Lab members
Swamy Rakesh Adapa
Researcher / Engineer / Lab manager
Engineer, genome pipeline builder, and curious experimenter
swamyrakesh @ usf.edu
Charley (ChengQi) Wang PhD
Computational Biologist (Lab alumnus)
Machine learning enthusiast; genome algorithm programmer
ChengQi @ usf.edu
Justin Gibbons
Computational Biologist (Lab alumnus)
Computational biologist. Working on pathogen drug resistance and other computational genomics projects
JGibbon1 @ usf.edu
Amy Conway
Engineer (Lab alumnus)
With expertise in microengieering, having extensive experience in microfluidics. With collaboration with Dr. Kyle lab
ajconway @ usf.edu
Gregory Hunter
Research Associate / Lab manager of Ferreira lab
Biochemical analysis of cell metabolisms. High-resolution studies of iron and heme metabolisms at single cell resolutions.
ghunter@ usf.edu
Other lab members
Current and Recent
Darnell J. Davis, Jr. (Master student)
Completing a partly self-designed MSPH thesis in collaboration with USF Neurology (Dr. Tuan Vu, Advisor). His retrospective cohort study on Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1 investigates how DMPK CTG repeat expansions relate to peripheral neuropathy phenotypes, defining genotype–phenotype signatures and clinical variability in neuromuscular disease.
Sahanama Porshe (Master student)
Focused on spatial single-cell transcriptomics and cancer metabolic drug discovery. Her work integrates spatial omics data with metabolic pathway analysis to identify novel therapeutic targets.
Riza Kamataikyzy (Undergraduate student)
Researches spatial single-cell omics and cancer biology, contributing to data processing and visualization of tumor microenvironmental heterogeneity.
Divya P Talada (Master student)
Develops computational methods for the integration and analysis of spatial single-cell data in cancer metabolism and immunology. Her work bridges algorithm design with biological interpretation.
Haley Beggs (Undergraduate student)
Engaged in cell culture, single-cell imaging, and data interpretation. She focuses on linking cell morphology and molecular signatures across experimental models.
Pravin Meshram (Master student)
Studies cancer metabolism and novel therapeutic strategies. His work explores the interface between microbial and human antimicrobial peptide therapy and tumor biology.
Abdus Sami (Master student)
Performs large-scale cancer genomics and pathway analysis, integrating transcriptomic and multi-omics datasets to uncover mechanisms of tumor progression and immune modulation.
Past
Samira Jahangiri (Master student)
Computational biology of epigenome analysis and molecular structure simulations.
Mohamad (Rudwan) Soukieh (Joint master student with Dr. Ferreira lab)
Single cell biology of erythroid development and cancer metabolisms.
Thomas Nuhfer (Joint master student with Dr. Ferreira lab)
Interdisciplinary biology from micro-engineering, cell biology to computational biology
Saeed Sinan (Joint master student with Dr. Ferreira lab)
Single cell biology of erythroid development and cancer metabolisms.
Christopher Marinescu (Master student)
Facilitating our genomics chip patent application with technical reviewing and report writing. Also performing single molecule RNAseq experiments as MSPH thesis.
Sai BharadwajSai Bharadwaj (Engineer)
Using electronics to power cutting-edge single cell genomics. Currently Phd candidate working on speech detection related to neurodegenerative disorders at College of Engineering.
Zaib Latif-Jangda (Joint master student with Dr. Ferreira lab)
Interdisciplinary biology from micro-engineering, cell biology to computational biology
Kelsey Sinclair (Joint master student with Dr. Ferreira lab)
Interdisciplinary biology from micro-engineering, cell biology to computational biology
Tyler Cook (Joint master student with Dr. Ferreira lab)
Interdisciplinary biology from micro-engineering, cell biology to computational biology
Dwight Philip (Joint master student with Dr. Ferreira lab)
Interdisciplinary biology from micro-engineering, cell biology to computational biology
Renee Fonseca (Master student)
Human genetic variation analysis
Eleana Estrella (Joint master student with Dr. Ferreira lab)
Human genetic variation analysis
Yount (Parker) Scott (Master student)
Facilitating microengineering work on micro-patterned cell culture devices. And performing primary human cell culture.
Priscilla Cavill (Master student)
Facilitating microengineering work on micro-patterned cell culture devices. And performing primary human cell culture.
Andrea Ball (Master student)
Facilitating microengineering work on micro-patterned cell culture devices. And performing primary human cell culture.
Ankita Kadlag (Master student)
Performing ex vivo erythropoiesis related molecular and bioinformatics characterizations.
Dylan Barfield (Master student)
Functional network analysis of high-throughput CRISPR loss-of-function screens
Mark Moussa (Undergrad, computer science)
Interface and algorithm design for computational genomics
Phillip Cualing (Joint master student with Dr. Ferreira lab)
Investigation of heme synthesis with single cell genomics in human primary hepatocytes
Linggih Saputro (Master Bioinformatics student)
Facilitating algorithm implementation for computational genomics
Shelli Jensen (MPH Student)
Facilitating molecular biology experiments in 3rd generation sequencing
Richard Tannenbaum (Master Microbiology/Molecular biology Student)
3rd generation sequencing library construction and sequencing experiments
Maxwell Pietsch (Senior Undergrad, computer science)
Designing fast and efficient RNA-seq pipelines for analyzing large amount of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data
Stephanie Volpe (MPH student)
Isolating single clones of P. falciparum RNA metabolism mutants
Reis Fitzsimmons (Master Bioinformatics student)
Searching novel anti-malaria compounds by identifying molecular mimetic metabolites
Rachel O'Reggio (MPH student)
Literature research of human liver polymorphisms related to pathogen infections
Komi Mati (MPH student)
Computational analysis of transcriptomes of primary hepatocyte 3D culture
Stephan Sutton (MPH student)
Developed a statistical method for 3D genome structure analysis based on Hi-C data