Assistant Professor
Email: Lakdawala@pitt.edu
PhD: University of California San Diego
Post-Doc: National Institutes of Health (NIAID)
PubMed Publications
Research Assistant Professor
Email: valerie.lesage@pitt.edu
PhD: McGill University
Post-doc: Oueen’s University and Lady Davis Institute
Project: Defining the mechanism driving selective assembly of influenza viral RNA.
PubMed Publications
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: jennyjones_xyz@pitt.edu
PhD: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Project: Imaging influenza virus reassortment.
PubMed Publications
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: richard.manivanh@pitt.edu
PhD: Dartmouth College
Project: Influenza virus genome assembly
PubMed Publications
PMI Graduate Student
Email: andrea.french@pitt.edu
Bachelors: University of Wisconsin -Madison
Project: The impact of co-infection with S. Pneumoniae on influenza transmission.
Research Technician
Email: jbh18@pitt.edu
Project: COVID antibody responses.
Research Technician
Email: annika.avery@pitt.edu
Bachelors: University of California -Berkeley
Project: PHIGHT COVID
Undergraduate Student
Email: elizmcgr@pitt.edu
Major: Molecular Biology
Project: PHIGHT COVID
Undergraduate Student
Email: YUL227@pitt.edu
Major: Microbiology
Minor: Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies
Project: PHIGHT COVID
Lab Alumni:
Eric Nturibi (2015-2018)
Technician
Current Position: Medical Student at the University of Pittsburgh
Publication: 2017
Ben Hoffman (2018-2019)
Technician
Current Position: Student in the Physician Assistant Program at the University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Karen Kormuth (2016-2019)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Position: Assistant Professor at Bethany College
Publications: 2018, 2019
Dr. Amar Bhagwat (2015-2019)
Research Assistant Professor
Current Position: Senior Project Engineer at II-VI Optical Systems
Publication: 2018
Zhihong Qian (2018-2020)
Visiting Researcher (Tsinghua University Medical Student)
Current Position: Tsinghua University Medical Student
Gabby Padovani (2019-2020)
Research Technician
Current Position: Clinical Laboratory Technician
Undergraduate Alumni:
2016-2017 Gabrielle Simon
2017-2018 Kyle Grabowski
2018-2020 Logan Hellinger
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), 2019 – Xay Somoulay (PMI), 2019 – Alexis Duray (PMI), 2019 – Darryl Abbott (PMI), 2020 – Janie French (PMI)
