Anu Sharma joins us as a Postdoc
Anu is “a-new” postdoctoral researcher joining our lab. She received her B.S. in Zoology and M.S. in Biotechnology in India, followed by a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. As a graduate student in the Sanfilippo lab, she used microfluidics to understand how physical and chemical factors combine to impact bacterial behavior…
Keep readingJuan Hernandez Bird joins us as a Postdoc
Juan joins us as our 1st postdoc (or as postdoc number Juan, as he likes to say ;] ) Originally from Puerto Rico, Juan moved to the United States to pursue a bachelor’s degree in Microbiology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. As an undergraduate researcher in James Holden’s lab, he studied microbes collected from…
Keep readingIt’s Official: Meirelles Lab Launches January 2026
Meirelles Lab officially opens in January 2026! Our goal is to explore how bacteria and other microbes shape the health of the lungs during chronic infections. We focus on the ways pathogens and host cells change alongside one another over time, revealing how these relationships drive disease. By combining advanced imaging, organoid and tissue models,…
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