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Meet the Heckmann Lab
Laboratory Staff, Fellows, & Graduate Students



Addison Hilyard
Senior Scientist &
Manager SbNI
Diandra Ruiz
Lab Manager &
Adv. Research Scientist
Paige Harris
Laboratory Director
& Bioinformatics Scientist

Carolina Pena Martinez, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow


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Shamima Akter, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Elphine Telles, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Alexis Rickman
Genshaft Family Endowed Doctoral Fellow
Mubashshir Ali, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

Andrea Tovar, Ph.D.
Visiting Fellow

Austin Fajfer
Ph.D. Graduate Student

Nhi Truong, M.S.
Ph.D. Graduate Student

Komal Matai, M.S.
Ph.D. Graduate Student
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Sarah Lulu
MD/PhD Student

Connor Cleveland
Research Technologist


Olivia Woods
Research Technologist
Kelly Horn
Fiscal & Business Manager

Brian Knight, Ph.D.
SRA Organic Chemist

Rainer Metcalf, Ph.D.
SRA Computational Chemist
Undergraduate Researchers & Volunteers

Aisha Ademola
Undergraduate
Reseracher

Are you passionate about transformative science? If so, we may be the right place for you.
We are always looking for the next generation of enthusiastic, driven, and inquring scientists. If this describes you and you are interested in our research, we encourage you to reachout.
For postdoctoral fellowship opportunities, please contact Dr. Heckmann directly by clicking here.
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