Cancer Ecology Center team members

The scientists working in the Cancer Ecology Center are dedicated to understanding the ecology of cancer, how cancer metastasizes and evolves therapy resistance and developing new therapies for patients suffering from cancer.

Kevin truskowski
Ph.d. Post-doctoral fellow

Kevin is developing iPSC technology that will allow us to test our carcinogenomics platform.

Michael loycano
Ph.D. candidate, CMM

Michael is studying the tole of myc in cell cycle regulation of endocycling cells.

Bowen Wang
ph.d. candidate, Pathobiology

Bowen is studying the biological underpinnings of endocycling cancer cells

Samhita Vitta
PH.D. Candidate Pathobiology

Samhita is studying the biological underpinnings of endocycling cancer cells

PAST MEMBERS

Prasad Alur

Haley Axelrod

Amber DeGroot

Liang Dong

Elizabeth Ferrer

Anna Gonye

Kengo Horie

Laurie Kostecka

Bryan Lee

Melvin Li

Luke Loftus

Chenille McCullum

Sabrina Mendez

Kayla Myers

Shilpa Nair

Prince Parsana

Louis Rolle

Ella Sanvee

Gonzalo Torga

Ken Valkenburg

Emma van der Toom

Maggie Yang

Jelani Zarif

Richard Zieran

Venetia Florou, M.D.
Postdoctoral fellow

Venetia is coordinating our cancer detection studies utilizing isotopic analysis of hair.

kim smith, Research specialist

Kim helps keep the lab organized and is doing our animal studies.

Madison Purkerson

PH.D. Candidate

Pharmacology

Madison is exploring centrosomes as signaling platforms in cancer cells.

Ross Jarrett, M.D. Postdoctoral fellow

Ross is coordinating our studies on risk detection.