetic markers in both normal development and in various disease contexts. Alexis has experience in manuscript editing—including structural revisions and copyediting—as well as writing fellowship applications and personal statements. She is enthusiastic about refining her skills in editing scientific writing through mentorship at InPrint.

Areas of expertise: Cancer Biology · Cell Biology · Genetics · Neuroscience

Jackie is a PhD student in the Energy, Environmental, and Chemical Engineering Program (EECE). She received her degree from Santa Clara University in environmental science with an emphasis in chemistry in 2020. Her research with the Parker Lab focuses on the transformation of herbicides in environmentally relevant conditions. She uses analytical chemistry techniques to elucidate the reaction mechanism to understand how applied herbicides can present environmental risks.

Areas of expertise: Environmental Engineering · Chemistry

Monica is the science communication specialist of the Center for Health & Science Communication at Becker Library, bringing forth decades of academic research experience to serve our community of students, trainees, faculty, and staff. Before shifting gears to her current position, Monica enjoyed many years as an experimentalist in biophysics, structure/function and pharmacology of membrane transporters and ion channels. She earned a Ph.D. in Physiology from the University of Barcelona, and following postdoctoral training in UCLA, she joined the research-track faculty at the School of Medicine, first in Cell Biology & Physiology, and later in Anesthesiology.

Monica believes the transfer of knowledge is the biggest responsibility we have as scientists, and she has always found all aspects of our profession having to do with communication enormously gratifying. Monica has a passion for writing, reviewing and editing, and she looks forward to helping you achieve excellence in science communication!

Areas of expertise: Science Communication · Biochemistry & Biophysics · Molecular Biology · Electrophysiology  · Pharmacology

Kathleen is a Research Assistant Professor in the Neurology department, focused on investigating therapeutic targets in Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. Her scientific editing experience includes serving as a co-instructor for the WashU Amgen/BP-ENDURE undergraduate writing workshop, mentoring WashU trainees within the NIH Grant Writing course, and completing an editing course through University College. She has experience in manuscript and grant writing and is willing to review all types of communication. After founding InPrint in 2017, Kathleen served as its Editor-in-Chief until January 2021.

Areas of expertise: Cell Biology · Neuroscience

Haewon is an MSTP student in the Computational and Systems Biology program. She graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 2021 with degrees in Computer Science and Biology. Haewon currently works in the lab of Dr. David Wang studying pro- and anti-viral host factors of C. elegans. She has experience editing personal statements and manuscripts and is passionate about making scientific literature accessible to the public.

Areas of expertise: Cell Biology · Microbiology · Molecular Biology · Computational Biology

Kornelia is a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Dr. Jennifer Heemstra. She received her PhD in Medicinal Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she designed, synthesized, and characterized antimicrobial peptides. Kornelia’s current research focuses on developing stimuli-responsive peptide nucleic acids. She has experience writing and editing grants, manuscripts, and abstracts.

Areas of expertise: Organic Chemistry · Medicinal Chemistry · Drug Design and Development (PK/PD)

Lily is a PhD student in the Molecular Cell Biology program. She received her BS in Biological Sciences from the University of Notre Dame in 2018. Her current research in the lab of Dr. Aaron DiAntonio focuses on understanding how neuronal dysfunction contributes to metabolic abnormalities. She has experience writing and editing manuscripts, review articles, fellowship applications, editorials, and textbook chapters.

Areas of expertise: Cancer Biology · Cell Biology · Molecular Biology · Neuroscience

Zitian is a third year PhD student in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science program within DBBS. She completed her BS in Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is currently in Dr. Sheng-Chih (Peter) Jin’s lab developing computational strategies and tools to elucidate the impact of short tandem repeats in idiopathic peripheral neuropathy and actively contribute to the somatic variation catalog for the Somatic Mosaicism Across Human Tissues consortium. Zitian is open to provide suggestions and feedback on all types of scientific communication.

Areas of expertise: Biomedical Engineering · Computational Biology · Genetics

Nai-Wen works as a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Daniel Kerschensteiner’s lab in the Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Department. Her training covers the cellular to the circuit and behavioral aspects of neuroscience. Nai-Wen enjoys reading a wide range of scientific topics in neuroscience and has experience writing grants and scientific papers, reviewing articles, and creating illustration figures and presentations for scientific talks.

Areas of expertise: Neuroscience · Scientific Schema Design

Jess is a Neuroscience PhD student in the lab of Dr. Meaghan Creed. She is studying the aversive nature of opioid withdrawal and its neural underpinnings in the reward and aversion circuits of the brain. She received her BA in Psychology at St. Norbert College and worked as a research technician at the University of Maryland-Baltimore and Washington University. Jess has experience in writing fellowship applications, scientific manuscripts, and review articles.

