I am a graduate student in the Department of Microbiology in Dr. Rachel Whitaker’s lab. I study the coevolution of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in cystic fibrosis patients, and its associated viruses. Viruses can contribute to increased virulence in successful infections or can lead to extinction of the host population […]

My name is Miyu Fuzawa. I am a Ph.D. Candidate majoring in environmental engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. When I was an undergraduate student, I was fascinated by how environmental factors affect human health and started working on pathogenic viruses. Currently, as a member of Dr. Helen Nguyen’s research group, my current […]

My name is Abigail Asangba and I am a PhD student in Biological Anthropology working in the Stumpf lab. Factors such as diet, host phylogeny, host genetics, digestive physiology, environment, captivity, social interactions, race/ethnicity, pregnancy, disease, female promiscuity and mating group size have been shown to influence and/or predict the composition of the primate microbiome […]

I am an Assistant Professor of Chemistry. My group invents and implements new technologies to obtain a comprehensive understanding of highly heterogeneous, dynamic biological systems.  In particular, my group leverages expertise in drop-microfluidics, genomics, single-molecule imaging, and nanochemistry to study healthy and diseased tissues at unprecedented resolution. One of the major research areas in the […]

I am a postdoc in the microbiology department in the lab of Chris Brooke where I study the population dynamics of influenza virus. I am interested in the phenotypic responses of both virus and host to changes in the influenza virion population. Influenza A virus has a segmented genome and not all virions within a […]

I am a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Rachel Whitaker’s Lab at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. I study the mechanisms and spread of antibiotic resistance. Our knowledge of how these resistance genes move between microbes and between different environments remains limited. Antibiotic resistance genes often travel […]

Dr. Helen Nguyen is currently an associate professor of environmental engineering and a faculty affiliate with Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. Prior to joining the University of Illinois, she was a Gaylord Donnelley Environmental Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale […]

Katy Heath is an Associate Professor in Plant Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a core member of IGOH at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology. Heath is an evolutionary geneticist whose research focuses on how plants and plant-associated bacteria and fungi evolve at both the phenotypic and molecular levels. […]

My research focuses on mathematical and statistical modeling for disease control, particularly infectious diseases. I have projects involving livestock diseases (mycobacteria; antimicrobial resistance; water-borne pathogens), vector-borne diseases (West Nile Virus; Lyme Disease; rickettsial diseases), and human-specific and zoonotic diseases (mycobacteria; antimicrobial resistance). You can visit my lab website for more information or follow me on […]

I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Pathobiology, advised by Dr. Rebecca Smith. I am an entomologist at heart who applies epidemiological methods to investigate vector-borne disease ecology. Specifically, I am interested in understanding how a multitude of interacting external factors (e.g. climate, weather, socio-demographic, mosquito biology, etc.) affect how a disease emerges […]