Jessica Rodriguez works in iCore at the VVC and focuses primarily on purifications. Jessica is originally from Orlando, Florida. She is a recent graduate from MTSU, with a degree in biology with a concentration in physiology and a minor in health. She worked as an undergraduate research assistant in the biochemistry lab at MTSU. She did recombinant expression of protein in E. coli and also had a collaborative project looking to develop a method to analyze protein-protein interaction in C.elegans. In her spare time she loves to spend time with her dog (Nieko) and cooking!

Daden Goldfinger is a third-year undergraduate student at Vanderbilt University majoring in Philosophy and Economics. He hopes to attend law school and pursue a career in law. On campus at Vanderbilt he co-hosts a radio show with WRVU, participates in the Table Tennis Club, and has performed in the Latin-dance showcase, Café Con Leche. In his free time, he enjoys playing drums, reading philosophy, and getting outside.

Andrew Trivette completed his BS and MS in Biology at Middle Tennessee State University, where his MS research focused on the role of certain membrane-bound proteins in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae secretory pathway. Then he spent 3 years at North Carolina State University where he worked in Bioinformatics, studying how and where translation occurs in Arabidopsis thaliana and attempting to identify novel, non-canonical translation start sites using ribosome footprinting data.  

Hello, I'm Tracy Martin. I am originally from Nashville, and I have lived many different places over the years, but landed back in Tennessee to settle down just outside of Nashville.  I graduated from Western Governors University with a degree in Business and Human Resources Management, with a strong concentration in Accounting and Finance principles.  I am in my twenty-fifth year with VUMC, having worked in the Children’s Hospital in Pediatric and Adolescent inpatient units, Myelosuppression and Hematology/Oncology units, and Nursing Administration for the first twenty-one years and in Infectious Diseases at the Comprehensive Care Center with the Southeast AIDS Education & Training Center since 2015 on a grant for educating providers who care for people living with HIV.  Outside of work, you would most likely find me reading, working in my yard planting flowers and trees, or exploring new places with my camera.

Elaine Chen is a graduate student in the department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology at Vanderbilt, mentored by Dr. James E. Crowe, Jr. She obtained her B.S. in Biomedical Sciences from Texas A&M University - College Station in December 2017, and conducted research on engineering DARPin inhibitors of C.diff Toxin B. Upon graduation, Elaine worked at Biodesix on their assay development team as well as at Lilly Biotechnology Center on their Protein Biosciences team. Elaine entered Vanderbilt as part of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program (IGP) in 2018, and subsequently joined the Crowe Lab in 2019. Currently her research involves using next generation sequencing of B cells to answer questions on different infections/disease states.  She completed her Ph.D. in spring 2022.