Assistant Professor
email: Lakdawala@pitt.edu
PhD: University of California San Diego
Post-Doc: National Institutes of Health (NIAID)
Research Assistant Professor
email: valerie.lesage@pitt.edu
PhD: McGill University
Post-doc: Oueen’s University and Lady Davis College
Project: Defining the mechanism driving selective assembly of influenza viral RNA.
Technician
email: eric.nturibi@pitt.edu
Bachelors: Franklin and Marshall College
Project: Role of cytoskeletal proteins on assembly of influenza viral RNA.
Former Undergraduates
2016-2017 Gabrielle Simon
2017-2018 Kyle Grabowski
Research Assistant Professor
email: abhagwat@pitt.edu
PhD: Cornell University
Post-doc: Northwestern University and University of Michigan
Project: Construction of diSPIM and visualization of influenza viral RNA transport dynamics in live cells.
Postdoctoral Fellow
email: karen.kormuth@pitt.edu
PhD: Carnegie Mellon University
Project: Environmental constraints on influenza virus transmission.
Postdoctoral Fellow
email: jennyjones_xyz@pitt.edu
PhD: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Project: Imaging influenza virus reassortment.
Rotation/Summer Students
2016 – Elizabeth McGrady (UPCI Summer Academy)
2016 – Julia Loose (IBGP)
2017 – Azia Evans (PMI)
2017 – Chris Lee (PMI)
2017 – Benni Vargas (PMI)
2017 – Dan Evans (PMI)
2017 – Philip Ziegler (PMI)
2018 – Alex Wells (PMI)
