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Monisha Alla
1st year PhD student
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Advisor: Rey Carabeo, PhD
Education: MS, Vellore Institute of Technology, India
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Blake Bertrand
4th year PhD student
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Advisor: Tammy Kielian, PhD
Research: Host-pathogen interactions during staphylococcus aureus prosthetic joint infection
Education: BS, Saint Louis University, MO
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Logan Bulock
7th year PhD student
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Advisor: Ken Bayles, PhD
Research:Characterizing metabolic heterogeneity within S. aureus biofilms
Education: BA, Augustana College, SD
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Kathryn Cole
4th year PhD student
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Advisor: James Talmadge, PhD
Research: Adoptive cellular therapy
Education: BS, Bellevue University, NE
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Srijanee Das
3rd year PhD student
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Advisor: Howard Gendelman, MD
Co-Advisor: Benson Edagwa, PhD
Research: TBD
Education: BS/MS, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, India
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Elizabeth DelMain
6th year PhD student
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Advisor: Ken Bayles, PhD
Research Area:Regulation and expression of virulence genes in Staphylococcus aureus
Education: BS, University of Saint Thomas, MN
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Linsey Donner
7th year PhD student
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Advisor: W. Scott Campbell, PhD
Research: TBD
Education: MPH, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE |
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Amanda Fernandes
1st year MS student
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Advisor: Santhi Gorantla, PhD
Research: TBD
Education: B.tech., Manipal Institute of Technology, India
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Tessa Firestone
3rd year PhD student
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Advisor: Caroline Ng, PhD
Research: Cell stress responses and Artemisinin resistance in the malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
Education: BS, University of Pittsburgh, PA
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Francis Fontanilla
2nd year PhD student
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Advisor: Rey Carabeo, PhD
Research: TBD
Education: MS, University of Philippines
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Valerie Fousek-Schuller
3rd year PhD student
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Advisor: Xu Luo, PhD
Research: Investigation of molecular mechanisms in cell death and survival in cancer cells
Education: BS, Wayne State College, NE
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Dylan George
2nd year PhD student |
Advisor: Michael Wiley, PhD
Co-Advisor: M. Jana Broadhurst, MD, PhD
Research: TBD
Education: BS, Peru State College, NE
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Benjamin Girardo
3rd year PhD student |
Advisor: Marilynn Larson, PhD
Research:Characterization of the Stress Response in Francisella tularensis
Education: BS, Northern Arizona University, AZ
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Robin Gomez
1st year PhD student |
Advisor: Rotating
Education: BS, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
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Nicole Haen
1st year PhD student |
Advisor: Rotating
Education: BS, Creighton University, NE
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Nathan Hatch
5th year PhD student |
Advisor: Scot Ouellette, PhD
Research: Chlamydial microbiology: metabolism and gene regulation
Education: BS, Wayne State College, NE
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Emily Heaton
2nd year MS student |
Advisor: Stacey D. Gilk, PhD
Research: TBD
Education: BS, Peru State College, NE
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Melissa Holzapfel
4th year MS student |
Advisor: Geoffrey Talmon, MD
Research: Microvillus Inclusion Disease
Education: BS, University of Nebraska - Omaha
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Christopher Horn
3rd year PhD student |
Advisor: Tammy Kielian, PhD
Research: TBD
Education: MS, University of Nebraska - Omaha
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Aaron Jensen
3rd year PhD student
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Advisor: Scot Ouellette, PhD
Research: Proteomic turnover in the context of chlamydial developmental cycle progression
Education: BS, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Samuel Johnson
6th year PhD student
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Advisor: Siddappa Byrareddy, PhD
Research Area:The gut-brain axis and persistent viral reservoir in HIV pathogenesis
Education: BS, Kansas State University, KS
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Lisa Jorgenson
6th year PhD student
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Advisor: Elizabeth Rucks, PhD
Research: Host-pathogen interactions between Chlamydia trachomatis and eukaryotic cells.
