Postdoctoral Fellows

Bonita Biegalke, Ph.D.
1988-1990  Research Project: CMV translational control; CMV/HIV interactions.  

Mark Schleiss, M.D.
1988-1991  Research Project: CMV translational control.  

Robert Harrington, M.D.
1989-1994  Research Project: HIV Entry Mechanism.  

Jianhong Cao, Ph.D.
1991-1999  Research Project: Translational control by upstream open reading frames.

Stephanie Child, Ph.D.
1993-2001  Research Project: Translational control by upstream open reading frames. Currently: Staff Scientist, Fred Hutchinson CRC

Michael Bates, M.D.
1994-1999  Research Project: Translational control of CMV UL5 expression.  

Merav Bar, M.D.
1999-2000  Research Project: CMV clinical strain polymorphisms.  

Deanna Janzen, Ph.D.
2000- 2004  Research Project: Regulation of translation termination.  

Morgan Hakki, M.D.
2001-2009  Research Project: Evasion of double-stranded RNA-activated host cell responses.  

Pau Mezquita, MD, PhD
2005-2007 Research Project: Interactions of CMV double-stranded RNA binding proteins.

Greg Brennan, DVM, Ph.D.
2009-2015 Research Project: The interaction determinants between African green monkey protein kinase R (PKR) and the rhesus cytomegalovirus PKR antagonist TRS1 using molecular and evolutionary approaches.  

Elad Eliahoo, Ph.D.
2014-2016 Research Project: Identifying unconventional RNAs that are induced during viral infection using next generation sequencing.  

Graduate Students

Jon Alderete, Ph.D.
1994-2000  Thesis title: Translational control of CMV gene expression.  

Emily Marshall, Ph.D.
2004-2009  Thesis title: Evasion of double-stranded RNA-activated host cell responses.  

Craig Bierle, Ph.D.
2007-2013  Thesis title: Evasion of double-stranded RNA-activated host cell responses.

Jaki Braggin, Ph.D.
2010-2015  Thesis title: Essential Role of Protein Kinase R Antagonism by TRS1 in Human Cytomegalovirus Replication.  

Katie Semmens Carpentier, Ph.D.
2012-2016  Thesis title: Evolution of Protein Kinase R Antagonism in Primate Cytomegaloviruses.

Previous Lab Personnel

Catherine Degnin
Charla Triplett
M Kymne Gray
Timothy Dellitt
Melanie Miller
Katie Scully
Sohail Jarrahian
Merav Bar, M.D.
Victoria Harper
Courtney Wieland
Kathrine De Niro, M.D.
Crystal Brown, M.D.
Lizzeth Belskus-Amador
Eric Powell
Jason Padvorac
Brandon Wu
Alesia Cloutier
Parker Woods
Anna Garcia
Michael Crawford
Brianna Haining
Ingrid Ruf
Bailey Wooldridge
Sarah Hickson
Nicolle Esparo
Emerald Bonagofski 
Munif Chowdhury