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ASBMB welcomes new members

ASBMB Today Staff
Oct. 26, 2021

The American Society for Biochemistry and molecular biology welcomed the following 148 new members in April.

 

Balkisu Abdulrahman, University of Mississippi
Rofiat Adewunmi, University of Maiduguri
Berent Aldikacti, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Maya Alvarez, Providence College
Ashlin Amano, Mount Saint Mary's University
Huda Ansaf, University of Missouri
William Antoniades, University of Georgia
Sebastiano Arcangeli, University of Bologna
Christian Arguello, University of California, Santa Barbara
Rita Azevedo, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique Saclay
Mohammad Badawy, New Mexico State University
Jeremy Baskin, Cornell University
Kara Bell, University of Virginia
Marisa Bennett, Arizona State University
Lorena Bergstrom, Amherst College
Xavier Bittman, University of Puerto Rico–Rio Piedras
Nathan Black, Texas A & M University–Corpus Christi
John Cahill, Drexel University
Lu Chen, Fox Chase Cancer Center
Milan Chheda, Washington University in St Louis
Sonali Choudhury, University of Kansas Medical Center
Emanuelle Chrysilla, Oregon State University
Nicholas Clark, University at Buffalo
Troy Coody, University of Utah
Jeanette Cruz, Michigan State Police
Stephan Cruz, San Jacinto College
Lindsay Czuba, University of Washington
Eliana DaCunha, Providence College
Sidney Davis, Providence College
Jack Diab, Southern Oregon University
Jackson Diltz, Providence College
Morgan Dwyer, Jefferson (Philadelphia University & Thomas Jefferson University)
Melinda Engevik, Medical University of South Carolina
Justin English, University of Utah
Mohamed Ewees, Ohio State University
Christina Faltas, New York Medical College
Nikki Farnsworth, Colorado School of Mines
Nicholas Fitzkee, Mississippi State University
Angela Fleischhacker, University of Michigan
Tianmin Fu, Ohio State University
Gretchen Fujimura, Oregon State University
Dmytro Futornyi, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Valerie Gallegos, Weill Cornell Medical College
Yuen Gao, Michigan State University
Emmanuel Garcia, South College
Rafael Garcia–Mata, University of Toledo
Emily Gemmill, Oregon State University
Negin Ghafourian, University of Virginia
Daniel Gomez, San Francisco State University
Maribel Gonzalez–Garcia, Texas A & M University Kingsville
Vishal Gupta, Banaras Hindu University
Natalie Hager, University of Pittsburgh
Eyad Hamza, Case Western Reserve University
Emily Hendrickson, University of Wisconsin–Superior
Yun Hu, University of California, Berkeley
Diana Hurlbut, Irvine Valley College
Mai Huynh, Pennsylvania State University
Jiwon Hwang, University of Michigan
Geolina Ibrahim, Mount Saint Mary's University
Benjamin Ide, University of Michigan
Patrick Kang, Northeast Ohio Medical University
Tejas Karun, Wayne State University
Suneet Kaur, Duke University
Zaigham Khan, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Ayse Koksoy, Texas A & M International University
Victor Kruglov, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Kazuki Kusubayashi, University of Tokyo
Laura Lackner, Northwestern University
Sophia Lamberti, North Carolina State University
Rajan Lamichhane, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Emily Laubscher, California Institute of Technology
Emily Leopin, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Daisy Leung, Washington University in St Louis
Theresa Lukitsch, New Mexico State University
Angela Mabb, Georgia State University
  Kegan Main, Marian University
Chandrima Majumdar, University of California, Berkeley
Richard McCain, University of South Carolina
Kyle McCommis, Saint Louis University
Lindsay McDermott, University of Bedfordshire
Jade McElroy, University of California, Davis
Alicia Mercado, Mount Saint Mary's University
Maria Merkulova, Massachusetts General Hospital
Breeanna Mintmier, West Virginia University
Prasenjit Mitra, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Jodhpur
Kayla Moehn, New Mexico State University
Nima Mosammaparast, Washington University in St Louis
Deepika Nambiar, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Apekshya Nepal, Mount Saint Mary's University
Anh Nguyen, Soka University of America
Elsy Ngwa, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Uzoamaka Nwagbo, University of Utah
Jacob O'Connor, University of Washington
Atinuke Odunsi, University of Delaware
Tolulope Oduselu, Univerisity of Ibadan
Emily Oliver, Wake Forest University
Nicola Osgood, Arizona State University
Katherine Osteryoung, Michigan State University
Isaac Paddy, Brandeis University
Victor Pai, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Ashley Person, National Institute of Health
Jacob Peter, University of Southern Mississippi
Desmond Pink, Nanostics Inc.
Caroline Plescia, Purdue University
Sorina Popescu, Mississippi State University
Madeline Pozada, Willamette University
Alyssa Pratt, Oregon State University
Andréa Price, National University
Kefeng Qin, University of Chicago
Honghu Quan, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Duberlin Quiroga, Universidad Mayor de San Simon
Rohit Rajan, Srimad Andavan Arts and Science College
Adrika Raybarman, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
Fasih Rehman, University of Windsor
Jalees Rehman, University of Illinois Chicago
Suhn Rhie, University of Southern California
Janet Robishaw, Florida Atlantic University
Sarayu Row, St Jude Children's Research Hospital
Owen Rowland, Carleton University
Cara Ruhnke, New College of Florida
Ema Ruzic, University of Nebraska at Kearney
Michael Salinas, Texas A&M University
Suzet Salinas, University of Texas at San Antonio
Liam Shanahan, Ohio State University
Noga Sharlin, University of Calgary
Anissa Shull, Colorado School of Mines
Kayli Silimperi, Lehigh University
Diva Sinha, University of Adelaide
Joshua Sokoloski, Salisbury University
Alexander Southern, Indiana University Bloomington
Yuki Takaichi, Kyoto University
Ilona Tekdemir, National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv
Kaitlyn Terrell, University of Oklahoma
Tint Tha Ra Wun, New York Institute of Technology
Yue Tong, Université Libre de Bruxelles Center for Diabetes Research
Ophelia Ukaegbu, University of Delaware
Karyme Villalba, University of Texas at El Paso
Lianjie Wei, Washington University in St Louis
Kai Wong, Irvine Valley College
Giulia Wood, Oregon State University
Olivia Worley, Oregon State University
Xueqing Xu, Southern Medical University
Jun Yang, University of Texas Medical Branch
Mikyoung You, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Veronika Zenkeviciute, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Elizaveta Zhivaya, Oregon State University
Rebecca Zitnay, University of Utah

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