Education: BS from University of South Dakota, SD
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Brigham Killips
2nd year PhD student
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Advisor: Stacey D. Gilk, PhD
Research: TBD
Education: BS, University of Kansas
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Elizabeth Klug
2nd year MS student
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Advisor: Siddappa Byrareddy, PhD
Research: TBD
Education: BS, University of Nebraska-Omaha
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Haley Knowles
1st year PhD student
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Advisor: Rotating
Education: BS, Saint Andrews University, NC
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Jian Li
5th year PhD student
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Advisor: Xu Luo, PhD
Research: Apoptosis in colorectal cancer
Education: BM, Tongji University, People's Republic of China
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Edward Makarov
5th year MS student
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Advisor: Santhi Gorantla, PhD
Co-Advisor: Larisa Poluektova, MD, PhD
Research: Zika Virus pathogenesis in Humanized mice & HIV-1 in the newly developed IL34 mice
Education: BS, University of Nebraska - Omaha
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Caitlin Molczyk
3rd year PhD student
MD/PhD Scholars Program
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Advisor: Rakesh Singh, PhD
Research: Pancreatic cancer microenvironment with focus on chemotherapy resistance
Education: BS, Wayne State College, NE
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M. Jane Morwitzer
5th year PhD student
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Advisor: St. Patrick Reid, PhD
Research: Ebola virus-host protein interactions
Education: BS, University of Nebraska - Kearney
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Molly Muehlebach
1st year PhD student
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Advisor: Tammy Kielian, PhD
Research: TBD
Education: BS, Benedictine College, KS
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Omalla (Allan) Olwenyi
5th year PhD student
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Advisor: Siddappa Byrareddy, PhD
Co-Advisor: Courtney Fletcher, PharmD
Research: Chronic Immune Activation, HIV/SIV persistence and the Cure: Immunological Mechanisms Associated with Latency
Education: MS, Makerere University, Uganda
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Opeoluwa Oyewole
5th year PhD student
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Advisor: St. Patrick Reid, PhD
Research: Understanding the role of SphK2 in Chikungunya Virus infection; investigating viral-induced arthritis using multiple-culture models.
Education: MS, The University of Tulsa, OK |
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Kabita Pandey
3rd year PhD student |
Advisor: Siddappa Byrareddy, PhD
Research: TBD
Education: MS, South Dakota State University
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Itidal Reslane
2nd year PhD Student |
Advisor: Paul D. Fey, PhD
Research: TBD
Education: MS, University of Nebraska Medical Center, NE
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Matthew Romero
5th year PhD student |
Advisor: Rey Carabeo, PhD
Research: Molecular Pathogenesis
Education: MS, Microbiology, Texas Tech University
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Enakshi Roy
4th year PhD student |
Advisor: St. Patrick Reid, PhD
Research: TBD
Education: MS, University of Calcutta, India.
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Ramia Salloom
2nd year MS student |
Advisor: Maher Abdalla, PhD
Research: Non Thesis Program
Education: BS, University of Nebraska-Omaha
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Thomas Schulze
4th year PhD student
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Advisor: Paul Davis, PhD
Research: TBD
Education: MS, University of Nebraska-Omaha
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Zachary Scott
3rd year PhD student
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Advisor: Prabagaran (Praba) Narayanasamy, PhD
Research: investigating the mechanisms of action of gallium-based antibiotics
Education: MS, University of Nebraska-Omaha
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Ryan Singh
5th year PhD student
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Advisor: Vinai C. Thomas, PhD
Research Area: physiological significance of bacterial NOS in Staphylococci
Education: BS, University of Chicago, IL
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Amanda Stastny
4th year PhD student
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Advisor: Rey Carabeo, PhD
Research: Iron Acquisition and Regulation by Chlamydia trachomatis
Education: BS, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
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Natalie Sturd
2nd year PhD student
MD/PhD Scholars Program |
Advisor: Elizabeth Rucks, PhD
Research: TBD
Education: BA, Carleton College, MN
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Reegan Sturgeon
1st year MS student
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Advisor: Rakesh Singh, PhD
Research: TBD
Education: BS, University of Dubuque, IA
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Zachary Van Roy
1st year PhD student
MD/PhD Scholars Program |
Advisor: Tammy Kielian, PhD
Research: The association between metabolism and epigenetics during S. aureus craniotomy infection
Education: BS, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Catherine Vornholt
4th year PhD student |
Advisor: Paul D. Fey, PhD
Research: TBD
Education: BA, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI.
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Alexander Wallick
3rd year PhD student |
Advisor: Paul Davis, PhD
Research: Drug discovery in Toxoplasma gondii
Education: BA, University of Nebraska-Omaha
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Rosalie Warner
2nd year PhD student |
Advisor: Scot Ouellette, PhD
Education: MS, University of Nebraska-Omaha
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Ray Widner
3rd year PhD student |
Advisor: Elizabeth Rucks, PhD
Research: The Effect of Eukaryotic SNARE Proteins on Chlamydia trachomatis Lipid Content
Education: BS, South Dakota State University, SD
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Nicholas Wood
4th year PhD student |
Advisor: Scot Ouellette, PhD
Research: Proteomic turnover in the context of chlamydial developmental cycle progression
Education: BS, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
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Kimberly Ziegenhorn
2nd year MS student
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Advisor: Rakesh Singh, PhD
Research: Non Thesis Program
Education: BS, Xavier University, OH
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