David Mihal

Medical Student (MSSRP program)

david.c.mihal@gmail.com

BFA Art & Technology, Honors BS Biology, University of Cincinnati.

May, 2009 (for the summer).

Job Description: My summer project looked at using a trifunctional crosslinker (Sulfo-SBED) to analyze the structure of ApoA-I in reconstituted HDL particles.

Interests: Currently studying medicine non-stop, but I used to enjoy biking, jetskiing, camping, boating, fishing, writing, drawing, photography, watching Carl Sagan's Cosmos,... Goals: Presently I am working on earning my MD.

Kristina Liu

Undergraduate

None yet, but is working on one from Harvard

Joined lab: June, 2003.

Job Description: Kristina spent her summer internship working on inducing recombinant protein ABCA1 into an expressible vector. In her downtime she babysits Kevin and reminds Sean about how great his haircut is.

Where are they now?: Kristina started in the lab as a high school summer student and went on to Harvard in Pre-Med then Yale medical school. She is a currently a Dermatology resident in Boston.

Loren Faulkner(Smith)

M.D./Ph.D. Student

loren.e.smith@vanderbilt.edu

BA Chemistry/Philosophy, DePauw University

Joined lab: July, 2005. Graduated with Ph.D.: May, 2010.

Job Description: My project involved studying how apoA-I interacts with ABCAI and how it may traffic inside cells.

Interests: I like reading, picnicking, eating cookies for breakfast, watching black and white movies in which people suddenly break into song and dance, and contemplating the nature of the universe with my good friend Steve Hawking. Where is she now?: Loren finished the M.D. part of her M.D./Ph.D. training and then completed a residency in Anesthesiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She recently joined the Anesthesiology faculty at Vanderbilt and is studying the perioperative role of HDL.

Hailong Li

Ph.D.

Joined lab: 2013. Left lab: 2017

Current Activity: Currently a research associate at Children's Hospital of Cincinnati in Neonatology

Amy Ghering

Post doc

Ph.D. Chemistry, Northwestern University

Joined lab: April, 2003. Left lab: August, 2009.

Job Description: ABCA1 mediates cholesterol efflux to apoA-I and thus generates the body's HDL pool.

Where are they now?: ??

James Dressman

Research Assistant

dressmj@uc.edu

BA Psychology/Philosophy, University of Kentucky

Joined lab: February, 2004.

Left lab: Aug., 2013.

Allison Cooke

BA Biology, BA Spanish (Transylvania University).

Joined lab: August 9 2014.

Left lab: Nov. 2019 2014.

Current Position: Looking for a post-doc or industry position