Our Team

  • Jacques Ravel, PhD

    Principal Investigator

    MSc - Microbiology - University of Nancy, France, 1992
    PhD - Molecular Microbial Ecology - University of Maryland College Park, 1994-1999
    Postdoctoral Fellowship - Natural Product Chemistry - The Johns Hopkins University, 1999-2002

    Editor in Chief, Microbiome

  • Vonetta Edwards, PhD

    Research Associate

    BSc - University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2009
    PhD - Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology - University of Maryland College Park, 2012
    Postdoctoral Fellowship - Institute for Genomic Sciences

  • Pawel Gajer, PhD

    Research Associate

    MSc - Mathematics - Institute of Mathematics, Wroclaw Univ., Poland, 1985
    PhD - Mathematics - State University of New York, 1993   
    Postdoctoral Fellowship - University of California Berkeley, 1993-1994
    MSc - Computer Sciences - The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2000
    Postdoctoral Fellowship - The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2000-2002 

  • Lindsay Sammons Rutt, MSc

    Research Laboratory Supervisor

    MSc - Clinical Microbiology - University of Wisconsin, 2010

  • Eli McComb

    Research Assistant

    BSc - American University, 2014

  • Riham Keryakos

    Office Manager

    UMB Staff Senator

    BA - English Literature - Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 1985-1989

  • Issac Chaudry

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  • Melanie Quain

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  • Breanna Shirtliff

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  • Priscilla Haywood

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  • Alice Gallot

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