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

 
 
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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)

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Undergraduate Researchers

Amy Andrade

Callan Mallone

Jason Smith

Tiana Johnson

Abigail Wagner