Quanita Choudhury received a B.S. in Biological Sciences (Microbiology emphasis) from the University of Tennessee. She joined the graduate program in Microbiology and the Lewis Lab at the University of Georgia in 2019-2020. Dr. Choudhury graduated in 2024 and is currently working as a postdoctoral fellow.

Felicia Ebot-Ojong received her B.S. in Biology from the University of Georgia. She joined the graduate program in Genetics and the Lewis Lab at the University of Georgia in 2019-2020. She is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow (2021). Dr. Ebot-Ojong graduated in 2024 and is currently working as a postdoctoral fellow.

Collin joined the lab as a summer undergraduate student in 2021 and returned as a research technician in 2022 - 2024 . He is a currently a trainee in the MD-PhD program at the Yale School of Medicine. (Lab contributions)

Dr. Chandler Goldman received a PhD in 2020 at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, where he worked with Dr. Graydon Gonsalvez to elucidate mechanisms that control cell fate decisions. He joined the Lewis Lab in the Fall of 2020. Chandler is a member of the instructional faculty at Clemson University. 

Dr. Abigail Ameri received her B.S in Bioinformatics from Ramapo College of New Jersey, where she investigated salt tolerance in Spartina alterniflora. She joined the graduate program at UGA in 2015, and was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship in 2016. She received her PhD in the Lewis lab in 2020 (Lab Publications). Currently at Azenta Life Sciences. 

Dr. Aileen Ferraro received a BS in Biology from Southern Connecticut State University in 2014. She joined the UGA graduate program in 2015 and was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship in 2015. Dr. Ferraro received her PhD in the Lewis Lab in 2020 (Lab Publications). Currently at Twist Biosciences. 

Yael Bar-Peled

Yael Bar-Peled joined the lab as a research technician in 2019. She left the lab in 2021 to pursue graduate studies in Genetic Counseling at University of Alabama-Birmingham School of Medicine. 

Masayuki Kamei

Dr. Kamei received his B.S. and his PhD from the School of Life Sciences at Toyo University in Japan, where he worked with Neurospora crassa to investigate cellular responses to antifungal drugs. He joined the Lewis lab as a postdoc in 2014. He made multiple contributions in the lab, including identification of the chromatin remodeler ISWI as a key factor for transcriptional silencing in N. crassa (Kamei Contributions). Following his postdoctoral work, Dr. Kamei accepted a position with Abcam.