IDASTP Trainees

The objective of the IDASTP is to produce broadly trained and competitive scientists who use interdisciplinary cross-scale approaches to better study and control infectious disease.

Each academic year, IDASTP supports 4 trainees and 4 award of distinction awardees.

2023-2024 IDASTP Trainees

Stephanie Bellman

Admitted Fall of 2022
MD/PhD Candidate
Environmental Health Sciences
Gonzalo Vazquez-Prokopec and Anne Piantadosi Labs

Prokopec Lab Website

Piantadosi Lab Website

Stephen Mugel

Admitted Fall of 2022
PhD Candidate
Environmental Health Sciences
Thomas Clasen and Thomas Gillespie Labs

Gillespie Lab Website

Lab Website

Maria Garcia Quesada

Admitted Fall of 2023
PhD Candidate
Epidemiology
Ben Lopman Lab

Lab Website

David Jimenez-Vallejo

Admitted Fall 2023
PhD Candidate
Population Biology, Ecology and Evolution
Gonzalo Vazquez-Prokopek Lab

Lab Website

IDASTP Award of Distinction

The IDASTP Award of Distinction was created to further support student research from students who have not been admitted to the IDASTP program and their research clearly fits with in the infectious disease across-scales approach. Students support includes funds for research supplies and travel.

Nicole Hood

2023-2024 Awardee
PhD Candidate
Epidemiology
Elizabeth Rogawski McQuade Lab

Lab Website

Natalie Olson

2023-2024 Awardee
PhD Candidate
Environmental Health Sciences
Maya Nadimpalli & Lance Waller Labs

Nadimpalli Lab

Waller Profile

Meher Sethi

2023-2024 Awardee
PhD Candidate
Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Anice Lowen Lab

Lowen Lab

Tammy Spikes

2023-2024 Awardee
PhD Candidate
Environmental Health Sciences
Marlene Wolf Lab

Wolf Lab