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PEOPLE IN THE BOYLE LAB

CURRENT MEMBERS         LAB ALUMNI         ARCHIVED LAB PHOTOS

CURRENT LAB MEMBERS:

ff Jon did his postdoctoral work with John Boothroyd at Stanford University, and  has been an assistant professor in the department of Biological Sciences since 2008.  Jon Boyle's CV. ff Greg is a PhD student who is using a new approach to isolate Toxoplasma-secreted proteins from the host cell, which he plans to identify using mass spectrometry.
Jon Boyle


Greg Wier


ELISE Elizabeth is PhD student working on determining the impact of MAF1 gene duplication and diversification on Toxoplasma virulence. abby primack
Abby is our research technician and a proud graduate of Earlham College.  She is  interested in epigenetics and differential gene regulation in Toxoplasma gondii and Hammondia hammondi
Elizabeth English

 Abby Primack

JON Jon is an undergraduate who is studying small molecule resistance mechanisms in Toxoplasma gondii germine Germine is an undergraduate who is studying the impact of gene expansion on the selective evolution of Toxoplasma gondii virulence.
Jon Harper
Germine Alfonse
dd Jeff is an undergraduate who is studying the effect of host mitochondrial recruitment on sensitivity to stress in vitro and in vivo. preethi Preethi is an undergraduate who is working with Jeff on host mitochondrial recruitment and stress.  
Jeff Danielson Preethi Sankaran

MOST RECENT LAB PHOTO:

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Lab photo in the February, 2015 at a lab potluck hosted by Abby Primack.  From left: Krystal Flakes, Olivia Boyle (Front), Jon Boyle (Back), Abby Primack, Elizabeth English, Greg Wier, Preethi Sankaran and Germine Alfonse.  In abstentia:  Jeff Danielson (he left moments before this picture was taken), Jon Harper (he is tough to track down these days...).

LAB ALUMNI:

Name

Position

Start/End Date

Current Position

Tracy Meehan

Undergraduate

Jan. 2009-Aug. 2010

PhD Student, Boston College

Suman Sajjan

Undergraduate

Aug. 2009-May 2010

M.S. Student, Johns Hopkins University.  Research Analyst, U.S. Army.  Baltimore, Maryland. 

Heather Ross

Undergraduate

May 2010-May 2012

Medical Student

Katelyn Walzer

Undergraduate and Research II Technician

Aug. 2011-June 2012

Ph.D. Student, Duke University

Edwin Kamau

Research II Technician

Oct. 2008-Jan. 2013

Ph.D. Student, NYU University

Mark Brown

Research II Technician

Feb. 2010-March 2013

Research III Technician, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Rachel Dam

Undergraduate

May 2011-April 2013

PhD Student, University of Washington

Hannah Wand

Undergraduate

Jan. 2012-June 2013

Research Technician, Stanford University School of Medicine. 

Yaw Adomako-Ankomah

Graduate Student

May 2009-Dec., 2013

Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH.

Adair Borges Undergraduate May 2012-Aug. 2014 Ph.D. Student, University of California-San Francisco
Ananth Srinivasan Undergraduate Jan. 2011-Aug. 2014 PhD. Student, University of Pennsylvania

 

ARCHIVED LAB PHOTOS:

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Lab photo in the Summer, 2014 at a going-away picnic for Ananth Srinivasan (now a PhD student at Penn) and Adair Borges (now a PhD student at UCSF). Front row, from left: Jeff Danielson, Jon Harper, Ananth Srinivasan, Adair Borges, Germine Alfonse, Elizabeth English, and Olivia Boyle. Top: Jon Boyle, "The Spirit of American Youth" statue (Sculptor: Daniel Chester French), and Greg Wier.

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Lab Photo at a going-away lunch for Katelyn Walzer. From Left: Hannah Wand, Mark Brown, Ananth Srinivasan, Greg Wier, Rachel Dam, Adair Borges, Katelyn Walzer, Elizabeth English, Edwin Kamau, Jon Boyle and Yaw Adomako-Ankomah.

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Lab photo at our BBQ circa 2010 to bid farewell to Tracy Meehan.  From left to right:  Heather Ross, Tracy Meehan, Yaw Adomako-Ankomah, Katelyn Walzer, Jon Boyle, Edwin Kamau, Matt Fair, Greg Wier, Mark Brown and Jessica Coblentz (Jessica was rotating in the lab at the time. She joined Kirill Kiselyov's lab).

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Lab photo, January 2010. From left to right: Yaw Adomako-Ankomah, Jon Boyle, Tracy Meehan, Andrew Knappenberger, Edwin Kamau, Katelyn Walzer, Gargi Bhattacharrya and Suman Sajjan.