LAB MENTORS
Mentoring a KEYS intern is a valuable way to engage in high school outreach.
Principal Investigators
Researchers from across the University of Arizona host KEYS high school students. KEYS relies on faculty investigators and their postdoctoral and graduate students for their mentorship. Most are members of the BIO5 Institute, the Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center, and other affiliated bioscience research groups.
Lab Mentors
Mentoring a KEYS intern is a valuable way to engage in high school outreach. Mentors are generally past and/or current college students under the direction of their laboratory's principal investigator(s).
Training
A training is offered each Spring for Principal Investigators and Laboratory Mentors. We especially encourage first time mentors to participate in this training.
Questions? Contact KEYS staff at 520-626-8124.
Thank you to our UArizona Mentors
- Dr. Leif Abrell
- Dr. Alicia Allen
- Dr. Lingling An
- Dr. Jennifer Andrews
- Dr. Parker Antin
- Dr. David Armstrong
- Dr. Craig Aspinwall
- Dr. Alicja Babst-Kostecka
- Dr. David Baltrus
- Dr. Christopher T Banek
- Dr. Carol Barnes
- Dr. Jennifer Barton
- Dr. Timothy Bolger
- Dr. Michael Brown
- Dr. Ross Buchan
- Dr. Vanessa Buzzard
- Dr. Todd Camenisch
- Dr. Andrew P Capaldi
- Dr. Yves Carriere
- Dr. Eli Chapman
- Dr. Pascale Charest
- Dr. Nathan Cherrington
- Dr. Jared Churko
- Dr. Stuart Craig
- Dr. Melanie Culver
- Dr. Michael Daines
- Dr. Anna Dornhaus
- Dr. Frank Duca
- Dr. Jamie Edgin
- Dr. Erika Eggers
- Dr. Nathan Ellis
- Dr. Torsten Falk
- Dr. Teodora Georgieva
- Dr. Thomas Gianetti
- Dr. Wulfila Gronenberg
- Dr. Leslie Gunatilaka
- Dr. Ryan N Gutenkunst
- Dr. Philipp Gutruf
- Dr. Roberto Guzman
- Dr. Michael Hammer
- Dr. David T Harris
- Dr. Nancy Horton
- Dr. Elizabeth B Hutchinson
- Dr. Michael Johnson
- Dr. Dongkyun Kang
- Dr. Jason Karnes
- Dr. Minkyu Kim
- Dr. Tai Kong
- Dr. Anita Koshy
- Dr. Monica Kraft
- Dr. Bonnie LaFleur
- Dr. Kaveh Laksari
- Dr. Daniel Latt
- Dr. Tally Largent-Milnes
- Dr. Julie Ledford
- Dr. Gondy Leroy
- Dr. Haiquan Li
- Dr. Kirsten Limesand
- Dr. Sean Limesand
- Dr. Jeffrey Lochhead
- Dr. Yves Lussier
- Dr. Eric Lyons
- Dr. Michael Marty
- Dr. Euan McLeod
- Dr. Nirav Merchant
- Dr. Laura Meredith
- Dr. Jane Mohler
- Dr. Paul Myrdal
- Dr. Lisa Nagy
- Dr. Marc Orbach
- Dr. Sairam Parthasarathy
- Dr. William Duke Pauli
- Dr. Robin Polt
- Dr. Jeffrey Pyun
- Dr. Sadhana Ravishankar
- Dr. Michael Riehle
- Dr. Casey Romanoski
- Dr. Arvinder Sandhu
- Dr. Travis Sawyer
- Dr. John Schaibley
- Dr. Todd Schlenke
- Dr. Monica Schmidt
- Dr. Tricia Serio
- Dr. Marvin Slepian
- Dr. Catharine Smith
- Dr. Shane Snyder
- Ryan Sprissler, Staff Scientist
- Dr. Patricia Stock
- Dr. Judith Su
- Dr. Vignesh Subbian
- Dr. George Sutphin
- Dr. Tyson Swetnam
- Dr. Jil Tardiff
- Dr. Fernando Teran Arce
- Dr. Jennifer Teske
- Dr. Malak Tfaily
- Dr. Jekan Thanga
- Dr. Nima Toosizadeh
- Dr. Thomas Tomasiak
- Dr. Ted Trouard
- Dr. Rebecca Vanderpool
- Dr. Koenraad Van Doorslaer
- Dr. Donata Vercelli
- Dr. Kathleen Walker
- Dr. Jun Wang
- Dr. Ting Wang
- Dr. Weigang Wang
- Dr. Marielle Wälti
- Dr. Russell Witte
- Dr. Georg Wondrak
- Dr. Zhongguo Xiong
- Dr. Guang Yao
- Dr. Fei Yin
- Dr. Jeong-Yool Yoon
- Dr. Daniela Zarnescu
- Dr. Donna Zhang
- Dr. Yitshak Zohar
- Ken Addison
- Arif Ahmed
- Karman Alamdari
- Andy Ambrose
- Miranda Anderson
- Al-Hassan Aodah
- Patricio Andrés Arrué Cornejo
- Meagan Ash
- Christian Ayala-Ortiz
- Dr. Michael Badowski
- Kasturi Banerjee
