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Phelps Lab Members

Ed Phelps, PhD

Principal Investigator

Assistant Professor
J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering

Andrece Powell

Laboratory Manager

Fixer, organizer extraordinaire and experimentalist

Sandra Ferreira, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Effect of the neurotransmitter GABA on islet hormone secretion

Alexandra Cuaycal, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow (joint w/ Mathews Lab)

Islet immune interface in living pancreas tissue slices

Mollie Huber

PhD Student (joint w/ Mathews and Atkinson Labs)

Live human pancreas tissue slices as a platform for investigating immunopathological processes of type 1 diabetes

Adrienne Widener

PhD Student

Granular hydrogel materials as extracellular microenvironments

Charles Lazimi

PhD Student

Dynamic real-time sensing of pancreatic islet physiology

Austin Stis

PhD Student

Mechanisms of islet GABA secretion

Cameron Manson

PhD Student

Engineering local immune tolerance for beta cell replacement in type 1 diabetes

Aliyah Tate

PhD Student

Engineering immune cell – beta cell interactions

Undergraduate Students

Abilene Roberts
Leigh Baratta
Dylan Smurlick
Arabella Readey

Lab Alumni

PhD Students

Walker Hagan, Scientist II – NMJ Team Lead, Hesperos, Inc.

Matthew Becker, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weaver Lab, Arizona State University

Jorge Santini-González, recent graduate

Medical Fellows

Kendra Sylvester-Armstrong, M.D., private practice South Florida

Callie Reeder, M.D., University of Tennessee Medical Center

Masters Students

Robert Dolan – Engineer at U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Jennifer Simonovich – University of Florida, BME PhD Program

Sushain Kaul – University of Florida, APK PhD Program

Undergraduates

Yarelis Gonzales Vargas, BME PhD Program, Georgia Institute of Technology

Mallika Bhatta, Medical Honors Program (joint BS, MD), University of Florida

Natalia Vallenilla, Clinical Specialist, Electrophysiology at Abbott

Kevin Ling, BME PhD Program, University of Rochester

Shabeen Raza, Technical Development Program Engineer at Edwards Lifesciences

Rebecca Erwin, Hydrogen Shot Fellow at DOE

Maryum Salim, Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation Engineer at Jacobs

Caroline Lesher, M.S.Program in Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida

Veronica Bubay, recent graduate, B.S. Biomedical Engineering, University of South Carolina

Conor Given, recent graduate, B.S. Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida