Student Directory Bryan College Station

Undergraduate: University of Illinois
Undergraduate Degree: BS, Chemical Engineering
Lab: Dr. Farida Sohrabji
Research Interests: My lab is interested in developing therapies for stroke, specifically, for post menopausal women who have an increased risk and injury post stroke than other populations.
Abstracts and Presentations: N/A

Undergraduate: Texas A&M University
Undergraduate Degree: BS, Bioenvironmental Sciences
Lab: Dr. Jenny Hyde
Research Interests: My research interests include the pathogenesis of infectious diseases and the influence on the host immune response. Specifically, how genetic differences on both sides of the host-pathogen interaction can alter the outcome of disease. I joined Dr. Jenny Hyde’s lab in January 2019 to study Borrelia burgdorferi, the etiological agent of Lyme disease. I am excited to explore the mammalian inflammatory response to distinct B. burgdorferi strains.
Abstracts and Presentations: N/A

Undergraduate: Texas A&M University
Undergraduate Degree: BS, Biology
Lab: Dr. Jon Skare
Research Interests: My research interests focus on the pathogenesis of Lyme disease and Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever spirochetes from the Borrelia genus. Specifically, I am interested in the interaction of these bacteria with the host innate immune system defenses, and hope to bring to light some mechanisms these spirochetes use to evade immune clearance and establish chronic infection.

Undergraduate: Cornell University
Undergraduate Degree: BS, Animal Science
Lab: Dr. Kristin Patrick
Research Interests: My research interests largely revolve around post-transcriptional regulation of the innate immune response to bacterial infection.

Undergraduate: Vellore Institute of Technology
Undergraduate Degree: MSC in Biotechnology
Lab: Dr. Siegfried Musser
Research Interests: Protein transport in cells, Membrane biophysics

Undergraduate: University of Havana
Undergraduate Degree: Biochemistry
Lab: Dr. Phillip West
Research Interests: I am interested in mitochondrial dysfunction and innate immunity. I am characterizing novel mouse models of human mitochondrial disease and I am broadly examining how innate immune responses contribute to disease pathology in these models.

Undergraduate: California Polytechnic State Universtiy SLO
Undergraduate Degree: Biological Sciences
Lab: Dr. Kristin Patrick
Research Interests: Splicing regulation of innate immune genes during bacterial infections.

Lab: Vytas Bankaitis
Research Interests: Study of phosphoinositide transfer proteins in Apicomplexa organisms.
Abstracts and Presentations: Acute depletion of diacylglycerol from the cis-Golgi affects localized nuclear envelope morphology during mitosis

Undergraduate: Texas A&M University
Undergraduate Degree: BS, Psychology
Lab: Dr. Rahul Srinivasan
Research Interests: Involvement of glia, particularly astrocytes, in the development of Parkinson's Disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. I look at how proteins excreted by astrocytes can modulate neuronal function and if this type of modulation is beneficial and/or detrimental to the health of the circuit.

Undergraduate: Texas A&M University
Undergraduate Degree: MS, Biology
Lab: Dr. Rahul Srinivasan
Research Interests: Astrocyte biology and the contribution of brain vasculature in neurodegenerative disease pathogenesis and progression.

Undergraduate: University of Texas San Antonio
Undergraduate Degree: BA, Psychology
Lab: Dr. Carolyn Cannon
Research Interests: Development of novel antimicrobials for the treatment of the multi-drug resistant (MDR) Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacterial pathogens. Design of electrospun bandages (membranes that mimic extracellular matrix and promote wound healing process) incorporating antimicrobial compound to better treat chronic wounds.

Undergraduate: University of California, Irvine
Undergraduate Degree: BS, Biology
Lab: Dr. Rajesh Miranda
Research interests: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder; extracellular vesicles
Abstracts and presentations: Ethanol Exposure Increases miR-140 in Extracellular Vesicles: Implications for Fetal Neural Stem Cell Proliferation and Maturation. doi: 10.1111/acer.14066

Undergraduate: Anna University
Undergraduate Degree: Biotechnology
Lab: Dr. Roland Kaunas

Undergraduate: Shandong University
Undergraduate Degree: MS, Cell Biology
Lab: Dr. Phillip West
Research interests: Mitochondrial regulation of type I interferon responses in healthy and cancerous cells
 

Undergraduate: Baylor University
Undergraduate Degree: BS Enviornmental Health
Lab: Dr. Paul de Figueiredo
Research Interests: The intracellular pathogenesis of microbes such as Brucella.

Undergraduate: Texas A&M University
Undergraduate Degree: Microbiology
Lab: Dr. Alistair McGregor
Research Interests: Mammalian Cell Culture

Undergraduate: Georgia Institute of Technology
Undergraduate Degree: BS, Biology
Lab: Dr. Ursula Winzer-Serhan
Research Interests: 15q13.3 microdeletion syndrome, a genetic disorder associated with a range of different conditions including autism spectrum disorders, intellectual and developmental disabilities, schizophrenia, and seizure disorders. Specifically, I study astrocyte activity and potential neuroimmune interactions that could contribute to the pathophysiology of the disorder.