Director: Marcelo Tolmasky, Ph.D.
Dept. Biological Science
California State University Fullerton
800 N State College Boulevard
Fullerton, CA 92831-3599
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Left to right: Lupita Lopez, Gloria Alexandra Gallardo, Dr. Marcelo Tolmasky (Director), Natsinet Ghebrendrias, Dr. Michele Woods (US mentor), Amanda Kammer, Jazmin Ewers, Joshua Phelan, Hannah Montgomery, Dayna Melton (Administrative Assistant), Siena Morgan, Dr. Graham McFee (Responsible Conduct of Research), Elizabeth Mercado Ayon, Nicolette Pollock, MArie Gomez, Cesar De Jeronimo Diaz, Erick Mitchell Velasquez, Selina Urfano (former MHIRT scholar), Alejandra Fausto, Brettni Quinn (former MHIRT scholar), Dr. Maria Soledad Ramirez (US mentor), Terese Lazzaro (former MHIRT scholar)
Department of Community Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Mentor: Dr. Kriengkrai Srithanaviboonchai
Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Impact of western and Thai style health care systems in the quality of life among elderly in rural Northern Thailand
Department of Community Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Mentor: Dr. Kriengkrai Srithanaviboonchai
Present position: Research RN Coordinator/DBS- Movement Disorders Nurse Navigator, CHOC Chidren’s, Orange, CA
Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Impact of western and Thai style health care systems in the quality of life among elderly in rural Northern Thailand
Department of Community Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Mentor: Dr. Kriengkrai Srithanaviboonchai
Present position: Lecturer, Department of Public Health, College of Health & Human Development, CSUF
Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Impact of western and Thai style health care systems in the quality of life among elderly in rural Northern Thailand
Department of Community Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Mentor: Dr. Kriengkrai Srithanaviboonchai
Present position: Surgical supplies, Johnson & Johnson, Irvine, CA
Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Impact of western and Thai style health care systems in the quality of life among elderly in rural Northern Thailand
Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas "Rodolfo Ugalde", Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina
Mentor: Dr. Diego Comerci
Present position: PhD graduate student. Biomedical and Integrative Physiology Program, College of Medicine, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA
Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Design of a universal diagnostic kit for Brucella infections
Institute for Research on Retroviruses and AIDS (formerly known as National Reference Center for AIDS), School of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Mentor: Dr. Manuel Carrillo
Present position: Senior Associate, Global Health Strategies, New York, NY
Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Adherence to treatment by patients infected with HIV or HIV and other non-opportunistic pathogens
Fundación Instituto Leloir, Argentina
Mentor: Dr. Angeles Zorreguieta
Present position: PhD graduate student, Irell and Manella Graduate School of Biological Sciences at City of Hope, Duarte, CA
Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Development of Ochrobactrum anthropi as a model for studying virulence of intracellular bacterial pathogens
Instituto de Investigaciones en Microbiología y Parasitología Médica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Mentor: Dr. Daniela Centrón
Present position: Ph.D. graduate student, Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Characterization of the mobile element “ISCR2” in Acinetobacter baumannii
Instituto de Biologia Molecular y Celular de Rosario-(IBR)-CONICET-UNR, Argentina
Mentor: Dr. Eleonora Garcia Vescovi
Present position: PhD Graduate student, City of Hope's Irell and Manella Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Duarte, CA
Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Serratia marcescens, a model for infections with high incidence in disadvantaged populations
Dpt. of Genetics, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Mentor: Dr. David Glover
Present position: Software Engineer, Google, San Francisco, CA
Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Localization of Pavarotti-KLP in Drosophila embryos during spermatogenesis
Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, King's College London, United Kingdom
Mentor: Dr. Andrew Chan
Present position: Instructional Student Assistant at CSUF
Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Development of a fluorescence-free method for tracking biomolecules in live cancer cells
Phelan, J., et al. (2020). "Tracking glycosylation in live cells using FTIR spectroscopy." Talanta 211: 120737
Dpt. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Mentors: Dr. David Sherratt
Present position: PhD Graduate Student, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Dissemination of resistance genes in multidrug resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae
Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Mentor: Dr. Kieran Clarke
Present position: PhD Graduate Student, Cancer Biology. University of Pennsylvania, PA
Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: A novel ketone diet as an enhancer of cardiac function
Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (not funded by the MHRT grant)
Mentor: Dr. Rodrigo Reyes-Lamothe
Present position: PhD graduate student, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Single copies of an antibiotic resistance enzyme: contribution to resistance levels
