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  Emily Hansen

  PhD student

  Emily is a current PhD student in Dr. James Holaska’s lab at the Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU) campus. She graduated from Radford University in Spring of 2020 with a BS in Biology, where she ran the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu club and did undergraduate research in Dr. Bob Sheehy’s lab studying the influence of landscape and environmental features on the genetic structure of local Appalachian salamander populations. Her current work focuses on nuclear envelope protein emerin and how its dysregulation contributes to nuclear integrity during metastatic transformation in breast cancer. Outside of the lab, she likes to go out to eat, bake, grow various plants, and watch UFC events.

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  James Kennedy

  PhD student

  James graduated from Rowan University in December 2018 with a bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences. He joined TBES in Fall 2019 in the MS program for Cell and Molecular Biology and later transferred to the Ph.D. program in Molecular Cell Biology and Neuroscience in Fall 2021. James selected the research lab of Dr. Ronald Ellis. His thesis project involves defining the sex determination pathway in hermaphrodite Caenorhabditis species with focus on the FEM protein ubiquitination complex which is conserved in humans. Some of his favorite activities outside the lab include reading and crabbing.