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Graduate Students

  • Dr. DeGuise’s Lab:
    Christopher Perkins- PhD (   )
  • Andrea Bogomolni- PhD
  • Erica Gebhardt- MS
  • Dr. Frasca’s Lab:
    Dr. Akinyi Nyaoke- PhD (2009)- "An aquarium-based model to study the pathogenesis of exophialosis in marine fish."
    Vanessa Schumacher- PhD (2012) – Adenovirus in tortoises. (thesis title not determinied.)
  • Dr. Garmendia’s Lab:
    Christopher Overend- PhD (2009) - “Mechanisms of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus Evasion of Host Innate Immune Responses.”
  • Dr. Geary’s Lab:
    Steve Szczepanek- PhD (2010) - “Elucidation of Mechanisms of Pathogenesis of Mycoplasma gallisepticum."
  • Dr. Khan’s Lab:
    Sankhiros Babapoor- PhD (2010) – Use of reverse genetics to rescue an attenuated avian influenza vaccines virus and in ovo vaccination for prevention of infectious bronchitis. (thesis title not determined)
  • Dr. Risatti’s Lab:
    Boris Gavrilov- PhD (2011) - “The Role of Glycosylation of Classical Swine Fever Virus Envelope Proteins on Virus Virulence, Antigenicity and Immunogenicity.”
  • Dr. Smyth’s Lab:
    Tom Martin- PhD (2010) – Working with Clostridium perfringens which is the causative agent of Necrotic Enteritis in poultry. (thesis title not determined)
  • Paramesh Kurapati -
  • Dr. Van Kruiningen’s Lab:
    Dr. Radhakrishna Sura- PhD (2009) – “Crohn’s disease is a disease of lymphatics.”