SUSAN ABMAYR
Associate Investigator
Education: Ph.D., Rockefeller University
Hometown: Pittsburg, PA
Favorite KC activity: Working in the lab (really!)
CLAUDE SHELTON
Lab Manager
Education: M.S., Kansas University
Hometown: Pottstown, PA
Favorite KC activity: Mountain biking, eating BBQ & drinking Boulevard beer
SHUFEI ZHUANG
Postdoc
Education: Ph.D., Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica
Hometown: Zhejiang, China
Favorite KC activity: Eating Chinese food
SHRUTI HARALALKA
Postdoc
Education: Ph.D., University of Jadavpur
Hometown: Calcutta, India
Favorite quote: "Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win."
TANMAY BHUIN
Postdoc
Education: Ph.D., Banaras Hindu University
Hometown: Hooghly, West Bengal, India
Favorite Quote: "No great things were ever done without great labour." ~Swami Vivekananda
RAM KUMAR
Postdoc
Education: Ph.D., Jawaharlal Nehru University
Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology
Hometown: Bhagalpur, Bihar, India
Favorite Quote: "Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back."
ELSPETH PEARCE
Research Tech II
Education: B.S., University of Kansas
Hometown: Manhattan, KS
Favorite Quote: "What fluke of genetics leads to a size 0?" ~Valerie Harper
ERIN KATZFEY
Research Tech I
Education: B.S., Kansas State University
Hometown: Eudora, KS
Favorite Quote: :"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle...when the sun comes up, you'd better be running."
JIANQI LIU
Research Tech II
Education: M.S., Pittsburg State University
Hometown: Chifeng, China
Favorite quote: "When I want to read a novel, I write one" ~Benjamin Disraeli
MELISSA MATHEWS
Research Assistant
Hometown: Raytown, MO
Favorite quote: "Do unto others as you want them to do unto you"