People

Spring 2025

Current Members

Bryan Hsu (bhsu_at_vt_dot_edu)
Assistant Professor

  • Postdoc. Systems Biology, Harvard
  • Ph.D. Chemistry, MIT
  • M.S. Chemistry, MIT
  • B.S. Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley
  • B.S. Materials Science & Engineering, UC Berkeley

Harsimran Kaur
Postdoctoral Associate

  • Ph.D. Supramolecular Chemistry, Institute of Nano Science and Technology, India
  • M.S. Biotechnology, Shaheed Udham Singh College of Engineering and Technology, India
  • B.S. Biotechnology, Beant College of Engineering and Technology, India

Shannon Allen Whiles
Postdoctoral Associate

  • Ph.D. Biomedical Sciences, Washington State University
  • B.S. Biochemistry, Middle Tennessee State University

Rita Makhlouf
Graduate Student

  • M.S. Biology, Lebanese American University, Byblos
  • B.S. Biology, Lebanese American University, Byblos

Josh Heuler
Graduate Student

  • B.S. Cell and Molecular Biology, University of South Florida
  • B.S. Quantitative Economics and Econometrics, University of South Florida

Josh Huff
Graduate Student

  • B.S. Biology, Old Dominion University

Hannah Poole
Undergraduate Student

Artha Pradipta
Undergraduate Student

Ella Drennan
Undergraduate Student

Friends

Blinkin
Lead investigator of all smells, new and old

Sushi
Skilled lounger

Zoe
Cat (over)enthusiast

Alumni

Rogerio Bataglioli (Postdoc, 2022 – 2026)
David da Silva Barreira (Postdoc, 2023 – 2026)
Tori Ashton (Undergrad, 2024 – 2026)
Lindsay Smith (Undergrad, 2023 – 2025)
Zach Baker (PhD, 2020 – 2025)
Hollyn Franklin (PhD, 2020 – 2025)
Lizzy Geddes (Undergrad, 2024)
Sydney Murphy (Undergrad, 2022 – 2024)
Mishael Taylor (MAOP, Summer 2024)
Caity Aday (Undergrad, 2024)
Suzie Dilorenzo (Undergrad, 2023)
Hiba Baaziz (Postdoc, 2021 – 2023)
Analis Smith (MAOP, Summer 2023)
John Muller (Postdoc, Summer 2023)
Hallie Avalos (Postbac, 2022-2023)
Hannah Jirsa (Undergrad, 2021-2023)
Tiffany Thorn (Postbac, 2021-2022)
Annabelle Owens (Undergrad, 2021)
Caitlyn Bareford (Undergrad, 2020-2021)

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