Adam Geballe, MD
Professor, Human Biology and Clinical Research Divisions
Professor, Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington School of Medicine
Professor, Microbiology, University of Washington School of Medicine
Avaraham Bayer
PhD University of Pittsburgh
Area of interest: Host-pathogen interactions
Annabel Olson
PhD University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Areas of interest: Epigenetics and host-virus interactions
Former Lab Members
Postdoctoral Fellows
Bonita Biegalke, PhD
1988-1990 Research Project: CMV translational control; CMV/HIV interactions.
Mark Schleiss, MD
1988-1991 Research Project: CMV translational control.
Robert Harrington, MD
1989-1994 Research Project: HIV Entry Mechanism.
Jianhong Cao, PhD
1991-1999 Research Project: Translational control by upstream open reading frames.
Stephanie Child, PhD
1993-2001 Research Project: Translational control by upstream open reading frames. Currently: Staff Scientist, Fred Hutchinson CRC
Michael Bates, MD
1994-1999 Research Project: Translational control of CMV UL5 expression.
Merav Bar, MD
1999-2000 Research Project: CMV clinical strain polymorphisms.
Deanna Janzen, PhD
2000- 2004 Research Project: Regulation of translation termination.
Morgan Hakki, MD
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, PhD
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, PhD
2014-2016 Research Project: Identifying unconventional RNAs that are induced during viral infection using next generation sequencing.
Graduate Students
Jon Alderete, PhD
1994-2000 Thesis title: Translational control of CMV gene expression.
Emily Marshall, PhD
2004-2009 Thesis title: Evasion of double-stranded RNA-activated host cell responses.
Craig Bierle, PhD
2007-2013 Thesis title: Evasion of double-stranded RNA-activated host cell responses.
Jaki Braggin, PhD
2010-2015 Thesis title: Essential Role of Protein Kinase R Antagonism by TRS1 in Human Cytomegalovirus Replication.
Katie Semmens Carpentier, PhD
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, MD
Victoria Harper
Courtney Wieland
Kathrine De Niro, MD
Crystal Brown, MD
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