Anna Huttenlocher, MD
Principal Investigator
David Bennin
Laboratory Manager
Julie Rindy, MSc
Zebrafish Facility Manager
Veronika Miskolci, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
Adam Horn, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
Ashley Peterson
Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program
Neutrophils must integrate various signals in order to efficiently navigate through various physiological environments. I’m interested studying the migratory behavior of neutrophils in the inflammatory microenvironment and how they are able to integrate such complex signaling cues.
Taylor Schoen, MSc
Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program
Simone Shen
Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology Graduate Program
I am interested in host pathogen interaction and how this interaction affects wound repair in the host. My research focuses on the complex networks involved in wound healing in the context of bacterial infection. Specifically, I’m studying the crosstalk between inflammation and tissue regeneration using zebrafish and Listeria monocytogenes as my model.
Alessandro Preda
Research Intern
I am interested in uncovering the mechanisms involved in wound healing and leukocyte response to various damaging stimuli, with a particular focus on the innate immune system.
Morgan Giese
Cellular and Molecular Biology Graduate Program
Neutrophils can have both pro- and anti-tumor effects. I am interested in studying neutrophil interactions with other innate immune cells, such as macrophages, to determine if these relationships modulate their response in the tumor microenvironment.
Alex Fister
Cellular and Molecular Biology Graduate Program
I am studying immune cell recruitment to wound sites during the activation of innate immunity. I am interested in how pathogen-host interactions affect this response, as well as key players involved in the activation of the innate immune response.
Yiran Hou, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
I’m interested in identifying key factors driving successful regeneration, with the hope to improve human wound healing and regeneration. At the Huttenlocher lab, I’m exploring the role of the innate immune system in supporting regeneration. My current work focuses on molecularly defining the event of neutrophil reverse migration using single cell sequencing approach, aiming to identify molecular signatures that could distinguish neutrophils that are involved in this process from the ones that are not.
Gayathri Ramakrishnan, MS
Cancer Biology Graduate Program
Neutrophils can have differential states of activation/differentiation in the tumor and they can be pro or anti-tumorigenic depending on the microenvironment. I am specifically interested in studying how neutrophils influence the growth and survival of transformed hepatocytes and the response of other immune cells in the liver using zebrafish models of Hepatocellular carcinoma.
Tanner Robertson, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
I study adaptive immunity using the zebrafish, with a particular focus on T cell trafficking and motility.
Nayanna Mercado-Soto
Microbiology Doctoral Training Program
I am interested in understanding host-pathogen interactions during Aspergillus fumigatus infection. Particularly, I am curious about understanding interactions between strains of A. fumigatus in the host; and macrophage polarization during infection.
Jonathan Schrope
Graduate Program
Frances Smith
Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program
I am interested in the potential of stem cells for use in bacterial and fungal infections. We can now derive nearly all immune cells from stem cell lines and modify them to improve host response to all kinds of infection. I will explore how we can continue to improve these stem cells to optimize human immune function.
Undergraduate Students
Luke Geppert
Marielena Trujillo – Biology
Ethan Kastenschmidt
Zoe Zwick – Genetics
Former Lab Members
Amit Bhatt, MD, PhD, Radiation Oncology Consultants of West County, St Louis, MO
Keefe Chan, PhD, Scientist, Cancer Center, University of Melbourne, Australia
Kate Cooper, PhD, Associate Professor (tenure), Loras College, Iowa
Christa Cortesio, PhD, Scientist, Amgen, San Francisco, CA
Abbi Cox, PhD, Assistant Professor, SUNY-Geneseo (on leave)
Ashley Doan, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Bryant and Stratton College, Milwaukee
Santos Franco, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, CO
Beth Harvie, PhD, Science editor, Research Square, Durham, NC
Penny Lam, PhD, Postdoctoral fellow, Harvard University
Katie Mladinich, PhD/J.D., Attorney
Paul Nuzzi, PhD, Patent officer, Choate Hall and Stewart LLP, Boston MA
Ben Perrin, PhD, Assistant Professor, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI)
Taylor Starnes, MD/PhD, resident, Illinois Eye and Ear
Will Simonson, MD/PhD, Pathology resident, University of Washington-Seattle
Kevin Walters, PhD, Scientist, Southern Research Institute, Alabama
Sarah Wernimont, MD/PhD, OB/Gyn resident, University of Iowa
Sa kan Yoo, PhD, Associate Chief Scientist RIKEN, Kobe, Japan
Lindsy Boateng PhD, Instructor, University of Baltimore
Peter Cavnar, PhD, Associate Professor, University of West Florida
Qing Deng, PhD, Assistant Professor, Purdue University
Laura Dziadzio, MD, Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
Christina Freisinger, PhD, Scientist, Promega, Madison, WI
Jonathan Mathias, PhD, Science writer, Boston, MA
Tim Piazza, PhD, Scientist BioSentinel Pharmaceuticals, Madison WI
Miriam Shelef, MD/PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ben Korte, PhD, Fugen
Lucas Klemm, PhD, Elevate Bio
Sebastien Tauzin, PhD, Assistant Professor, Utah Valley University
Andrew Wiemer, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Connecticut
Danny LeBert, PhD, Assistant Professor, Shenandoah University, Virginia
William J.B. Vincent, PhD, Biology/Science Educator, Saint Johnsbury School, Vermont
Benjamin Knox, PhD, Scientist, Zymergen, California
Davalyn Powell, PhD, Science writer, Buck Institute, California
James Muse Davis, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Iowa
Emily Rosowski, PhD, Assistant Professor, Clemson University
Sofia DeOliveira, PhD, Assistant professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Francisco Barros, PhD, Postdoctoral fellow, University of Washington
Netta Golenberg, PhD, Genomic Scientist, University of Pennsylvania
Laurel Hind, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
Russell Burke, PhD, 10X Genomics
Ruth Housewright, PhD/DVM