DYE LAB
The Dye Lab performs research with various undergraduate students within the fields of health sciences, biology, chemistry, and physics, including long-term research assistants, senior research students, independent study students, volunteers, summer research students (SURE) and shadowing students.
Interested in working in the Dye Lab?
Please send an email to [email protected] with information regarding any past research experience, your major, year, future goals, and why you would like to join the Dye Lab.
Lab Members
Find out more about all of our current and past lab members from the Dye Lab
Lab Members
- 8/29/26 - Article! Congratulations to the Dye Lab for being featured in the Stetson University Magazine!
- 8/7/26 - New Lab Members! Welcome to Hannah Kurek, Alexis Stivali, Aliya Buckles, Emma Accardi, MaKenzie Braxton, Joshua Colon, Jessica Foster, Lexi Harvey, Victoria Ison, Amara Padilla, and Brianna Tejada for being the newest senior research students in the Dye Lab!
- 5/7/26 - New Lab Members! Congratulations to Leah Seltzer and Elle Rivera Diaz for being the newest Research Assistants in the Dye Lab!
- 4/26/26 - Article! Congratulations to the Dye Lab for their Stetson Today article highlighting their success at the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology annual meeting!
- 4/16/26 - Awards! Congratulations to Raissa Borges de Oliveira Leal, Noelle Zinn, Raven Hufstetler, and Veronica Okeke for winning Maris Awards and Honorable mentions at Stetson Showcase!
- 4/16/26 - Conference Presentations! Congratulations to Noelle Zinn, Raissa Borges de Oliveira Leal, Raven Hufstetler, Veronica Okeke, Jake Catha, Filippa Jansson, Tori Leach, Richard Perez, Iratze Rodriguez, Breanna Beer, and Emmanuela Dessaint for presenting their research at Stetson Showcase!
- 3/7/26 - Awards! Congratulations to Raven Hufstetler for being awarded a research poster presentation award at the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in Washington, D.C.!
- 3/7/26 - Conference Presentations! Congratulations to Raissa Borges de Oliveira Leal, Jake Catha, Iratze Rodriguez, and Raven Hufstetler for presenting their research at the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in Washington, D.C.!
- 1/4/25 - Article! Congratulations to Professor Kristine Dye and student-athletes/Dye Lab researchers Filippa Jannson and Tori Leach on their Stetson Today article highlighting the success of student-athletes conducting research!
- 11/19/25 - Awards! Congratulations to Raven Hufstetler and Raissa Borges de Oliveira Leal for being awarded research presentation awards at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Students in San Antonio, Texas!
- 11/19/25 - Conference Presentations! Congratulations to Raven Hufstetler, Raissa Borges de Oliveira Leal, Noelle Zinn, Khushi Patel, Jake Catha, and Willianis Nieves Rodriguez, for presenting their research at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Students in San Antonio, Texas!
- 11/4/25 - News Feature! Congratulations to the Dye Lab for a recent feature on WFTV Channel 9 News highlighting their recent NIH R15 grant award!
- 10/28/25 - Grant! Congratulations to the Dye Lab for being awarded a $547,875 R15 grant from the National Institute of Health and National Cancer Insitute!
- 10/27/25 - Awards! Congratulations to Professor Kristine Dye, Noelle Zinn, Khushi Patel, Willianis Nieves Rodriguez, and Raven Hufstetler for being awarded travel grants for the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Students!
- 10/26/25 - Conference Presentations! Congratulations to Raven Hufstetler, Jake Catha, Noelle Zinn, and Raissa Borges de Oliveira Leal for presenting their research at the Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Orlando, Florida!
- 10/4/25 - Article! Congratulations to the Dye Lab for a Stetson Today article highlighting their recent NIH R15 grant award!
- 5/23/25 - New Paper! Congratulations to Professor Kristine Dye for her recent publication in mBio "Delta-catenin is required for proliferation in virus-positive Merkel Cell Carcinoma cell lines, but not in human fibroblasts"
- 5/7/25 - New Lab Members! Welcome to Filippa Jansson, Tori Leach, Richard Perez, Breanna Beer, Emmanuela Dessaint, Iratze Rodriguez, and Veronica Okeke, the newest senior research students in the Dye Lab!
