Alumni

Previous Postdoctoral Researchers

Carolyn Hodo, DVM, PhD, DACVP Postdoctoral Research Associate (part-time) chodo@cvm.tamu.edu Visit Carolyn’s website here.

Jillian Wormington, MS, PhD Postdoctoral Research Associate jwormington@cvm.tamu.edu Visit Jillian’s website here.

Previous Graduate Students

	Jaime Rodriguez, MS MS in Wildlife & Fisheries Science, 2014 Co-advised by Dr. Jessica Light Currently MD student at UT-Southwestern Texas A&M University Diversity Fellow		Lowell Pigott, MS Non-thesis MS in Veterinary Public Health, 2014 Currently DVM Student at Western University of Health Sciences
	Katlyn Rosenbaum, MS Non-thesis MS in Veterinary Public Health, 2015 Currently DVM student at Texas A&M University		Chelsea Young, MS Non-thesis MS in Veterinary Public Health–Epidemiology, 2016 Currently DVM student at Texas A&M University
	Miranda Bertram, DVM, PhD PhD in Biomedical Science– Epidemiology, 2016 Currently postdoctoral researcher at the USDA Plum Island Disease Research Center CVM Merit Fellow Dissertation: Whooping crane conservation medicine		Rachel Curtis-Robles, PhD PhD in Biomedical Science– Epidemiology, 2016 Currently postdoctoral researcher in the CVM Hamer Lab NSF Graduate Research Fellow CVM Merit Fellow Dissertation: Eco-epidemiology of Chagas disease in Texas
	Carolyn Hodo, DVM, DACVP, PhD PhD in Veterinary Pathobiology, 2017 Co-advised by Dr. Jane Welsh Currently postdoctoral researcher in the CVM Hamer Lab NIH T32 Research Fellow, 2014-2017 Dissertation: Mammalian reservoirs of Trypanosoma cruzi		Bailee Ethridge, MS Non-thesis MS in Veterinary Public Health–Epidemiology, 2018
	Justin Bejcek, MS MS in Veterinary Public Health– Epidemiology, 2018 Thesis: Triatomine identification and outreach		Michelle Dembrosky, MS Non-thesis MS in Veterinary Public Health–Epidemiology, 2019
	Cyrena Peterson, MS Non-thesis MS in Veterinary Public Health: Epidemiology, 2019

Previous Veterinary & Public Health Students

	Trevor Tenney VMSRTP, 2013 Reseach project: Shelter dogs & vector-borne pathogens		Katlin Johnson VMSRTP, 2013 Research project: Molecular diagnostics of Trypanosoma cruzi infections
	Juliette Comeaux DVM Student Researcher, 2014–2015 Research project: Trypanosoma cruzi in feral swine		Alan Mai MPH Student Researcher, 2014–2015 Practicum topic: Blood meal analysis of kissing bugs
	Nicole Bertolini VMSRTP, 2015 Research project: Rattus rattus in the ecology of Chagas disease		Chloe Goodwin VMSRTP, 2015 Research project: Bat reservoirs of diverse trypanosomes
	Jessica Noll Visiting Brazilian DVM Student, 2015 Brazil Scientific Mobility Program		Usman Ghumman, MD MPH Student Researcher, Spring 2016 Practicum topic: Analysis of medical records of working dogs
	Rosa Banuelos VMSRTP, 2016 Research project: Cardiac pathology in wild coyotes		Elise Birkner VMSRTP, 2016 Research project: Wildlife reservoirs of Trypanosoma cruzi at a nonhuman primate facility
	Bhagath Chirra, MPH PhD Student Researcher (From Texas A&M Health Science Center) Practicum project: Next generation sequence analysis of triatomine bloodmeals		Valery Roman-Cruz, MPH Research Assistant VRoman-Cruz@cvm.tamu.edu | (979) 458-4924
	Megan Ellis VMSRTP, 2017 (From CSU) Research project: Cardiac ECG abnormalities in canine Chagas disease		Sarah Slack VMSRTP, 2017 Research project: Feral cats and urban opossums in the ecology of Trypanosoma cruzi
	Julia Purnell VMSRTP, 2017 Research project: Genetic strain variation of Trypanosoma cruzi		Erin Edwards, DVM, MS, DACVP Pathology Resident Research, 2016–2017
	Andres Castro VMSRTP, 2018		Becky Dowd VMSRTP Summer ’19

Previous Undergraduate Students

Adrian Castellanos Wildlife & Fisheries Science, 2012–2013	Frida Cano Entomology, 2013–2014	Mathew Olcha Biomedical Sciences, 2013
Tyler Smith Forensics, 2013	Michael Sanders Entomology, 2013–2014	Taylor Hollmann Biomedical Sciences, 2014
Katelyn Wagner Wilidife & Fisheries, MSU, 2013–2014	Erica Holcomb Biomedical Sciences, 2013–2014	Zeb Thomas Entomology, 2013–2014
Sarah Noe Biomedical Sciences, 2014	Ryan Pugh Business, 2014	Faith Weeks Biomedical Sciences, 2014
Connor Grantham Biomedical Sciences, 2014	Lauren Russell Genetics, 2014	Chris Beck Biomedical Sciences, 2014–2015
Chelsea Lindsay Biomedical Sciences, 2015	Angela Atkins Biomedical Sciences, 2014–2015	Amani Bourji Tick Research Assistant, 2015–2016
Adam Curtis Engineering, 2013–2017	Jose Silva	Roukaya Mabizari
Nidhi Patel	Hannah Meyers	Cassidy Gillum
Ashley Cubb