Trainees

Undergraduate Students (2016 - present)

Summer Research Trainees

Our two-stage program trains Fisk undergraduate students in quantitative biology research, first instilling self-confidence through an inclusive orientation and then immersing them in research. Members of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB), the High-Performance Biological Computing (HPCBio) and the Center for the Physics of Living Cells (CPLC) at UIUC organize and provide the first stage of training. The second stage of research-intensive training is supervised by the faculty affiliates of the IGB and the CPLC.

Student	Major	Stage 1: Orientation	Stage 2: Research Year (Research Mentor)
Carleigh Frazier	Biology	2016	2017 (Liewei Wang at Mayo Clinic)
Shelby Clark	Biology	2016
Jalen Thomas	Biology	2017	2018 (Stephen Boppart)
Sidney Stuckett	Biochemistry	2017	2018 (Romana Nowak)
Jasmine Brooks	Biochemistry & Molecular Cell Biology	2018
Kofi Arthur	Chemistry	2018
Jaia Holleman	Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	2019
Skye Faucher	Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	2019	2020 (Jun Song)
Daniel Davies	Physics	2020	2021 (Stephen Long, Ed Lochocki)
Terrance Hawkins	Biololgy	2020	2021 (Steven Burgess, Ed Lochocki)
Rishab Wadhwa	Biology	2020	2021 (Andrew Steelman)
Leiana-Lavette Woodard	Chemistry and Math	2020	2021 (Ido Golding)
Elizabeth Daniels	Biology and Spanish	2021	2022 (Cari Vanderpool)
Imani Douglas	Biology	2021	2022 (Zeynep Madak-Erdogan)
Malia Jennings	Biology and Data Science	2022	2023

Master's Trainees (2021 - present)

Student	Major	Training Theme	Matriculation Year
Skye Faucher	Biology	Computational & Genomic Biology (CGB)	2021
Leiana-Lavette Woodard	Data Science	Computational & Genomic Biology (CGB)	2022
Vida Storm Robertson	Chemistry	Computational & Genomic Biology (CGB)	2022
Elizabeth Daniels	Biology (4+1 track)	Computational & Genomic Biology (CGB)	2022 (+1 phase in 2023)
Ololade Adetula	Data Science	Computational & Genomic Biology (CGB)	2023
Walter Avila	Data Science	Computational & Genomic Biology (CGB)	2023