Spring 2023, from left to right (back): Dr. Brian Wilkinson (honorary member of the Dahl lab), Dr. Jan-Ulrik Dahl, Patrick O. Tawiah, Ritika Shah, Olivia Janiewicz. From left to right (front): Sadia Sultana, Mary Crompton. Missing: Gracious Donkor.
Undergrads & Grad Student Applicants:
If you are interested in joining the lab, please contact Dr. Dahl (email: jdahl1@ilstu.edu) with your current CV and a cover letter in which you explain your motivation to work in the Dahl lab and your research experience.
Principal Investigator
Graduate Students:
Sadia Sultana (Ph.D.)
Tanisha Bhimwal (Ph.D.)
Julius Kwesi Narh (Ph.D.) – starting in Spring ’24
Ritika Shah (MS)
Patrick Ofori Tawiah (MS)
Emmanuel Olandokun (MS)
Sharanya Paul (MS) (joined with Dr. Brian J. Wilkinson)
DAAD RISE Fellow:
Undergraduate Students:
Greg Anderson (Spring 2019 – present)
Mehdi Bennis (Fall 2021 – present)
Carl Orellano (Summer 2022 – present)
Tyler Simpkins (Summer 2022 – present)
Charlie Jackson (Fall 2022 – present)
Grady Jacobson (Spring 2023 – present)
Cade Ward (Summer 2023 – present)
Lab Alumni:
Graduate Students:
- Ritika Shah (MS) (2021-2023), now lab manager in Dr Chelsey van Drisse’s lab at University of Georgia
- Gracious Y. Donkor (2021-2023), now PhD student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Mary Crompton (2020 – 2023), now University of Iowa Medical School
Research Interns:
- Maren Naudszus (DAAD RISE Fellow, Summer 2023) now University of Essen-Duisburg (Germany)
- Lisa Pfirsching (DAAD RISE Fellow, Summer 2022), now National University of Singapore
- Luca Gaessler (DAAD RISE Fellow, Summer 2021), now MS student at Heidelberg University (Germany)
- Sydney Kay Camfield (visiting student from Trine University, IN) (Summer 2021), now PhD student at University of Oklahoma
- Kevin P. Hoffmann (DAAD RISE Fellow, Summer 2019), now PhD student at Technical University Braunschweig (Germany)
Undergraduate Researchers:
- Olivia Jankiewicz (Fall 2020 – Summer 2023), Operations Global Graduate Program at Astra Zeneca
- Bo Halvorsen (Spring 2022 – Spring 2023), off to a gap year to apply to PA programs
- Brendan Roseberry (Fall 2020 – Spring 2022), off to a gap year to apply to PA programs
- Michael Stadler (Spring 2021 – Spring 2022), UIUC Veterinery Program
- Elise Horbach (Spring 2020 – Fall 2021)
- Makayla Hall (Spring 2019 – Spring 2021), MS student at Vanderbilt University’s genetic counseling program
- Kennadi Meurer (Fall 2019 – Spring 2021), Physician Assistant Program at South University
- Theo Hoby (Fall 2019 – Fall 2020)
- Barry Livingston (Spring 2019 – Fall 2020), UIUC College of Medicine
- Colton Johnson (Spring 2019 – Summer 2020), now UIC Medical School
- Wendy Williams (Summer 2019 – Spring 2020), now SIU PA School