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Stacey Gilk, Ph.D.  Principal Investigator
 
Dr. Gilk received her B.S. in Biology from the University of Notre Dame and her Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Vermont.  Her graduate work in Dr. Gary Ward's lab focused on characterizing proteins involved in motility and host cell invasion by the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii.  Following a post-doc at the University of North Carolina where she discovered her fascination for lipids, she joined Bob Heinzen's lab at the Rocky Mountain Labs, National Institutes of Health, in Hamilton, MT as a postdoctoral fellow in 2007.  At the NIH, she focused on the role of cholesterol in interactions between the intracellular bacterial pathogen Coxiella burnetii and the host cell.  She joined the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Indiana University School of Medicine in 2013, and moved to the Department of Pathology and Microbiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 2020.
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Tatiana Mordente Clemente, Ph.D.  Postdoctoral Fellow 
 
Tati received her Ph.D. from The Federal University of Sao Paulo under the mentorship of Dr. Nobuko Yoshia.  During her graduate work, Tati characterized surface molecules released by Trypanosoma cruzi.  Tati joined the lab in July 2016, and is characterizing Coxiella manipulation of macrophage IL-17 signaling as well as Coxiella sterol reductases. 
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Rajendra Angara, Ph.D.  Postdoctoral Fellow
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Rajendra received his PhD from August 2018 from the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (India). He joined the lab in November 2019 and is working on Coxiella recruitment of the host cholesterol binding protein ORP1L. 
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Emily Heaton, Masters Student


 
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Brigham Killips, PhD Student

 
Laura Tellez Ramirez, Research Technologist

 
Maggie Sladek, PhD Student

 

Alumni

Kourtney King (technician)                                      2013-2014              Medical Student at University of Cincinnati

Brianne Zapata (Masters NIH Bridges Program)         2014-2017              Technician, UCLA Biomedical

Minal Mulye (postdoctoral fellow)                             2014-2017              Assistant Professor, Marian University

Anna Justis (PhD student)                                       2014- 2017             Grant writer, Dana Farber

Thomas Riley (MD student)                                     summer 2017          MD at IUSM

Thais Pereira (visiting student)                                 spring 2018             PhD, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Sarina Benevidez (undergraduate student)                summer 2018          B.S., Vanguard U of Southern Cal

Annie Joseph (undergraduate student)                     summer 2019           finishing B.S.

Mahesh Gupta (high school student)                        summer 2019           pursuing BS at Purdue University

Rochelle Ratanayake (masters student)                    2018-2020               PhD Microbiology program at Michigan State

Dhritiman Samanta (postdoctoral fellow)                  2015-2020               Assistant Professor, Midwestern University

Piya Das Ghatak (masters student)                          2018-2019

Britney de Leon (undergraduate student)                 2021                       finishing BS; summer INBRE student

Samantha Mercer (undergraduate student)              2021                       finishing BS; summer INBRE student

Sasha Rayamajhi (high school student)                    2021-2022               undergraduate, University of Arizona

Baleigh Schuler (MD/PhD student)                          2018-2022               finishing MD

Leo Augusto (research assistant professor)              2020-2022               Assistant Professor, UNMC

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