- 4/16/25 - Award! Congratulations to Raven Hufstetler for her Honorable Mention at Stetson Showcase for her poster presentation!
- 4/16/25 - Conference Presentations! Congratulations to Bella Cancio-Bello, Ervenica Saint Fort, Jake Catha, Raven Hufstetler, Khushi Patel, and Willianis Nieves Rodriguez for presenting their research at Stetson Showcase!
- 4/3/25 - Grant! Congratulations to Khushi Patel, Raven Hufstetler, and Raissa Borges De Oliveira Leal for being awarded a Stetson SURE grant for their summer research!
- 3/29/25 - Award! Congratulations to Brooklyn Bernstein for winning 4th place within the Senior Biomedical and Health Sciences Category at the State Science and Engineering Fair of Florida!
- 3/15/25 - Grant! Congrats to the Dye Lab for being awarded a Stetson University Lowery grant!
- 3/7/25 - New Lab Members! Congratulations to Jake Catha, Raissa Borges De Oliveira Leal, Reina Li, and Noelle Zinn for being the newest Research Assistants in the Dye Lab!
- 3/1/25 - Awards! Congratulations to Brooklyn Bernstein for winning the following awards at the Tamoka Science fair for her research with Dr. Dye measuring human growth hormone levels in saliva, capillary and venous blood: 1st place Biomedical Award, Florida State Finalist, The Regeneron Biomedical Science Award, Stetson University Pre-Health Award, Heart of Volusia Inc SR Division Award, and Volusia County Medical Society Award!
- 2/10/25 - Grant! Congratulations to the Dye Lab for being awarded a Stetson Summer Grant for 2025!
- 2/4/25 - Article! Congratulations to the Dye Lab for a Stetson Today article highlighting their success at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Students (ABRCMS) in Pittsburgh, PA!
- 11/15/24 - Awards! Congratulations to Willianis Nieves Rodriguez and Raven Hufstetler for winning research poster presentation awards in Microbiology at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Students (ABRCMS) in Pittsburgh, PA!
- 11/13/24 - Conference Presentations! Congratulations to Cody Di Benedetto, Willianis Nieves Rodriguez, Khushi Patel, Raven Hufstetler, Emma Hudgins, and Bella Grace Parker for presenting their research in Pittsburg, PA at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Students (ABRCMS)!
- 11/13/24 - Conference Attendance! Lauren Atkins, Cody Di Benedetto, Willianis Nieves Rodriguez, Khushi Patel, Raven Hufstetler, Emma Hudgins, Mia Dowling, Bella Grace Parker, and Professor Kristine Dye traveled to Pittsburgh, PA to attend the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Students (ABRCMS)!
- 8/14/24 - Travel Awards! Congratulations to Emma Hudgins, Raven Hufstetler, Willianis Nieves Rodriguez, Khushi Patel, Cody Di Benedetto, and Professor Kristine Dye for receiving travel/judging awards to attend the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Students (ABRCMS) in Pittsburgh, PA!
- 5/7/24 - New Lab Members! Welcome to Jake Catha, Bella Cancio-Bello, and Ervenica Saint Fort for being the newest senior research students in the Dye Lab!
- 5/3/24 - New Paper! Congratulations to Kaira Thevenin, Bella Tieche, Cody Di Benedetto, Professor Matthew Schrager, and Professor Kristine Dye for their recent publication in the Virology journal, "The small tumor antigen of Merkel cell polyomavirus accomplishes cellular transformation by uniquely localizing to the nucleus despite the absence of a known nuclear localization signal"
- 4/16/24 - Presentation! Congratulations to Kaira Thevenin, Bella Tieche, Cody Di Benedetto, Frederico Van Ness, Janetlin Mendoza, Emily Basdeo, Mia Dowling, Emma Hudgins, Koiya Rymer, and Kemari Cosby for presenting their research at Stetson Showcase!
