People
Faculty
Melissa Nolan, Ph.D., MPH
Associate Professor
Kyndall Dye-Baumuller, Ph.D., MPH
Research Assistant Professor
Brandon Hollingsworth, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Staff
Marie Thomas
Program Manager
Kia Zellers
Laboratory Manager
Madeleine Meyer, Ph.D.
Sequencing Core Director
Henry Heidt
Research Associate (Maternal-Child Health projects)
Isabella Paras
Research Associate (Maternal-Child Health projects)
Kinley Warlick
Community Health Worker (Maternal-Child Health projects)
Katherine Brown, MPH
Field Collections Manager (Tick Monitoring projects)
Kayla Bramlett, M.S.
Research Specialist (Tick Monitoring projects)
Eden Frick
Research Associate (Tick Monitoring projects)
Post-Doctoral Associates
Huixuan Li, Ph.D.
(Next generation mosquito control tool development)
Emily Owens Pickle, Ph.D.
(Tick-related disease projects)
MD Students
- Harrison Knapp – University of South Carolina Medical School
- Annelise Shick – University of South Carolina Medical School
Ph.D. Students
- Kirsti Gilmore – Epidemiology
- Chris Lee – Computer Science
- Megan Davis – Epidemiology
- Rebecca Prisco – Epidemiology
- Mustapha Nyame – Epidemiology
- Sean Sweeney – Epidemiology
Master’s Students
- Allison Hughes – (Mosquito-borne disease projects)
- Naomi Higgins – (Mosquito-borne disease projects)
- Kate Chatman – College of Charleston (Mosquito-borne disease projects)
Undergraduate Students
- Sophia Reed
- Maddie Toth
- Kennedy Flynn
Former Graduate Trainees
- Kalan Ferate, Current Medical Student Class of 2026
- Kyla Manning, Current Medical Student Class of 2026
- Mary Parker, Current Medical Student Class of 2026
- Lidia Gual Gonzalez, PhD, MS-PhD in Epidemiology, Graduated 2025, Joined Clemson University as Tenure-Track Assistant Professor
- Maggie McCarter, PhD, MS PhD in Epidemiology, Graduated 2024, Joined the industry workforce
- Katie Lynn, PhD, MS PhD in Epidemiology, Graduated 2023, Joined PATH as Senior Program Officer of Maternal Child Health Global Programs
- Reid DeMass-Masters in Biostatistics, Graduated 2023, Joined the industry workforce
- Aidan Warner, MD, Medical Doctor, Graduated in 2024, Internal Medicine Resident at Prisma Health
- Tyler Bunting, MD, Medical Doctor, Graduated in 2024, Emergency Medicine Resident at Prisma Health
- Danielle Johnson, MS Masters of Science in Epidemiology, Graduated 2022, Current doctoral student at Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
- Hanson Cowan, MS Masters of Science, Current medical student at Vanderbilt University
- Brianna Tennie, MPH Masters of Public Health in Epidemiology, Graduated 2020, Joined the public health workforce
- Kyle Hatcher, MS Masters of Science in Epidemiology, Graduated 2020, Joined the public health workforce
Former Undergraduate Trainees
- Ahalya Muraleedharan
- Neha Rayala
- Mallorie Rice
- Laura Witt – Attending Medical University of South Carolina
- Sofie Fridriksson
- Titi Abiodun – Current masters student at Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
- Logan Bailey
- Harrison Knapp – Current medical student at University of South Carolina Medicine School- Columbia
- Kaaliyah Harri
- Hanna Waltz – Attending Emory Medicine School
- Anna Dill – Attending Medical University of South Carolina
- Emily Washington – Current nurse practitioner student at University of South Carolina Nursing School
- Josie Morrisey
- Mckenna Howell
- Connor Ross
- Addison Blackmon
- Hanson Cowen
- McKenzie Norris
- Natalie Brown
- Lauren Turner
- Darby Nugent