Our Students
Jose Aceves-Salvador
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Moffitt Lab, 2021
Sam Alemu
Biological Sciences in Public Health
Duraisingh Lab, 2022
Justin Bae
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Helaine and Moffitt Labs, 2021
I study the regrowth of Salmonella persisters with spatial transcriptomics.
Taran Bauer
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
2024
Microbial genetics and transcriptional regulation in gram-negative bacteria.
Bailey Bowcutt
Biological Sciences in Public Health
Grad Lab, 2023
I study evolution of antibiotic resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
Anna Brogan
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Rudner Lab, 2020
I work on envelope stress-response signaling in Gram-positive bacteria.
Dylan Burgin
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Bernhardt Lab, 2023
I study membrane biogenesis in Gram-negative bacteria.
Rita Chan
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Rakoff-Nahoum Lab, 2019
I study microbiology and microbial ecology in the female reproductive tract.
Terry Cho
Biomedical Informatics
Kostic Lab, 2024
My research focuses on computational approaches to unravel host–microbe co-evolution and interaction, with a parallel emphasis on developing scalable methods for large-scale microbiome data analysis.
Daniela Coronado
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Kasper Lab, 2019
I am studying the microbiome's impact on immunology.
Katherine Dailey
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Helaine Lab, 2024
I study genes encoded on prophages in Klebsiella pneuomoniae.
Tanner DeHart
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Bernhardt Lab, 2021
Laurent Dubois
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Bernhardt Lab, 2019
Dwayne Evans
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Walker Lab, 2018
I study the mechanisms of and drug targets for cell wall and cell envelope synthesis in Staphylococcus aureus.
Wilaysha Evans
Chemical Biology
Bernhardt Lab, 2021
Zoe Feder
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Hochschild Lab, 2019
I study protein-based inheritance in bacteria.
Abigail Frey
Biological Sciences in Public Health
Fortune Lab, 2021
I am utilizing the evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis for a new understanding of its virulence mechanisms.
Rachel Giorgio
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Helaine Lab, 2018
I study the role of dendritic cells in Salmonella persistence.
Virginia Glick
Chemical Biology
Gopinath Lab, 2021
Gabrielle Hernandez
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Dvorin Lab, 2024
Uncovering the cell biology of Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest parasite species.
Dominick Jenkins
Chemical Biology
Balskus Lab, 2021
Jordan Jensen
Biological Sciences in Public Health
Huttenhower Lab, 2020
Johnathan Kepple
Biological Sciences in Public Health
Bernhardt Lab, 2020
I study outer membrane homeostasis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Andie Kim
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Jost Lab, 2022
Communication between the host and its microbiome through small molecule-receptor signaling networks.
Cecilia Kim
Biological Sciences in Public Health
Devlin Lab, 2023
Examining the sulfonation of small molecules by gut bacteria and the impact of these modified metabolites on disease.
Jenny Kim
Chemical Biology
Helaine and Walker Labs, 2019
I am studying the mechanisms of Staphylococcus aureus persistence both in vitro and during macrophage infection.
Andrea Lebron Figueroa
Immunology
Starnbach Lab, 2021
Hyunho Lee
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Jost Lab, 2021
Examining combinatorial effects of gut microbiome metabolites.
Jeremy Liang
Chemical Biology
Balskus Lab, 2023
Claudia Liu
Chemical Biology
Balskus Lab, 2021
Isaiah Lopez
Chemical Biology
Balskus Lab, 2023
I plan to investigate the enzymology and chemistry catalyzed by microbes in the biosynthesis of secondary metabolites and other specialized molecules, especially those relevant to human health.
Bri Manning
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Higgins Lab, 2021
I am interested in the regulatory response of bacterial virulence factors during intracellular infection.
Cait Moffatt
Molecules, Cells, and Organisms
Kahne Lab, 2020
I am interested in how Gram negative bacteria transport LPS to the cell surface.
Sarah Mooney
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Jost Lab, 2024
I am interested in mechanisms underlying host-microbe interactions in the gut microbiome.
Benjamin Morris
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Helaine Lab, 2023
I study the interactions between Salmonella and host immune cells during infection and antibiotic treatment.
Eric Neubauer Vickers
Biological Sciences in Public Health
Grad Lab, 2023
I am interested in population level immunity to Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
Tien Nguyen
Molecules, Cells, and Organisms
Bernhardt Lab, 2022
Joshua Park
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
2023
Elizabeth Perez
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Higgins Lab, 2019
Host factors contribute to the rise and fall of Listeria monocytogenes during intracellular infection. I am determining what roles these host factors may play in host defense or L. monocytogenes virulence.
Bailey Plaman
Chemical Biology
Kahne Lab, 2020
I am interested in the mechanism of how LPS transport is coupled to ATP hydrolysis in the lipopolysaccharide transporter.
Adelyn Ragucci
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Kranzusch Lab, 2022
I use biochemistry and structural biology to understand how phages evade bacterial immune systems.
Baylee Russell
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Jost Lab, 2020
I study phage-microbe interactions in the gut and how these dynamics may impact the host.
Ari Sarfatis
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Moffitt Lab, 2019
I develop techologies to enable massively multiplexed transcriptome profiling in bacteria.
Mia Sievers
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Helaine Lab, 2020
Tyler Sisley
Chemical Biology
Walker Lab, 2018
I study cell cycle regulation and cell wall biosynthetic machinery in Staphylococcus aureus.
Hailee Sorensen
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Helaine Lab, 2021
My work focuses on Salmonella persister cells and how they may be involved in recurrent infections.
Kathy Suarez
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Bernhardt Lab, 2019
Kade Townsend
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Dove Lab, 2023
I will be researching post-transcriptional regulators in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Melissa Tran
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Devlin and Huh Labs, 2020
Brooke Travis
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Girguis Lab, 2021
Assessing host physiology in response to the presence of symbiotic relationships in deep sea animals.
Nana Twumasi-Ankrah
Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics
Moffitt Lab, 2021
I use a highly multiplexed microscopy imaging technique called MERFISH to study the spatial organization and gene expression of bacteria within their native contexts.
Manasvi Verma
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Jost Lab, 2020
I study the mammalian genetic networks that allow host cells to recognize and respond to microbiome derived small molecules.
Katie Westervelt
Biological Sciences in Public Health
Goldberg Lab, 2019
We are developing in vitro methods to better understand various selective pressures on Neisseria gonorrhoeae across the niches it is transmitted between.
Evan Yang
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Moffitt Lab, 2019
My work focuses on expanding MERFISH, a spatial transcriptomics technology that leverages optical barcodes, to track unique molecular identifiers in situ.
Sam Zinga
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Rubin Lab, 2022
Mechanisms of antibiotic resistance in mycobacteria and mycobacterial protein degradation control.