Shen Lab of Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology at UNLV

Graduate Research Opportunities

We welcome students who are interested in using genomics and bioinformatics approaches to address fundamental biological questions. Details about UNLV's graduate college can be found here.

Undergraduate Research Opportunities

Shen Lab offers many research opportunities to undergraduate students at UNLV or any other universities. Students at UNLV may take BIOL 492 for credits and fulfill the Capstone requirement. Alternatively, you may apply for a NSF fellowship ($4,000 for a summer plus waiving the charge for up to six credits for summer courses), IAAS fellowship, or NIH INBRE internship ($4,500 for a summer). The latter approach will allow you to be paid for learning—a pretty good deal!

Many undergraduates trained in our lab have been accepted to well-known professional schools and graduate schools:

Name	School	Year Accepted
Leah Banker	William S. Boyd School of Law	2024
Tamara Kabbani	Univeristy of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine	2024
Azeem Majid	Touro University School of Osteopathic Medicine	2023
Keeley Adams	Uniformed Services University, Medical School	2022
Tiffany Chen	UNLV, Medical School	2022
Adriana Baker	UT Health San Antonio, MD/PhD program	2021
Timothy Ogburn	Univeristy of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine	2019
Kevin Canales	Touro University School of Osteopathic Medicine	2019
Adrian Mangio	University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine	2018
Elizabeth Delgado	University of Florida Graduate School	2017
William Fang	University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Medicine	2017
Arielle Homayouni	Washington University in St. Louis	2016
Natalie Gevorkian	University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine	2016
Ty Adetaye Adeseye	Harvard School of Dental Medicine	2015
Jennifer Lopez	Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences	2015
Annie Hong	Univeristy of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine	2013
Charlotte Choi	University of Michigan Graduate School	2013
So Lee Park	Kansas State College of Veterinary Medicine	2013
Ryan Huang	Touro University School of Osteopathic Medicine	2012
Rhea Conlu	Roseman University of Health Sciences	2011
Wendy Seto	University of the Pacific School of Dentistry	2009
Jose Inzunza	New York Medical College	2008
Yu Gan	University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Dentistry	2007
Shane Hanzlik	University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine	2004

The following undergraduate students received a fellowship/internship to work in our lab:

Name	Fellowship	Semester
Fredrick Bragg Jr.	NSF-LSAMP SSRE	Spring 2020
Sandy Haneefzai	NSF EPSCoR UROP	Summer 2019
Keeley Adams	NIH INBRE	Summer 2018
Timothy Ogburn	AANAPISI, LSAMP, and the McNair Scholars Institute	Spring 2018
Rachelle Lamug	AANAPISI SRI	Summer 2017
Rin Boonjue	AANAPISI SRI	Summer 2017
Arielle Homayouni	NSF EPSCoR UROP	Fall 2014
Charlotte Choi	NSF EPSCoR UROP	Summer 2012
Diana Hua	NSF EPSCoR UROP	Summer 2011
Rhea Conlu	NSF EPSCoR UROP	Spring 2011
Norris Lam	ASPB Summer Research	Summer 2011
Norris Lam	NSF EPSCoR UROP	Fall 2010
Christina Yap	NSF EPSCoR UROP	Fall 2010
Norris Lam	NIH INBRE	Summer 2009
Ryan Huang	NSF EPSCoR UROP	Fall 2008
Ryan Huang	NIH INBRE UROP	Summer 2008
Patricia Ringler	NIH BRIN	Fall 2003 and Spring 2004
Tracy Hall	NIH BRIN	Summer 2003
Jared Townsend	NIH BRIN	Summer 2003
Tracy Hall	NSF	Summer 2002
Shane Hanzlik	NSF	Summer 2002

The following undergraduate students are co-authors of our publications, which helped them fulfill their career goals:

* Keeley Adams
* Rin Boonjue
* Arielle Homayouni
* Jennifer Lopez
* Tara Tufano
* Everett Cook
* Shane Hanzlik
* Yue Liu
* Paul Ruas

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