Lab Members and Alumni

Undergraduate students work in our lab both during the academic year and as paid research assistants during the summer. Read below for info on some of the current lab members and lab alumni. If you are a current AU student and are interested in becoming part of our group email Mason Posner.

Much of the lab was at the 2025 OHZU meeting. From left to right: Sydney McMillan ’25, Maddie Dolenga ’25, Taylor Garver, Ella Ives, Erica Samples ’25, and Tori Haggit ’25. Maddie will be starting medical school at LMU-DCOM Knoxville in the Fall of 2025. Erica will be entering the College of Optometry at The Ohio State University.

Taylor Garver is finishing her undergraduate degree in the Cleveland Clinic Medical Lab Science program. Bryce Patterson ’23 is in the DO program at Lake Erie College of Medicine

Teddy Togliatti ’25 works at Ohio Health and is currently applying to medical school.

Madison Suttle ’22 and Emma Arra ’24. Madison is a sample processing technician at Charles River Laboratories and Emma is a lab technician in a CAR-T cell lab at the Cleveland Clinic with previous experience at the FDA.

Emmaline Kepp ’19 and Brandon Andrew ’18. Emmaline is a cell culture technologist at a biotechnology company. Brandon earned his MS in Entrepreneurial Biotechology at Case Western Reserve University and is a project manager in the healthcare entreprenuership industry.

Kelly Murray ’16 went on to earn her MS in Molecular Biology at Cornell University and is now an Assistant Professor of Biology at Tompkins Cortland Community College.

A former lab trip to the Great Lakes Vision meeting on The Ohio State University campus with Jackie Skiba ’10, Phillip Wages ’11, and Amy Drossman ’11. Jackie works in quality control at the J.M. Smucker company in Ohio, Phillip went on to get his PhD in toxicology at UNC Chapel Hill and is an Associate Director at Estee Lauder, and Amy is a Doctor of Optometry.

Becky Richards ’04 and Mike Danko ’04. Becky went on to earn her MD/PhD at Oregon Health and Science University and is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a specialty in pediatric oncology. Mike earned his MD at The Ohio State University and is an anesthesiologist.

Check back for more history on past lab members and what they have been doing since graduating from Ashland University.