Lewis Lab Team
Samantha Cleopatra Lewis, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Development and Physiology
Tejashree Waingankar, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral scholar
United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation Postdoc fellow
Priya Gatti, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral scholar
Casadora Boone
Ph.D. candidate, MetBio Program
NIH Diversity Supplement Scholar
Eve Kakudji, M.S.
Ph.D. candidate, MCB Program
RDDC Predoctoral Fellow
Cam Zurita
Ph.D. candidate, MCB Program
Chancellor's Fellow
Ahmad Shami
Lab Manager/Staff Technician
Hera Saqub, M.S.
Staff Technician
Sophie Judge, M.S.
Lab Assistant
Caitlin Putvin, M.S.
Lab Assistant
Jaewon Lee
Molecular Environmental Biology undergraduate
Honors Thesis Student
Ernesto Castellanos Diaz
Molecular Cell Biology undergraduate
Lab Graduates
Adam Begeman, Ph.D. Molecular and Cell Biology (2024), now Lumanity Strategic Consulting
Vita Chou, M.S. Biotechnology (2025), now Research technician at Northwestern University
Caitlin Putvin, M.S. Biotechnology (2025), now Lewis Lab assistant
Sophie Judge, M.S. Biotechnology (2025), now Lewis Lab assistant
Jackie Lanzalotto, B.S. Molecular and Cell Biology (2022), now Biology PhD. candidate at UC San Diego