Current Lab Members
Shihoko Kojima Ph.D.
Principle Investigator
Studied a bacterial toxin as an undergrad, then became fascinated by the circadian clock and “clock” genes, especially by their names. Love research + science no doubt, but even more passionate about soccer, as I have been playing ever since I was eight.
Lin Miao
Ph.D. Student
(Biological Sciences)
I am from China. I got my Bachelor’s degree in Tianjin University, and my Master’s degree in University of Southern California. In the lab, I am working on the question of how is the rhythmic and tissue-specific Per2AS expression regulated. Outside the lab, I enjoy traveling, doing sports and playing some music.
John Schafer
Undergraduate Research Assistant (Biological Sciences)
Weizhi Lin
Undergraduate Research Assistant (Biochemistry)
Alumni
Postdocs
Chuanli (Julie) Zhou, Ph.D. (2016-2017, Current: Postdoc at UT Southwestern Medical Center)
Rebecca Mosig, Ph.D. (2019-2020, Current: Landos Biopharma. Inc)
Graduate Students
Benjamin Unruh, Ph.D. (2017 -2023, Scientific Information Analyst @ NIH, Medical Science Liaison @ ITM Isotope Technologies Munich)
Evan Littleton, Ph.D. (2020 -2025, Postdoc @ University of Maryland, College Park)
Undergraduate Researchers
Veronica Taylor (2014-2015, then Pharm.D. program, VCU)
Landon Frazier (2015-2017, then M.D. program, Georgetown University)
Allie Castaneda (2016-2017, then Ph.D. program, Virginia Tech. Current: Lab Instructor, Ohio State University)
Jake Deslauriers (2016-2017, then Ph.D. program, NC State. Current: Scientist, Life Edit Therapeutics)
Naseem Maghzian (2017)
Thomas Salazar (2017)
Connie Magarelli (2017-2018, then D.O. program. Liberty University)
Camille Schrier (2017-2018, then Pharm.D. program, VCU, Miss Virginia 2019, Miss America 2020)
Deigo Flores (2018)
Pooja Shethna (2018)
Melinda Rieck (2018)
Kevin He (2017-2019, Current: Ph.D. program, UCLA)
Michaela Gosting (2018-2019, Current: Genetic Counseling program, Univ. Maryland)
Maddie Childress (2019-2020, Current: M.D. program, VCU)
Sophia Sobrado (2021 Summer MAOP)
Ayana Jackson (2019-2021, Current: M.D. program, VCU)
Naya Nerikar (2021-2022)
Maisy Rhoades (2021-2022, Current: P.A. program, Northwest University)
Kyle Batty (2021-2022)
Brady Stipancic (2021-2022)
Logan Peters (2022)
Ashlee Pieno (2021 – 2023)
Katherine Ngo (2022 – 2024) (M.S. in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, George Mason)
Claire Wildermann (2023-2024)
Mike Tran (2023-2024)
Luke Stanley (2023 – 2025)
John Schaefer (2024-2025)
Weizhi Lin (2024-2025)
High School Researchers
Lily Zhu (2016-2017)
Aarati Pokharel (2016-2017)
Norah Griggs (2021 Summer internship)
Technical Staff
Zachary Erwin (2015-2016)
Kerry Gendreau (2015-2017, Current: postdoc, Virginia Tech)
Kaysha Perrin (2019-2020)
Max Rivers (2021)
Ayati Konar (2021)
Darrell Storholt (2021)
Juan Hernandez (2022-2023, Curent: Ph.D. program, Virginia Tech)
Douglas Weidemann (2022-2023)