Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences – Organizational Chart

Updated September 11, 2026 — organized by team/group

This compact chart groups direct reports into rows and boxed sections beneath each manager or director, ordered by team (Executive Team, Operations, Strategic Initiatives, Program Directors, Grad Programs, Communications, Core Facilities). A full text alternative is available via the "Text list view" button above.

Christina Grozinger Director, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
Melinda Cain Administrative Assistant to the Director
Patrick DrewAssociate Director
Andrew PattersonAssociate Director of Core Facilities
Camelia KantorAssociate Director of Strategic Initiatives
David PutsAssociate Director of Graduate Programs
Emily MartellManaging Director (Exec & Ops)
Donna KorzickDirector of Graduate Training Initiatives
Dipanjan PanDirector for Innovation & Entrepreneurship Ecosystems
Strategic Initiatives

Brittany Grimes - Project Manager

STAIR

Jialing Wang - STAIR Project Manager

Graduate Programs

Dana Coval-Dinant - Grad Program Coordinator

Tasha Marasco - Acad. Program Coord.

Cassie Vomero - Acad. Program Coord.

David Blehi - Events Coord.

Jean Pierce - Sr. Records Specialist/Training Grant Adm.

IGDP Graduate Program Chairs

Melissa Rolls - MCIBS

Sonia Cavigelli - Neuro.

Charlie Anderson - Plant Bio

Gregory Shearer - Physio.

Jason Kaye - Ecology

David Koslicki - BG

Research Operations

Mary Waechter - Assistant Director of Core Facility Operations

Rebecca Stoner - Administrative Assistant

Facilities and Safety

Mike Uchneat - Facilities Rep.

Ashley Gallagher - Fac. Rep.

Nathan Hamm - Fac. Rep.

Madison Beucler - Fac. Rep.

Scott Boor - Systems Administrator & Video Conferencing

Information & Technology

Wilson Diaz - IT Director, Operations & Services

AJ Settlemyer - Systems Admin. 4

Ahmet Yener - IT Consultant 2

Mike Carnegie - Research Computing Systems Specialist

Communications & Engagement

Jessica Mondi - Director

Keith Hickey - Marketing Comm.

Dan Lesher - Digital/Video

Jodie LeMaster - Frontend Web Developer

HUCK CORE FACILITIES

Craig PraulDirector of Huck Core Facilities
Neela YennawarDirector of Instrumentation Grant Initiatives
Ashley ShayAssistant Director of Core Facilities for Public Engagement and Outreach
CSL Behring Fermentation Facility

Mekala Venkatachalam - Director

Ho Park - Res. Tech.

Hasan Coban - Res. Tech.

Genomics Core Facility

Cheryl Keller - Director

Dan Hannon - Res. Project Mgr.

April Cockburn - Res. Project Mgr.

Ashley Price - Res. Tech.

Lucy Aplan - Res. Tech.

Kerry Hair - Res. Tech.

Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry Facility

Tatiana Laremore - Director

Stephen Nolte - Res. Tech.

Cryo-Electron Microscopy Facility

Sung Hyun (Joseph) Cho - Co-Director

Jenny Wang - Co-Director

Metabolomics Facility

Ashley Shay - Director

Sergei Koshkin - Asst. Research Professor

Transgenic Mouse Facility / Mammalian Cell Culture Facility

Randy Rossi - Director

Flow Cytometry Facility

Rajeswaran Mani - Director

Mitchell Koptchak - Res. Tech.

High Field MRI Facility

Thomas Neuberger - Director

Sean Gullette - Res. Tech.

Microscopy Facility

Gang Ning - Director

Yunzhen Zheng - Res. Tech.

Sarah Pfaff - Res. Tech.

Automated Biological Calorimetry & X-Ray Crystallography Facility

Neela Yennawar - Director

Julia Fecko - Res. Tech.

Color legend (team/group)

  • Executive Team
  • Operations
  • Strategic Initiatives
  • Program Director
  • Communications
  • Grad Programs
  • Core Facilities