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: Determining the function of a T3SS effector protein, VopZZ, in colonization and the disease process.

Amelia Clark, M.S.
Research Interest: Modulation of the cell-autonomous molecular clock by metabolic stress, and its role in the anti-tumor immune response.

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

Abdul Embong
Research Interest: Analysis of Human Memory B Cell Expansion After Influenza Vaccination: Assessing The Vaccine Efficacy of Licensed Flu Vaccines in the United States and the Influence of Original Antigenic Sin in Mounting Humoral Immunological Response

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

Alicia Healey
Research Interest: Characterizing effector T cell recruitment and retention at sites of inflammation

Michael Lutz
Research Interest: Host adaptation of influenza virus

Andrew Martin
Research Interest: The effect of IFN-gamma on monocyte’s ability to eliminate Toxoplasma

Briaunna Minor
Research Interest: Tumor Immunology; Estrogen signaling in immune cell infiltrate of a mouse model for Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM).

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

Sean Nelson, M.S.
Research Interest: Investigating intranasal vaccination and its ability to potentiate influenza-specific lung-resident CD4 T cells

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 "Sue" Qin
Research Interest: Mechanisms of immunotherapy resistance in synchronous melanoma

Noah Salama
Research Interest: To characterize long-term, post resolution polarized resident macrophage cell types and ascertain their phenotypic role in maintaining the tissue polarized state

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

Michael Sportiello
Research Interest: Resident memory T cells, influenza immune response, influenza vaccine development, applied bioinformatic methods

Katharine Tomberlin
Research Interest: Identifying the minimal genetic elements carried within the V. cholerae T3SS island that are required for colonization.

Megan Ulbrich
Research Interest: Using multidisciplinary approaches to uncover novel effector protein (VopX) functions.

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