Group Members

We are always looking for passionate students at diverse levels and Postdocs to join our team (see openings) !

Jump to Current, Alumni, Administrative Support.

Current

Paola Vera-Licona

Assistant professor, Group Leader

  • Postdoc with Emmanuel Barillot, Institut Curie, France
  • Postdoc with Eduardo Sontag at Rutgers University
  • PhD, Mathematics, Virginia Tech, USA
  • MSc, Mathematics, Virginia Tech, USA
  • BSc, Mathematics, UNAM, Mexico

Lauren Marazzi

MD/PhD Student

  • BSc, Bioinformatics, Connecticut College

Alex Jones

Undergraduate, Summer Intern (2022)

  • Undergraduate Student, University of Connecticut since 2020

Ananya Patil

Undergraduate, Summer Intern (2022 & 2021)

  • Undergraduate Student, Northeastern University since 2022

Zuizz Saeed

Undergraduate, Summer Intern (2022 & 2020)

  • Undergraduate Student, Boston University since 2021

Anna Kopec

High school, Summer Intern (2022)

  • Immaculate High School

Alumni

Andrew Gainer-Dewar

In the Vera-Licona Lab 2015 - 2016. Now senior software engineer at Google
Role: Postdoc

Tiffany Jann

In the Vera-Licona Lab summer 2016. Now software engineer III at Google
Role: Undergraduate, NSF REU Program

Erin Boggess

In the Vera-Licona Lab summer 2016. Now financial risk analyst at Transamerica
Role: Undergraduate, NSF REU Program

Mark Nwokocha

In the Vera-Licona Lab summer 2016. Now M.D. candidate at TTUHSC - El Paso
Role: Undergraduate summer intern, Dep Health Career Opportunity Program

Catherine Qiu

In the Vera-Licona Lab Jun 2018 - Dec 2018
Role: Undergraduate summer intern, Medicine BS/MD Program Honors Program

Luis Sordo Vieira

In the Vera-Licona Lab 2017 - 2018. Now research assistant professor at the University of Florida
Role: Postdoc

Maddie Gastonguay

In the Vera-Licona lab June 2018 to May 2020, now Graduate Student
Role: Undergraduate Honors Thesis, 2019 Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF) Awardee. Now PhD student at Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering program

Leelakrishna Channa

In the Vera-Licona Lab Summer 2018
Role: Undergraduate, UConn Health Research Program (HRP), Medicine BS/MD Program Honors Program

Emily Paul

In the Vera-Licona Lab Summer 2019 and Summer 2020. Now undergraduate student at University of Pennsylvania
Role: High school, Summer Intern (2019 & 2020)

Milan Shah

In the Vera-Licona Lab Summer 2020 and Summer 2021. Now undergraduate student at Northwestern University
Role: High school, Summer Intern (2020 & 2021)

Shreedula Balakrishnan

In the Vera-Licona Lab 2020 - 2021
Role: Undergraduate, UConn Health Research Program (HRP)

Administrative Support

Kathy Black is helping us (and other groups) with administration.