Honorary Members

Daniel Conrad, PhD

Current Position: Emeritus Professor, mentor, and honorary member of the Martin Lab! Without Dan, we would all be lost!

Current interests: Golf, his cat Teddy, and general relaxation in retirement.

Julie Farnsworth and XinYan Pei, MD

Current Positions: Julie and XinYan both run the flow core with ease and expertise. Julie is the Flow Cytometry Core manager with over 15 years flow cytometry experience. XinYan is a sorting expert, and as our sort specialist, ensures that our core is able to complete complicated and laborious sorts with ease.

Madison Isbell, MS

Current Positions: Madison is the FCSR spectral specialist and handles all the heavy lifting with data. Since her hire date in August 2022, I have had countless core users tell me that she in a priceless employee!

Jared S. Farrar

Webmaster SpaceCat!

Education:

BS in Biology, minor in chemistry, honors certificate; University of Utah (2010)
VCU MD-PhD Program (Matriculated 2013)

Graduate Program: PhD in Clinical and Translational Sciences, with a concentration in Cancer and Molecular Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University (defended 02/05/2020).

PhD Dissertation Topic:  GENETIC AND CELLULAR MODELS FOR THE STUDY OF PTK2B AND ADAM10 IN ADAPTIVE THERMOGENESIS AND METABOLISM

https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/6122/

Current Position: Medical world with a foot or two in the research world.