Members — The Opresko Lab

Our Members

Principal Investigator plo4@pitt.edu

Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health, Graduate School of Public Health

Professor, Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, School of Medicine

Co-leader Genome Stability Program, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center

Dr. Bernard F. Fisher Chair for Breast Cancer Discovery Science

Hillman Fellow for Innovative Cancer Research
sas354@pitt.edu

PhD in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology
University of Pittsburgh, 2020

BS in Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, 2008

Lab Manager
acd54@pitt.edu

MS in Cell Biology, Kent State University, 2015

BS in Biology, Genetics and Human Development, Penn State University, 2012

Graduate Student, Human Genetics
elc189@pitt.edu

BS in Biology, Ohio State University, 2021

Graduate Student, Interdisciplinary Biomedical Graduate Program
tmh144@pitt.edu

BS in Biochemistry, Notre Dame University, 2023

Graduate Student, Molecular Genetics and Developmental Biology
gannon.mcdonough@pitt.edu

BS in Biology, Allegheny College, 2022

Graduate Student, Oncology
kym70@pitt.edu

BS in Biochemistry, Clemson University, 2024

Mariarosaria De Rosa (Postdoc) Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Alastair Watt (undergrad) Student, Brandeis University
Michael Gerber (technician) Medical technologist, AGH
Sanjana Thosar, PhD (Grad student) Scientist I, VOR Biopharma
Ryan Barnes, PhD (Postdoc) Assistant Professor, University of Kansas Medical Center
Samuel Johnson, PhD (Grad student)
Fatimah Adisa, MS (technician) Risk and Exposure Consultant, Ramboll
Sachi Dhakal (SURP Student) Technician, University of Pittsburgh
Adam Barsouk, MD (Undergraduate Researcher) Resident-Physician, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Elise Fouquerel, PhD, (Postdoc) Assistant Professor Pharmacology and Chemical Biology at the University of Pittsburgh
Xander Orenstein, MS (technician) Magisterial District Judge
Arindam Bose, PhD (Postdoc) Harvard University
Melinda Sager (technician)
Justin Lormand (technician) graduate student at Cornell University
Connor Murphy PhD, microscopy and imaging specialist, Hunt Optics and Imaging
Dhvani Parikh PhD, toxicologist, US Green Building Council
Hannah Pope-Varsalona PhD, toxicologist, WHO
Fujun Liu PhD, Manager of global product safety, Revlon NJ
Devin Kepchia, PhD, Research Associate, postdoctoral fellow, Salk Institute
Rama Damerla PhD, postdoctoral fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Gerald Nora MD/PhD, attending physician Columbia St. Mary's hospital
Gregory Sowd PhD, research fellow, Dana-Faber Cancer Institute