Current Lab Members
Amanda J. Brinkworth, PhD
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Pierce Claassen
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Jordan Bolen
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Deshae McNeil
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Katrina Nielsen
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Terran Gilbreath
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Reilly Krueger
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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
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Gregorio Cullia
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University of Milan, Italy​
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Ilaria Passeri​
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University of Bari, Italy​
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Florian Sizaire​
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Grande Ecole Agrocampus Ouest, France​
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Ana Silva​
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Catholic University, Portugal​
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Imperial College London
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Juli Zacarés Perea
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University of Valencia, Spain
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Ana Nogueira
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Catholic University, Portugal
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Antonio Pedrosa
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Catholic University, Portugal​
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Sophie Nicod
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University of Lausanne, Switzerland
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Filomena Nardelli​
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Novartis Institute, S​iena, Italy
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University of Louisville
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Serkan Belkaya
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Sabanci University, Turkey​
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Pierre Juban
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ESTBB, Lyon, France
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Undergraduates
​WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY
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Abbigail Kuck
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Eli Bala
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Ekaterina Berulava
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Nianiella Dorvall
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Kathryn Sutherland
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Estifanos Kassa
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Patrick Johnson
UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN
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Ana-Maria Cujba
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Konstantin Gizdov
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James Long
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James McAvoy
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Joseph Mckinnon
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Martyna Srotka
IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON
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Hannah Green
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Thomas Peacock
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Meng Jin
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Katerina Roguska
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Sevanna Shahbahzian
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Jerry Chen
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Raymand Pang
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Dennis Zhang
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Keshalini Sabaratnam
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Rahul Patel
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE MEDICAL SCHOOL
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B. Josh Lane
Technicians
Denise Malcolm
Imperial College London
Charla Mutchler
University of Louisville