Monisha Alla
1st year PhD student

 Advisor: rotating
Education: MS, Vellore Institute of Technology, India

Blake Bertrand
3rd year PhD student

Advisor: Tammy Kielian, PhD
Research: Host-pathogen interactions during staphylococcus aureus prosthetic joint infection
Education: BS, Saint Louis University, MO 

Logan Bulock
7th year PhD student

Advisor: Ken Bayles, PhD
Research:Characterizing metabolic heterogeneity within S. aureus biofilms
Education: BA, Augustana College, SD

Kathryn Cole
2nd year PhD student

Advisor: James Talmadge, PhD
Research: Adoptive cellular therapy
Education: BS, Bellevue University, NE

Srijanee Das    
2nd year PhD student

Advisor: Howard Gendelman, MD
Co-Advisor: Benson Edagwa, PhD
Research: TBD
Education: BS/MS, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, India

Elizabeth DelMain
5th year PhD student

Advisor: Ken Bayles, PhD
Research Area:Regulation and expression of virulence genes in Staphylococcus aureus
Education: BS, University of Saint Thomas, MN

Linsey Donner 
7th year PhD student

Jennifer Endres
5th year MS student

Advisor: Ken Bayles, PhD
Research Area: TBD
Education: BS, Iowa State University, IA

 Amanda Fernandes
1st year MS student

Advisor: Santhi Gorantla, PhD
Research: TBD
Education: B.tech., Manipal Institute of Technology, India

Tessa Firestone
2nd year PhD student

Advisor: Caroline Ng, PhD
Research: Cell stress responses and Artemisinin resistance in the malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
Education: BS, University of Pittsburgh, PA

Francis Fontanilla
1st year PhD student

Advisor: Rey Carabeo, PhD
Research: TBD
Education: MS, University of Philippines

Valerie Fousek-Schuller
2nd year MS student

Advisor: Xu Luo, PhD
Research: TBD
Education: BS, Wayne State College, NE

Advisor: Michael Wiley, PhD
Co-Advisor: M. Jana Broadhurst, MD, PhD
Research: TBD
Education: BS, Peru State College, NE

Advisor: Marilynn Larson, PhD
Research:Characterization of the Stress Response in Francisella tularensis
Education: BS, Northern Arizona University, AZ

Advisor: Rakesh Singh, PhD
Research: TBD
Education: MS, Birla Institute of Technology & Science

Advisor: Scot Ouellette, PhD
Research: Chlamydial microbiology: metabolism and gene regulation 
Education: BS, Wayne State College, NE

Advisor: Stacey D. Gilk, PhD
Research: TBD
Education: BS, Peru State College, NE

Advisor:  Geoffrey Talmon, MD
Research: Microvillus Inclusion Disease
Education: BS, University of Nebraska - Omaha

Advisor: Tammy Kielian, PhD
Research: TBD
Education: MS, University of Nebraska - Omaha

Aaron Jensen 
2nd year PhD student

Advisor: Scot Ouellette, PhD
Research: Proteomic turnover in the context of chlamydial developmental cycle progression
Education: BS, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Samuel Johnson
5th year PhD student

Advisor: Siddappa Byrareddy, PhD
Research Area:The gut-brain axis and persistent viral reservoir in HIV pathogenesis
Education: BS, Kansas State University, KS

Lisa Jorgenson
5th year PhD student

Advisor: Elizabeth Rucks, PhD
Research: Host-pathogen interactions between Chlamydia trachomatis and eukaryotic cells.
Education: BS from University of South Dakota, SD

Brigham Killips
1st year PhD student

Advisor: Stacey D. Gilk, PhD
Research: TBD
Education: BS, University of Kansas

Elizabeth Klug
1st year MS student

Advisor:  Siddappa Byrareddy, PhD
Research: TBD
Education: BS, University of Nebraska-Omaha

Jian Li
3rd year PhD student

Advisor: Xu Luo, PhD
Research: Apoptosis in colorectal cancer
Education: BM, Tongji University, People's Republic of China

Stephen Luebker
5th year PhD student

Advisor: Scott Koepsell, MD, PhD
Research: : BRAF inhibitor resistance in melanoma
Education: BS, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Edward Makarov
5th year MS student

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

Caitlin Molczyk
3rd year PhD student
MD/PhD Scholars Program

Advisor: Rakesh Singh, PhD
Research: Pancreatic cancer microenvironment with focus on chemotherapy resistance
Education: BS, Wayne State College, NE

M. Jane Morwitzer
4th year PhD student

Advisor: St. Patrick Reid, PhD
Research: Ebola virus-host protein interactions
Education: BS, University of Nebraska - Kearney

Omalla (Allan) Olwenyi
5th year PhD student

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

Opeoluwa Oyewole
4th year PhD student

Advisor: Siddappa Byrareddy, PhD
Research: TBD
Education: MS, South Dakota State University

Advisor: Paul D. Fey, PhD
Research: TBD
Education: MS, University of Nebraska Medical Center, NE

Advisor: Rey Carabeo, PhD
Research: Molecular Pathogenesis
Education: MS, Microbiology, Texas Tech University

Advisor: St. Patrick Reid, PhD
Research:  TBD
Education: MS, University of Calcutta, India.

Advisor: Maher Abdalla, PhD
Research: Non Thesis Program
Education: BS, University of Nebraska-Omaha

Advisor: TBD
Research: TBD
Education: BS, Creighton University, NE

Thomas Schulze
3rd year PhD student

Advisor: Paul Davis, PhD 
Research: TBD
Education: MS, University of Nebraska-Omaha

Zachary Scott
2nd year PhD student

Advisor: Prabagaran (Praba) Narayanasamy, PhD
Research: investigating the mechanisms of action of gallium-based antibiotics
Education: MS, University of Nebraska-Omaha

Ryan Singh
4th year PhD student

 Advisor: Vinai C. Thomas, PhD
Research Area: physiological significance of bacterial NOS in Staphylococci
Education: BS, University of Chicago, IL

Amanda Stastny
3rd year PhD student

Advisor: Rey Carabeo, PhD
Research: Iron Acquisition and Regulation by Chlamydia trachomatis
Education: BS, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

Sarah Stein
1st year PhD student

Advisor: Joshua Santarpia, PhD
Research: TBD
Education: BA, Augustana University, SD

Advisor: Elizabeth Rucks, PhD
Research: TBD
Education: BA, Carleton College, MN 

Advisor: Kurt Fisher, MD, PhD
Research: Non Thesis Program
Education: BS, Texas Christian University, TX

Advisor: Tammy Kielian, PhD
Research: TBD
Education: BS, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Advisor: Paul D. Fey, PhD
Research: TBD
Education: BA, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI. 

Advisor: Paul Davis, PhD
Research: TBD
Education: BA, University of Nebraska-Omaha

Advisor: Scot Ouellette, PhD
Education: MS, University of Nebraska-Omaha

Advisor: Elizabeth Rucks, PhD
Research: The Effect of Eukaryotic SNARE Proteins on Chlamydia trachomatis Lipid Content
Education: BS, South Dakota State University, SD

Advisor: Scot Ouellette, PhD
Research: Proteomic turnover in the context of chlamydial developmental cycle progression
Education: BS, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD

Kimberly Ziegenhorn
1st year MS student

Advisor: TBD
Research: TBD
Education: BS, Xavier University, OH