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Lab Alumni

Welcome to the O'Toole lab alumni page. I've been fortunate to work with some outstanding graduate students and post-docs who have gone onto bigger and better things. I have also hosted a number of visiting scientists from around the word. Take a look below to see where they are now.

You can also checkout the lab timeline

Mary Ellen Davey, PhD
PostDoc, 1999-2002
Senior Member of Staff, Forsyth Institute
Website


Shannon Hinsa, PhD
Ph.D. student, 2000-2005
Professor, Grinnell College
Website


Nicky Caiazza, PhD
Ph.D. student, 2000-2006
Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Cellibre


Thien-Fah Mah, PhD
PostDoc, 2000-2005
Associate Professor, University of Ottawa
Website


Christine Toutain, PhD
PostDoc, 2001-2005
Research Coordinator, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center


JP Connolly, MS
Masters Student, 2001-2003
Associate Division Head, Avenues:World School
Website


Robert M.Q. Shanks, PhD
PostDoc, 2002-2006
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, U. of Pittsburgh
Website


Russell Monds, PhD
Ph.D. student, 2003-2008
Vice President of Molecular Biology, Generation Bio


Dan MacEachran, PhD
Ph.D. student, 2003-2008
Global Head of Biotechnology, Braskem America


Daniel Kadouri, PhD
PostDoc, 2003-2006
Associate Professor, Department of Oral Biology, UMDNJ
Website


Judith Merritt, PhD
Ph.D. student, 2004-2009
Senior Project Manager, Q2 Solutions
Website


Gregory Anderson, PhD
PostDoc, 2004-2009
Associate Professor, IUPUI; FDA


Peter Newell, PhD
Ph.D. student, 2005-2011
Associate Professor, SUNY-Oswego
Website


Soichi Furukawa, PhD
Visiting Scientist, 2005-2006
Nihon University


Nobuhiko Nomura, PhD
Visiting Scientist, 2006-2007
University of Tsukuba
Website


Kyle Cady, PhD
Ph.D. student, 2007-2012
Research Director, Roche


Alicia Ballok, PhD
Ph.D. student, 2008-2013
Director of Discovery, Solarea Bio


Chelsea Boyd, PhD
Ph.D. student, 2008-2013
Scientific Review Officer, NIH


Dae Gon Ha, PhD
Ph.D. student, 2009-2014
Director and Equity Research Analyst, Stifel Financial Corp.
Website


Steve Bernier, PhD
PostDoc, 2009-2011
PostDoc, McMaster University


Wajiha Kahn, PhD
Visiting PhD student, 2009-2010
Assistant Professor
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
Abbottabad, Pakistan


Shiro Yoshioka, PhD
Visiting Scientist, 2010
Assistant Professor, National Institutes of Natural Sciences
Website


Doug Forrester, MD
Visiting Scientist, 2011
University of Nottingham
Website


Jyoti Graber
Hanover High School Student, 2011-2014
University College London


Federico "Fede" Sisti, PhD
Visiting Scientist, 2012, 2014, 2017
Professor, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina


Hadeel (Musafer) Al-Rubaye
Visiting PhD Student, 2012-2013
Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
Al-Mustansiryah University
Iraq


Charles Bay
Masters of Public Health Student, 2012-2013


Amanda Naimie
Research Technician, 2012-2014
Teach for America


Megan Richman
Visiting Undergraduate, 2013
Vet School, UC-Davis


Julietta Fernandez, PhD
Visiting Scientist, 2013, 2014, 2018
Professor, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina


Yun Luo, PhD
PostDoc, 2012-2014
Group Leader, Dupont
Website


Jon Miller
Dartmouth College Undergraduate, 2012-2015
Medical School, Wright State University


Eric Bordeleau, PhD
PostDoc, 2014-2015
Medical School, Sherbrooke University


Katie Price, PhD
PostDoc, 2011-2015
Science Educator, Montshire Museum of Science


