We have hosted fantastic undergraduate students from many different disciplines and institutions. Depending upon previous research experience, student participation ranged from learning from laboratory personnel how to design and execute a research project to publishing a paper on their own original work. They all contributed their unique talents toward the success of our laboratory and we're proud of their many subsequent accomplishments and accolades.
Undergraduate Student: June–July 2018
Funding: Baylor College of Medicine SMART Program
Current Position: Senior at Louisiana State University majoring in Biochemistry and Spanish
Undergraduate Student: June–August 2017
Funding: Baylor College of Medicine SMART Program
Current position: Junior at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.
Undergraduate Student: June–August 2016
Funding: Baylor College of Medicine SMART Program
Participant from Xavier University, New Orleans, La., majoring in Biology
Undergraduate Student: January 2012–May 2016
Rice University
Funding: Rice University Honors Program
Awards: Ronald McDonald House Charity Asian Scholarship–2011
Gee Family Association Education Fund Scholarship–2011
Gordon R. West Scholarship 2011–2012
Rice University President's Honor Roll–2012
Current Position: Medical Student
The University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
Undergraduate Student: May–August 2014
Funding: Baylor College of Medicine SMART Program
Undergraduate Student: August–December 2012
Molecular Genetic Technology Program at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Undergraduate Student: Sept. 2011–May 2012
Molecular Genetic Technology Program at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Award: First place, undergraduate category, MD Anderson Trainee Day, Houston, Texas, June 2012
Undergraduate Student: May 2010–April 2011
Molecular Genetic Technology Program at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Award: First place, best poster, MD Anderson Trainee Research competition, Houston, Texas, May 2011
Undergraduate Student: June–August 2010
HGSC Genetics/Genomics Research Education and training Program, Participant from The University of Texas, El Paso, Texas
Funding: HGSC Genetics/Genomics Research Education and Training Program
Undergraduate Student: August 2009–April 2010
Molecular Genetic Technology Program at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston Texas
Award: First place, best poster, Texas Association for Clinical Laboratory Sciences Conference, El Paso, Texas, April 2010
Undergraduate Student: May 2008–July 2008
Funding: Baylor College of Medicine SMART Program
Participant from University of Houston, Houston, Texas
Undergraduate Student: May–July 2006
Funding: Baylor College of Medicine SMART Program
Participant from the University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyo.
Ph.D.: 2013
Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.
Undergraduate Student: May–July 2005
Funding: Baylor College of Medicine SMART Program
Participant from Paul Quinn College, Dallas, Texas
Undergraduate Student: January–April 2005
Rice University, Houston, Texas
Undergraduate Student: May–July 2003
Rice University
Funding: Program in Mathematics and Molecular Biology
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Md.
Undergraduate Student: June–August 2003
Funding: Baylor College of Medicine SMART Program
Participant from the University of Puerto Rico
Undergraduate Student: June–August 2002
University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Ark.
Funding: W. M. Keck Center for Computational Biology undergraduate fellowship
Current Position: Neurosurgeon at Orlando Health, Orlando, Fla.
Undergraduate Student: June–August 2002
Funding: Baylor College of Medicine SMART Program
Participant from Mount Saint Mary's, Los Angeles, Calif.
Current Position: R.N.
Undergraduate Student: February 2001–June 2002
Funding: NSF grant (ELZ, P.I.)
Current Position: Lab Coordinator at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Undergraduate Student: February–September 1998
B.S. Rice University, Houston, Texas
M.D. Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas
Funding: Burroughs Wellcome Fund New Investigator Award (ELZ, P.I.)
Residency: Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Mo.
Current Position: Neurosurgeon and Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas
Undergraduate Student: June–August 1998
Funding: Baylor College of Medicine SMART Program
Participant from Southern Mississippi University
M.D. at the University of Virginia, Arlington, Va.
Current Position: Neurologist UCHealth (University of Colorado), Longmont, Colo.
Undergraduate Student: October 1997–June 1998
Rice University
Funding: Burroughs Wellcome Fund New Investigator Award (ELZ, P.I.)
M.D. and Residency University of Alabama Medical School, Birmingham, Ala.
Fellowship: Northwestern University, Chicago, Ill.
Current Position: Oncologist at Tennessee Oncology, Dickson, Tenn.
