People in the Boyle Lab
Current Lab Members:
 Jon Boyle, Ph.D.
Jon did his postdoctoral work with John Boothroyd at Stanford University, and joined the department as an Assistant Professor in 2008. He was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2015. Link to Jon's CV.
 Sarah Post
Sarah is an undergraduate in the lab and is working with Elizabeth English on the role of MAF1 and Toxoplasma pathogenesis.
 Sarah Sokol
Sarah is a graduate student in the MCDB PhD program. She is working on understanding the genetic bases for differences in pathogenesis between Toxoplasma gondii and Hammondia hammondi.
 Rachel Coombs
Rachel is a PhD student who is studying differences in the host response to closely-related parasites like Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum. (Note: sadly we do not do much snorkeling)
 Sheen Wong, Ph.D.
Sheen got her PhD at the University of Queensland in Chemical and Biological Sciences. She joined the lab as a postdoc in January, 2017 and is studying differences in the host response between Toxoplasma gondii and Hammondia hammondi.
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 Nicolas Gutierrez-Melo
Nicolas is a visiting research scholar from Bogata, Colombia. He is working with Rachel on Neospora/Toxoplasma comparisons and gene duplications.
 Stephanie Ander
Stephanie is a PhD student in Carolyn Coyne's lab in the department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics. We collaborate with her on Toxoplasma/Placenta interactions.
 Elizabeth Rudzki
Elizabeth is one of our research technicians who joined the lab in June, 2016. Welcome!
 Matt Blank
Matt is a graduate student in the MCDB PhD program. He is working on understanding how gene duplication and diversification leads to the acquisition of new traits in Toxoplasma and its near relatives.
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Alyssa Laguerta presents her poster on long non-coding RNA promoters at the HHMI Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, 2016.
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Colin Montessano presents his poster on Toxoplasma-specific gene duplications at the HHMI Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, 2016.
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Other Lab Photos:
Postdoctoral Fellow Sethu Nair and Dr. Jitender Dubey at his USDA lab in August of 2016
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Another photo from the Imaginarium escape room
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Front Row: Jon Harper, Greg Wier, Jeff Danielson; Row 2: Germine Alfonse; Row 3: Abby Primack, Krystal Flakes, Emily Klonicki; Back Row: Jon Boyle, Elizabeth English, Rachel Coombs.
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Front Row: Jon Harper, Greg Wier, Jeff Danielson; Row 2: Germine Alfonse; Row 3: Abby Primack, Krystal Flakes, Emily Klonicki; Back Row: Jon Boyle, Elizabeth English, Rachel Coombs
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Left to Right: Rachel Coombs, Jeff Danielson, Elizabeth English, Greg Wier, Emily Klonicki, Jon Boyle, Abby Primack, Jon Harper, Germine Alfonse and Krystal Flakes.
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Greg Wier proudly shows off his custom Toxoplasma-infected plate.
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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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Name |
Position |
Start/End Date |
Subsequent
Positions (current listed last) |
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Tracy Meehan |
Undergraduate |
Jan. 2009-Aug. 2010 |
PhD, Boston College;
Postdoctoral Fellow Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |
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Gargi Bhattacharyya |
Postdoctoral
Fellow |
Aug.
2009-June 2010 |
Research
Fellow, Utah State University |
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Suman Sajjan |
Undergraduate |
Aug. 2009-May 2010 |
M.S., Johns Hopkins
University; Research Analyst, U.S. Army. |
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Heather Ross |
Undergraduate |
May 2010-May 2012 |
Medical Student |
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Katelyn Walzer |
Undergraduate and Research
II Technician |
Aug. 2011-June 2012 |
Ph.D. Student, Duke
University |
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Edwin Kamau |
Research II Technician |
Oct. 2008-Jan. 2013 |
Ph.D. Student, NYU University |
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Mark Brown |
Research II Technician |
Feb. 2010-March 2013 |
Research III Technician,
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine |
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Rachel Dam |
Undergraduate |
May 2011-April 2013 |
Research Technician, Baylor College of
Medicine; PhD Student, University of Washington |
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Hannah Wand |
Undergraduate |
Jan. 2012-June 2013 |
Research Technician, Stanford
University School of Medicine; M.S. Student, Johns Hopkins/NIH Joint Program
in Genetics Counseling |
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Yaw Adomako-Ankomah |
Graduate Student |
May 2009-Dec., 2013 |
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH. |
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Adair Borges |
Undergraduate |
May 2012-Aug. 2014 |
Ph.D. Student, University of
California-San Francisco |
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Ananth Srinivasan |
Undergraduate |
Jan.
2011-Aug. 2014 |
PhD.
Student, University of Pennsylvania |
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Greg Wier |
Graduate Student |
May 2010-May 2015 |
Applying for Teaching/Research
Positions |
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Jon Harper |
Undergraduate |
Sept.
2013-May 2015 |
Emergency
Medical Technician |
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Elizabeth English |
Graduate Student |
May 2012-January 2017 |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Boris Striepen’s Lab, University of Pennsylvania |
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Preethi Sankaran |
Undergraduate |
Jan.
2015-May 2017 |
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Emily Klonicki |
Undergraduate |
May 2015-Dec. 2015 |
Undergraduate, University of
Pittsburgh |
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Sethu Nair |
Postdoctoral
Fellow |
Jan.
2016-Sept. 2017 |
Postdoctoral
Fellow, Johns Hopkins University. |
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Colin Montessano |
Undergraduate |
Sept. 2015-April 2017 |