Personnel

Dr. Ruben Michael Ceballos

Principal Investigator

Post-Doctoral Scholars and Visiting Scientists

Dr. Mercede “Cede” Furr
Cell and Molecular Biology
Postdoctoral Scholar
(Arkansas, USA) 

Dr. Chang-Hao “Perry” Wu
Biochemistry
Postdoctoral Scholar
(Taiwan)

Dr. Chinnapong Wangnai
Visiting Scientist
King Mongkut’s University of Technology
(Thailand) 
Dr. Elizabeth Padilla Crespo
Visiting Scientist (NSF ROA)
Universidad  Interamericana Aguadilla
(Puerto Rico) 

 

 

Ing. Pablo Soraire
Visiting Scientist/Engineer (INFEWS) 
Estacion Experimental Agroindustrial
Obispo Colombres (Argentina) 

Ing. Guillermo DeBoeck
Visiting Scientist/Engineer (INFEWS) 
Estacion Experimental Agroindustrial
Obispo Colombres (Argentina) 

 

Graduate Students

Elham Bahramian (CEMB)
Neurotropic Viruses (Roseolovirus)
(Iran)

Yeasin Ahmed (CEMB)
Crenarchael Virus Ecology
(Bangladesh)

 

Visiting PhD Student Scholars

TBD
Visiting PhD Student
(Colombia)

Sonal Srivastava (BIOL)
Virus-Host Interactions
(India)

Sobroney “Ying” Heng
Neurotropic Virus Electrophysiology
(Thailand)

 

Administrative and Technical Staff

Enrique Marroquin
Field Technician
(California, USA)

TBD 
Program Coordinator

Aisha Soliman
Lab Manager/Technician
(New York, USA)

 

Post-Baccalaureate Scholars (NSF REPS Scholars)

Alexia Maceda
Post-Baccalaureate Scholar
(Minnesota, USA)

Guillermo Leyva 
Post-Baccalaureate Scholar
(Arkansas, USA)

Mareva Ford
Post-Baccalaureate Scholar
(Arkansas, USA)

 

Undergraduate Research Scholars

Kyle Hanson
Biology
(NSF REU Scholar)

Hannah Ringgold
Biology
(NSF REU Scholar)

Walker Bartels
Biology Honors
(AR EPSCoR CASE SEED)

 

Recent Graduates (MS and PhD)

Huong “Maggie” Hoang (CEMB MS)
Fish Genetics and Biogeography
(Vietnam; graduated 2019)

Nour Fatema (CEMB MS)
Enzyme Platform Systems
(Bangladesh; graduated 2021)

TBD

 

Recent Undergraduate Research Scholar Graduates

Julia Daugherty
Biology Honors
(Class of 2020)

Nicole Dominguez 
Biology Honors
(Class of 2021)

Tatiana Castillo Hernandez
Biological Engineering Honors
(NSF INFEWS; graduated 2021)

 

Stephen Fagot
Biology Honors
(Class of 2020)

Marilyn Cornell 
Biology Honors
(NSF MCB UG Intern)

Amy Eggers
Biochemistry Honors
(Magna Cum Laude 2020)

 

Safee Belbina
Biology Honors
(Magna Cum Laude 2019)

Jennie Finch
Biology Honors
(Summa Cum Laude 2020)

Arch Jones
Biology Honors
(Magna Cum Laude 2020)

 

Blakely Moore
Biochemistry Honors
(Magna Cum Laude 2020)

Ryan “Hunter” Rose
Biology Honors
(Summa Cum Laude 2019)

James Wisener
Biology Honors
(Class of 2019)

 

News

Congratulations to Dr. Sobroney Heng..!

Jan 24, 2023

Congratulations to Dr. Sobroney Heng who recently defended her dissertation at King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (Thailand) under a partnership between the University of Arkansas (Ceballos Lab) and KMUTT.  You can download her recent first-author...

Congratulations to Dr. Elham Bahramian..!

Jan 24, 2023

Congratulations to newly minted Dr. Elham Bahramian who completed her PhD in our lab.  Please see her recent first-author publication in Frontiers in Immunology (Impact Factor: 8.786) entitled, "Differential Impacts of HHV-6A versus HHV-6B Infection in Differentiated...