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Rachel Brog, PhD
FounderRachel is a PhD candidate in the Molecular and Cell Biology Program in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Dartmouth. Her research in the laboratory of Dr. Yina Huang at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is focused on engineering new chimeric antigen receptor T cell immunotherapy treatments.
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Nick Preiss
FounderNick is a PhD candidate in the Molecular and Cell Biology Program in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Dartmouth. His research in the laboratory of Dr. Edward Usherwood at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center focuses on molecular control of CD8 T cells for therapeutic applications.
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Nikhil Khatwani
FounderNikhil is a PhD candidate in the Molecular and Cell Biology Program in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Dartmouth. In his research in the laboratory of Dr. Mary Jo Turk at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Nikhil studies the role of tissue-resident memory T cells in melanoma.
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Muhammad Abubakar Khan
Co-PresidentAbubakar is a PhD candidate in the Molecular and Cell Biology Program in the Department of Biochemistry at Dartmouth. In his research in the laboratory of Dean Madden at Geisel School of Medicine, Abubakar studies non-canonical regulation of sterols regulatory element-binding proteins in Aspergillus fumigatus.
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Rex Manglicmot
Communications OfficerRex is a 2nd year MALS student concentrating in Globalization. Rex studied Microbiology in his undergrad and is passionate about the business side of biotechnology. He is currently working on his thesis proposal regarding how Dartmouth College handled diseases (i.e., Smallpox and the 1918 Spanish Influenza) in comparison to the current COVID-19 pandemic around 3 axes: isolation, quarantine, and social distancing.
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Mina Stevanovic
Events and Programming OfficerMina is a PhD candidate in the Quantitative Biomedical Sciences Program at Dartmouth. Her research in the laboratory of Dr. Daniel Schultz at Geisel School of Medicine focuses on the dynamics of gene expression in the context of antibiotic resistance.
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Gregory Ho
Events and Programming OfficerGreg is a second-year graduate student in the Molecular and Cellular Biology Program in the Microbiology and Immunology Department at Dartmouth. In his research in the laboratory of Steve Fiering at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center focuses on investigating the mechanism and durability of the long-term memory of the lab's in situ vaccination model.
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Natasha Kelkar
Career Development OfficerNatasha is a graduate student in Molecular and Cellular Biology Program in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Dartmouth. In his research in the lab of Prof. Ackerman at Thayer School of Engineering, Natasha is trying to develop some tools and techniques to improve development of vaccines against infectious diseases.
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Jordan Isaacs
Co-PresidentJordan is a third year PhD candidate in the Molecular and Cellular Biology Program in the Cancer Biology Department at Dartmouth. Her research in the laboratory of Dr. Arti Gaur focuses on establishing the anti-tumor and immune-modulatory effects of estrogen receptor beta in high grade glioma.
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Shiva Sathyanarayana, PhD
Clinical Research LiaisonShiva Sathyanarayana is currently working as a Clinical Research Associate – Molecular Diagnostics at Center for Clinical Genomics and Advanced Technology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. Prior, he did postdoctoral research with the mentorship of Prof. Giovanni Bosco, Dr. Bryan Luikart, and Dr. Jennifer Hong in the Department of Molecular and Systems Biology at Geisel school of medicine at Dartmouth. His postdoc research mainly focused on studying genetic interactions of PTEN and FMR1 involving neurodevelopment disorders and how the loss of PTEN accelerates the peripheral nervous system and its regeneration using AAV mediated approach in a sciatic nerve-injured mouse model. He also has five years of industry experience working as a Technical/Applications specialist and Product Manager in the bio-instrumentation field. Shiva received his MSc., and Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of Mysore, India, where his research mainly focused on elucidating genetic basis of the human Y chromosome AZFc partial deletions and male infertility.
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Natasha Pence, PhD
Postdoc LiaisonNatasha is a second-year postdoc in the Chemistry Department. She received her PhD in biochemistry in May 2020 from Montana State University in Bozeman, MT. She joined Dartmouth in the fall of 2020 and her research focuses on the role of a diiron hemerythrin protein in microoxic respiration in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. When she’s not in the lab she likes to play guitar and travel.
