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.

2024-2025 IDASTP Trainees

Maria Garcia Quesada

Admitted Fall of 2023
PhD Candidate
Epidemiology
Mentor: Ben Lopman

Lab Website

David Jimenez-Vallejo

Admitted Fall 2023
PhD Candidate
Population Biology, Ecology and Evolution
Mentor: Gonzalo Vazquez-Prokopec

Lab Website

Courtney Babb

Admitted Fall 2024
PhD Candidate
Epidemiology
Mentor: Elizabeth Rogawski McQuade

Lab Website

Nicole Hood

Admitted Fall 2024
PhD Candidate
Epidemiology
Mentor: Elizabeth Rogawski McQuade

Lab Website

Madison Schwab

Admitted Fall 2024
PhD Candidate
Population Biology, Ecology and Evolution
Mentor: Maya Nadimpalli

Lab Website

Andrew Sieben

Admitted Fall 2024
MD/PhD Candidate
Population Biology, Ecology and Evolution
Mentor: Dave Civitello

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.

Natalie Olson

2023-2025 Awardee
PhD Candidate
Environmental Health Sciences
Mentors: Maya Nadimpalli & Lance Waller

Nadimpalli Lab

Waller Profile

Meher Sethi

2023-2025 Awardee
PhD Candidate
Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Mentor: Anice Lowen

Lowen Lab

Mackenzie Hoogshagen

2024-2025 Awardee
PhD Candidate
Population Biology, Ecology and Evolution
Mentor: Jaap de Roode

Lab Website

Louis Hopkins

2024-2025 Awardee
PhD Candidate
Immunology and Molecular Pathogenesis
Mentor: Jyothi Rengarajan

Lab Website

Ben Lukubye

2024-2025 Awardee
PhD Candidate
Population Biology, Ecology and Evolution
Mentor: Dave Civitello

Lab Website

Megan Phillips

2024-2025 Awardee
PhD Candidate
Population Biology, Ecology and Evolution
Mentors: Daniel Weissman and Tim Read

Weissman Lab Website

Read Lab Website

Ananya Saha

2024-2025 Awardee
PhD Candidate
Population Biology, Ecology and Evolution
Mentors: Katia Koelle and Rustom Antia

Antia Lab Website

Koelle Lab Website

Elizabeth Somsen

2024-2025 Awardee
PhD Candidate
Population Biology, Ecology and Evolution
Mentor: Katia Koelle

Lab Website

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