Cali Smith

Administrative Assistant (Mother Hen)

Joined lab: Jan. 2005.

Left lab: Aug., 2012.

Erica Horace

Research Assistant

B.S. Canisius College, Buffalo NY.

Joined lab: February 2001. Left Lab: July, 2004

Job Description: Protein isolation and purification, lab ordering and general lab maintenance.

Where are they now? Erica moved closer to her family and is a Research Assistant at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.

Nick Maiorano

Research Assistant

MS University of Cincinnati ('98), BS Wright State ('94).

Joined lab: August, 1998. Left Lab: September, 2004

Job Description: "Main Lab Dude". Basically ran the lab (ordered supplies, balanced the budget, etc.).

Interests: Protein isolation, purification and characterization. Lynard Skynard, food, and eliminating fruit flies and rap music from the lab. Where are they now? We don't know for sure, but rumor has it that he may have entered the seminary.

Rong Huang

Post Doc

rhuangwy@yahoo.com

Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2007.

Joined lab: August, 2007. Left lab: Sept., 2010.

Job Description: My main project will be utilizing cross-linking chemistry and mass spectrometry to study tertiary structure of apolipoproteins in reconstituted HDL.

Future goal: To realize my dreams!

Samantha "Sam" Bellman

High school student

None.....yet.

Joined lab: June, 1999 . Left lab: April, 2000

Job Description: Sam spent her summer internship setting up a lipid clearance assay that will be used with some of the apoA-I mutants in the lab. She also did some initial work on making apoA-I mutants for use in cell surface binding studies using PCR.

Where are they now? The last that we heard from her, she had been accepted to Miami University in a pre-med program.

Austin Hake

M.D. Student from St. Louis University

hakea@slu.edu

BS BA Computer Science, University of Missouri

Joined lab: June, 2005 (for the summer).

Job Description: Basically I just bask in the reflected glory of the geniuses I’m working with this summer. My project is to perform limited proteolysis on human apoA-IV to learn more about its domain structure.

Where are they now?: Medical school, last we heard.

Matthew Tubb

M.D./Ph.D. Student

matthew.tubb@uc.edu

BS Biology, minor Chemistry, University of Dayton, 2003

Joined lab: June, 2005. Left lab: June, 2008.

Job Description: His thesis revolved around the coolest protein in the world, apolipoprotein A-IV.

Where are they now?: Matt finished the M.D. part of his M.D./Ph.D. training and is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at UC.

Lauren Beish

Research Assistant

BS Biology, University of Cincinnati

Joined lab: September, 2004.

Job Description: My research involves developing and perfecting a more efficient protein expression system and working on creating apoA-IV mutants. I also oversee general lab maintenance, ordering and product cabinets

Where are they now? Lauren became a pharmaceutical sales representative for Ethicon here in Cincinnati.

Scott Gordon

Graduate Student. Current location: Post-doc in Alan Remaley's lab at the NIH.

B.S. Biological Sciences, SUNY Brockport

Joined lab: June, 2009.

Left lab: Oct., 2012.

Kevin Pearson

Graduate student

Kevin.Pearson@UKY.edu

BS Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Ph.D. University of Cincinnati

oined lab: April, 2001. Left lab: May, 2005.

Job Description: His project focused on the structure/function roles of apoA-IV in obesity and lipid metabolism.

Where are they now? Kevin took a post-doc at the National Institute on Aging. You may have seen his Nature paper on the benefits of Resveratrol. In 2009, he took a tenure track Assistant Professorship at the University of Kentucky studying the interplay of nutrition and aging.

Linda Pan

High School student

linpan67@yahoo.com

May, 2009 (for the summer).

Job Description: She spent her summer helping James to express recombinant proteins in bacterial cells and working with cultured cells expressing ABCA1.

Interests: Making frozen candy bars with liquid nitrogen, competing in math contests...and winning them. Goals: Going to Harvard in the fall.

Alex Tomann (or Alexei Tomannov if im playing hockey)

Undergraduate summer intern

a.b.tomann@gmail.com

BS Bio-Chemistry from The University of Scranton (yes thats where "The Office" is set)

Joined lab: June, 2010. Left lab: Sept., 2010.

