Alumni at UC campuses

Alumni of BioGAP and its sister programs -- EEGAP, MCGAP, PABGAP, CCBGAP, and ASBIGAP -- have entered doctoral programs at UC Davis and other campuses in the University of California system. Their accomplishments make us proud and we look forward to following their careers.

Naomi Becks

  • Fort Valley State University 2024 (NUTGAP)
  • Graduate Group in Nutritional Biology (Steinberg lab)
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellow

Amber Davenport

  • MS Fort Valley State University, 2023 (PABGAP)
  • PhD program, Horticulture and Agronomy, UC Davis

Darrell Sparks

  • MS Fort Valley State University, 2022 (PABGAP)
  • PhD program, Horticulture and Agronomy, UC Davis

Xong Vue

  • CSU Sacramento, 2023 (BioGAP)
  • PhD Program in Chemistry and Chemical Biology, UC Davis
Xong was selected as a CSU-LSAMP Program for Recognition of Undergraduate Distinction (CSU-LSAMP PROUD) awardee for Outstanding Research in 2023. He will begin the PhD program in Chemistry at UC Davis in Fall 2023.

Darrielle Williams

  • Tuskegee University, 2021 (PABGAP)
  • PhD program in Integrative Pathobiology, UC Davis

Héctor Navarro

  • CSU Sacramento, 2021 (BioGAP)
  • PhD student, BMCDB, UC Davis
UC Davis IMSD trainee, 2022-2023 cohort

Elizabeth Stuart

  • Howard University, 2018 (EEGAP)
  • PhD program in Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution, UCSD

Johnny Vertiz

  • CSU Northridge, Class of 2022
  • PREP@UC Davis
  • PhD Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, UC Irvine
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellow

Kingston Robinson

  • Xavier University of Louisiana, 2021 (CCBGAP)
  • PhD candidate, Chemistry, UC Davis

Imani Muhammad

  • Savannah State University, 2021 (NUTGAP)
  • PhD student, Nutritional Biology, UC Davis