Students

Alessandra Araujo, M.S.
Research Interest: Role of Toll Like Receptors and Commensal Bacteria in Secondary Responses to T. gondii

Hannah Bell, M.S.
Research Interest: Characterizing effector T cell motility in inflammation and infection 

Ryan Connor
Research Interest: Platelet mediated monocyte maturation

Megan Dunagan, M.S.
Research Interest: Mechanism of host shutoff induced by influenza virus

Booyeon Han, M.S.
Research Interest: Cancer immune microenvironment and immunotherapy

Marina Koroleva, M.S.
Research Interest: The effect of vaccine protein composition on the immune B cell response

Michael Lutz
Research Interest: Host adaptation of influenza virus

Mary Moran
Research Interest: Role of S. aureus virulence factors in promoting epidermal viral infectivity: Relevance for atopic dermatitis

Jonathan Pinney, M.S.
Research Interest: Investigating the molecular mechanisms that govern macrophage phagocytosis of mAb-opsonized targets in cancer immunotherapy.

“I am interested in becoming a scientist in industry where I will have the opportunity to combine experimental and computational analyses to develop new and improve current scientific tools.”

Catherine Pizzarello
Research Interest: The role of human milk oligosaccharides in the regulation of intestinal epithelial cell cytokine expression

Shuyang Qin
Research Interest: Mechanism of immunomodulation in pancreatic cancer

Dillon Schrock, Ph.D.
Research Interest: The role of the extracellular matrix in facilitating CD4+ T cell migration and localization specifically as it pertains to Tfh function in the germinal center.

Sydney Simpson, M.S.
Research Interest: Small molecule discovery targeting KSHV latency

Andrew Smith, M.S.
Research Interest: Role of a polymerase defect in function of the live attenuated influenza A virus

Alissa Trzeciak, M.S.
Research Interest: Long-term brain dysfunction driven by acute sepsis-associated encephalopathy

Janelle Veazey, M.S.
Research Interest: Epithelial protein kinase D is a novel regulator of anti-viral immunity

Emily Wu, M.S.
Research Interest: Sexual dimorphism in rheumatoid arthritis