Lab Members

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Dr. Patrick Secor

Patrick Secor, PhD

Associate Professor

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Reetika Chaurasia, PhD

Reetika Chaurasia, PhD

Research Professor

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Liz Ortiz de Ora, PhD

Liz Ortiz de Ora, PhD

Research Professor

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Iván Muñoz Gutiérrez, PhD

Iván Muñoz Gutiérrez, PhD

Research Scientist

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Natalie Oberding

Natalie Oberding

Scientist / Lab Manager

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Dominick Faith

Dominick Faith

Graduate Student, NSF GRFP Fellow

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Albert Burkle

Albert Burkle

Graduate Student

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Teaghan Arnott

Teaghan Arnott

MT PREP Scholar

John Kominsky

John Kominsky

MT PREP Scholar

Elaina Lewis

Elaina Lewis

Undergraduate Researcher

Lab Alumni

We are grateful to the many students, trainees, staff, and researchers who have contributed to the Secor Lab. Our alumni have gone on to careers in research, medicine, biotechnology, public health, education, and related fields.

  • Brady Ward — Summer REU student; now student at UCLA
  • Madison Larson — Undergraduate researcher; now PhD student in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Drug Design at the University of Montana
  • Tyrza Lamma — Undergraduate researcher; now a Medical Laboratory Science student at Montana State University
  • Valery Roman-Cruz — PhD student; now Program Manager, Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services
  • Margie Kinnersley — Research Professor; now Senior Scientist at FYR Diagnostics
  • Rob Brzozowski — Postdoctoral researcher; now Senior Scientist at BioSqueeze Inc.
  • Diane Brooks — Lab Manager/Research Scientist; now Research Scientist in the Samuels Lab at the University of Montana
  • Shelby Cole — Research Technician; current position unknown
  • Caleb Schwartzkopf — PhD student; now Assistant Professor at Simpson University
  • Camilla de Mattos — PhD student; now Postdoctoral Researcher in the Kreth Lab at OHSU
  • Elise Wells — Undergraduate researcher; now in the Forensic Biology Analysis M.S. program at George Mason University
  • Alex Joyce — Undergraduate researcher/Research Technician; now at Tufts University in the Ralph Isberg Lab
  • Autumn Robinson — Undergraduate researcher/Research Technician; now PhD student at East Carolina University in the Erin Field Lab
  • DeAnna Bublitz — Research Professor; now Scientific Review Officer at NIH
  • Alison Coluccio — Lab Manager; now Lab Manager at the University of Oregon
  • Devin Hunt — Undergraduate researcher; now in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine MSTP/MD-PhD Program
  • Mady Head — Research Technician; now graduate student in the Master of Public Health program at the University of Washington
  • Kyana Tolwi — Undergraduate researcher; now Technician at St. Patrick Hospital
  • Lia Michaels — Research Coordinator; now graduate student in Microbiology at Dartmouth College
  • Jake Cohen — Undergraduate researcher; now graduate student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks
  • Dawit Mengistu — Research Technician; now graduate student in Immunology at the University of Michigan
  • Brodie Strauch — High school intern; now Biomedical Sciences student at Cal Poly
  • Zi Xie — Research Technician; now graduate student at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health