Ullman Lab Members

Current Members

Postdoctoral Scholar joint w/ Wes Sundquist

Senior Research Specialist / Lab Manager

Research Assoc. Professor

Postdoctoral Scholar

Graduate Student

Former Members	Where They Are Now
Christian Dimaano	NIH pre-doctoral fellow Post-doc at U of U, Babst Lab Clinical Associate Professor, Dept. of Health Systems and Population Health, Univ. of Washington Vice President, Head of Medical Affairs, ORIC Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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 Associate Dean, Medical Education, University of South Dakota
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	Author
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 Research Group Leader, Human Technopole, Milan

Former Members	Where They Are Now
Jin Liu	Post-doc at UC Davis, Starr Lab Research Associate, Moran Eye Center, U of U
Doug Mackay	ACS Postdoctoral Fellow Developmental Biology Training Grant Trainee Now Research Associate Professor, Onc Sci, 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
Jessica Vincent-Mueller	Quality Control Microbiologist, Reckitt

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	Attended Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine Clinical Fellow, Vanderbilt University
Amanda Howa	Undergraduate from Westminster College Earning MPH, PhD at Emory University Epidemiologist, Goldbelt CG
Marianne Mercer	Graduate Student, UT-Southwestern
Madeline Whitney	Medical student at Mayo Clinic, Arizona
Mairin Kelly	Data Scientist
Evan Carlson	Medical Student, Rocky Vista University
Cameron Davis	Medical Student at Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine

Former Members	Where They Are From
Ammon Fager (‘99)	From USC Joined lab as technician
Christopher Ong (‘00)	High school student
Zack Zavodni (‘02)	From Northwestern University Went to medical school, Duke University Ophthalmologist at Eye Institute of Utah
Craig Elder (‘03)	High school student Joined lab as undergraduate MD, U of U Residency, University of Florida
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)	PathMaker Intern
Gnoulelein Tako (’18)	High School student, Pathways Intern U of U, Mathematics Degree
Kristin Lillywhite ('21, '22)	High School teacher
Crystal Taneng ('24)	Howard University, 5FTF Intern
Samim Sadiq ('24, '25)	PathMaker Intern
Zavien Spann ('25)	Howard University, 5FTF Intern

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