Areas of expertise: Neuroscience

Richa is a postdoctoral research associate in the Goodhill lab, departments of Developmental Biology and Neuroscience. She received her PhD degree in physics from Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. During her PhD, she studied synchronization processes in brain networks, and mechanisms underlying pathological brain conditions using neural mass models. In the Goodhill lab, she works on the computational modeling of sleep process in larval zebrafish. She is interested in studying how sleep and its stages are encoded in behavior and neuronal activity patterns. She enjoys scientific writing, reviewing and editing, and believes that good scientific communication is crucial to get exposure as a scientist and for society to benefit from science.

Areas of expertise: Computational Biology · Ecology & Evolution · Neuroscience · Scientific Schema Design · Machine Learning · AI · Computational & Theoretical Neuroscience

Jessica is an MD-PhD student in the Molecular Microbiology & Microbial Pathogenesis program. Her research in the lab of Dr. Drew Schwartz broadly centers on understanding the influence of the infant gut microbiome on immune development. In addition to experience writing and editing manuscripts, abstracts, and personal statements, she’s passionate about creating well-designed, communicative figures for presentations and publications.

Areas of expertise: Biochemistry & Biophysics · Microbiology · Molecular Biology · Scientific Schema Design

Rachana is a Postdoctoral Researcher working in a unique co-mentored position in the department of Physical Therapy with Dr. Jennifer Zellers and Orthopaedic Surgery with Dr. Simon Tang. She received her PhD from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where she used in-vitro model systems to study the effect of diabetes on bone fragility and increased fracture risk. Now, her research focuses on studying the impact of diabetes on tendons at the tendon rehab lab in physical therapy; and elucidating the signaling pathways in the bone to understand how diabetes affects bone remodeling using diabetic mice models at the Tang Lab. Rachana has experience editing conference abstracts, manuscripts, and generating scientific figures and illustrations for presentations and publications.

Areas of expertise: Biomedical Engineering · Cell Biology · Molecular Biology · Scientific Schema Design

Pranav is a postdoctoral research associate in the lab of Dr. Timothy Miller in the Department of Neurology. He holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in pharmaceutical sciences, with a master’s specialization in pharmacology. He earned his PhD from the University of Otago, New Zealand researching altered brain arginine metabolism in tauopathies such as Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, and progressive supranuclear palsy. His current research involves investigating antisense oligonucleotide (ASO)-mediated therapies in mouse models of dementia. He has experience writing manuscripts and enjoys helping fellow researchers review their scientific communications.

Areas of expertise: Neuroscience · Pharmacology · Alzheimer’s disease

Katherine is a research technician in the lab of Dr. Anne Fagan in the department of neurology. She studies fluid biomarkers of Alzheimer disease and other dementias. Her personal research interests concern comorbid dementias – particularly the biomarker profiles of individuals within an Alzheimer disease cohort who also present with Lewy body pathology. In the lab, Katherine assists with drafting and editing manuscripts; additionally, she has experience reviewing articles for publication.

Areas of expertise: Neuroscience

Sierra is a Molecular Genetics and Genomics (MGG) PhD student. She earned her B.S. in Biological Sciences and Minor in Psychology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2021. As a graduate student in Dr. Alessandro Vindigni’s lab, Sierra’s thesis project focuses on defining replication stress signatures in BRCA1 mutated cells. Sierra has experience writing and editing abstracts, internship applications, fellowship applications, and personal statements. She also has some experience reviewing manuscripts and designing figures.

Areas of expertise: Genetics · Cell Biology · Molecular Biology

Matt is a graduate student in the Molecular and Cell Biology Program. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan, where he worked with Dr. Costas Lyssiotis on targeting metabolic pathways in pancreatic cancer cells. He is broadly interested in the metabolic mechanisms of disease but also has research experience in other aspects of biochemistry and molecular biology. Matt has written, edited, and reviewed manuscripts, and he enjoys helping people express themselves and effectively convey their ideas through writing.

Areas of expertise: Biochemistry and Biophysics · Cancer Biology · Cell Biology · Molecular Biology

Kellan is a PhD student in the Molecular and Cellular Biology program. She works in the laboratory of Dr. Jason Yi in the Department of Neuroscience, where she studies the impact of genetic variants on autism and neurodevelopmental disease. She obtained her undergraduate degree at the University of Dallas, where she worked in a microbiology laboratory studying a model of nosocomial infection in patients with cystic fibrosis. She is experienced in writing and editing scientific papers, abstracts, reviews, and grant applications.

Areas of expertise: Biochemistry & Biophysics · Cancer Biology · Cell Biology ·  Genetics · Microbiology · Molecular Biology · Neuroscience

Jason is a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Dr. Joshua Rubin. He received his PhD in Microbiology & Immunology at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill examining how an oncogenic virus subverts host signaling pathways to promote tumorigenesis. Jason’s current research examines sex differences within signaling pathways in glioblastoma in response to radiation. He has prior experience editing and writing research articles, reviews, and commentaries.

Areas of expertise: Cancer Biology · Microbiology · Molecular Biology · Pharmacology