Lab Members
Melanie Gareau, Phd
Professor
Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology
School of Veterinary Medicine
Maithili Banginwar, BS,
MS Student,
Microbiology Graduate Group
Maithili joined the lab in the fall of 2024.
Gatha Pore, DVM, MS Student, Graduate Group in Pathobiology
Gatha joined the lab in winter 2025.
Alessandra Miller, BS, PhD student, Graduate Group in Immunology
Alessandra joined the lab in winter 2025. She obtained her BS degree from Montana State and completed a post-bac at the Mayo Clinic.
Jungjae Park, PhD
Post-doctoral fellow
Jungjae joined the lab in the summer of 2024. He is from South Korea and is a recent UCD grad from the Nutrition department
Lab Alumni
Jelissa Reynoso Garcia, PhD (post doc)
Olivia Orahood, BS, MS (graduate student)
Gillian Wright, BS, MS (graduate student)
Ciara Keogh, PhD (post doc)
Carly Hennessey, PhD (graduate student)
Matteo Pusceddu, PhD (post-doc)
Cristina Torres-Fuentes, PhD (post-doc)
Eloisa Salvo, PhD (post-doc)
Patricia Stokes, BS, MS (graduate student)
Gonzalo Rabasa (Junior Specialist)
Mackenzie Honeycutt (Junior Specialist)
Jessica Sladek BS, MS (Junior Specialist/Assistant Specialist)
Mariana Barboza, PhD (Assistant Project Scientist)
Undergraduate Researchers
Amy Andrade
Callan Mallone
Jason Smith
Tiana Johnson
Abigail Wagner