Meet the Team

  • Natalia Duque-Wilckens, DVM, PhD.

    Principal Investigator

  • Hannahlee Dixon

    PhD student

  • Taylor Doolittle

    PhD student

  • Jared Franges

    PhD Student

  • Yang Tang

    PhD Student

  • Hayam Morsy

    Lab manager

  • Julia Janosko

    Julia Janosko

    Undergrad researcher

  • Sydney Leake

    Sydney Leake

    Undergrad researcher

  • Lauren Malinowski

    Undergrad researcher

Former lab members

  • Richard Li

    Undergraduate researcher (2023–2024); currently pursuing a Master’s in Biotechnology at Northwestern University.

  • Helen Watson

    Undergraduate researcher (2023–2025); now working as a medical assistant at Kamm McKenzie OBGYN.

  • Jasmine Peace

    Undergraduate researcher (2024); now a lab associate in the Genomics Department at IQVIA Laboratories.