- 4/15/24 - Grant! Congrats to the Dye Lab for being awarded a Stetson University Lowery grant!
- 4/9/24 - New Paper! Professor Kristine Dye, Bryan Sanchez Jimenez, Trinity Sterling, Austin Brown, Brian Modica, Kaylee Gibson, Hannah Collins, Carolyn Koch, and Tyler Schwarz published in Star Protocols "Protocol to longitudinally quantify SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater using RT-qPCR and pepper mild mottle virus normalization"
- 3/13/24 - Grant! Congrats to Professor Kristine Dye, Isabella Tieche, Cody Di Benedetto, Khushi Patel, and Willianis (Annie) Nieves Rodriguez on being awarded the Stetson University Breakiron-Evans/Brockway Student-Faculty Collaborative Learning Grant!
- 3/5/24 - Interview! Congrats to Professor Kristine Dye and her interview on Fox 35 Good Day Orlando regarding new COVID guidelines!
- 2/12/24 - Acceptance to Grad School! Congrats to Kaira Thevenin for being accepted to the Emory Immunology and Molecular Pathogenesis PhD Program!
- 2/5/24 - Article! Congratulations to Professor Kristine Dye in her feature in a Reuters article!
- 2/2/24 - New Lab Members! Congratulations to Raven Hufstetler, Khushi Patel, and Willianis (Annie) Nieves Rodriguez for joining the lab as Research Assistants!
- 1/15/24 - Article! Congratulations to Professor Kristine Dye in her feature in an NPR article!
- 12/21/23 - Article! Congratulations to the Dye Lab for having their recent SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater paper featured in Science Featured!
- 10/2/23 - Conference presentation! Congratulations to Kaira Thevenin, Bella Tieche and Cody Di Benedetto for their poster presentations at the American Society of Cell Biology (ASCB) conference in Boston, Massachusetts!
- 11/28/23 - New paper submission! Congratulations to Professor Kristine Dye, Kaira Thevenin, Bella Tieche and Cody Di Benedetto for submitting their manuscript to Virology Journal “The Small Tumor Antigen of Merkel Cell Polyomavirus Accomplishes Cellular Transformation by Uniquely Localizing to the Nucleus Despite the Absence of a Known Nuclear Localization Signal”
- 11/15/23 - Invited Lecture! Congratulations to Professor Kristine Dye for presenting “The Next Pandemic: What Virologists Know” at the Victoria Gardens Lifelong Learning Lecture Series.
- 11/10/23 - New paper! Professor Kristine Dye, Bryan Sanchez-Jimenez and 7 other Stetson University Health Sciences students published in Heliyon “Wastewater surveillance in the COVID-19 post-emergency pandemic period: A promising approach to monitor and predict SARS-CoV-2 surges and evolution”
- 11/6/23 - New Cell Block Development! Congratulations to the Dye Lab for submitting a Subcellular Fractionation Cell Block to the Cell Biology Education Consortium.
- 10/25/23 - New paper! Professor Kristine Dye published in the Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education (JMBE) “Developing scientific literacy with a cyclic independent study assisted CURE detecting SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater”
- 10/6/23 - New paper submission! Congratulations to Professor Kristine Dye and Professor Lynn Kee for submitting their manuscript to Micropublication ”Technical Considerations for Serum Dilutions when Studying Antibody Kinetics in Time Course Experiments”
- 8/24/23 - New Lab Members! Congratulations to Mia Dowling, Emily Basdeo, Emma Hudgins, Kemari Cosby, Janetlin Mendoza, Koiya Rymer, Fred Van Ness and Brittaney Anderson for joining the lab as Senior Research Students.
- 6/25/23 - Conference Presentation! Congratulations to Kaira Thevenin and Bryan Sanchez for their presentation at the American Society of Virology in Athens, Georgia.
- 5/1/23 - Grant! Congratulations to the Dye Lab for receiving a grant from the CBEC for Cell Block Development.
- 4/30/23 - Acceptance to Graduate School! Congratulations to Bryan Sanchez for being accepted to the New York Medical College Microbiology and Immunology Master's program!
