Our Team
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Jacques Ravel, PhD
Principal Investigator
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Vonetta Edwards, PhD
Research Associate
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Pawel Gajer, PhD
Research Associate
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Micheal France
Research Associate
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Lindsay Sammons Rutt, MSc
Research Laboratory Supervisor
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Melanie Quain
Laboratory Staff
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Eli McComb
Laboratory Staff
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SJ Cook
Laboratory Staff
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Breanna Shirtliff
Laboratory Staff
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Riham Keryakos
Office Manager/UMB Staff Senator
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Issac Chaudry
Graduate Student, MD/PhD
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Priscilla Haywood
Graduate Student, PhD
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Soneli Gunawardana
Graduate Student, PhD
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Sarah Brown
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Kayla Carter
Postdoctoral Fellow
Alumni
Postdoctoral Fellows
Florian Fricke
Postdoctoral Fellow (2005-2010)
Professor Doctor, Director Department of Microbiome and Applied Bioinformatics, University of Hohenheim, Germany
Mark Eppinger
Postdoctoral Fellow (2005-2012)
Associate Professor, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas San Antonio.
Rebecca Brotman
Post Doctoral Fellow (2008-2010)
Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, CAMRI/IGS, University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Bing Ma
Postdoctoral Fellow (2011-2015)
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, CAMRI/IGS, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Joyce Sakamoto
Postdoctoral Fellow (2009-2011)
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology, Penn State University
Guoyun Bai
Postdoctoral Fellow (2010-2012)
Senior Manager, Analytical Chemistry and High Throughput Purification Site Lead at Johnson & Johnson
Vonetta Edwards
Postdoctoral Fellow (2012-2018)
Research Associate, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, CAMRI/IGS, University of Maryland School of Medicine.
2013-2017 Steve Smith - Computation Biology, Bioinformatics, and Genomics Program (CBBG) - University of Maryland College Park
2011-2017 Latéy Bradford (MD/PhD) - GPILS Program Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
2020-2024 Maddy Alizadeh (MD/PhD) - GPILS Program in Molecular Medicine, Genome Biology Track
2019-2025 Bernadine Monari - GPILS Program in MOlecular Medicine, Genome Sciences Track
MS Graduate Students
2014-2016 Philippe Azimzadeh - Graduate Program in Life Sciences (GPILS), Program in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
2009-2014 Elizabeth Neuendorf - Graduate Program in Life Sciences (GPILS), Program in Molecular Medicine, Genome Biology Track
MS Student Internships
2015 Appaala Chatterjee - Johns Hopkins University, Graduate Program in Bioinformatics
Undergraduate Students
2008-2009 Rachel Gicquelais, Virginia Tech
2010-2011 Bishoy Michael, University of Maryland
2011 Lynda Mandeng, Baltimore City Community College
2011-2012 Steve Barron, Baltimore City Community College
2011 Piotr Starzec, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
2013-2014 Marine Royer, University Claude Bernand, Lyon, France
2017-2018 Sandeep David, University of Maryland
2017-2018 Elizabeth Howard, University of Maryland
2023 Samuel Cross, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
2025 Alice Gallot, École Normale Supérieure (ENS), France
2025 Roohi Baig, Baltimore City Community College
High School Intern
2019 Sean Ravel, Howard County Public Schools, Maryland
2025 Sofie Miller, Park School, Baltimore
2025-2026 Christopher Moore, Howard County Public Schools, Maryland
2025-2026 Nisa Chaudhry, Howard County Public Schools, Maryland
Laboratory Staff
Sara Koenig
Douglas Fadrosh
Mike Humphrys
Li Fu
Hongqiu Yang
Melissa Nandy
Sarah Arbaugh
Rishi Jindal
Appaala Chatterjee
Christina Barret
Johanna Holm
Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-2021)
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, CAMRI/IGS, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Michael France
Postdoctoral Fellow (2018-2023)
Research Associate, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, CAMRI/IGS, University of Maryland School of Medicine.