Lab Members


Terry Lechler, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator

Terry received his PhD from Harvard University and completed his postdoctoral training at Rockefeller University. He started his lab at Duke University in 2006.

terry.lechler@duke.edu

Julie Underwood

Research Analyst

julie.underwood@duke.edu

Michael Scales, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Associate

michael.scales@duke.edu

Taylor Hinnant, M.S.

Graduate Student

Taylor.Hinnant@duke.edu

Alexandra Prado Mantilla

Graduate Student

Alexandra.Prado.Mantilla@duke.edu

Alec D’Alessandro

Graduate Student

alec.dalessandro@duke.edu

Min (Mindy) Lee

Graduate Student 

min.lee464@duke.edu

Sophia Link

Graduate Student

sophia.link@duke.edu

Harrison Kane

Undergraduate

harrison.kane@duke.edu

Rajan Karsan

Undergraduate

rajan.karsan@duke.edu

 

Sierra Dunlap

Undergraduate

sierra.dunlap@duke.edu

 

 

Lab Alumni

Postdoctoral Associates

Yong-Bae Kim – CEO ReCerise Therapeutics

Angel Morrow – Biological Data Scientist at Novozymes

Wenxiu Ning – PI, Yunnan University

Samriddha Ray – Research Scientist, U Mass Worchester

Kaelyn Sumigray – Assistant Professor at Yale University

Sha Wang – Microscope Specialist at Princeton University

Graduate Students

Daniel Hlavaty

Maggie Bara – Scientist, Tome Biosciences, Boston, MA

Rebecca Moreci – Project Leader, Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute

Kwabena Badu-Nkansah – Postdoc at UC Davis with Sean Collins

Andrew Muroyama – Assistant Professor at UCSD

Nicholas Poulson – Clinical Team Lead, RHO, Durham, NC

Lindsey Seldin – Assistant Professor at Emory University

Kaelyn Sumigray – Assistant Professor at Yale University

 

Undergraduate Researchers

Murisi Zimbwa- Undergraduate 

Bowen Kim-Undergraduate

Caroline Jo- Undergraduate

Dongwon Lee

Celina Ma – Undergraduate

Kristin Knouse – Assistant Professor of Biology, MIT

Rebecca Leylek – Stanford Immunology Graduate Program, NSF Fellowship

Harry Liang – Technician at the Broad Institute

Zhe Ma – UCF College of Medicine, Current resident at The Mount Sinai Hospital

Jeff Zhang – University of Pennsylvania Dental School

Michelle Chen

Beau Blass

Meghan Hu

 

Previous Technicians

Philomena Onasanya

Henry Foote – Pediatrics resident at Duke University Medical Center, attended UNC Medical School

Jeff Maycock – Tissue Culture Facility Manager, UNC

Amanda Snyder – Physician

Michael Terwilliger – Business Analyst at IQVIA