Timeline


                                                                               PI

Darius Balciunas, PhD

                                                                  Current Personnel

Justas Lazutka, PhD, Research Associate @ Vilnius University Life Sciences Center
Jaroslav Denkoivskij, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow @ Vilnius University Life Sciences Center
Edita Bakūnaitė, PhD student @ Vilnius University Life Sciences Center
Miglė Kalvaitytė, PhD Student @ Vilnius University Life Sciences Center

Past lab members and Graduate Students

Co-PI
Jorune Balciuniene, PhD, Fall 2007- Fall 2014, now Laboratory Director at Revvity
Graduate students
Gerda Matuškevičiūtė, MS 2023. Next stop: now at Thermofisher Scientific Lithuania
Leonard Burg, PhD 2020. Next stop: Postdoctoral Fellow at CHOP
Viktorija Grajevskaja, PhD 2017. Next stop: Temple University Kornberg School of Dentistry
Brandon McLaughlin, MS 2014. Next stop:  Science Teacher
Keith Rafferty, PSM 2014. Next stop: lab manager at U Penn
Keyona Gonzalez, MS 2009. Next stop: Cumberland County Community Collele.
Staff
Algirdas Žiogas, PhD
Brian Berg
Kate Slovik
Bashar Kako
Kate Walsh
Danielle Nagelberg

                                                     Undergraduate Students

Amanda Phang, Temple University, Fall 2024 – present
Joseph Zahiri, Temple University, Fall 2024 – present
Kaitlyn Tobin, Temple University, Summer 2024 – present
Sybaljan Tahirova, Temple University, Summer 2023 – present
Kotryna Paulikaitė, Vilnius University, Fall 2022 – present
Mayra Brown, Temple University, Summer 2024
Tom Coyne, Temple University, Fall 2022 – Spring 2024
Sofija Gabrilavičiūtė, Vilnius University, Spring 2022 – Summer 2023
Karolina Limanovskaja, Vilnius University, Fall 2021 – Summer 2023
Emilija Gečaitė, Vilnius University, Fall 2021 – Summer 2023
Christopher Merlo, Temple University, Summer 2022 – Spring 2023
Bilal Zia, Temple University, Fall 2021 – Spring 2023
Leah Graham, Temple University, Summer 2022 – Fall 2022
Esther Ikpeme, Summer 2022
Jesse Russotto, Summer 2022
Nicholas Fry, Spring 2020 – Summer 2022
Hetvi Patel, Summer 2021
Rushil Reddy, Spring 2021 – Summer 2021
Shannan Lowe, Summer 2019- Spring 2021, Second Place Award at 2019 Temple URP Symposium
Joshua Schaaf, Spring 2019- Spring 2020
Emily Scott, Spring 2020
Nikita Sajeev, Fall 2019 - Spring 2020
Sravya Kuchipudi, Summer 2019
Rifat Nabi,  Spring 2019
Maria Maltepes, Spring 2019
Ibshar Khandakar, Fall 2018- Spring 2019
Noah Goff, Fall 2017- Summer 2019, Michigan State PhD program
Sander Haigh, Spring 2018- Spring 2019​
Kayla Even, Summer 2018, Frances Velay Summer Research Fellowship in 2018
Evgeniya (Jane) Miroshnik, Summer 2017- Fall 2018, Frances Velay Summer Research Fellowship in 2017, PharmD student at Northeastern
Ralph St. Luce, Spring 2016- Spring 2018, Medical Student at U Penn
Nick Palmer, Spring 2016- Spring 2018, PhD student at U Penn
Helen Rueckert, Fall 2017- Spring 2018, PhD student at Duke
Travis Strominger, Spring 2017- Spring 2018
Patrick Buckman, Spring 2017- Fall 2017 
Rachel Paul, Spring 2016- Spring 2017, Arcadia University Genetic Counseling MS Program
Jasmine Wright, Zebrafish facility manager, Summer 2012- Fall 2016
Anuj Mehta, Fall 2014- Summer 2016, 2nd place award at Temple URP Symposium (Fall 2015), Medical Student at Penn State
Karen Zhang, Summer 2014- Summer 2016, PhS Student at U Penn
Geyon Lee Garcia, Summer 2015- Spring 2016, Certificate for Outstanding Presentation, ABRCMS 2015, MD/PhD Student at Pitt
Robert Kwait, Fall 2014- Spring 2015, PhD Student at Rutgers
Christopher Butterworth, Spring 2015- Fall 2015
Thomas Brandt, Spring 2015- Summer 2015
Tristan Bonawitz, Summer 2014- Fall 2014, Best poster award at Temple URP Symposium (Fall 2014)
Azam Hussain, Spring 2014- Fall 2014, Honorable Mention at Temple URP Symposium (Fall 2014), Medical Student at Temple U
Mariam Alamgir, Spring 2014
Peter Jacoby, Summer 2013- Spring 2014, 2nd place award for Undergrad Poster at Mid-Atlantic SDB meeting (2014), Medical Student at Temple 
Meg O'Brien, Spring 2013- Fall 2013
Nicole Lester, Spring 2013- Spring 2014, Research Assistant at Columbia U, Wayne State U Genetic Counseling MS program
Molly Kammen, Summer 2013- Fall 2013
Devine Thomas, Spring 2013- Summer 2013
Mae Frawley, Spring 2013
Britta Kerstetter, Spring 2013
Elizabeth Fedak,  Fall 2012- Spring 2013, Dental Student at Temple U
Kate Slovik, Summer 2012 - Summer 2013, Research Assistant at U Penn
Bashar Kako, Spring 2012 -Summer 2013, Medical Student at Temple U
Kathrine Silkaitis Fall 2012 - Spring 2013, Graduate Student at Harvard U
Jaleela Samuel, Summer 2012 - Spring 2013, to Philadelphia Forensic Science Center
Lenny Burg, Summer 2011-Summer 2013, Graduate Student at Temple U
Duy Nguyen, Spring 2012 - Spring 2013
Aaron Ungar, Spring 2012 - Spring 2013
Grace Amadio, Spring 2012 - Fall 2012
Catherine Messick, Spring 2012- Summer 2012
Preethi Gogineni, Fall 2011-Spring 2012, Medical Student at Temple U
Kathleen Walsh,  Spring 2011-Summer 2012, earned PhD from U of Oregon in 2017
Volodymyr Oliynyk, Spring 2011-Spring 2012, to Medical Diagnostics Laboratories, L.L.C.
Pegah Safabakhsh, Fall 2010 - Summer 2013, presented a poster at the 10th International Zebrafish Meeting in Madison, WI with a partial fellowship from the Genetics Society of America
Esther Kim, Summer 2010 - Fall 2010
Ga-ram Lee, Fall 2009 - Spring 2010, Temple U Dental School
Thuyvi Luong, Spring 2009 - Spring 2010 
Ruchi Patel, Fall 2008 - Spring 2009, to GlaxoSmithKline
Diana Camerota, Fall 2008 - Summer 2012
​Susan Trindle, Summer 2008
Patrick Connors, Summer 2008
Danielle Nagelberg, Spring 2008 - Summer 2011, earned PhD from NYU in 2016