Fornilab

Lab Members

Dr. Paolo Emanuele Forni, PI

Noah LeFever, PhD Student
Nik Mathias, PhD student
Nikki Dolphin, PhD student
Rico Amato, PhD student

Charisse Martin Master’s student
Alexis Semon Master’s student

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Past lab memebers


  • Dr. Ed Zandro Taroc, PhD student, Postdoc
  • Raghu R Katreddi, PhD student, Postdoc
  • Jennifer M Lin, PhD student, Postdoc
  • Tyler Mitchell, Master’s Student, Lab Tech
  • Ankana Naik, PhD student, Postdoc
  • Aparna Prasad, Postdoc

Former Post bacs

  • Joshua R. James
  • Alison Pehl

Former Undergraduate students

  • Tanishka Wiggins
  • Carmela Polizzi
  • Noah Hake, Undergraduate Summer Intern  Summer 2022
  • Joshua R. James
  • Alison Pehl
  • Ezinma Dennis
  • Victoria Stoffel
  • Monique Duffus (CSTEP)
  • Ronnie Thomas
  • Kristah Nowell
  • Adam Frances
  • Nicholas Geismar
  • Rabia Jasmin–> CityMD Urgent Care Facility
  • Detchen C. Samdrup–>American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine
  • Elizabeth Genis ***Honor thesis***
  • Victoria Stoffel–>Drexel Medical School
  • Waasae Hussain–>Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, Fort Worth, Texas
  • Gina Rosen
  • Emily Mayo–>University of South Florida, Cell, Molecular, and Microbiology program
  • Hassan Waly
  • Aisha Ulukaya
  • Ed Zandro Taroc–> Molecular, Cellular, Developmental and Neural Biology (MCDN) PhD program at the University at Albany.
  • Morgan Nicolas–>Ohio State University College of Pharmacy.
  • Samuel Ortiz (CSTEP)
  • Magdalis Mendoza (CSTEP)
  • Jesus Frias   (CSTEP)->Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley-> UALBANY MCDN graduate program
  • Morgan Nicolas (CSTEP)–>Ohio State University College of Pharmacy

High school students

  • Yoosong Song,  Emma Willard High School (STEAM intern 2018-2019)
  • Emily Ma (Emma Willard STEAM intern) –> Brown University
  • Kiran Singh, Emma Willard School, STEAM program 2017-2018

Rotation students

  • Saumya Gupta
  • Taiwo (Annabelle) Ogunyale,
  • Emmanuel Adade
  • Philip Bender
  • Alli Catizone
  • Nick Moskwa
  • Amber Altrieth
  • Kelsey Fleming