Team

  • Lizzette Perez Perez

    Lizzette is an Immunology graduate student interested in elucidating the molecular determinants of lung resident memory B cell fate in response to viral respiratory disease. Before joining WASHU, she was a postbac in the Molecular Pathogenesis Unit (MPU) at the NIAID Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana. .

  • Komal Patel

    Komal is an Immunology graduate student with a research interest in the development and function of resident memory B cells within the respiratory tract. She completed her M.S. in Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology at The Ohio State University, where she focused on the development of  an intranasal vaccine against the respiratory pathogen Bordetella bronchiseptica.

  • Brittany Henry

    Brittany is a Research Tech II and has an interest in the cause and effects of diseases. As an undergraduate student, Brittany worked in the Chubiz Lab at the University of Missouri- St. Louis researching the transcriptional pathways of environmental sensing and signal transduction that control virulence in the mar-sox-rob regulon of Salmonella

  • Sahithi Pogula

    Sahithi is an undergraduate at Washington University double majoring in Computational Biology and Anthropology. She is very interested in immunology and genomics and hopes to pursue an MD after graduation.

Lab Alumni

Pradhnesh Andhare Visiting Scientist (2023-2025)

Kumari Anupam Postdoctoral Researcher (2023-2025)

Sonia Carlson Undergraduate Researcher(2023-2024)

Chris Hanson Research Tech II (2020-2023) Current Position: Graduate student at University of Utah

Frank Lin Undergraduate Researcher/Research Tech II (2020-2022) Current Position: Medical student at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Changfeng Chen Graduate Student (2022)

Tom Liu Research Tech II (2020-2021) Current Position: Medical student at California Health Sciences University College of Osteopathic Medicine

Houda Harastani Graduate Student (2021)

Haley Pak Undergraduate Researcher (2021-2023)

Serena Chan Undergraduate Researcher (2021-2023)