Graduates
Please find a list of recent IGG alumni and their current positions below.
Name | Year Graduated | Advisor |
Thesis |
Current Position |
Daniel Aldridge |
2025 |
Chris Hunter |
“IL-27 and the regulation of HSPC development during toxoplasmosis” |
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Breanne Haskins | 2025 | Chris Hunter |
“The role of dendritic cells in the generation of CD8+ T cell responses during Cryptosporidium infection” |
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus |
Eric Rodriguez-Lopez | 2025 | David Hill and Laurence Eisenlohr |
"Epithelial cell-intrinsic regulation of food antigen-dependent eosinophilic esophagitis" |
Flow Cytometry Medical Technologist, Jefferson Health |
Seble Negatu | 2025 | Kellie Jurado |
“Forebrain organoids reveal neuronal capacity to elicit protective antiviral responses” |
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Samuel McCright | 2025 | David Hill |
“Regulation of lung innate immune cell phenotype and function by dietary lipids” |
Medical Student, University of Pennsylvania (MSTP) |
Eileen Goodwin | 2025 | Scott Hensley and Laurence Eisenlohr |
“The impact of prior immunity on B cell responses to viral antigens” |
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Megan Clark | 2025 | Jorge Henao-Mejia |
“Mitochondrial NDUFA4 is a functional switch controlling tumor-associated macrophages and tumor immunity” |
Veterinary Student, University of Pennsylvania |
Michelle Cully | 2025 | Michael May |
“Loss of lymphatic IKKα disrupts lung immune homeostasis, drives BALT formation, and protects against influenza” |
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Diego Espinoza | 2025 | Amit Bar-Or |
“Cross-compartment immunology |
Medical Student, University of Pennsylvania (MSTP) |
Emily Bettini | 2024 | Michela Locci |
“Untangling the adjuvanticity of mRNA vaccines: Nucleoside-modified mRNA and lipid nanoparticles cooperate to drive T follicular helper cell responses” |
Senior scientist at biotech start-up |
Casey Lee | 2024 | Aimee Payne and Christoph Ellebrecht |
“Asymmetric Cell Division as a Mechanism of Fate Induction in Genetically Engineered T Cells” |
Medical Student, University of Pennsylvania (MSTP) |
Brittney Allyn | 2024 | Craig Bassing |
“Elucidating Genome Topology Regulation of Antigen Receptor Diversification” |
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania |
Naomi Goldman |
2024 |
Golnaz Vahedi |
“Building order from disorder: An unstructured domain of TCF-1 |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School |
Jamal Green |
2024 |
Michael Silverman |
“Early-life exposures to specific |
Medical Student, University of Pennsylvania (MSTP) |
Jordan Harris | 2024 | Elizabeth Grice and Taku Kambayashi |
"Host-Microbe Inheritance: How commensals |
Medical Student, University of Pennsylvania (MSTP) |
Andrew Hart | 2024 | Teffi Laufer |
“Lupus is characterized by altered |
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania |
Neha Nataraj | 2024 | Sunny Shin and Igor Brodsky |
“Regulation of human cell death |
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania |
Trini Ochoa | 2024 | David Allman |
“Cellular targets and modes of |
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania |
Jorge Ortiz-Carpena | 2024 | Herbert De'Broski |
“Sensory neurons initiate Tuft |
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Lucien Turner | 2024 | Will Bailis |
“Single-cell NAD(H) levels predict clonal |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital |
Ashley Vanderbeck | 2024 | Ivan Maillard |
“Notch in the niche: How stromal |
Veterinary Student (VMD), University of Pennsylvania |
Andrea Wong | 2024 | Maayan Levy Thaiss |
“Metabolomic alterations |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Merck |
