Team

Organizers

  • Seble Negatu (she/her/hers)

    PhD Candidate (IGG), Juardo lab

    Twitter: @simplyseble

    Email: snegatu@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/snegatu/

  • Montserrat Arreguin (she/her/hers)

    PhD Candidate (IGG), Juardo lab

    Twitter: @MontseArreguin

    Email: arreguin@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

  • Christine Vazquez (she/her/hers)

    Postdoc, Juardo lab

    Twitter: @cn_vazquez

    Email: christine.vazquez@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

  • Kellie Jurado (she/her/hers)

    Presidential Assistant Professor, Juardo lab

    Twitter: @kelliejurado

    Email: kellie.jurado@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

  • Rachel Richards (she/her/hers)

    PhD Student (CAMB/MVP), Shin lab

    IG: adventures_of_ a_blackscientist

    Website: https://rmrichards7.wixsite.com/website

    Email: rachel.richard@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

  • Thandiswa Mdluli (she/her/hers)

    Research Specialist A, Pardi lab

    Email: thandiswa.mdluli@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thandiswa-mdluli

  • Jaydeen Sewell (she/her/hers)

    PhD Candidate (CAMB/MVP), Shin lab

    Twitter: @jaydeen_sewell

    Email: Jaydeensewell@gmail.com

Current Members

  • Madeline Merlino (she/her/hers)

    PhD Candidate (CAM/MVP), Jurado Lab

    Twitter: @mmerlino17

    Email: mmerlin@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

  • Emily O'Rourke (she/her)

    PhD Candidate (CAMB/MVP), Shin lab

    Twitter: @eaorou

    Email: emily.orourke@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

    Lab of Sunny Shin: https://www.sunnyshinlab.com/

  • Trevor Griesman (He/Him)

    Postdoc, Cherry lab

    Email: griesman@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

  • Taylor Miller-Ensminger (she/her/hers)

    PhD Candidate (CAMB/MVP), Jurado lab

    Email: milleret@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

  • Sonresa Molina-Vidales (she/her/hers)

    PhD Student (CAMB/MVP), Gordon lab

    Email: vidales.s.r@gmail.com

  • Michael Abt (he/him/his)

    Assistant Professor, Microbiology

    Website: https://abtlab.med.upenn.edu

    Twitter: @abt_lab

  • Frederic Bushman, PhD (He/him)

    William Maul Measey Professor in Microbiology (Penn Medicine)

    Email: bushman@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

  • Sunny Shin, PhD (she/her/hers)

    Professor of Microbiology, MVP Program chair

    Twitter: @SunnyShinLab

    Email: sunshin@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

  • Igor Brodsky, PhD

    Associate Professor, Pathobiology Chair

    Twitter: @BrodskyIgor

    Email: ibrodsky@vet.upenn.edu

Former Members

  • Rebecca Clements (she/her/hers)

    Postdoc

    Twitter: @clements_becca

    Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-clements/

    Email: rebecca.clements@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

  • Joangela Nouel (she/her/hers)

    PhD Candidate

    Twitter: @joangelanouel

    Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/joangela-nouel

    Email: joangela.nouel@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

  • Marisa Egan (she/her/hers)

    MicroIDEAs Member, 4th Year CAMB-MVP Student

    Twitter: @Marisa_Egan11

    Email: Marisa.Egan@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

  • Jorge Acuña (he/him/his)

    CAMB-MVP Graduate Student

    Twitter: Jacuna_matata21

    Email: Jorgeac@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

  • Victor R. Vazquez Marrero (he/him/his)

    Graduate student

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/vazquez_marrero

    Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vvazquezmarrero/

    Email: vvazquezmarrero@gmail.com

  • Emily Cribas

    Graduate student in Michael Abt’s lab

    Twitter: @emily_cribas

    Email: ecribas@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

  • Natasha Lopes Fischer (she/her/hers)

    Graduate student