- 4/26/23 - Article! Congratulations to Kaira Thevenin and the Dye Lab for being featured in the Stetson University Magazine.
- 4/20/23 - Invited Lecture! Congrats to Professor Kristine Dye for presenting “Exploring How a Newly Discovered Virus Causes Cancer” for the Stetson University Health Sciences Seminar Series.
- 4/11/23 - Awards! Congrats to Kaira Thevenin for winning the Maris Award and to Hannah Collins and Carolyn Koch for receiving an honorable mention at the Stetson Showcase.
- 4/11/23 - Conference presentation! Congratulations to Bryan Sanchez, Trinity Sterling, Austin Brown, Hannah Collins, Brian Modica, Tyler Schwarz, Kaylee Gibson and Carolyn Koch for presenting their research at the Stetson Showcase.
- 4/10/23 - Travel Award! Congrats to Kaira Thevelnin and Professor Kristine Dye for both receiving a Travel Award to attend and present at the American Society of Virology conference in Athens, Georgia.
- 4/1/23 - New lab members! Congratulations to Bella Tieche and Cody Di Benedetto for becoming the newest Dye Lab Research Assistants.
- 12/29/22 - Article! Congratulations to the Dye Lab for being featured in Stetson Today.
- 11/9/22 - Award! Congratulations to Kaira Thevenin for receiving an award for her poster at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Students (ABRCMS) in Anaheim, California!
- 11/9/22 - Conference Presentation! Congratulations to Kaira Thevenin, Bryan Sanchez and Trinity Sterling for their presentations at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Students (ABRCMS) in Anaheim, California!
- 1/22/22 - Article! Congratulations to Professor Dye for her feature in the Stetson Well-Team Podcast
- 10/12/23 - Invited Lecture! Congratulations to Professor Kristine Dye for her Faculty Spotlight Presentation at Stetson University.
- 9/25/22 - Travel Awards! Congratulations to Professor Kristine Dye, Kaira Thevenin, Bryan Sanchez and Trinity Sterling for receiving travel awards to attend the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Students (ABRCMS) in Anaheim, California!
- 8/15/22 - New Lab Members! Congratulations to Hannah Collins, Brian Modica, Tyler Schwarz, Kaylee Gibson and Carolyn Koch for joining the Dye Lab as Senior Research Students!
- 7/15/22 - New Cell Block Development! Congratulations to the Dye Lab for submitting a Western Blot Cell Block to the Cell Biology Education Consortium.
- 7/1/22 - Grant! Congratulations to the Dye Lab for receiving a grant from the CBEC for Cell Block Development.
- 5/1/22 - New Lab Members! Congratulations to Bryan Sanchez, Trinity Sterling and Austin Brown for joining the Dye Lab as Research Assistants!
- 4/15/22 - Award! Congratulations to Kaira Thevenin for receiving the Maris Award at the Stetson Showcase!
- 4/15/22 - Conference Presentation! Congratulations to Kaira Thevenin for presenting at the Stetson Showcase!
- 4/1/22 - Grant! Congratulations to Kaira Thevenin for receiving the Stetson Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) grant!
- 2/15/22 - Conference Presentation! Congratulations to Kaira Theveinin for presenting at the Florida Undergraduate Research Conference (FURC).
- 1/22/22 - Podcast! Congratulations to Professor Dye for her feature in the Stetson Well-Team Podcast
- 1/10/22 - Article! Congratulations to Professor Dye for her feature in a Stetson Today article
- 11/5/21 - Article! Congratulations to Professor Dye for her feature in an article from Giddy.
- 9/29/21 - Article! Congratulations to Professor Dye for her feature in an article from Stetson Today
- 9/25/21 - Article! Congratulations to Professor Dye for her feature in an article from Univision.
- 9/18/21 - News Interview! Congratulations to Professor Dye for her Spectrum 13 News Interview.
- 9/15/21 - Article! Congratulations to Professor Dye for her feature in an article from Univision.
- 9/10/21 - Podcast! Congratulations to Professor Dye for her interview on the Stetson Well-Team Podcast!