Lab Alumni

Training Completed: 

Careers in Government 

Maya Williams,  PhD, Chief, Veteran Experience Officer at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Matthew Kasper, PhD, Chief, Global Emerging Infections Surveillance, Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division

Lucy McNamara, MS, PhD, Epidemiologist, Meningitis and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Branch,  Centers Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Elizabeth Wonderlich, PhD, Program Officer, Division of AIDS, NIAID

Careers in Academia 

Deanna Kulpa , PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Emory University School of Medicine; Associate Director, Virology and Molecular Biomarkers Core, and Director, Translational Virology Unit Center for AIDS Research at Emory University

Anna Quay Yaffee, M.D., MPH, Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine; Director, Global Health in Emergency Section, Emory University

Jolie Leonard, PhD, Associate Professor, Indiana Wesleyan University

David Collins, PhD, Investigator, Ragon Institute, Harvard University

Mike Mashiba, MD, PhD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, University of Michigan

Nadia Sebastian Kettinger, MD, PhD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, University of Michigan

Adewunmi Nuga, MD, PhD, Clinical Instructor, Internal Medicine, University of Washington

Kay Leopold, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatric Infectious Disease, University of Michigan

Malinda Schaefer, MD, PhD,  Clinical Assistant Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, University of Iowa

Careers in Biotech/Industry/Consulting

Jeremiah Roeth, PhD, President/CEO at aerialPLOT and Owner at Buckeye Ag Testing

Jason Norman, PhD, Senior Director, Systems Biology at Vedanta Biosciences Inc

Christoph Carter, MD, PhD, Senior Director, Clinical Research, Gilead Sciences

Cui (Ophelia) Chen, PhD,  Senior Scientist, Sysmex America, Inc

Jay Lubow, PhD, Senior Scientist, ImmunoVec

Frances Taschuk, PhD, Expert Scientist, Vector and RNA Biology at GSK

Ryan Yucha, PhD, MPH,  Research Scientist, @Amazon

Zana Lukic Vranic, PhD, Manager of Scientific Communications, Amgen

Matthew Huston, Associate Consultant in Launch Excellence at Trinity Life Sciences

Tracey Filzen, Associate Director, Global Labeling, Regulatory Affairs, Takeda

Janani Ganesh, MS, Senior Director of Product Management, OpenGov Inc.   

Kevin Bobbitt, PhD, Principal Chemist, SI Group

Rebekah Keesler, DVM, DACVP, Veterinary Pathologist at Charles River Laboratories

Careers in Clinical Practice

Kirsten Ann Garcia, MD, Pediatrician, Kaiser Permanente 

In Training:

Thomas Zaikos, MD,PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow,  Matthew Marsden Laboratory, University of California, Irvine

Mark Painter, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, E. John Wherry Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania,

Maria Virgilio, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate, Akiko Iwasaki Laboratory, HHMI and Yale University

Francisco Gomez-Rivera, MSc, PhD, IRACDA Research Fellow, Mark Chiang Laboratory,  University of Michigan

Miguel Disbennett,  MSTP Fellow, University of Pennsylvania

Madeline Merlino, Graduate student, University of Pennsylvania

Chris Goodall,  Graduate Student, Chemical Biology, University of Michigan

Megan McLeod Aaronson, MD, MSCR, Fellow, Gastroenterology, UCLA Medical Center

Andrew Neeval, MD, Resident in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Michigan    

Rebecca Nitschelm, Medical student, UMASS Chan Medical School