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Current Lab Members

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Amanda J. Brinkworth, PhD

  • Post-Doctoral Researcher

Research Focus: Investigating the genome-wide transcriptional responses of Chlamydia trachomatis to host insults such as iron and tryptophan limitation using next-generation sequencing technologies.

Joined: July 2015

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Nick D. Pokorzynski

  • Graduate Research Assistant

Research Focus: Characterizing iron-dependent transcriptional regulation in Chlamydia trachomatis to identify stress response regulons important for pathogenesis.

Joined: March 2016 

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Korinn Murphy

  • Graduate Research Assistant

Research Focus: Dissecting the modulation of host cell adhesion structures by chlamydial type III secreted effector proteins.

Joined: March 2017 

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Liam Caven

  • Graduate Research Assistant

Research Focus: Investigating the effect of Chlamydia trachomatis on the mechanosensitive environment of the host cell. 

Joined: March 2017​

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Matthew Romero

  • Graduate Research Assistant

Research Focus: Identifying host proteins recruited to the sites of Chlamydia trachomatis invasion of host cells and characterizing the dynamics of their recruitment

Joined: March 2018 

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Undergraduates

  • Pierce Claassen

  • Jordan Bolen

  • Deshae McNeil

  • Katrina Nielsen

  • Terran Gilbreath

  • Reilly Krueger

  • Christine Pham

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Former Lab Members

Post-Docs

David Banbury, PhD | Oxford University

Imperial College London

Scot P. Ouellette, PhD | University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center

Imperial College London

Current position - Associate Professor (University of Nebraska Medical Center)

Illya Tietzel, PhD | University of Mainz

University of Louisville

Current position - Professor (Southern University of New Orleans)

Doctoral Students

Ana T. Nogueira, PhD

Current Position - Post-doctoral scholar in the Hahn Lab at UNC-Chapel Hill

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Antonio T. Pedrosa, PhD

Current Position - Post-doctoral fellow in the Hammer Lab at the NIH Heart, Lung and Blood Institute 

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Tristan R. Thwaites, PhD

Current Position - Lead Scientist, Cell and Gene Therapy, Catapult

Chris C. Thompson, PhD

Current Position - Machine Learning Engineer, Xihelm

Amanda J. Brinkworth, PhD

Current Position - Research Assistant Professor  (Washington State University)

Masters Students/Short Term Interns

University of Aberdeen

  • Gregorio Cullia 

    • University of Milan, Italy​

  • Ilaria Passeri​

    • University of Bari, Italy​

  • Florian Sizaire​

    • Grande Ecole Agrocampus Ouest, France​

  • Ana Silva​

    • Catholic University, Portugal​

Imperial College London

  • Juli Zacarés Perea

    • University of Valencia, Spain

  • Ana Nogueira

    • Catholic University, Portugal

  • Antonio Pedrosa

    • Catholic University, Portugal​

  • Sophie Nicod

    • University of Lausanne, Switzerland

  • Filomena Nardelli​

    • Novartis Institute, S​iena, Italy

University of Louisville

  • Serkan Belkaya

    • Sabanci University, Turkey​

  • Pierre Juban

    • ESTBB, Lyon, France

Undergraduates

​WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY

  • Abbigail Kuck

  • Eli Bala

  • Ekaterina Berulava

  • Nianiella Dorvall

  • Kathryn Sutherland

  • Estifanos Kassa

  • Patrick Johnson

UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN

  • Ana-Maria Cujba

  • Konstantin Gizdov

  • James Long

  • James McAvoy

  • Joseph Mckinnon

  • Martyna Srotka

IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON

  • Hannah Green

  • Thomas Peacock

  • Meng Jin

  • Katerina Roguska

  • Sevanna Shahbahzian

  • Jerry Chen

  • Raymand Pang

  • Dennis Zhang

  • Keshalini Sabaratnam

  • Rahul Patel

UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE MEDICAL SCHOOL

  • B. Josh Lane

Technicians

Denise Malcolm

Imperial College London

Charla Mutchler

University of Louisville

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