Davia Blake | 2023 | Kristen Lynch |
"The Role of Alternative Splicing and Alternative Polyadenylation in Regulating Activated T cell Biology" |
Senior Scientist, AbbVie |
Rina Kim | 2023 | Bob Vonderheide |
"Ferroptosis of tumor neutrophils causes immune suppression in cancer" |
Life Science Specialist, L.E.K. Consulting |
Megan Frederick | 2022 | Kenneth Zaret |
"Overcoming The Chromatin Barrier: A Hematopoietic Pioneer Transcription Factor Paves the Way For Site-Specific ATP-Dependent Nucleosome Remodeling" |
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania |
Sarah Maddux |
2022 | Michael A. Silverman |
"Akkermansia muciniphila modulates early life immune development" |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Amgen |
Joseph Perry | 2022 | Christopher Hunter |
"Immune checkpoint mediated oversight of regulatory T cells at homeostasis and during infection" |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University |
Lindsey Rice | 2022 | Christopher Hunter |
"Coping with latent infection in the central nervous system" |
Scientist, Phenomic |
Stacy Thomas | 2022 | Gregory Beatty |
"Liver macrophages in pancreatic cancer metastasis" |
Medical Student, University of Pennsylvania (MSTP) |
Jennifer Wu | 2022 | E. John Wherry |
"In vitro modeling of CD8 T cell exhaustion uncovers novel transcriptional regulator Bhlhe40" |
Senior Scientist, Regeneron |
Scarlett Yang | 2022 | Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko |
"Chasing a beta life: Role of the ubiquitin ligase FBXW7β isoform in B-lymphopoiesis and leukemia" |
Senior Regulatory Affairs Associate, Gilead Sciences |
Claudia Arevalo | 2022 | Scott Hensley |
"Of Mice, Ferrets and Men: From original antigenic sin to a new universal influenza virus vaccine candidate." |
Senior Scientist - Vaccine Research and Development, Pfizer |
Megha Basavappa | 2022 | Jorge Henao-Mejia, Sara Cherry |
"The Role of Long Noncoding RNAs in Innate Antiviral Immunity" |
Scientist, Moderna |
Laura Chopp | 2022 | Remy Bosselut |
"Integration of Single Cell Transcriptomics and Epigenomics to Identify New Regulators of T Cell Development and Function" |
Medical Student, University of Michigan |
Patrick Lundgren | 2022 | Christoph Thaiss |
"A Subpopulation of Lipogenic Brown Adipocytes Drives Thermogenic Memory" |
Associate, Flagship Pioneering |
Joseph Clark | 2021 | Christopher Hunter |
"Understanding the Role of IL-1 Family Cytokines IL-18 and IL-33 in Protective and Pathological Responses to Toxoplasma Gondii" |
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Bonnie Douglas | 2021 | De'Broski Herbert |
"Antigen Specific CD4+ T Cell Responses Against a Gastrointestinal Nematode" |
Scientific Affairs Manager, Prime Education LLC |
Emma Lewis | 2021 | Michal Elovitz, Paige Porrett |
"Immune Modulation at the Maternal-Fetal Interface Regulates Perinatal Outcomes" |
Obstetrics and Gynecology Resident, University of Pennsylvania |
Ruth-Anne Langan Pai | 2021 | David Fajgenbaum, Taku Kambayashi |
"Identifying and Targeting Mechanisms of Immune Cell Activation in iMCD-TAFRO" |
Science Consultant, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative |
Sophia Reeder | 2021 | David Weiner |
"Vaccine Mediated Immunity to Malaria" |
Lecturer, University of Washington |
Tanner Robertson | 2021 | Janis Burkhardt |
"Lymphocyte Egress Signal Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Promotes ERM-Guided, BLEB-Based Migration" |
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Wisconsin Madison |
Glendon Wu | 2021 | Craig Bassing |
"Vb Recombination Signal Sequences Mediate Monoallelic and Monogenic TCRb Gene Assembly: Implications for the TCRb Repertoire and Allelic Exclusion in Health and Disease" |
Scientist, Moderna |
