PAST MEMBERS
Visiting Scientists/Professors
Julià Gonzalez-Martin, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Dept. Pathology, Pharmacology and Microbiology,
Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Spain
Alpaslan Alp, M.D., Fulbright Scholar
Current position: Associate Professor of Microbiology,
Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
Postdoctoral Fellows
Yu-Min Chuang, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position: Associate Research Scientist, Yale University School of Medicine
Lee G. Klinkenberg, Ph.D.
Potts Memorial Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship recipient
Arthur M. Dannenberg, Jr. Award for Postdoctoral Research, 2009
Basic Research Junior Faculty Award, Dept. of Medicine, 2013
Zahoor Parry, Ph.D.
Current position: Scientist E1, Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Srinagar, India
Seema Thayil, Ph.D.
Current position: Scientist, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India
Edith Torres-Chavolla, Ph.D.
Current position: Outpatient & Clinical Research Coordinator, SNBL-Clinical Pharmacology Center, Baltimore, MD
Ciaran Skerry, Ph.D.
Current position: Research Associate, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
Victoria L. Campodónico, M.D., Ph.D.
Current position: Research Associate, Department of Medicine, JHUSOM
Khushpreet Kaur, Ph.D.
Current position: Fogarty Pre-Doctoral Training Fellow, NIH
Samuel Ayeh, MD, MPH
Current position: Resident Physician, MedStar Health
Vignesh Chidambaram, MD.
Current position: Resident Physician
Pranita Neupane, MD
Medical Residents
Anastasia Kolyva, M.D.
Current position: ACF in Medical Microbiology, NNUH/UEA, United Kingdom
Medical Students
Christine Sailer
Current position: Medical student, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Harita Shah
Current position: Medical student, JHU School of Medicine
William Acosta
Current position: Medical student, JHU School of Medicine
Ph.D. Students
Darla M. Quijada, Ph.D
Graduated in Spring 2026
Carina Danchik, Ph.D.
Current Position: Postdoctoral fellowship, NIH
Jennie Ruelas Castillo, Ph.D.
Current position: Research Scientist, the Ragon Institute, Barczak Lab
Harley Harris, Ph.D.
Current position: CPEP-accredited Medical Microbiology Fellowship, The University of Utah
Monika Looney, PhD.
Current Position: Postdoc at SATVI, University of Cape Town
William Matern, Ph.D.
Graduate student, Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Yu-Min Chuang, M.D.
Graduate student, Pathobiology Graduate Program, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. T.C. Wu Lab, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Nathan Crilly
Current position: Research Fellow, Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
Masters Students
Tianyin Wang, B.S.
Iris Chen, M.S.
Nichloas Degner, M.D.
MPH student, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Current Position: Infectious Diseases Fellow, Stanford Medical School
Fedora Lanzas
Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas de Estudios de la Salud, Panama
Bing Shao Chia
Danny Lee Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research in Biomedical Sciences,
Johns Hopkins University, 2012
Current position: Ph.D. program, Harvard Virology Program
Elizabeth Kim
MPH student, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Alysha Ellison
MS student in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Current position: Ph.D. graduate student, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Robert L. Jenquin, M.S.
Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park
MS in Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University
Aakanksha Kapoor
MS student in Biotechnology.
Current position: Ph.D. graduate student, Weill Cornell Medicine
Staff
Hannah Annuziata
Lab Manager
Addis Yilma
Research Technologist
Ernest P. Williams
Research Specialist
Dalin Rifat
Current Position: Senior Research Specialist, Dr. Eric Nuermberger Lab, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Michael Pinn
Senior Research Specialist
Noton K. Dutta
Research Associate
Geltrouda Demczuk
Scientific Staff
Undergraduate Students
Emily Lu
Undergraduate, Johns Hopkins University
Gopi Patel
Undergraduate, Johns Hopkins University
Lucas Zhou
Undergraduate, Johns Hopkins University
Alyssa Zimmerman
Undergraduate, Johns Hopkins University
Justin Wei
Undergraduate, Johns Hopkins University
Marissa McDonald
Current position: PhD Student, Harvard-MIT HST Graduate Program
Lesley Sutherland
Current position: Medical student, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Bing Shao Chia
Current position: Graduate student, Harvard Virology Program
Samrie Beshah
Undergraduate, Johns Hopkins University
David Garcia
Diversity Summer Internship Program, JHSPH
Current position: Kean University
Aubrey Herrera
Diversity Summer Internship Program, JHSPH
Current position: University of Texas
Clinton Ogega
Undergraduate, Johns Hopkins University
Grace Ren
Undergraduate, Johns Hopkins University
Leah Hoover
Undergraduate, Johns Hopkins University
Rachel Lorenc
Undergraduate, Johns Hopkins University
Sarah Kohl
Undergraduate, Johns Hopkins University
Olivia Wang
Undergraduate, Johns Hopkins University
Short-Term Trainees/Other
Elisa Salcido-Rouse, B.S. (PREP student)
Current: The University of Kansas, Medical student
Shreya Rangarajan
Current: Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Summer Student (2016)
Keyane Haile
Current: Meharry Medical College Summer Student (2016)
Christina Blonski-Cupo
Summer Student (2016)
Jennifer Mendez
Centro SOL Youth Summer Program Current position: Undergraduate at University of Maryland Baltimore County
Tonya Jackson
Current position: B.A., University of Maryland Baltimore County
Omar A. Contreras
JHU Summer Minority Internship Program
Current position: Diabetes Prevention and Control Program Manager, Arizona Department of Health Services, University of Arizona
Jennifer Lun
Current position: University of Maryland
Cliff Magwira, Ph.D.
Current position: Research scientist, Centre for Tuberculosis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa
Alexander Thomopulos
Current position: University of Maryland
Ben Roytenberg
Current position: Case Western Reserve University
Maria Dagalakis
Current position: The Catholic University of America
Cong Fan
Current position: University of Maryland