Ullman Lab Members

Current Members

Katharine S. Ullman, PhD

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Group photo of the Ullman Lab in 2018

Former Members

Graduate Students

Former Members Where They Are Now
Christian Dimaano
  • NIH pre-doctoral fellow
  • Post-doc at U of U, Babst Lab
  • Director, Medical Sciences at Gilead Sciences, Inc
  • Clinical Assistant Professor, Dept. of Health Services, Univ. of Washington
Jennifer Ball
  • Completed Clinical Chemistry Fellowship, Washington University School of Medicine
Amy Prunuske
  • NSF predoctoral fellow
  • Post-doc at U of Wisconsin with Elizabeth Craig
  • Asst. Professor, U of Minnesota, Duluth
  • Medical College of Wisconsin- Central Wisconsin aprunuske@mcw.edu
Meda Higa
  • Genetics Training Grant trainee
  • Post-doc at U. Penn, with Robert Doms
  • Assoc. Professor, York College of Pennsylvania
Samantha Smith
  • Left after one year to the entrepreneurial world
Matt Powers
Kin-Hoe Chow
  • American Heart Association predoctoral fellow
  • Postdoc at Jackson Laboratory with Kyuson Yun
  • Study Director and Operations Manager, PDX R&D Core at The Jackson Laboratory
  • Associate Director, Center for Patient Derived Models, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Marta Fay
  • Cancer Training Grant trainee
  • University Graduate Research Fellow
  • Postdoc at Harvard with Paul Anderson
  • Scientist, Recursion
Lauren (Williams) Strohacker
  • Post-market Surveillance Manager at BioFire
Dollie LaJoie
  • Postdoc at Max Planck Institute with Alex von Appen

Postdoctoral Fellows

Former Members

Where They Are Now
Jin Liu
  • Post-doc at UC Davis, Starr Lab
  • Research Associate, Moran Eye Center, U of U
Eydie Kurchan
  • Adjunct Professor/Staff Chemist, Villanova University
Masaki Makise
  • Asst. Professor, SOJU University, Japan
Sunita Shankaran
  • Research Associate, Evason lab, HCI
Doug Mackay
  • ACS Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Developmental Biology Training Grant Trainee
  • Now Research Asst. Professor, Onc Sci, U of U

Undergraduates

Former Members

Where They Are Now
Brian Bennion
  • Worked at Myriad Genetics
  • Taking classes/working for military
Anne Robertson
  • Master’s at U of U
  • Now working at Intermountain Health Care
Tracy Zundel
  • Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Medical College of Wisconsin
Jason Woodbury  
Pei-Wen Chu
  • Obtained PhD, University of Utah Neuroscience Program
  • Returned to Taiwan
Todd Clark
  • Physician
Emily Clegg Barker
  • Obtained PhD, Case Western Reserve University
  • Postdoctoral fellow, Case Western Reserve University
Bora Jang
  • Merck, South Korea
Kurt Sturm
  • TCO office, U of U
  • Myriad Genetics
Craig Elder
  • MD student, U of U
Emily Herman
  • Left to immerse herself in Mechanical Engineering
Kim Uchida
  • Marriott Honors Thesis Award, 2014
  • Attending medical school, U of U
James Clegg
  • Attending Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine
Amanda Howa
  • Undergraduate from Westminster College
  • Earning MPH at Emory University
Marianne Mercer
  • Graduate Student, UT-Southwestern
Madeline Whitney
  • Medical student at Mayo Clinic, Arizona
Mairin Kelly  
Evan Carlson  

Interns

Former Members

Where They Are From
Ammon Fager (‘99)
  • From USC
  • Joined lab as technician
Christopher Ong (‘00)
  • High school student
Zack Zavodni (‘02)
Craig Elder (‘03)
  • High school student
  • Joined lab as undergraduate
Sarah Hilton (’04)
  • From Wellesley College
  • Working at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
Artur Matysik (’05)
  • From Jagiellonian University in Kracow, Poland
  • PhD student, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Francisca Maertens (’06)
  • Earned MD, University of Chicago
  • Surgeon, Oakland, CA
Jane Enyeart (’07)
  • From Youngstown State University, Ohio
Vishesh Agrawal (’08)
  • From U. Penn
Tyler Jarrett (’09)
  • From Gonzaga University
Merima Beganovic (’12)
  • From Westminster College
  • Graduate student in Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Washington University
Alek Mika (’15)
  • from BYU
  • attending medical school, University of Rochester
Jameieka Price (’16)
  • Pathways Intern
Gnoulelein Tako (’18)
  • High School student, Pathways Intern
Kristin Lillywhite ('21 and '22)
  • High School teacher

Technicians

Former Members

Where They Are Now
Lea Huang
  • Now in Bay Area working for Intermune, Inc
Deborah Duricka
  • Earned PhD, Washington State University
  • Academic Advisor, University of Alaska
Ammon Fager
  • Earned MD/PhD, Univ. of Vermont
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine, Duke University
Pei-Wen Chu
  • Obtained PhD, Neurobiology Program, U of U
Amber Bilak
  • Earned PhD, University of Colorado, Boulder
Suzanne Elgort
  • Research Specialist Emeritus
Bri Zak
  • MBA program at U. of Utah