Thomas Burn | 2020 | Edward Behrens |
"Regulation of Selection and Central Tolerance by the N-Terminal Region of RAG1" |
Research Officer, Doherty Institute |
Ruth Choa | 2020 | Taku Kambayashi |
"Thymic Stromal Lymphopoietin Induces Adipose Loss through Sebum Hypersecretion" |
Internal Medicine Resident, Massachusetts General Hospital |
Samirkumar Devalaraja | 2020 | Malay Haldar, George Cotsarelis |
"Tumor-Derived Retinoic Acid Regulates Intratumoral Monocyte Differentiation to Promote Immune Suppression" |
Analyst, Avoro Capital Advisors |
Austin Huffman | 2020 | Bob Vonderheide |
"Immune Dysregulation in Pancreatic Cancer" |
Project Leader, Boston Consulting Group |
John Johnson | 2020 | Michael Cancro |
"Transcriptional Landscapes in Lymphocyte Development and Differentiation: TCF-1 Enforces Epigenetic Identity in Developing T cells and T-BET Resolves Functionally Distinct Memory B Cells" |
Computational Biologist I, Dispatch Biotherapeutics |
Lexus Johnson | 2020 | Andy Minn, Carl June |
"Cellular Localization of Inflammatory Signaling as a Determinant of Tumor-Immune Biology" |
Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania |
Jeffrey Lin | 2020 | Bob Vonderheide |
"Type 1 Conventional Dendritic Cells are Systemically Dysregulated Early in Pancreatic Carcinogenesis' |
Internal Medicine Resident, Tufts Medical Center |
Jacob Paiano | 2020 | Andre Nussenzweig |
"Genome Integrity and Cell Division: Next-Generation Answers to Enduring Questions" |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School |
Rebecca Rosenthal | 2020 | Michael Cancro |
"T-BET Expressing B Cells With Distinct Residency and Functional Characteristics Give Rise to Plasma Cells" |
Veterinarian, The Pet Mechanic |
Sushila Toulmin | 2020 | Laurence Eisenlohr |
"The Regulation and Function of Major Histocompatibility Complex II on Lung Type II Alveolar Cells" |
Medical Student, University of Pennsylvania (MSTP) |
Michael Werner | 2020 | Gerd Blobel |
"Structure-Function Analysis of BET Proteins in Transcription" |
Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery Resident, Hofstra/Northwell |
Kelly Zullo | 2020 | De'Broski Herbert |
"Leucine Rich Repeat IG-Domain Containing NOGO Interacting Protein 3 (LINGO3) is a Novel Regulator of Mucosal Homeostasis" |
Engagement Manager, Trinity Life Sciences |
Katherine Forsyth | 2019 | Laurence Eisenlohr |
"Contribution of Non-Classical Antigen Presentation to CD4+ T Cells During Orthopoxvirus Infection" |
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania |
Omar Khan | 2019 | E. John Wherry |
"The HMG Transcription Factor TOX Induces a Transcriptional and Epigenetic Program of CD8+ T Cell Exhaustion in Chronic Infection and Cancer" |
Director - Cell Therapy, Orange Grove Bio |
Jae Won Lee | 2019 | E. John Wherry, Gregory Beatty |
"Hepatocytes direct the formation of a pro-metastatic niche in the liver" |
Resident - Pathology, Johns Hopkins Hospital |
Michael Leney-Greene | 2019 | Helen Su, Michael Lenardo |
"A Mendelian Disease of Autoimmunity Reveals GIMAP5 as a Novel Member of the Ragulator Complex" |
Investigator, AI Proteins |
Walter Mowel | 2019 | Jorge Henao-Mejia |
"Epigenetic Control of Innate Lymphoid Cell Homeostasis and Development" |
Postdoctoral Fellow - Immunobiology, Yale University |
Brenal Singh | 2019 | Taku Kambayashi |
"The Immunomodulatory Functions of Diacylglycerol Kinase Zeta on Type 2 Immune Responses" |
Senior Scientist II, AbbVie |
Ryan Staupe | 2019 | E. John Wherry |
"Regulation of Effective B Cell Responses to Chronic Infection" |
Senior Scientist, Merck |
Tori Yamamoto | 2019 | Nicholas Restifo |
"Engineering CD8+ T Cells to Overcome Death Signaling Within The Tumor Microenvironment" |
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California San Francisco |