shout out to
2023
Evan Kurt, PhD
Briana Simms, PhD
Shangjing Xin, PhD
Mohammed Alameri, MS
2022
Lindsay Riley, PhD
Yining Liu, PhD
Katrina Wilson, PhD
2021
Faisal Anees, MS
Sophia Kioulaphides, MS
Ameya Chaudhari, MS
Jingyi Xia, MS
2020
Hussam Nassman, MS
Pam Forero Lozano, MS
2019
Lucas Schirmer, PhD
Elias Sideris, PhD
2018
Peter Gibson, MS
Lina R Nih, PhD
Nicole Darling, PhD
Norman Truong, PhD
Wexian Xi, PhD
Sasha Cai Lesher-Perez, PhD
2017
Shuoran (Sandy) Li, PhD
2016
Don Griffin, PhD
2015
Suwei Zhu, PhD
Shiva Gojgini, PhD
Cynthia (Cam) Alexander, PhD
2014
Shayne Siegman, MS
Victor Oshita, MS
Alyson Soon, PhD
Jonathan Lam, PhD
2013
Juanjuan Du, PhD
2012
Anandika Dhaliwal, PhD
Talar Tokatlian, PhD
2011
Sean Anderson, PhD
2010
Yuguo Lei, PhD
Quinn Ng, MD, PhD
2008
Jianjun Zhang, PhD
From Shangjing’s lab diary:
From Briana’s lab diary:
Sept 2015 – June 2019
Elias Sideris
Clearview Healthcare Partners
Elias obtained his PhD from the Segura Lab in 2019 with a thesis titled “Hydrogel scaffolds and their influence on the brain.” He is now a consultant at Clearview Healthcare Partners based in San Francisco.
From Elle’s lab diary:
From Nhi’s lab diary:
Straight from Lindsay’s dissertation abstract:
From Aleja’s lab diary:
From Yunxin’s lab diary:
Straight from Kat’s dissertation abstract:
Straight from Yining’s dissertation abstract:
From Holly’s lab diary:
From Evan’s lab diary:
From Juhi’s lab diary:
From Kevin’s lab diary:
From Alex’s lab diary:
From Drew’s lab diary:
Sept 2015 – June 2019
Elias Sideris
Clearview Healthcare Partners
Elias obtained his PhD from the Segura Lab in 2019 with a thesis titled “Hydrogel scaffolds and their influence on the brain.” He is now a consultant at Clearview Healthcare Partners based in San Francisco.
Sept 2015 – June 2019
Elias Sideris
Clearview Healthcare Partners
Elias obtained his PhD from the Segura Lab in 2019 with a thesis titled “Hydrogel scaffolds and their influence on the brain.” He is now a consultant at Clearview Healthcare Partners based in San Francisco.
Sept 2015 – June 2019
Elias Sideris
Clearview Healthcare Partners
Elias obtained his PhD from the Segura Lab in 2019 with a thesis titled “Hydrogel scaffolds and their influence on the brain.” He is now a consultant at Clearview Healthcare Partners based in San Francisco.
Sept 2015 – June 2019
Elias Sideris
Clearview Healthcare Partners
Elias obtained his PhD from the Segura Lab in 2019 with a thesis titled “Hydrogel scaffolds and their influence on the brain.” He is now a consultant at Clearview Healthcare Partners based in San Francisco.
Sept 2015 – June 2019
Elias Sideris
Clearview Healthcare Partners
Elias obtained his PhD from the Segura Lab in 2019 with a thesis titled “Hydrogel scaffolds and their influence on the brain.” He is now a consultant at Clearview Healthcare Partners based in San Francisco.
Sept 2015 – June 2019
Elias Sideris
Clearview Healthcare Partners
Elias obtained his PhD from the Segura Lab in 2019 with a thesis titled “Hydrogel scaffolds and their influence on the brain.” He is now a consultant at Clearview Healthcare Partners based in San Francisco.
Sept 2015 – June 2019
Elias Sideris
Clearview Healthcare Partners
Elias obtained his PhD from the Segura Lab in 2019 with a thesis titled “Hydrogel scaffolds and their influence on the brain.” He is now a consultant at Clearview Healthcare Partners based in San Francisco.
Sept 2015 – June 2019
Elias Sideris
Clearview Healthcare Partners
Elias obtained his PhD from the Segura Lab in 2019 with a thesis titled “Hydrogel scaffolds and their influence on the brain.” He is now a consultant at Clearview Healthcare Partners based in San Francisco.
