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       Shannon Boehme, MSShannon is a lab manager for the Ferrell Lab. 
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      Shifat-E Ferdous, MSShifat is a KSU BMS Ph.D. candidate in the Ferrell Lab. She is investigating the bile acid receptor Tgr5 and the influence it has on driving ethanol consumption and on peripheral ethanol metabolism. 
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      Titilayo Olotu, MSTitilayo is a KSU BMS Ph.D. candidate in the Ferrell Lab. She is studying a newly-discovered bacterial species (Ileibacterium valens) and its effects on metabolic liver disease and hepatic lipid metabolism. 
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        Committee ServiceNusrat Jahan, Ph.D. Student (KSU BMS) Mirjavid Aghayev, Ph.D. Student (KSU BMS) Lakshitha Gunawardana, Ph.D Student (KSU BMS) Zaid Batayneh, Ph.D (2025, KSU BMS) Shreya Gupta, Ph.D. (2025, KSU BMS) Katie Bretland, Ph.D. (2024, COGS/BTB) 
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        Former Lab MembersAmanda Iset, 2024 Summer Research Fellow, NEOMED Class of 2027 Rahul Chandra, 2023 Summer Research Fellow, NEOMED Class of 2026 Matthew Lowery, 2023 Summer Research Fellow, NEOMED Class of 2026 Zachary Stahl, former technician, NEOMED Class of 2026 Sabita Pokhrel, Ph.D., former postdoc, currently postdoc OSU Andrew Harvey, 2022 Summer Research Fellow, NEOMED Class of 2025 Shreya Dey, M.D. ‘24, 2021 Summer Research Fellow, Resident, UCMC, Cincinnati OH Negin Khosravi, M.D. ‘23, 2020 Summer Research Fellow, Resident, Akron General, Akron OH Mitchell Best, M.D. ‘22, 2019 Summer Research Fellow, Resident, Case Western, Cleveland OH Fariha Mostafiz, M.D. ‘22, 2019 Summer Research Fellow, Resident, Akron Children’s, Akron OH Andrea Simeone, M.D. ‘19, 2016 Summer Research Fellow, Internal Medicine, SummaHealth, Akron OH