Team

  • Kumari Anupam

    Anupam is a Postdoctoral researcher that is studying the transcriptional regulation of lung resident memory B cells. She obtained a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Biochemistry from Panjab University Chandigarh India. She then obtained a Ph.D. degree, working on insulin delivery and immunobiology of Type-1 diabetes from the same university.

  • Brittany Henry

    Brittany is a Research Tech II and has an interest in the cause and effects of diseases. As an undergraduate student, Brittany worked in the Chubiz Lab at the University of Missouri- St. Louis researching the transcriptional pathways of environmental sensing and signal transduction that control virulence in the mar-sox-rob regulon of Salmonella

  • Lizzette Perez Perez

    Lizzette is an Immunology graduate student interested in elucidating the molecular determinants of lung resident memory B cell fate in response to viral respiratory disease. Before joining WASHU, she was a postbac in the Molecular Pathogenesis Unit (MPU) at the NIAID Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana. .

  • Pradhnesh Andhare

    Pradhnesh is a Visiting Researcher that obtained his B.Sc. in Biochemistry from RTM Nagpur University and M.Sc. in Biochemistry from Madurai Kamaraj University, India. He then worked on a research project at JNCASR, Bangalore, India as a research assistant, where he performed in vitro and cellular studies of Alzheimer’s disease.

  • Sonia Carlson

    Sonia is an undergraduate at Washington University majoring in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology and minoring in biology. Her interests are in infectious diseases and cell biology, and she aspires to go to medical school after college.

  • Sahithi Pogula

    Sahithi is an undergraduate at Washington University double majoring in Computational Biology and Anthropology. She is very interested in immunology and genomics and hopes to pursue an MD after graduation.

Lab Alumni

Chris Hanson Research Tech II (2020-2023) Current Position: Graduate student at University of Utah

Frank Lin Undergraduate Researcher/Research Tech II (2020-2022) Current Position: Medical student at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Changfeng Chen Graduate Student (2022)

Tom Liu Research Tech II (2020-2021) Current Position: Medical student at California Health Sciences University College of Osteopathic Medicine

Houda Harastani Graduate Student (2021)

Haley Pak Undergraduate Researcher (2021-2023)

Serena Chan Undergraduate Researcher (2021-2023)