Theoretical Immunology Laboratory

 

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Current (Spring 2022) lab members

 

	Name	Department	Major	Education level	Project topic	Website
	Vitaly Ganusov	Microbiology/Mathematics	Physics/Biology	Associate Professor	All of the below + modeling Mycobacterium tuberculosis dynamics	Go to site
	Soumen Bera	Microbiology	Mathematics/Biology	Post-doc	T cells in malaria	Go to site
	Barun Majumder	Microbiology	Physics	Post-doc	T cell motility in various tissues and lymphnodes. Quantifying T cell kinetics in killing of tumor cells.
	Viktor Zenkov	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Computer Science	Graduate	T cells in malaria, attraction, tracks	Go to site
	Guilherme Silva	Mathematics	Mathematical Biology	Graduate	T cell migration in mice / LNs
	Joshua Lee Beaver	Biology	BCMB	Undergraduate	GFP spread in plants - Imaris
	Garrett Dal Byrd	Mathematics	Mathematical Biology	Undergraduate	COVID19 modeling	Go to site
	Kailynn Deck	MABE	Biomedical Engineering	Undergraduate	Sporozoites in skin
	Ed Garcia-Chacon	Microbiology	Microbiology	Undergraduate	Quantitative spatial analysis of mycobacterium tuberculosis microscopic images
	Anderson King	Chemical and biomedical engineering	Chemical engineering	Undergraduate	Sporozoites in skin
	William Leone	Microbiology	Microbiology	Undergraduate	Mtb dynamics in monkeys
	Raymond Lin	Biology	BCMB	Undergraduate	Imaging data analysis with Imaris
	John Logan Maddox	Mathematics	Mathematics	Undergraduate	Influenza virus shedding
	Joshua Miller	Mathematics	Mathematical Biology	Undergraduate	Viral spread in plants
	Dhruv Patel	Biology	BCMB	Undergraduate	CD8 T cells in the brain
	Hannah Powers	Microbiology	Microbiology	Undergraduate	Mtb granulomas in rabbits
	Haley Savastano	Microbiology	Microbiology	Undergraduate	Replication clock 2 in Mtb
	Melanie Trouse	Mathematics	Mathematical Biology	Undergraduate	Ecoli division time vs. length correlation

 

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Some former lab members, visitors, etc.

 

• Aram Bejhood (UT Memphis, medical school)

• Wendy Caldwell (Arizona State, graduate school/PhD program)

• D. Christian Graham

• Steven Ho

• Elizabeth Johnson (Data Scientist, Computer Modeler at Lowe's Companies, Inc.)

• Reka Kelemen (Austria, graduate school/PhD program)

• Rebecca Kingsley (LMU, medical school)

• Dustin Le (UT Southwestern, medical school)

• Kyla Linn (UTK/GST program, graduate school)

• Gesham Magombedze (Baylor Institute of Immunology Research)

• Margaret McDaniel (UT Southwestern, graduate school)

• Jonathan Prozan

• Harshana Rajakaruna (UTK, post-doc)

• Yiding Yang (Knoxville, TN)

 

If you are interested in joining our laboratory as a graduate student or a post-doc, let us know via email, vitaly (at) utk (dot) edu.