Graduate
Student Training
The Burn
and Shock Trauma Institute is home to graduates students from
several different departments and programs of the Graduate College
of Loyola University.
Our students
are enrolled in graduate programs in the Department
of Microbiology and Immunology, the Department
of Physiology, and the Department
of Cell Biology, Neurobiology, and Anatomy. Students from
the Program
in Molecular Biology, the
Alcohol Research Program and the Program
in Immunology and Aging are also housed at the Institute.
Graduate
Students
John Karavitis, B.S.
Degree: B.S., University of Illinois, Chicago
Mentor: Elizabeth J. Kovacs, Ph.D.
Research: Mechanisms by which acute alcohol
exposure suppresses macrophage phagocytosis
Status: Ph.D. candidate, Department of Cell Biology,
Neurobiology, and Anatomy
email: jkaravitis@lumc.edu |
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Kristen Lauing, B.S.
Degree: B.S., University of South Carolina,
Columbia, SC
Mentor: John J. Callaci, Ph.D.
Research: The effects of alcohol on the Wnt
signaling pathway in bone fracture healing
Status: Ph.D. candidate, Department of Cell Biology,
Neurobiology, and Anatomy
email: klauing@lumc.edu |
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Magdalena Przybycien
Degree: BS, Biology, Loyola University Chicago., MS, Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, Loyola University Chicago
Mentor: Toni Pak, PhD
Research: Neurobiological effects of binge alcohol exposure during puberty
Status: Ph.D. candidate, Neuroscience, 2007 to date
E-mail: mprzybycien@lumc.edu |
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Juan Rendon
Degree: BSN, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Mentor: Mashkoor Choudnry, Ph.D.
Research: Effects of acute alcohol intoxication on post burn intestinal immune response
Status: MD/PhD candidate in Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy - 2009 to date
E-mail: jrendon@lumc.edu |
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Philip Roper
Degree: B.S., University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
Mentor: John J. Callaci, Ph.D.
Research: Effects of alcohol on the Wnt signaling pathway in bone fracture healing
Status: Ph.D. candidate, Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, 2008 to date
Email: proper@lumc.edu |
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Ian Vaagenes
Degree: B.A., St. Olaf College
Mentor: Gwendolyn Kartje M.D., Ph.D.
Research:Alcohol and truamatic brain injury
Status: Ph.D. candidate, Neuroscience, 2009 to date
E-mail: ivaagenes@lumc.edu |
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Anita Zahs
Degree: B.A., Simpson College, Indianola, IA
Mentor: Elizabeth J. Kovacs, Ph.D.
Research: Effect of acute ethanol and burn injury on intestinal permeability and the role of myosin light chain kinase
Status: Ph.D. candidate, Cellular and Molecular Biochemistry, 2007 to date
E-mail: azahs1@lumc.edu |
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Former Graduate
Students
Eric Boehmer, M.D., Ph.D.
Degree: B.A., Lawrence University, Appleton, WI,
Ph.D., Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy, M.D., Loyola
University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine.
Mentor: Elizabeth J. Kovacs, Ph.D.
Research: How aging influences the macrophage
pro-inflammatory response to pathogenic stimuli.
Status: M.D/Ph.D. program 2001-2007. Cell Biology,
Neurobiology & Anatomy. Ph.D. 2005. Effects of
age on mouse macrophage response to inflammatory stimuli.
M.D. 2007.
email: eboehme@mac.edu
Current Position: International Health Residency
Program, Huntington, WV |
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Ahalia Ferreiro, Ph.D..
Degree: M.S., Javeriana University, Colombia
Mentor: Luisa A. DiPietro, D.D.S., Ph.D.
Research: MCP-1 as a regulator of collagen fibrillogenesis
Status:
Ph.D. 2006, Molecular Biology
email: ahalia_herrera@hotmail.com |
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Daniel Fitzgerald, M.S.
Degree: B.S., Loyola University Chicago
Mentor: Elizabeth J. Kovacs, Ph.D.
Research: Ethanol impairs the inflammatory response
during dermal wound healing
Status:
M.S. 2004, Cell Biology,
Neurobiology & Anatomy
email:
fitzbiochem@gmail.com
Current Position: Research Assistant, Arthritis
Center, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago |
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Joanna Goral, Ph.D.
Degree: M.S., Wroclaw University, Poland
Mentor: Elizabeth J. Kovacs, Ph.D.
Research: Mechanisms responsible for alteration of immune
response upon burn and alcohol exposure
Status:
Ph.D. 2005, Acute ethanol exposure inhibits Toll-like
Receptor mediated inflammatory response in murine
macrophages. Cell Biology, Neurobiology,
and Anatomy
email: jgoral@midwestern.edu
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy,
Midwestern University, Downers Grove, Illinois |
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Eva Murdoch, Ph.D.
Degree: B.A., St. Xavier University
Mentor: Elizabeth J. Kovacs, Ph.D.
Research: Effects of acute ethanol exposure on neurogenic inflammation
Ph.D. 2009. Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology, & Anatomy
Current Position: Assistant Professorial Lecturer, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Saint Xavier University, Chicago, IL |
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Vanessa Nomellini, B.S.
Degree: B.S., DePaul University, Chicago, IL
Mentor: Elizabeth J. Kovacs, Ph.D.
Research: How aging affects pulmonary complications
after burn injury
Status: 2003 to date. M.D./ Ph.D. program
email:
vnomellini@lumc.edu |
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Katherine A. Radek, Ph.D.
Degree: M.S., Northern Illinois University
Mentor: Luisa A. DiPietro, D.D.S., Ph.D.
Research: Effects of acute ethanol exposure on
angiogenesis and the extracellular matrix in healing
wounds Status: Ph.D. 2005. Cell, Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy; Division of Biochemistry
email: kradek1@lumc.edu
Current Status: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Surgery and Burn & Shock Trauma Institute, Loyola University Medical Center |
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Megan Schrementi, Ph.D.
Degree: B.S., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Mentor: Luisa A. DiPietro, D.D.S., Ph.D.
Research: Site specific differences in wound healing
Status: Ph.D. 2006, Site-specific differences in
wound healing. Department of Microbiology and
Immunology
email:
mschreme@uic.edu
Current Status: Post-doctoral Fellow,
University of IL, Chicago |
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Wenting Sun, M.S., M.D.
Degree: M.D., Beijing University Health Science Center
Mentor: Luisa A. DiPietro, D.D.S., Ph.D.
Research: Effect of ethanol on endothelial cell function
Status: M.S. 2006. , Department of Molecular
Biology.
email:
wentingsun1978@yahoo.com |
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