Division of Biology and Medicine
Office of Biology Doctorate Education

Current & Past PREP Scholars

2026-2027

Sean Patrick Cottrell
Academic Focus: Molecular Microbiology, Immunology
Faculty Advisor & Lab: Amanda Jamieson

Leslie Casares
Academic Focus: Neuroscience 
Faculty Advisor & Lab: Anne Hart 

Caroline Kibbe
Academic Focus: Aging Biology, Mechanistic Molecular bBiolog
Faculty Advisor & Lab: Marc Tatar (primary) Gio Silva Garcia (secondary)

Piseth Koy
Academic Focus: Biomedical Engineering , Biomedical Sciences
Faculty Advisor & Lab: Eric Darling 

Yovany Padilla Jr. 
Academic Focus: Glioblastoma 
Faculty Advisor & Lab: Sean Lawler

Lilly Palumbo
Academic Focus: Neuroscience, Neurobiology
Faculty Advisor & Lab: Gio Silva Garcia

Luna Segarra Alonzo
Academic Focus: Neuroscience, Genomics
Faculty Advisor & Lab: Erica Larschan

Francis Simpatico
Academic Focus: Bioengineering, Systems Biology 
Faculty Advisor & Lab: Mamiko Yajima

Previous Scholars