People

Principal Investigator

Kyle P. Quinn, PhD

Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Director of the Tufts Advanced Microscopic Imaging Center
Tufts University

Email: kyle.quinn AT tufts.edu


Bio: Dr. Quinn received his B.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004. He earned his Ph.D. in Bioengineering in 2010 from the University of Pennsylvania under the mentorship of Dr. Beth Winkelstein. He then joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Tufts University as a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Irene Georgakoudi's group. As a postdoc, he was awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award and an NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99). In 2015, he joined the faculty of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Arkansas. His lab has been continuously funded by NIH and received the NSF CAREER award. In 2021, he established the NIH-funded Arkansas Integrative Metabolic Research Center, which integrates optical imaging, bioenergetics, and data science approaches to solve biomedical research problems involving cell and tissue metabolism. In 2025, he was recruited back to Tufts as a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director of the Tufts Advanced Microscopic Imaging Center (TAMIC) . His overall research interests are in developing and utilizing non-invasive quantitative optical methods to characterize the spatiotemporal patterns of disease progression and tissue repair processes.



Graduate Research Assistants

Michael Blair

Graduate Student, PhD program at the University of Arkansas
Doctoral Academy Fellow
Department of Biomedical Engineering
B.S., University of Arkansas, 2017

Email: mjblair AT uark.edu

Divya Gollapalli

Graduate Student, PhD program at Tufts
Department of Biomedical Engineering
B.S., University of Texas at Dallas, 2023

Email: Divya.Gollapalli AT tufts.edu

Malavika Nidhi

Graduate Student, PhD program at Tufts
Department of Biomedical Engineering
B.S., University of Houston, 2020

Email: Malavika.Nidhi AT tufts.edu

Marcos Rodriguez

Graduate Student, PhD program at the University of Arkansas
P.K. Kuroda Endowed Graduate Fellowship
Department of Biomedical Engineering
B.S., University of Puerto Rico, 2019

Email: mrr021 AT uark.edu


Undergraduate Research Assistants

We have recently moved to Tufts University. Please reach out if you are interseted in joining the Quinn Lab!


Lab Alumni

Graduate Students

Isaac Vargas Lopez

M.S., University of Arkansas, 2019
Position after graduation: Configuration Officer at Phillips

Hallie Ramser

M.S., University of Arkansas, 2019
Position after graduation: Sales Application Specialist, Fluorescence Microscopy Division of Bruker, Inc.

Dr. Jake Jones

Ph.D., University of Arkansas, 2020
Position after graduation: Product Manager at Olympus Corp.

Dr. Mamello Mohale

Laboratory Manager
Ph.D., University of Arkansas, 2021
Msc., Rhodes University, 2014
Bsc., Dublin Institute of Technology, 2009

Email: mmohale AT uark.edu

Dr. Alan Woessner

Imaging & Spectroscopy Core Manager for the Arkansas Integrative Metabolic Research Center
Ph.D., University of Arkansas, 2022
B.S., University of Arkansas, 2016

Email: aewoessn AT uark.edu

Ruth Shen Huey Chan

Graduate Student, PhD program
P.K. Kuroda Endowed Graduate Fellowship
Department of Biomedical Engineering
M.S., University of Texas at San Antonio, 2019
B.S., Nanyang Technological University, 2010

Email: rchan AT uark.edu

Olivia Kolenc

Graduate Student, PhD program
William R. Hearst Foundation Fellow
Department of Biomedical Engineering
B.S., University of Texas at El Paso, 2015

Email: oikolenc AT uark.edu



Undergraduate Research Assistants

Shivani Koundinya
Biomedical Engineering, BS
Date of Graduation: 2025

Olivia Vedock
Biomedical Engineering, BS
Date of Graduation: 2025

Nicole Hooten
Biomedical Engineering, BS
Date of Graduation: 2023

Jack Murphy
Biomedical Engineering, BS
Date of Graduation: 2022

Gianna Busch
Biomedical Engineering, BS
Date of Graduation: 2021

Caila Hanus
Biomedical Engineering, BS
Date of Graduation: 2021

Anna McCoy
Biomedical Engineering, BS
Date of Graduation: 2021

Rebekah Townsley
Biomedical Engineering, BS
Date of Graduation: 2021

Ayman Yousef
Biomedical Engineering, BS
Date of Graduation: 2021

Madison Belew
Biomedical Engineering, BS
Date of Graduation: 2020

Haydn Thurber
Biomedical Engineering, BS
Date of Graduation: 2020

Lucy Woodbury
Biomedical Engineering, BS
Date of Graduation: 2020

Robin Raley
Chemistry - Biochemistry, BS
Date of Graduation: 2019

De'Shanel Maycock
Biomedical Engineering, BS
Date of Graduation: 2019

James McGee
Biomedical Engineering, BS
Date of Graduation: 2019

Hannah Peck
Biology, BS
Date of Graduation: 2017


Staff

Christine Shamblin
Laboratory Manager
2019-2021