Former Lab Members

Graduate Students

Name Lab role Years Current role
Vineetha Zacharia, Ph.D. Graduate student 2011-2015 Senior Scientist,
Willow Biosciences
Angela Collins, M.D., Ph.D. MSTP student 2012-2015 Orthopedic surgery resident, 
McLaren Regional Medical Center 
Flint, Mich.
Chelsea Stamm, Ph.D. Graduate student 2012-2019 Postdoctoral fellow,
University of Washington
Breanna Pasko, Ph.D. Graduate student 2012-2020 Medical Affairs Advisor,
Galderma
Haaris Khan, M.D., Ph.D. MSTP student 2016-2021 Intern,
Methodist Hospital, Dallas, TX
Cody Ruhl, Ph.D. Graduate student 2016-2022 Clinical Data Scientist, Reata Pharmaceuticals

Fellows/Instructors

Name Lab role Years Current role
Vidhya Nair, M.D. Postdoctoral fellow 2012-2017 Medical Science Liaison, Sanofi
Zi Jiang, M.D. Otolaryngology Fellow 2013-2014 Assistant Professor, UT Health Houston, Texas
Luis Franco, Ph.D. Postdoctoral fellow 2013-2018 Assistant Professor, 
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Bonnie Prokesch, M.D. Infectious Diseases Fellow 2014 Assistant Professor, 
Internal Medicine 
Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine,
UT Southwestern
Caitlyn Scharn, Ph.D. Postdoctoral fellow 2014-2017 Associate Director,
Medical Science Liaison at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
Sujittra Chaisavaneeyakorn, M.D. Pediatric Infectious Diseases fellow 2016-2018 Faculty, Samitivej Srinakarin Hospital,
Bangkok, Thailand
Garima Arora, Ph.D. Postdoctoral fellow 2019-2021 Post-doctoral fellow, Texas Biomed
Yang Liu, Ph.D. Postdoctoral fellow 2020-2021 Assistant Professor,
UT Houston, McGovern Medical School
Josephine Thinwa, M.D., Ph.D. Infectious Diseases fellow 2020-2023 Assistant Professor,
Internal Medicine, 
Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, 
UT Southwestern
Salwa Sebti, Ph.D. Assistant Instructor 2020-2023 Assistant Instructor,
UT Southwestern

Students

Name Lab role Years Current role
Patrick Cherry SURF student 2012 Senior Scientist,
Twist Bioscience
Olatunde Badejo STARS student 2013 Orthopedic surgery resident,
Hospital for Special Surgery, NY
Molly Zumbro SURF student 2013 Pediatric neurologist, Children’s National Hospital,
Washington D.C.
Yesenia Reyes Green Fellow, UTD 2014 Undergraduate, 
UT Dallas
You Wu SURF student 2014 Master's in Public Health student, 
Harvard University
Andrea Martinez Aguirre SURF student 2015 Postdoctoral Fellow,
Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Elizabeth Gaylord SURF student 2016 Graduate Student,
Washington University of St. Louis
Mae Lewis SURF student 2017 Graduate student,
UT Austin
Gina Bitar SURF student 2018 Graduate student,
UT San Antonio
Charley Edgar SURF student 2019 MSTP student,
UT Southwestern

Personnel

Name Lab role Years Current role
Hyunjin Shin, DVM Visiting Scientist 2013-2016 Professor of Veterinary Medicine,
Chungnam National University, Republic of Korea
Lexy Kindt, D.O. Research assistant 2015-2017 General Surgery resident,
Hennepin Healthcare
Paxton Cruz Research assistant 2018-2019 Freelance writer
Jorge Galvan Research assistant 2018-2019 QA Automation Engineer, Aya Healthcare
Frankie Zhao Research assistant 2019-2021 Research Associate,
Ampersand Biomedicines
Christopher Xavier Research assistant 2021-2023 Medical student, 
Meharry Medical College