David Giacalone
New England College Undergraduate, Summer 2015
Research Technician, 2016-2018
PhD student, Tufts Medical School; PostDoc, MIT


Andrea Wieck, PhD
Summer 2015
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow
PUCRS - Pontifical Catholic University of Porto Alegre, Brazil


Laura Filkins, PhD
Ph.D. student, 2011-2015
PostDoc, 2015-2016
Medical Microbiology Fellowship, University of Utah, ARUP Laboratories
Assistant Professor, Pathology, UT-Southwestern
Website


Wes Hebert
Research Technician, 2014-2016
Ophthalmic technician, DHMC


Gary Heussler
Ph.D. Student, 2011-2016
LSRF PostDoc, UCSD


Angeles Hueso-Gil
Visiting Ph.D. Student, 2016
Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Madrid


Nicolas Ambrosis
Visiting PhD Student, Fall 2016
Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina


Kurt Dahlstrom
Ph.D. Student, 2011-2016; postdoc, 2016-2017
Assistant Professor, University of Georgia-Athens
Website


Amy Baker
Ph.D. Student, 2012-2017
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Boston University


Logan Collins
Dartmouth College Undergraduate, 2015-2017


Melissa Kardish
Visiting PhD student, Jan-Feb, 2018
UC-Davis


Andrew O'Neill
Visiting PhD Student, Feb-March, 2018
Trinity College, Dublin


Jessie Scott, MS
Masters Student, Jun 2015-Jun 2018
Medical Technologist in Microbiology, Yale New Haven Health


Alec Cobban
Dartmouth College


Nicki Limoli, PhD
Postdoc, 2016-2018
Associate Professor, University of Indiana
Website


Jarrod Smith, PhD
PhD student, 2013-2018
Post-doc, University of Oregon, Health Sciences Center


Alan Collins, PhD
PhD student, 2014-2019
Bioinformatician, IHRC Inc.

Website


Giulia Orazi, PhD
PhD student, 2014-2019
APHL-CDC Infectious Diseases Laboratory Fellowship


Kewei Li, PhD
Visiting Scientist, 2017-2019
Wenzhou University, China


Ruina Bao
Research Technician, 2018-2020


Natalie Sontag
Dartmouth College Undergraduate, 2018-2020
PhD student, Tufts Medical School


Cinthia Nunez, PhD
Visiting Scientist, 2019-2020
Professor, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México


Kate Ruoff, PhD
Scientist, 2016-2020


Sophia Koval, BA
Dartmouth College Undergraduate, 2019-2021
PhD Student, Princeton University


Courtney Price, PhD
PhD student, 2016-2021
Post-doc, UMass-Med


Stefan Katharios, PhD
PhD student, 2016-2021
Post-doc, NIH


Shanice Webster, PhD
PhD student, 2016-2021
Post-doc, Duke University


Hector Sanchez, PhD
PhD student, co-Mentored with Brent Berwin, 2016-2021
Guarini Intern


Alice Little
Dartmouth College Undergraduate, 2020-2022
Research Technician, MGH


Alexis Ramsey
Research technician, 2020-2022
PhD Student, Ga Tech


Rori Stuart
Research technician, 2022-2023


Fabrice Jean-Pierre
Postdoc, 2019-2023
Assistant Professor, University of Sherbrooke
Website


Chris Geiger
PhD student, 2018-2024
Postdoc, Rice University 


Amruta Karbelkar
Postdoc, 2021-2024


Rebecca Ruff
Dartmouth College Undergraduate, 2021-2023


Alexander Pastora, PhD
PhD student, 2019-2024


Melissa Carmichael, PhD
PhD student, 2022-2024
co-mentored with Mark Sundrud


Chris Kestheley, PhD
Postdoc, 2022-2024


Rebecca Valls, PhD
PhD Student, 2019-2024
PostDoc, Geisel School of Medicine 


Rendi Rogers, MS
Graduate Student, 2021-2024
Adjunct Faculty, New England College