Jan Carette

Principal Investigator

Jan E. Carette is Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University. Jan received his doctorate from Wageningen University, The Netherlands, and did his postdoctoral training at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts. His laboratory uses genetic approaches to understand the molecular mechanisms of virus–host interactions, ranging from pathogenic viruses to viruses used in gene therapy.

Pingping Cao

Postdoctoral Fellow

Pingping is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. Pingping's research focuses on the development of direct-acting antivirals and targeted protein degradation targeting the picornavirus 2A and the high-throughput screen to identify the disruptors of the newly identified 2A-SETD3 interaction which is crucial for enteroviruses genome replication. Pingping received her PhD from Tsinghua University, where she studied the working mechanisms of membrane protein complexes involved in sterol homeostasis regulation by cryo-EM single particle analysis in Dr. Nieng Yan's group.

Allison Dupzyk

Postdoctoral Fellow

Allison is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. Allie is studying adeno-associated virus (AAV) entry, and is interested in AAV viral trafficking throughout the host cell. She received her PhD from the University of Michigan in the lab of Professor Billy Tsai, where she studied nonenveloped virus entry and cell membrane penetration.

Emma Esterman

Graduate Student

Emma is a graduate student in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. She is characterizing how several host factors affect enterovirus infection. Emma received her bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College, where she studied gene transfer agent evolution in the lab of Dr. Olga Zhaxybayeva. After her undergraduate studies, she worked for two years at Adimab, where she engineered antibodies to have improved binding to viral glycoproteins.

Nicole Tanenbaum

Nicole is a graduate student in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. She is interested in identifying enterovirus host factors and characterizing the mechanism by which they promote infection. Nicole received her bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied influenza vaccine effectiveness in the lab of Dr. Scott Hensley.

Ben Waldman

A.P. Giannini Postdoctoral Fellow

Ben is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. Ben's research focuses on host-pathogen interactions, with a particular focus on species-specific defense systems and viral antagonism of those systems. Ben received his PhD from MIT, where he studied the regulation of chronic infection by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii in Sebastian Lourido's group at the Whitehead Institute.

Jimin Yoon

Postdoctoral Fellow

Jimin is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. Jimin's research is on identifying host genes that play critical roles in the pathogenesis of viruses, as well as to elucidate the underlying molecular mechanism of how those host genes are critical for viral replication. Jimin received her PhD from MIT in the lab of  Dr. Matthew Shoulders.