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.

Cameron Prybol

Cameron Prybol was a technician in the Lewis Lab in 2015. He left the lab to enter the Genetics graduate program at Stanford Medical school. He is currently working for a start-up in the research triangle.

Evelina Basenko

Dr. Basenko was a postdoc in the Lewis lab from 2012 - 2016 (Basenko Contributions). She accepted a position at the University of Liverpool, where she works as the fungal research community outreach liaison for the fungal genomics database, FungiDB.

Taka Sasaki

Dr. Sasaki received his PhD in the Lewis lab in 2015 (Sasaki Contributions). He currently works for Cytiva (Japan). 

Ashley Hagan

Ashley was an MS student in the lab. She is currently working as a science communications specialist for the American Society for Microbiology.

Michael Seymour

Mike Seymour was an MS student in the lab (Seymour Contributions). He is currently working as a research technician for the US-ARS.

Kelsey Lynch

Dr. Kelsey Lynch launched the Lewis lab as a research technician in 2011 - 2012 (Lynch Contributions). She went on to receive her PhD from the University of Washington and is currently a postdoc at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center.