MEET THE TEAM

Principal Investigator


Jason Shepherd

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 Postdoctoral Fellows


Sven Bervoets

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Eric De Hoog

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Graduate Students


Kaelan Sullivan

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Mitali Tyagi

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Alicia Walker

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Gracie Sapp

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Matt Grega

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Technicians


Alex Holbrook

Animal Colony Technician

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Tessa Kilberg

Cell Culture Technician

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Shannon Bairett

Lab Technician

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Administrative Team


Karla McHale

Lab Manager

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Alumni


Alicia Ravens (Graduate student 2018-2023). Current position – Postdoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina.

Junjie Xu (Graduate Student 2020-2024). Awarded the Uta von Schwedler Prize in Retrovirology. Current position – Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University.

Alyson Stewart (Cell Culture Technician 2023-2024). Current position – Ph.D. student, University of Colorado.

Blake Highet (Postdoctoral Fellow 2022-2024). Current position – Research Fellow,
University of Auckland.

Radhika Chadha (Postdoctoral Fellow 2020-2024). Current position - Senior Scientist, Usana Health Sciences.

Michael Hantak (Postdoctoral Fellow 2019-2023). Current position – Biosafety Analyst, Northwestern University.

Jenifer Einstein (Graduate Student 2017-2023). Current position – Scientist, bioMérieux.

Tate Shepherd (Cell Culture Technician 2022-2023). Current position – Medical student, Oakland University.

Matthew Regier (Postdoctoral Fellow 2019 -2023). Current position – Scientific program manager, Taconic Biosciences.

Meredith Liddiard (Lab Manager 2020-2022). Current position-Lab Manager, Department of Health and Kinesiology, University of Utah.

Madeleine Kyrke-Smith (Postdoctoral Fellow 2017-2021). NARSAD Young Investigator Award. Current position – Clinical research coordinator, Huntsman Cancer Institute.

Kenneth Lyon (Postdoctoral Fellow 2019-2022). Current position –Scientist, GSK.

Andrew Taibi (Graduate Student 2014-2020). Current position – Senior scientist, Recursion Pharmaceuticals.

Cameron Day (Postdoctoral Fellow 2014-2017). Current position – Scientist, Echelon Biosciences.

Elissa Pastuzyn (Postdoctoral Fellow 2014-2019). Current position – Director of Biology, Recursion Pharmaceuticals.

Jenna Novy (Undergraduate 2017-2019). Current position – Senior Project Associate, Management Sciences for Health.

Kyle Jenks (Graduate Student 2014-2019). F31 NRSA NIMH, James Prahl Award.
Current position – Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT.

Mansi Saraf (Undergraduate 2015-2016). Current position – Ph.D. student, UC Irvine.

Nate Yoder (Lab Technician 2013-2014). Current position – Scientific Lead, Eli Lilly.