HHMI Research Mentor Program

A one-on-one research opportunity for undergraduates to work with a mentor.

The research mentor program presents transfer students with the opportunity to acquire new skills and knowledge while working with a mentor in a University research lab on a unique research project. Research topics are chosen by the graduate students, postdocs, or faculty members who serve as HHMI Research Mentors. In the fall, mentors present their research topic in BIOL 3001 Nature of Science and Research. Interested students chose a project that intrigues them and then interview with the mentor for that project. If it is a good fit, the student begins working as an HHMI undergraduate researcher in the spring. Undergraduate researchers and their research mentor will work in the lab of the primary investigator.

Meet the people in our program:
2013
Undergraduate Researchers Research Mentors Primary Investigator

Basem Al-Shayeb

Heather Hudson

Jerrold Vitek

Cassandra Barrett

Andrew Wikenheiser

David Reddish

Kailyn Benson

Jessica Fiege

Yoji Shimizu

Chris Borgen

Scott Schachtele

James Lokensgard

Vera Boateng

Matthew Z. Anderson

Judith Berman

Jessica Braun

Matt Burgess

David Tilman

Tyler Burgoyne

Cynthia Forsman

Anna Petryk

Tannor Court

Misha Golynskiy

Burckhard Seelig

Tenaya Egbert

Gerd Schweinitz

Joseph Slaughter

Robyn Leary

Anidya Bagchi

Brad Felske

Irina St. Louis

Paul Bohjanen

Jackie Fisher

Michael Autry

David Thomas

Jordan Friedlein

Kacey Guenther

Peter Ronning

Yuen-Yi Tseng

Anidya Bagchi

Edward Higgins

Leah Colvin Wanshura

James McCarthy

Ryan Host

Joe Navratil

Sadie Hebert

Linda McLoon

Mahad Ibrahim

Manohar Mutnal

James Lokensgard

Eza Kadir

Dylan Verden

Katherine Weiner

Geoffrey Ghose

Shun Khor

Christy Willoughby

Linda McCloon

James Lawton II

Casey Godwin

James Cotner

Rob Lowe

Phong Nguyen

John Lee

David Thomas

Shane Nebeck

Abi Muralidharan

Jerrold Vitek

Desiree Schaefers

Katrina Schrode

Mark Bee

Heather Soika

Kevin Dorn

David Marks

Jinsol Sung

Yaya Wang

Erik Peterson

Katie Tuininga

Ryan Runquist

David Moeller

2012
Undergraduate Researchers Research Mentors Primary Investigator

Maggie Chan

Yaya Wang

Erik Peterson

Stephen Cross

Jessica Nguyen

William Ratcliff

Michael Travisano

Yuying Dai

Samantha Witta

Amanda Brosnahan

David Brown

Nick DesLauriers

Michael Autry

David Thomas

Elizabeth Fronek

Linda Baughn

Brian Van Ness

Eddie Gamayunov

Mark Held

Claudia Schmidt-Dannert

Grace Goepfrich

Cynthia Forsman

Anna Petryk

Kaltum Hassan

Benjamin Perrin

James Ervasti

Cassandra Ho

Elizabeth Ricci

Beverly Flood

Jake Bailey

Eric Homan

Sadie Hebert

Linda McLoon

Taylor Kann

Caroline Mauvezin

Thomas Neufeld

Lisa Keacher

Holly Stessman

Brian Van Ness

An T. Le

Lindsay Godin

Angela Panoskaltsis-Mortari

Sivun Leng

Hatice Bilgic

Emily Baechler Gillespie

Mony Mak

Mai Lee Moua

Irina St. Louis

Paul Bohjanen

Jesse Nowicki

Zarath Summers

Jeff Gralnick

Donghyun Park

Naoki Yamanaka

Michael O'Connor

Amanda Ranat

David Babson

Claudia Schmidt-Dannert

Christopher Schwebach

Valerie Wong

Georgiana May

Sam Seramur

Jeremy Yoder

Peter Tiffin

Dalika Tiev

Leah Colvin Wanshura

James McCarthy