Structural biology of virus and host interactions.
Joseph Marcotrigiano, Ph.D. (He/Him/His)
Chief, Structural Virology Section
Education:
Ph.D., The Rockefeller University
Altaira D. Dearborn, Ph.D. (She/Her/Hers)
Staff Scientist
Education:
Ph.D., Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
M.S., Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara
B.S., Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara
Languages Spoken: French, Ivatan
Dr. Dearborn joined the Structural Virology Section in 2019, having completed post-doctoral training in virology and structure biology with Drs. Paul Wingfield and Alasdair Steven in the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.
Kaneemozhe Harichandran, M.S., Ph.D. (She/Her/Hers)
Post-doctoral Fellow
Education:
Ph.D., Microbiology and Immunology, Georgetown University
M.S., Microbiology and Immunology, Georgetown University
B.E., Biotechnology, MVIT, Bangalore, India
Languages Spoken: Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, German
Dr. Harichandran specializes in RNA molecular Biology and RNA Virology.
Ashish Kumar, Ph.D. (He/Him/His)
Post-doctoral Fellow
Education:
Ph.D., Life Sciences, National Institute of Immunology, India
M.S., Life Sciences, Jammu University, India.
B.S., Life Sciences, Lucknow University, India.
Languages Spoken: Hindi
Guangping Liu, B.S. (She/Her/Hers)
Biologist
Education:
B.S., Medical, Secondary Military Medical College, Shanghai, China
Languages Spoken: Mandarin
Guangping Liu joined NIMH in 2004 and moved to NIAID in 2012. She has worked on transgenic mouse models of schizophrenia and preclinical trials, as well as flavivirus and alphavirus studies.
Myeisha Paskel, B.S. (She/Her/Hers)
Laboratory Manager/Biologist
Education:
B.S., Zoology, North Carolina State University
B.S., Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University
Myeisha has been a member of NIAID since early in her career. She has worked with some of the top scientists in their fields, Drs. Barbara Davis (Women’s Health), Paul Foster (Toxicology), and Kanta Subarao (Influenza), to name a few. She specializes in Molecular Biology.
Former Research Group Members
Emma Gebauer (Stonybrook University)
Tiana Rohe (Rochester University)
Jennifer Casiano-Matos, Ph.D. (Horizon Therapeutics)
Reafa Hossain (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Alvaro Hobbs (Rockefeller University)
Angela Tavolieri (University of Central Florida)
Michael Wang (Thomas Jefferson University)
Chen Wang, Ph.D. (Sanofi)
Yuanyuan Wang, Ph.D. (E-Town International Investment & Development Co. Ltd.)