- Mitchell Bartlet
- Cayla Baynes
- Shawn Beitel
- Argelia Benavides
- SeoHo Bin
- Christopher Boles
- Justina Marie Bonaventura
- Teal Brechtel
- Dominique Brianna
- Nicolette Brown
- Chris Camp
- Natalie Carey
- Romi Castillo
- Mengyang Chang
- Dan Charbonneau
- Dr. Anita Chavan
- Sean Chen
- Alex Chibly
- Clay Christenson
- Austin Conklin
- Courtney Comrie
- Mandi Corenblum
- Michele Cosi
- Janet Courtright
- Elizabeth Cox
- Garrett Crosby
- Hope Dang
- Noura Darwish
- Tapasyatanu Dash
- Richard DeArmond
- Benjamin Degain
- Kimiko Della Croce
- Andrea Deranek
- Upendra Devisetty
- Jessica Diesing
- Loi Do
- Matthew Dodson
- Fathima T. Doole
- Rachel Doser
- Sam Dunlap
- Ryan Dunn
- Alane Dy
- Anna Eitel
- Andrew M. Erly
- Alex Erwin
- Peace Ezeh
- Oluwaseun Fapohunda
- Diana Ferro
- Bianca Ferreira da Silva
- Dr. Emanuel Fonseca
- Isabel Forlastro
- Viviana Freire Zapata
- Steven Fried
- Tim Frost
- Maureen Galindo
- Jacob Garlant
- Jordan Garth
- Kristy Ellen Gilman Creitz
- Hannah Goodman
- Jack Godek
- Chanel Griggs
- Carissa Grijalva
- Jordan Gunning
- Virginia Harpold
- Miriam Heras
- Kushani Hewage
- Linnea Honeker
- Christiane Hoppe-Jones
- Elizabeth Howard
- Jason Hsieh
- Gabby Hutchens
- Pier Ingram
- Tariq Islam
- Fernando Ivich
- Rob Jackson
- Linan Jiang
- Stephen Jinga
- Teresa Joy
- Rebecca Justiniano
- Warren Kadoya
- Dr. Dimithree Kahanda
- Kelly Karlage
- Matthew Klass
- Thomas Knapp
- Collin Krzyzaniak
- Nachiket Kulkarni
- Taehyung Kwon
- Felicidad Lebario
- Hui Li
- Erika Liktor-Busa
- Alex Eden Lim
- Linnea Linde-Krieger
- Dilara Long
- Annalysa Lovos
- Dr. Lalitha Madhavan
- Stephanie Mallahan
- Alejandra Mandel
- Lucas Marmorale
- Renata Martin
- Damian Mason
- Sarah Ann Mathena
- Connor Maxwell
- Katie McCracken
- Michael McDonnell
- Rebecca McQuade
- Shannon McWaters
- Matthew Miller
- David Mills
- Rami Musharrafieh
- Ty Neenan
- Allison Newton
- Dmitrii M. Nikolaev
- Thao Nguyen
- Ari Nicolini
- Daniel Noah Shanks
- Abigail O’Connor
- Mana Ohkura
- Chisom Olikagu
- James Onwubiko Onwuzurike
- Chioma Oringanje
- Erol Ozgur
- Minkyu Park
- Natalie Payne
- Miguel Peña
- Roberto Peralta
- Dr. Suchi Perera
- Marcela Pier
- Stefan Popp
- Dr. Filip Poscic
- Athip Raj
- Kayla Raymond
- Deseree Reid
- Photinin Rice
- Brendan Riske
- Mikhail N. Ryazantsev
- Partha Samadder
- Yamil Sanchez-Rosario
- Henry Sanders
- Kailee Savage
- Melissa Sayegh
- Devin John Seka
- Neeraja Setlur
- Aryatara Shakya
- Dr. Kunal Sharma
- James T. Shira
- Mara Short
- Edwin Skidmore
- Adam Skora
- Victoria Snapp
- Katie Sosnowski
- Erica Spence
- Phoenix Spivey
- Trevor Stanfill
- Ben Stansfield
- Heidi Steiner
- Owyn Stokes
- Lindsey Stolze
- Andrey Struts
- Savannah Stull
- Momoka Sugimura
- Nathan Sweeney
- Kailie Szewczyk
- Yisha Tang
- Elyse Tanzer
- Tyler Tate
- Coco Tirambulo
- Erica Toth
- Meagan Tran
- Teo Trujillo
- Shraddha Tuladhar
- Kairavi Vaishnav
- Dr. Karla Vargas
- Norma Nohemi Villagómez-Márquez
- Hallie Wachsmuth
- Junsig Wang
- Weihua Wang
- Marcy Watchman
- Alison Watson
- Andrea Wellington
- Daniel Williamson
- Amy Wong
- Xiaomin Wu
- Shinin Wu
- Meng Xu
- Sergio Yanez-Pagans
- Scott Younger
- Chris Zerio
- Libin Zhu
- Xiaoyi Zhu
- Robbie Zinna
“I believe having students in our labs offers a chance for them to get hands-on experience in a running lab doing science (they get to experience the joy, the frustration, and the boredom—all of which are part of science), and they get to be part of a team (the lab) which is truly one of the best parts of science!”