Alexandria Szalanczy
2nd year PhD Student – Matriculated 2018
Mentor(s): Leah Solberg Woods, PhD
Program: Molecular Medicine and Translational Science
Alexandria (Lexie) Szalanczy earned her B.S. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. After moving to Winston-Salem from Michigan, she began working in the Solberg Woods lab investigating potiential causal genes for adiposity traits. (She is also a dog-mom to a very bossy Chow Chow/Golden Retriever mix named Roman.)
Payton Valure
1st year Master’s student – Matriculated 2019
Mentor(s): Carol Shively, PhD
Program: Biomedical Science Research
Payton is a first year student looking to get her Master’s degree in biomedical science. She graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 2017 with a bachelor’s in biomedical science and a minor in psychology. After graduation she hopes to become a dentist and one day open her own dental practice.
Kip Zimmerman
5th year PhD Student – Matriculated 2015
Mentor(s): Carl Langefeld, PhD
Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Kip is a PhD candidate developing methods for improving reproducibility in the analysis of single-cell data. He is involved on a number of projects involving the analysis of next-generation sequence data.