C4MInD Research Staff

Anita Amin
Research Associate IV
Chatterjee Lab
Research Interests:
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Non-tuberculous mycobacteria, Lipoarabinomannan, Immunoassay based Point-of-care diagnostic test for TB, TB-ELISA, TB-LFIA

Claudia Boot
Research Assistant Professor
Chemistry ARC-MMA
Research Interests:
Analytical chemistry ecology soil microbes organic matter ecosystem metabolomics environmental

Grace Borlee
Research Scientist II
Borlee Lab
Research Interests:
Bacterial genetics, Biofilm, Polysaccharide, Cyclic di-GMP, Endosymbionts, Quorum-sensing

Jason Cummings
Research Associate IV
Slayden Lab
Research Interests:
Tier 1 select agents (B. pseudomallei, B. mallei, F. tularensis, Y. pestis, and B. anthracis), drug efficacy in vitro and in vivo, next generation sequencing, host/pathogen interactions

Prithwiraj De
Research Scientist II
Chatterjee Lab
Research Interests:
Organic and Bioanalytical Chemistry, Bacteriology (TB, NTMs), Mass Spectroscopy, NMR Spectroscopy, Structure Elucidation of molecules, Metabolomics, Immunochemistry, Point-of Care Assay design, Multistep Synthesis, Medicinal Chemistry.

Parsa Ghadermazi
Research Scientist III
Chan Lab
Research Interests:
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Barbara Graham
Statistician
Dept of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology
Research Interests:
Statistical analysis, ‘omics analysis, multiple regression, experiment design, R programming, data visualization

Marisa Harton
Research Associate IV
C4MInD Project Manager
Belisle Lab
Research Interests:
Tuberculosis, Leprosy, Lyme disease Research, Repository of clinical samples for research

Andres Obregon Henao
Research Scientist III
Henao-Tamayo Lab
Research Interests:
Tuberculosis, pathogenesis, transmission, vaccines, animal models, antibiotics, persisters, non-culturable, metabolism

Paul Soma
Research Scientist I
Perera lab
Research Interests:
Analytical chemistry, mass spectrometry, ion mobility spectrometry, gas-phase chemistry, metabolomics and lipidomics

Nurul Islam
Research Scientist I
Belisle Lab
Research Interests:
Mass spectrometry, metabolomics, lipidomics, chemical biology, bacterial and viral infectious diseases

Angela Marques
Research Scientist II
Belisle Lab
Research Interests:
Leprosy disease, neuropathology, Schwann Cells, lipid droplets, lipid homeostasis, cholesterol, oxysterols, transcriptions factors, mycobacteria-host interactions, host immune response

Karla Saavedra Rodriguez
Research Scientist I
Black Lab
Research Interests:
Mosquito Biology, mosquito-borne virus infections, mechanisms of insecticide resistance, toxicology and genomics with the goal of identifying and developing diagnostic tools to track insecticide resistance alleles in mosquito populations