Abigail Frey

Abigail Frey

Graduate Student
Immunology and Infectious Diseases

Abigail is taking cues from Mycobacterium tuberculosis on what is important for its survival through studying genes under selection during infection. She is currently working towards understanding the effects of selection on a classic Mtb virulence system.

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Eddie Irvine

Graduate Student
Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases

Eddie is interested in the role antibodies play during tuberculosis infection. He is taking biased and unbiased approaches to identify specific characteristics of the humoral immune response capable of modulating infection or disease.

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Maia Mesyngier

Graduate Student
Immunology and Infectious Diseases

Maia is interested in understanding what good host protection against tuberculosis challenge looks like. She is currently working on defining the role of lung epithelial and stromal cells in immune cell circuits and crosstalk after vaccination or tuberculosis infection using single-cell RNA sequencing. Maia’s work is in collaboration with her co-mentor Adam Haber.

Sydney Stanley

Sydney Stanley

Graduate Student
Immunology and Infectious Diseases

Sydney is interested in understanding the effect of Mycobacterium tuberculosis functional genetic diversity on altered  antibiotic sensitivity, host fitness, and patient outcomes.