Sept 2015 – June 2019
Elias Sideris
Clearview Healthcare Partners
Elias obtained his PhD from the Segura Lab in 2019 with a thesis titled “Hydrogel scaffolds and their influence on the brain.” He is now a consultant at Clearview Healthcare Partners based in San Francisco.
Sept 2015 – June 2019
Elias Sideris
Clearview Healthcare Partners
Elias obtained his PhD from the Segura Lab in 2019 with a thesis titled “Hydrogel scaffolds and their influence on the brain.” He is now a consultant at Clearview Healthcare Partners based in San Francisco.
Sept 2015 – June 2019
Elias Sideris
Clearview Healthcare Partners
Elias obtained his PhD from the Segura Lab in 2019 with a thesis titled “Hydrogel scaffolds and their influence on the brain.” He is now a consultant at Clearview Healthcare Partners based in San Francisco.
Sept 2015 – June 2019
Elias Sideris
Clearview Healthcare Partners
Elias obtained his PhD from the Segura Lab in 2019 with a thesis titled “Hydrogel scaffolds and their influence on the brain.” He is now a consultant at Clearview Healthcare Partners based in San Francisco.
Sept 2015 – June 2019
Elias Sideris
Clearview Healthcare Partners
Elias obtained his PhD from the Segura Lab in 2019 with a thesis titled “Hydrogel scaffolds and their influence on the brain.” He is now a consultant at Clearview Healthcare Partners based in San Francisco.
Sept 2015 – June 2019
Elias Sideris
Clearview Healthcare Partners
Elias obtained his PhD from the Segura Lab in 2019 with a thesis titled “Hydrogel scaffolds and their influence on the brain.” He is now a consultant at Clearview Healthcare Partners based in San Francisco.
Sept 2015 – June 2019
Elias Sideris
Clearview Healthcare Partners
Elias obtained his PhD from the Segura Lab in 2019 with a thesis titled “Hydrogel scaffolds and their influence on the brain.” He is now a consultant at Clearview Healthcare Partners based in San Francisco.
Sept 2015 – June 2019
Elias Sideris
Clearview Healthcare Partners
Elias obtained his PhD from the Segura Lab in 2019 with a thesis titled “Hydrogel scaffolds and their influence on the brain.” He is now a consultant at Clearview Healthcare Partners based in San Francisco.
Sept 2015 – June 2019
Elias Sideris
Clearview Healthcare Partners
Elias obtained his PhD from the Segura Lab in 2019 with a thesis titled “Hydrogel scaffolds and their influence on the brain.” He is now a consultant at Clearview Healthcare Partners based in San Francisco.
Sept 2015 – June 2019
Elias Sideris
Clearview Healthcare Partners
Elias obtained his PhD from the Segura Lab in 2019 with a thesis titled “Hydrogel scaffolds and their influence on the brain.” He is now a consultant at Clearview Healthcare Partners based in San Francisco.
Sept 2015 – June 2019
Elias Sideris
Clearview Healthcare Partners
Elias obtained his PhD from the Segura Lab in 2019 with a thesis titled “Hydrogel scaffolds and their influence on the brain.” He is now a consultant at Clearview Healthcare Partners based in San Francisco.
Sept 2015 – June 2019
Elias Sideris
Clearview Healthcare Partners
Elias obtained his PhD from the Segura Lab in 2019 with a thesis titled “Hydrogel scaffolds and their influence on the brain.” He is now a consultant at Clearview Healthcare Partners based in San Francisco.
Sept 2015 – June 2019
Elias Sideris
Clearview Healthcare Partners
Elias obtained his PhD from the Segura Lab in 2019 with a thesis titled “Hydrogel scaffolds and their influence on the brain.” He is now a consultant at Clearview Healthcare Partners based in San Francisco.
Sept 2015 – June 2019
Elias Sideris
Clearview Healthcare Partners
Elias obtained his PhD from the Segura Lab in 2019 with a thesis titled “Hydrogel scaffolds and their influence on the brain.” He is now a consultant at Clearview Healthcare Partners based in San Francisco.
Sept 2015 – June 2019
Elias Sideris
Clearview Healthcare Partners
Elias obtained his PhD from the Segura Lab in 2019 with a thesis titled “Hydrogel scaffolds and their influence on the brain.” He is now a consultant at Clearview Healthcare Partners based in San Francisco.
