Rocky Mountain Laboratory-Bethesda Postdoctoral Fellow
Education:
Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from Stanford University School of Medicine, 2025
M.S. in Cell and Molecular Biology, from California State University, East Bay, 2011
B.S. in Health Sciences from California State University, East Bay, 2008
A.S. in Biology from Cañada College, 2005
Biography
Elysse earned a Ph.D. in 2025 from the Microbiology and Immunology Department at the Stanford University School of Medicine. During their Ph.D., Elysse characterized novel circular RNA molecules expressed by SARS-CoV-2 and investigated their contributions to pathogenesis under the co-mentorship of Dr. Peter Sarnow and Dr. David Schneider. In September of 2025, Elysse began their postdoctoral fellowship at the Quantitative Virology and Evolution Unit (QVEU) at NIAID-NIH in Bethesda, MD under the supervision of Patrick Dolan, Ph.D. where they will study viral evolution and pathogenesis of RNA viruses.