GSEC Member Roster

GRADUATE STUDENT EDUCATION COMMITTEE MEMBER ROSTER

Ashish Kapoor, Ph.D., IMM Center for Human Genetics – Chair
Rodrigo Morales, PhD, Neurology – Co-Chair
Kevin Morano, PhD, Senior Vice President, Academic and Faculty Affairs and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, McGovern Medical School – Ex officio
John H. Byrne, PhD, Associate Dean, Research – Ex officio
Alejandro Aballay, PharmD, PhD, Dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Program Directors and Co-Directors 

Kartik Venkatachalam, PhD, Neuroscience, Director
Rodrigo Morales, PhD, Neuroscience, Co-Director, Committee Co-Chair
Kristin Eckel-Mahan, Ph.D, Molecular and Translational Biology, Director
Kendra Carmon, PhD, Molecular and Translational Biology, Co-Director
Anna Konovalova, PhD, Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Director
Anne-Marie Krachler, PhD, Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Co-Director
Rachel Miller, Ph.D., Genetics and Epigenetics

Term Expires 2026

Bo Hu, PhD, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Ashish Kapoor, PhD, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Committee Chair
Callie Kwartler, PhD, Internal Medicine

Term Expires 2027

Shuning Huang, PhD, Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging
Eunhee Kim, PhD, Neurosurgery
Andrea Stavoe, PhD, Neurobiology and Anatomy
Cheryl Varghese, PhD, Pediatrics
Sidney Wang, PhD, Institute of Molecular Medicine

Term Expires 2028

Alexis Bavencoffe, PhD, Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
Gabriel Fries, PhD, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Wen Li, PhD, Internal Medicine
Nicholas Dunbar, PhD, Orthopaedic Surgery

Student Members

Yueh-Ming (Camellia) Shyu – Therapeutics and Pharmacology/Molecular and Translational Biology
Haoyi Yang – Neuroscience
Weerakkody Ramasinghe – Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Kiara Bornes – Genetics and Epigenetics
Thao Nguyen – Immunology
Catalina Valdes Bustamante – Neuroscience

Program Manager
Kimberly Campbell
Office:(713)500-5605, MSB 7.024