Phelps Lab Members

Associate Professor
J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering

Laboratory Manager
Fixer, organizer extraordinaire and experimentalist

Postdoctoral Fellow
Role of the neurotransmitter GABA on islet hormone secretion

Postdoctoral Fellow
(joint w/ Mathews Lab)
Islet immune interface in living pancreas tissue slices

PhD Student
Dynamic real-time sensing of pancreatic islet physiology

PhD Student
Mechanisms of islet GABA secretion

PhD Student
Engineering local immune tolerance for beta cell replacement in type 1 diabetes

PhD Student
Engineering immune cell – beta cell interactions

PhD Student

PhD Student

MS Student

Undergraduate

Undergraduate

Undergraduate

Undergraduate

Undergraduate

Undergraduate

Undergraduate

Undergraduate
Lab Alumni
Ph.D. Students
- Walker Hagan, PhD, Scientist II – NMJ Team Lead, Hesperos, Inc.
- Matthew Becker, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weaver Lab, Arizona State University and CTO at ImmunoShield Therapeutics
- Jorge Santini-González, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ross Lab, Cleveland Clinic, Port St. Lucie, FL
- Mollie Huber, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Kulkarni Lab, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School
- Adrienne Widener, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Russ Lab, University of Florida Diabetes Institute
Medical Fellows
- Kendra Sylvester-Armstrong, MD, private practice South Florida
- Callie Reeder, MD, University of Tennessee Medical Center
Masters Students
- Jennifer Simonovich – University of Florida, BME Ph.D. Program
- Robert Dolan – Engineer at U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Sushain Kaul – University of Florida, APK PhD Program
Undergraduates
- Yarelis Gonzales Vargas, BME PhD Program, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Mallika Bhatta, Medical Honors Program (joint BS, MD), University of Florida
- Natalia Vallenilla, Clinical Specialist, Electrophysiology at Abbott
- Kevin Ling, BME PhD Program, University of Rochester
- Shabeen Raza, Technical Development Program Engineer at Edwards Lifesciences
- Rebecca Erwin, Hydrogen Shot Fellow at DOE
- Maryum Salim, Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation Engineer at Jacobs
- Caroline Lesher, M.S.Program in Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida
- Veronica Bubay, recent graduate, B.S. Biomedical Engineering, University of South Carolina
- Conor Given, recent graduate, B.S. Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida