People | Elston Lab

Principal Investigator

Tim Elston
Professor
telston@med.unc.edu
I am interested in understanding the dynamics of complex biological systems, and developing reliable mathematical models that capture the essential components of these systems.

Graduate Students

Amy Allen
BCB Graduate Student
aeallen@email.unc.edu

Cody Herron
BCB Graduate Student
jcherron@unc.edu

Mike Pablo

Bio Chem Graduate Student
mikepab@live.unc.edu
I’m interested in how cellular signaling networks lead to spatiotemporally organized localization of molecules.
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Jeff Snell
BCB Graduate Student
MD/PhD program
jeffffff@email.unc.edu
I developed an in silico model of mammalian hematopoiesis using mathematical modeling, machine learning, and high performance computing to better understand clinically relevant perturbations.
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Kimiko Suzuki
BCB Graduate Student
sksuzuki@email.unc.edu

Postdoctoral Fellows

Shuang Li
Postdoctoral fellow
shuang9@email.unc.edu

Nivedita Nivedita
Postdoctoral fellow
nivedina@email.unc.edu

Ellen O’Shaunnessy
Postdoctoral Fellow
eoshaugh@email.unc.edu

Ranga Rajan
Postdoctoral Fellow
ranga@email.unc.edu

Sam Ramirez

Postdoctoral Fellow
sramirez@unc.edu
I’m working on mathematical modeling of cell signaling.
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Research Associate

Sandy Hahn
Research Associate
sshahn@email.unc.edu

Alumni

Richard Allen
Research Scientist, Pfizer
Marcelo Behar
Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin
John Fricks
Assistant professor of Statistics, Penn State University
Yan Fu
Data Scientist at Kforce Inc.
Guilherme Garcia
Assistant Professor, Medical College of Wisconsin
Mike Goedeke
Research Triangle Institute, NC
Nan Hao
Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego
John Houser
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas, Austin
Meng Jin
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego
Josh Kelley
Assistant Professor, University of Maine
Kevin Kesseler
AdderStone Predivtive Analytics
Vinal Lakhani
Postdoctoral Fellow, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus OH
Kang-Ling Liao
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Tamkang University
Patrick McCarter
Postdoctoral Fellow, UNC-CH
Callie Miller
Professor, James Madison Univeristy
Maria Minakova
Facebook
Jason Pirone
Biomathematician, SRA International, Inc., Durham, NC.
Conner Sandefur
Assistant Professor, UNC Pembroke
Adrian Serohijos
Assistant Professor, University of Montreal
Wanda Strychalski
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Case Western Reserve University
Abby Todd
Professor at Greenville College, Illinois
Denis Tsygankov
Assistant Professor at The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory Universities
Sai Venkatapurapu
Immunetrics
Xiao Wang
Assistant Professor, School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University
Necmettin Yildrim
Assistant Professor, New College of Florida
Peiying Zuo
Glaxo Smith Kline