Jasmine Arunachalam

Graduate Student

• Advisor: Jennifer Bando
• Interest: the regulation of immunoglobulin gamma (IgG) transport in neonatal mice

Anushweta Asthana, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

• Advisor: Peter Jackson
• Research: ciliary mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 viral entry in airway epithelial cells

Emma Esterman

Graduate Student

• Advisor: Jan Carette
• Interest: the molecular mechanisms by which proteins in the galectin family influence enterovirus infection

Emma Guiberson, PhD

• Advisor: Justin Sonnenburg
• Research: investigating mechanisms of microbiota-host interaction using mass spectrometry
  

Melissa Steele-Ogus, PhD

• Advisor: Ellen Yeh
• Research: diatoms of the genus Epithemia, a model for understanding endosymbiotic organellogenesis
  

Miles Tuncel

Graduate Student

• Advisor: Christine Jacobs-Wagner
• Interest: the etiologic agent of Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, and the cell biology of the unique glycolipids it incorporates into its membrane

Allison Dupzyk, PhD

• Advisor: Jan Carette
• Research:  adeno-associated virus (AAV) entry and AAV viral trafficking throughout the host cell

Savannah Lewis

Graduate Student

• Advisor: Prasanna Jagannathan
• Interest: development of natural immunity to malaria in individuals living in endemic areas

Nicole Tanenbaum

Graduate Student

• Advisor: Jan Carette
• Interest: identifying enterovirus host factors and characterizing the mechanism by which they promote infection

Benjamin Wang, PhD

• Advisor: Denise Monack
  
• Research: mechanisms of Salmonella persistence within macrophages in systemic mouse tissues

Elisa Caffrey

Graduate Student

• Advisor: Justin Sonnenburg
• Interest: gut-brain-axis, food fermentation and food-gut microbiome-host interactions

Elysse Grossi-Soyster

Graduate Student

• Advisor: Peter Sarnow (primary), David Schneider (co-mentor)
  
• Interest: virus-derived circular RNA molecules and their potential contributions to viral pathogenesis

Joy McKenna, PhD

• Advisor: Denise Monack
  
• Research:  focus on how bacterial pathogens, such as Salmonella and Shigella, interact with our cells to cause disease

Ben Waldman, PhD

• Advisor: Jan Carette
  
• Research: host-pathogen interactions, with a particular focus on species-specific defense systems and viral antagonism of those systems

   

Lily Xu

Graduate Student

• Advisor: Jan Carette/Wah Chiu
  
• Interest: the intersection of virology and structural biology, using single-particle cryo-EM to investigate viral processes in flaviviruses

Isabel Delwel

Graduate Student

• Advisor: Erin Mordecai
• Interest: evolution and host virus interactions of positive RNA viruses

Mary DeFeo

Graduate Student

• Advisor: Dylan Dodd
• Interest: host and microbial factors that affect heparan sulfate levels and neutrophil antifungal activity in vulvovaginal candidiasis
  

Leah Guthrie, PhD

• Advisor: Justin Sonnenburg
  
• Research: deciphering microbial hydroxycinnamate metabolism and impact on uremic illness

Youlim Kim

Graduate Student

• Advisor: Manuel Amieva   
• Interest: Helicobacter pylori colonization and migration in the gastric epithelium

Matt Olm, PhD

• Advisor: Justin Sonnenburg
  
• Research: the human microbiome and fine-scale microbial population genetics

Phylicia Aaron, PhD

• Advisor: Elizabeth Egan
  
• Research: Salmonella enterica serovar-specific biology in the murine gastrointestinal tractRNA virology and disease tolerance and resistance

Oscar Diaz

Graduate Student

• Advisor: Denise Monack
  
• Interest: immune signaling and the bile acid landscape during Salmonella Typhimurium Infecto
  

Meagan Hamblin

Graduate Student

• Advisor: Denise Monack
• Interest: Salmonella enterica serovarspecific molecular host interactions

Alma Mendoza

Graduate Student

• Advisor: John Boothroyd
• Interest: translocation of folded proteins across the parasitophorous vacuole membrane

Kimberly Perez, PhD

• Advisor: Juliana Idoyaga
• Research: function of dendritic cell subsets during health and disease

Nicole Davis

Graduate Student

• Advisor: David Schneider
• Interest: host metabolism in malaria

Sarah Ruddle

Graduate Student

• Advisor: Denise Monack
• Interest: Salmonella typhimurium host interaction

Krystal Thomas-White, PhD

• Advisor: Denise Monack
• Research: mechanisms of microbiome-host interactions

James Zengel, PhD

• Advisor: Jan Carette
  
• Research:  the role of host factors that affect the tropism and transduction efficiency of adeno-associated virus (AAV) in vivo, focusing on the role of the AAV receptor (AAVR)