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David Sibley
Education:
Ph.D. in Zoology and Physiology from Louisiana State University, 1985.
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Graduate Students
Aditi Alaganan
Education:
Currently a Ph.D. student in Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis, Washington Univeristy
M.Sc. Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 2007
B.Tech Biotechnology, Anna University, India, 2005
Project:
Role of Rhoptry Proteins in the Biology of Toxoplasma gondii
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Beth Selleck
Education:
Currently a Ph.D. student in Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis, Washington University, B.S. in Microbiology and Immunology University of Rochester, Rochester, New York.
Project:
Role of host GTPases in immunity to Toxoplasma gondii
Email:
Zi Teng Wang
Education:
Currently a Ph.D. student in Molecular Cell Biology, Washington University, A.B. in Biology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO.
Project:
Role of Toxoplasma gondii tyrosine hydroxylases on chronic infection of rodent hosts
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Post Docs
Asis Khan
Education:
Ph.D. (Molecular Epidemiology of Shiga toxin producing E. coli), National Institute of Cholerae and Enteric Diseases, Calcutta, India.
Project:
Development of a genetic linkage map of Toxoplasma gondii. Analysis of global strain diversity.
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Mike Behnke
Education:
Ph.D. in Veterinary Molecular Biology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
Project:
Study of genetic and phenotypic traits in the progeny of T. gondii crosses.
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Chris Ma
Education:
Ph.D in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA
Project:
Interaction of Toxoplasma actin with small molecules that affect stability.
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Drew Etheridge
Education:
Ph.D in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA
Project:
Investigating interaction proteomics and small molecule inhibitors of rhoptry kinases
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Bang Shen
Education:
Ph.D in Microbiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
Project:
Study of cell surface protein regulation during toxoplasma invasion
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Philipp Olias
Education:
Ph.D. in Veterinary Pathology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Project:
Identifying effector proteins of Toxoplasma gondii that act as virulence factors and interfere the Interferon-gamma signaling
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Staff
Jennifer Barks
Title:
Research Lab Supervisor
Education:
M.S. in Molecular and Cellular Biology, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
Project:
General lab management and supervision, tissue culture
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Keliang Tang
Title:
Senior Research Technician
Education:
M.S. from Shisuan University, China.
Project:
Cloning, expression, and purification of proteins, cDNA library construction.
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Jan Whealen
Title:
Secretary to Dr. David Sibley
Administrative Assistant for Cellular Microbiology.
Department of Molecular Microbiology
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