Amodini Choudhary is a Junior majoring in French and Molecular and Cellular Biology, with an emphasis in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. She works on an AB-Sciex 4500 qTRAP mass-spectrometer to quantify small molecule lipid mediators in the retina and optic nerves. She has co-authored a recent publication in Acta Neuropathologica Communications.

Branson Bajoua is a third-year undergraduate majoring in molecular cell biology with an emphasis in immunology and minoring in bioengineering. He is involved in performing confocal imaging of retina and optic nerve microglia, running the MorphOmics pipeline to understand the phenotype.

Sydney Adcook is a sophomore majoring in molecular and cellular biology with an emphasis on infectious diseases. She is involved in performing sectioning and immunohistochemistry of the retina and optic nerve. She also takes care of mouse lines and genotyping.

Cici Liu is a junior majoring in Molecular and Cellular Biology, Psychology, and Data Science. She initially participated in a data science student cohort before joining the lab as a URAP student. In her role, Cici applies her data science skills to analyze RNAseq and morphOmics data. Additionally, she has become acquainted with imaging microglia in the retina and optic nerve using confocal microscopy.

Tanirika Singh was an integral part of the Gronert lab from Fall 2022 to Spring 2024. She successfully completed her honors thesis during this period and has recently been accepted into Georgetown University’s School of Medicine, where she will begin her medical school journey. In the lab, Tanirika specialized in immunohistochemistry and managing mouse lines. Her research contributions are notable, with authorship on four ARVO abstracts and one research article.

Maggie Lin was a member of the Gronert Lab from Fall 2020 to Fall 2024 and is currently a post-baccalaureate researcher at the NIH. During her time in the lab, she leveraged her coding skills to develop an analysis pipeline for qPCR, ERG, RNA-seq, MorphOMICs, and Monocle3 analysis. Under my guidance, she completed her honors thesis and had the opportunity to present her work as a talk at ARVO 2024, where she was also awarded a travel grant from the ARVO Foundation. Maggie has authored two ARVO abstracts and is the second author on a recently submitted manuscript.

Jeongseo Kim was an exchange student from Korea at UC Berkeley, participating in the Gronert Lab during Spring 2023. In just one semester, she demonstrated exceptional brilliance by quickly mastering confocal imaging techniques. Jeongseo focused her efforts on imaging microglia in the retina and optic nerves. Her contributions led to her being authored on Maggie Lin’s ARVO abstract. Recently, she was recognized as one of the 100 talented individuals by the South Korean government and was honored with the prestigious Talent Award of Korea.