Meet our fantastic researchers!
Graduate Students:

Silvia Giannattasio - PhD Visiting Student (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
​Silvia is joining us from Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

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Swaeta Sekharan - MS Computer Science
​Swaeta joined the lab in Fall 2017.

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Undergraduate Students:

Mary Batrich - BS Nursing
Mary joined the lab in Fall 2017. She's been working on isolating and identifying bacteria from the environment.

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Eli Crum - BS Biology/Bioinformatics
Eli joined the lab in Fall 2019.

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Hannah Cruz - BS Biology
Hannah joined the lab in Summer 2019.

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Adriana Ene - BS Bioinformatics
Adriana joined the lab in Fall 2018.

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Genevieve Johnson - BS/MS Bioinformatics
Genevieve joined the lab in Summer 2017. Don't ask her about Lactobacillus -- her arch nemesis. Genevieve has begun working with Pseudomonads and has discovered several Pseudomonas phages.

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​Laura Maskeri - BS Bioinformatics
Laura joined the lab in Spring 2017.

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​Zubia Merchant - BS Biology
Zubia joined the lab in Fall 2018.

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Taylor Miller-Ensminger - BS/MS Bioinformatics
Taylor joined the lab in summer 2016. She can make even the most shy bacterium spontaneous induce.

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Rita Mormando - BS Bioinformatics
Rita joined the lab in Spring 2017.

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Kashyap Patel - BS Bioinformatics/Computer Science
Kashyap joined the lab in Fall 2019.
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​John Van Dusen - BS Biology
John joined the lab in Spring 2018.

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