shout out to
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
Elias Sideris, PhD
2018
Peter Gibson, MS
Nicole Darling, PhD
Norman Truong, PhD
2017
Shuoran (Sandy) Li, PhD
2015
Suwei Zhu, PhD
Shiva Gojgini, PhD
Cynthia (Cam) Alexander, PhD
2014
Shayne Siegman, MS
Victor Oshita, MS
Jonathan Lam, PhD
2012
Anandika Dhaliwal, PhD
Talar Tokatlian, PhD
2011
Sean Anderson, PhD
2010
Yuguo Lei, PhD
Quinn Ng, MD, PhD
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:
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.
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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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 into cells. He then took a little stroll across the hall to join the Payne lab for his Ph.D.
Do you want to know a secret? One year we all dressed up as Tatiana for Halloween… There were 10 Tatianas. The boys wore wigs. Faisal challenges you to find this photo online.
August 2019 – May 2021
Sophia Kioulaphides, MS
PhD student @ Georgia Tech/Emory
Sophia received her B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT and joined the Segura Lab in 2019. As an M.S. student in the Segura Lab, she studied the effects of HA-MAP hydrogels on cerebral atrophy in mouse brains that have been induced with stroke. She left our lab to do bigger and better things at Georgia Tech, but she says she’ll miss getting to see the fellow students whom she befriended during her time at Duke.
January 2020 – May 2021
Ameya Chaudhari, MS
PhD Student @ University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill - Nguyen Lab
Ameya received his B.Tech in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai (formerly UDCT). During his time in lab, he developed Protein-Polymer Conjugates for gene delivery. He stayed local to continue with his PhD at UNC, but we suspect wet lab must have scarred him a bit because his advice to incoming students is: “Don’t break the Schlenk lines.” 😅 Maybe this fits with what he misses most from lab – working with amazing lab member and an ultra-organized lab <– “No, seriously, I have never seen a lab more organized than this one.”
August 2019 – May 2021
Jingyi Xia, MS
PhD graduate student at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Jingyi received her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University and joined the Segura family in 2019 Fall. During her time in the lab, she worked closely with Yining to study macrophage confinement using MAP hydrogel applied to questions in cutaneous wound healing. Lucky UMich got to have her as a PhD student. During her time in lab, she enjoyed the bonding that can only occur when you’re stuck in a room with labmates for 8 hours performing in vivo surgeries. She also says she misses 8:30am lab meetings, but surely that’s a typo…
August 2017 – January 2020
Hussam Nassman, MS
Segura Lab Alumni
Our microfluidics apprentice.
September 2012 – June 2014
Shayne Siegman, MS
Accenture, Technology Consulting Manager, Los Angeles
Shayne received his B.S. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from UCLA, and fun fact – he was a member of the Segura Lab for 5 out of his 6 years on campus! #dedicatedundergrad. His master’s degree was centered around the development of porous hydrogels as scaffolds for non-viral gene delivery in both in vitro and in vivo models. We feel like the Segura halls still ring with Shayne yelling “OHHH HAIIII TALARRRR!!!” to greet Talar each day. (Does ‘Shivastar!!!’ mean anything to you?) But if he had to choose what he misses most, he’d say it’s working with the really sharp and motivating people that are drawn to the Segura Lab. And he offers this advice to the newbies: “Failed experiments are part of the process. Don’t get down on yourself when an experiment goes wrong – it’s a learning opportunity.”
August 2012 – June 2014
Victor Oshita, MS
Segura Lab Alumni
Maybe try Googling him 😅
August 2018 – June 2020
Pam Forero Lozano, MS
Segura Lab Alumni
Pam was a nanoparticles girl! And we miss her. We need more Colombians in our lives.