team

diverse team to combat mosquito-borne viruses



(and other things… thanks, COVID)

Nathan Grubaugh

Associate Professor
Imposter PI

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Seth Redmond

Assoc. Research Scientist
PathGen Group Leader

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Mallery Breban

Program Administrator 
Something clever

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Anne Hahn

Postdoctoral Assoc.
Variant hunter

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Verity Hill

Postdoctoral Assoc.
Map whisperer

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Rafael Lopes

Postdoctoral Assoc.
Not a physicist

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Ke Li

Postdoctoral Assoc.
Mathematical modeler

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Ellen de Vries

Postdoctoral Assoc.
Aussie rules

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Emma Taylor-Salmon

Clinical Fellow
A real Doctor

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Afeez Sodeinde

PhD Student
Actually does experiments

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Abbey Porzucek

PhD Student
Virally cultured

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Nicole Feriancek

PhD Student
G x E x DND

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Yi Ting Chew

PhD Student
Bug magnet

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Chaney Kalinich

MD Student
El Patron

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Ellie Bourgikos

MPH Student
Phylo fangirl

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Isabel Distefano

MPH Student
Jersey girl

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Braiya Nolan

Undergrad student
Viral influencer

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Lab alumni

making me look good since 2018

Chantal Vogels

Research Scientist 2018-23

Chrispin Chaguza

Postdoctoral associate 2021-23

Robert “Toby” Koch

MPH student / postgrad
2020-23

Nick Chen

MPH student
2021-23

Rebecca Earnest

PhD student
2019-23

Kien Pham

MPH student
2021-23

Matthew Brandt

Program Admin. 2022-23

Kendall Billig

MPH student 2020-22

Isabell Ott

Lab tech 2020-22

Mary Petrone

PhD Student 2019-21

Joseph Fauver

Postdoctoral associate 2019-21

Anderson Brito

Postdoctoral associate 2019-21

Jessica Rothman

Statistician 2020-21

Annie Watkins

MPH student 2020-21

Tara Alpert

Postdoctoral fellow 2020-21

Cole Jensen

MPH student 2020-21

Peter Neugebauer

Summer intern 2020

Christina Harden

Post-grad 2020

Aaron Hentoff

MPH student 2018-20

Márcio J L Siconelli

Summer intern (Brazil) 2019

Emma Allen

MPH student 2019

Evolution of a lab

Offer accepted!

October, 2017

Day 1!

July, 2018

1st anniversary!

July, 2019

Tailgate!

November, 2019

Mary Graduated!

October, 2021

Drinks!

July, 2022

Sports!

July, 2022

Tailgate #2!

November, 2022

EMD Research Day!

April, 2023

MPH Graduation!

May, 2023

Our many collaborators

because good science isn’t done in a vacuum

Kristian Andersen

The Scripps Research Institute

Christine Carrington

The University of the West Indies

Alex Ciota

Wadsworth Center

Lauren Gardner 

Johns Hopkins University

Laura Goodman

Cornell University

Emma Hodcroft

University of Basal

Shelli Farhadian

Yale School of Medicine

Nuno Faria 

University of Oxford

Akiko Iwasaki

Yale School of Medicine

Moritz  Kraemer

University of Oxford

Jake Lemieux

Mass General Hospital

Carolina Lucas

Yale School of Medicine

Bronwyn MacInnis

The Broad Institute

Richard Neher 

University of Basal

Brandon Ogbunu

Yale University

Danny Park

The Broad Institute

Robert Paulino

UNIBE

Oliver Pybus

University of Oxford

Pardis Sabeti

The Broad Institute

Saravanan Thangamani

SUNY Upstate Medical University