Kaitrin Baloue, DDS/PhD candidate

Mentor: Dr. David Crowe

Research Project: Role of PPARs in regulating the effects of developmental inflammatory microenvironments on mammary stem cell tumorigenesis

Previous Degree: BS, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Bojana Bojovic, DDS/PhD candidate

Mentor: Dr. David Crowe

Research Project: Oral cancer telomerase and stem cells

Previous Degree: MS, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Michael Chastkofsky, PhD candidate

Mentor: Dr. Angela Tyner

Research Project: Kinase signaling in oral epithelial

Previous Degree: MS, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Marybeth Francis, DMD/PhD candidate

Research Project: rotations

Previous Degree: MS, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Kirk Hevener, Postdoctoral Fellow

Mentor: Dr. Michael Johnson

Research Project: Targeting bacterial fatty acid synthesis for the prevention and treatment of periodontal diseases

Previous Degrees: PhD, PharmD, University of Tennesee Health Science Center

Yoshihiro Ito, PhD candidate

Mentor: Dr. Thomas Diekwisch

Research Project: Role of cp27 gene in the embryonic formation of the head and neck

Previous Degree: DDS, Nihon University, Japan

Yi Jin, Postdoctoral Fellow

Mentor: Dr. Xiaofeng Charles Zhou

Research Project: Role of microRNA deregulation in epithelial mesencymal transition in oral squamous cell carcinoma

Previous Degree: PhD, University of Tennesee Health Science Center

Ariel Johnson, PhD candidate

Mentor: Dr.Luisa DiPietro

Research Project: Apoptosis in wound healing

Previous Degree: MS, University of Minnesota - Duluth

Angelica Lagunas, DMD/PhD candidate

Mentors: lab rotations

Research Project: in development

Previous Degree: BS, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Xuanyu Lu, PhD candidate

Mentor: Dr. Xianghong Luan

Research Project: Truncated ameloblastin results in alveolar bone hypermineralization

Previous Degree: MS, Jilin University

Joshua Padovano, DMD/PhD candidate

Mentor: Dr. Anne George

Research Project: Role of DMP1 in bone and dentin mineralization using transgenic mouse models

Previous Degree: BS, University of Illinois at Chicago

Christine Politis, DMD/PhD candidate

Mentor: Dr. Anna Lysakowski

Research Project: Efferent innervation of identified vestibular afferents

Previous Degree: BS, Oberlin College

Elizabeth Razdolsky, PhD candidate

Mentor: lab rotations

Research Project: in development

Previous Degree: BS, University of Michigan

Anna Turabelidze, DDS/PhD candidate

Mentors: Drs. Phillip Marucha and Luisa DiPietro

Research Project: Keratinocytes and re-epithelialization in oral mucosa and skin wounds

Previous Degree: BS, University of Missouri Columbia

Stephanie Tymen, PhD candidate

Mentor: Dr. Phillip Marucha

Research Project: Effect of stress on the expression of epigenetic modifiers during wound healing

Previous Degree: BS, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis

Eileein Weinheimer, Postdoctoral Fellow

Mentor: Dr. Timothy Koh

Research Project: Bone marrow cell mobilization and wound healing

Previous Degree: PhD, Purdue University

Mateusz Wietecha, DDS/PhD candidate

Mentor: Dr. Luisa DiPietro

Research Project: Mechanisms of vascular regression in dermal wound healing

Previous Degree: BS, University of Illinois at Chicago