Our team
Maria M. Mikedis, Ph.D. Email
Assistant Professor Reproductive Sciences Center Division of Developmental Biology Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Maria earned her B.S. in 2007 from Duke University, and her Ph.D. in 2014 from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, where she worked with Dr. Karen Downs. She pursued postdoctoral training with Dr. David Page at the Whitehead Institute before joining the faculty at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in 2022. She is a Leading Edge Fellow and has received the Whitehead Institute’s Margaret and Herman Sokol Postdoctoral Award in Biomedical Research. Outside of lab, Maria spends her time exploring Cincinnati with her husband and daughter.
Natalie Pfaltzgraff
Research Assistant III
B.S. University of Cincinnati
Esther Ushuhuda
Research Assistant III
B.S. Lynn University
M.S. Nova Southeastern University
Shelbie Wenner Graduate Student, MSTP
Shelbie graduated from Bucknell University in 2020 with a B.S. in neuroscience and Spanish. She has worked on various prairie vole behavioral research projects studying alcohol use disorder, as well as clinical/translational research on Alzheimer’s disease. Shelbie spends time outside the lab exploring with her rescue pup, Algernon, and enjoying the vibrant restaurant/brewery scene in Cincinnati.
Alumni
Hoang Anh Nguyen
2024 Summer Undergraduate Researcher
Current undergraduate at University of Cincinnati
Puspa Shah
2024 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow
Current undergraduate at Vanderbilt University