Doctoral Students

The Worm Shack is proud to have been the training ground of outstanding doctoral students for over 20 years.  These students have gone on to postdocs at MIT, Harvard, Duke, U. Pennsylvania, Vanderbilt, Baylor College of Medicine, Scripps, among other top universities or government institutions of their choice. 

Karolina Willicott

Pre-Shack:
  • B.S. in Biology, Longwood University
  • M.S. in Biology, University of Nebraska, Kearney​                         (mentor: Dr. Paul Twigg)

Corey Willicott

Pre-Shack:
  • B.S. in Chemistry,  University of Nebraska, Kearney
  • M.S. in Biology, University of Nebraska, Kearney                      (mentor: Dr. Paul Twigg)

Osagie Embokpe
(in collaboration with Dr. Lukasz Ciesla)
Benin City, Nigeria
​​(Photo coming soon!)

Master’s Students

The Worm Shack has also routinely been a launching point for students wishing to earn a M.S. degree prior to pursuing an M.D., M.D., M.D./Ph.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., etc., as well as the job market, directly. M.S. graduates of the Shack have successfully completed further training at Georgetown, Cambridge, Oxford, Columbia, NIH, Maryland, Vanderbilt, Case Western Reserve, UAB, as well as stayed on in The Shack for their Ph.D., or taken jobs within biotech and pharma.