Job Description: Test for presence and/or location of HDL sub-particles, Lab Lunch organizer

Interests: I enjoy playing sports mainly Ice Hockey, Softball Saturday. I also love to travel to US cities to eventually pick out places where I would consider living later in life. Where are they now?: Alex graduated and is now on the sales force for Stryker Corp. selling joint replacement products.

Anita Durairaj

Post Doc

duraira@ucmail.uc.edu

Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Cincinnati

Joined lab: June, 2009. Left lab: June, 2010.

Job Description: My research projects involve the study of the mouse lipoproteome using mass spectrometry. I hope to discover and study many new protein-protein interactions that may have an overall impact on different epidemiological processes.

Interests: Reading for fun, shopping, movies, visiting and exploring new places. Goals: Having a productive postdoc career in the form of publications. I hope to gain valuable research experience and knowledge working with lipids.

Stacey Panagotopolus

BA Biology, Ohio Wesleyan

Joined lab: June, 1999. Left Lab: December, 2002

Job Description: Stacey is the first student to graduate from the lab. She studied ways in which apoA-I interacts with cells and ABCA1. In addition to several papers, she was awarded the Dean's Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship in 2002.

Where are they now? Since graduating, she got married, did a post-doc in the laboratory of Francine Welty at Beth Israel Hospital at Harvard University and is now pursuing an advanced degree in Nutrition.

Stacy Martin

Research Assistant

B.S. Agricultural Biology, University of Kentucky.

Joined lab: Sept. 2006.

Job Description: To develop efficient protein expression systems and maintain protein production in the lab.

Where are they now?: Stacy moved on to a company in Northern Kentucky that runs clinical trials.

Scott Witting

Graduate student

BS Biology, University of Detroit Mercy

Joined lab: April, 1999 (the lab's first grad. student). Left Lab: May, 2004

Job Description: My current project is the study of sphingolipid signalling in relation to apolipoprotein-mediated cholesterol efflux. My unofficial job is to keep the lab entertained.

Where are they now? Since graduating from the Lab, Scott went on to a Post-doc at IUPUI in Indianapolis studying diabetes, then was an assistant professor in thier viral vector core laboratory. Just recently, he came back to Cincinnati to head the Translational Trials Development Support Laboratory at Cincinnati Children's Hospital.

Anna Heink

Research Assistant

B.S. Psychology & Biology, University of Dayton; M.S. Zoology, Washington State University

Joined lab: September 2012. Left lab: May 2017 2012.

Current activity: She is now enrolled as a medical student at the University of Kentucky.

Gangani Silva

Post-doc then Research Instructor

BSc (chemistry) University of Colombo, Sri Lanka 1991, Ph.D. (biophysical chemistry) University of Illinois/Chicago, 2000

Joined lab: April, 2003. Left lab: December, 2008.

Job Description: My main project was focused on confomational analysis of apolipoproteins in reconstituted HDL and native HDL.

Where are they now?: Gangani is now a scientist at Girindus Corp in Cincinnati

Sandy Rebholtz

Research Assistant

BS, Clinical Laboratory Science (University of Cincinnati College of Allied Health Sciences)

Associate of Applied Science in Veterinary Technology (University of Cincinnati Raymond Walters College); Unbeknownst to Sean or I might not be employed in the lab: Associate of Arts (The Ohio State University-Go Buckeyes!)

Joined lab: Fall 2013. Left lab: Fall 2017.

Wael Safi

Undergraduate student

safiwl@hotmail.com

Degrees: BS 2000, University of Cincinnati.

Left lab: Sept., 2000. (but he hangs around - kind of like a virus)

Job Description: During his undergraduate time in our lab, Wael successfully developed an accidental result into a method for measuring lipid-free forms of apoA-I in vitro.

Where are they now?: Wael got his Pharm D from the University of Cincinnati and is now making the big bucks at Proctor and Gamble here in Cincy. Since he no longer lifts with Sean and Kevin, he is getting soft and flabby, like a little girl.