People

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.

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.

Jayne Squirrell, PhD

LOCI collaborator

With my optical imaging expertise in my home laboratory, the Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation (LOCI), I collaborate with members of the Huttenlocher lab to push forward the application of cutting edge imaging resources to the study of inflammation in the zebrafish embryo.  Although I am interested imaging a variety of aspects of the inflammatory response, with my background in embryology and regenerative biology, I am particularly enthusiastic about imaging collagen reorganization during wound healing and tissue re-growth.

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

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.