Sept 2015 – June 2019
Elias Sideris
Clearview Healthcare Partners
Elias obtained his PhD from the Segura Lab in 2019 with a thesis titled “Hydrogel scaffolds and their influence on the brain.” He is now a consultant at Clearview Healthcare Partners based in San Francisco.
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September 2018 – September 2023
Evan Kurt, PhD
TBD
TBD
June 2021 – June 2023
Briana Simms, PhD
Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati
When Briana was a postdoc in the lab, she tried to apply her PhD expertise (dendrimer chemistry) toward developing lipid-hybrid nanoparticles that could potentially cross blood brain barrier in the hopes of reaching injured brain tissue. Now she has moved on to a full-time chemistry position as a faculty member in Ohio! Check out her new home: Simms Lab of Functional Biomaterials
January 2020 – May 2023
Shangjing Xin, PhD
Tenure-track assistant professor in the College of Biomedical Engineering & Instrument Science at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou China
Shangjing’s research in the lab focused on using MAP hydrogels to trigger endogenous repair after stroke. He was the extracellular vesicle king 👑 His hard work has been recognized by a prestigious university in China where he has been bestowed Assistant Professor – in charge of his very own lab. We at the Segura Lab do miss our king.
He’s keeping his info up-to-date for you to keep tabs: https://person.zju.edu.cn/en/shangjing
November 2021 – June 2023
Mohammed Alameri, MS
Segura Lab Alumni
Mohammed has disappeared 😶🌫️
June 2017 – April 2022
Lindsay Riley, PhD
Postdoc in the Segura Lab @ Duke University
Lindsay obtained her PhD in biomedical engineering as a computational scientist in the Segura Lab. Her project led to the development of LOVAMAP – a custom software that segments packed particle void space into 3-D pores and analyzes scaffold characteristics to help optimize material design. During her PhD, she chatted with Tatiana about an idea for a wet lab project that was inspired by her experience working in dermatology, and she is now excitedly working on the project as a postdoc in the lab.
October 2016 – August 2022
Yining Liu, PhD
Associate at McKinsey & Company
Yining completed her PhD in the Segura Lab where she designed different MAP scaffolds for wound healing and macrophage modulation. She not only studied how microgel size influences macrophage phenotype in vitro and in vivo, but she also shed light on the mysteries of how crosslinker chirality impacts immune response. After graduating, she went rogue and joined McKinsey & Co. as a management consultant.
Yining was one of the three girls to move the lab from UCLA to Duke, and she shared many sweet and fun memories with Tatiana (and her family). One of her top favorites has to be the time Tatiana came to support Yining in the front row of her 80’s rock concert performance where Yining was the lead singer!! Tatiana was singing along and dancing the whole time like a #1 fan 🤘🏼, which made Yining feel REALLY special.
January 2017 – August 2022
Katrina Wilson, PhD
PM at Allucent, Durham NC
Kat received a BS in Chemistry, Biology, and Art (3 degrees, baby!) from the University of Redlands, CA in 2015. She spent a year working before going to graduate school at UCLA in 2016 for a PhD in Chemistry. In 2017 she switched to the Segura Lab and joined before their move to Duke. She completed her MS in Chemistry from UCLA in 2018 and then became a PhD candidate at Duke in BME. Her PhD thesis was focused on engineering MAP scaffolds for angiogenesis and neural progenitor cell recruitment after stroke. Kat received the Dean’s award for mentoring and had her first baby while writing her thesis. She continued for a few months in the lab as a research project manager before leaving academia to work at contract research organizations.
She told us there is one embarrassing Tatiana-related moment that lives rent-free in her brain: “Lindsay, Yining and I were getting ready to move to Duke, and I didn’t know if Tatiana would let me bring my couch. I texted the girls for advice about whether I should ask her, and somehow I accidentally added Tatiana to the text group 😅😱 Needless to say, our couch made it to Durham!”
Kat also offers current students this advice from someone who’s been there: “If something bothers you – speak up. Tatiana is always there to listen and try to accommodate. If something bothers someone else, listen. Your lab isn’t just your family – they’re the same people who will work with you in the future. Your impression and consideration for one another matters.”
September 2019 – May 2021
Faisal Anees, MS
PhD graduate student at Duke University
Faisal received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver before joining the Segura lab in 2019. As an M.S. student, he applied his global perspective to the microscopic world of non-viral gene delivery by trying to come up with new tri-block copolymers that could deliver nucleic acids i