Clinical Laboratory Scientists
Focused on the development and evaluation of novel ID diagnostics and the performance of microbiologic assays to support a wide variety of clinical trials and public health initiatives.
2018-2020 George Andy Farr, BS
2019-2023 Jeremy Meeder, BS
2020-2021 Drew Freeman, BS
2020-2021 Thomas Detchemendy, BS, MS
2020-2021 John Hernandez, BS
2020-2022 Hannah Mariah Pierce, BS, MS
2020-2023 Sumner Adams, BS
2023 Robert (Will) Browning, BS
2023-2025 Kamaljeet Kaur, PhD
Post-doctoral Trainees
2018-19 Daniel Silberger, Clinical Microbiology Research Mentor, focus- development of a novel infectious disease diagnostic test for Clostridiodes difficile; current Clinical Microbiologists in the United States Navy Staff Corps.
2018-21 Arthur Totten, PhD, Clinical Microbiology Research Mentor, focus- development and evaluation of novel infectious disease diagnostic tests for mollicutes; current clinical microbiologist and Diplomate of the American Board of Microbiology D(ABMM) at Stony Brook University, NY
2021-2025 Ashleigh Riegler, PhD, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, focus- role of programmed cell death in the pathology of viral and fungal infections; current UAB American Society for Microbiology (ASM) CPEP Medical Microbiology and Public Health Fellow.
International Research Fellows
2023 Godlove Wpenje, Fogarty Research Fellow, University of Buea, Cameroon, Africa, focus- Development of a molecular diagnostic test to detect genital schistosomiasis.
2023 Nesma Ahmed-Esam, USAID Research Fellowship Mentor, University of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt, focus- Clinical mycology diagnostic testing and evaluation of FFPE tissues form patients with Invasive Mucormycosis
