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Principal Investigator
Alicia Pickrell, PhD
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B.S. in Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
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B.A. in Political Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
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Ph.D. in Neuroscience, University of Miami: Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Colin Kelly
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B.S. in Computational and Systems Neuroscience, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
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B.S. in Psychology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
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Ph.D. in Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Postdoctoral Researcher
Sahitya Ranjan Biswas
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B.S. in Microbiology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
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M.S. in Microbiology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Ph.D. in Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Graduate Student
Brooke Lester
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B.A. in Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.
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B.A. in Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.
Research Technician
Julia Milner
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B.S. in Neuroscience, St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City, MD.
Lab Members
Join Our Lab
We have openings for motivated researchers excited about mitochondrial biology, neuroscience, and cell biology. For post-doctoral candidates, please submit your cover letter with career goals, CV, and three references to alicia.pickrell@vt.edu. For graduate students, please see the following programs at Virginia Tech and reach out for a rotation.
Lab Pets
Lab Alumni
Porter Tomsick
Research Technician
2024-2026
Graduate Student at University of Vermont
Lyann Hernandez
Undergraduate Researcher - 2024-2026
Samantha Brindley
Research Technician - 2022 - 2024
Nicole DeFoor
Research Technician - 2021-2023
Current - Graduate Student at Virginia Tech
Baitong Liu
Undergraduate Researcher- 2022-2023
Current- PPD Assistant Scientist
Lauren Fritsch
Graduate Student - 2018-2022
Current - Science Communicator & Industry Liaison
Taylor Tuhy
Undergraduate Researcher - 2019-2020
Current - predoctoral student at Cleveland State University
Shambhavi Adhikari
Undergraduate Researcher - 2025-2026
Grace Wright
Undergraduate Researcher 2023 - 2024
Anna Prater
SURF-N Undergraduate Researcher - 2022
Current - Graduate student at UMass Medical School
Swagatika Paul
Graduate Student - 2020-2023
Current - Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pharmacology at the University of Washington, Seattle
Leila Zavar
Undergraduate Researcher- 2021-2023
Current- Medical student at VT Carilion
Hannah O'Malley
Undergraduate Researcher - 2021-2022
Current- MPH graduate student at John Hopkins University
Faith Carter
VT PREP postbac student - 2018-2019
Current - predoctoral student at Cornell University