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Current Lab Members

Wesley R. Legant Ph.D., Principal Investigator

Positions:

Assistant Professor Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Pharmacology
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Training:

Post Doc, HHMI Janelia Research Campus, 2012-2017
Ph.D., Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, 2006-2012
B.S., BME, Washington University in St. Louis, 2002-2005

Links:

Pubmed, GoogleScholar

Fariha Rahman

BME Graduate Student

Training:

M.S., Bioengineering, University of Washington, 2020
B.A., Molecular and Cell Biology,  U.C. Berkeley 2018

Max Hockenberry

Cell Biology Graduate Student

Training:

B.S., Quantitative Biology, B.A. Biological Physics, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, 2020

Chelsea Yang

Biophysics Graduate Student

Training:

B.S., Chemistry, U.C. Berkeley, 2020

Christian Arthur

BME Graduate Student

Training:

B.S., Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, 2022

Victoria Augoustides

Biophysics Graduate Student

Training:

B.S., Biological Engineering, North Carolina State University, 2022

Andrew Ulmer

BME Graduate Student

Training:

B.S., Biomedical Engineering, University of Mississippi, 2023

Lab Alumni

Regan Moore Ph.D.

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Biology, Bennett College, NC

Legant Lab Position: Post Doctoral Researcher

Training:

Ph.D., Biology, Duke University 2018

B.S., Biology, Ohio University, 2012

Yu Shi Ph.D.

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Physics, Western University, Ontario CA

Legant Lab Position: Post Doctoral Researcher

Training:

Ph.D., Physics, Johns Hopkins University 2019

M.S., Physics, Johns Hopkins University 2015

B.S., Physics, University of Science and Technology China, 2012

Timothy Daugird Ph.D.

Current Position: Post Doctoral Researcher, UNC – Chapel Hill

Legant Lab Position: Pharmacology Graduate Student

Training:

B.A., Biology, UNC – Chapel Hill 2017

Ph.D., Pharmacology, UNC – Chapel Hill 2024

Legant Lab Undergraduate Alumni

Keshav Patel – Ph.D. Candidate, University of Utah Mathematics

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