PEOPLE IN
THE BOYLE LAB
CURRENT LAB
MEMBERS:
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Jon did his postdoctoral work with John
Boothroyd at Stanford University, and has been an assistant
professor in the department of Biological Sciences since 2008.
Jon
Boyle's CV. |
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Greg is a PhD student who is using a new
approach to isolate Toxoplasma-secreted
proteins from the host cell, which he plans to identify using mass
spectrometry. |
Jon Boyle
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Greg Wier
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![ELISE](ELISE_2014.jpg) |
Elizabeth
is PhD student working on determining the impact of MAF1 gene
duplication and diversification on Toxoplasma
virulence. |
![abby primack](abby_primack%20%28800x800%29.jpg)
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Abby
is our research technician and a proud graduate of Earlham
College. She is
interested in epigenetics and differential gene regulation in Toxoplasma gondii
and Hammondia hammondi |
Elizabeth English
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Abby Primack
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Jon is an undergraduate who is
studying small molecule resistance mechanisms in Toxoplasma gondii |
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Germine
is an undergraduate who is studying the impact of gene expansion on the
selective evolution of Toxoplasma
gondii virulence. |
Jon Harper
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Germine Alfonse
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Jeff is an undergraduate who is studying
the effect of host mitochondrial recruitment on sensitivity to stress in vitro and in vivo. |
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Preethi
is an undergraduate who is working with Jeff on host mitochondrial
recruitment and stress. |
Jeff Danielson |
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Preethi Sankaran |
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MOST RECENT
LAB PHOTO:
![lab photo](lab_photo_3_2015.JPG)
Lab photo in the February, 2015
at a lab potluck hosted by Abby Primack. From
left: Krystal Flakes, Olivia Boyle (Front), Jon Boyle (Back), Abby
Primack, Elizabeth English, Greg Wier, Preethi Sankaran and Germine
Alfonse. In abstentia: Jeff Danielson (he left
moments
before this picture was taken), Jon Harper (he is tough to track down
these days...).
LAB ALUMNI:
Name
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Position
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Start/End Date
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Current
Position
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Tracy Meehan
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Undergraduate
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Jan.
2009-Aug. 2010
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PhD
Student, Boston College
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Suman Sajjan
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Undergraduate
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Aug.
2009-May 2010
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M.S.
Student, Johns Hopkins University. Research Analyst, U.S.
Army. Baltimore, Maryland.
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Heather Ross
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Undergraduate
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May
2010-May 2012
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Medical
Student
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Katelyn Walzer
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Undergraduate
and Research II Technician
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Aug.
2011-June 2012
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Ph.D.
Student, Duke University
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Edwin Kamau
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Research II
Technician
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Oct.
2008-Jan. 2013
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Ph.D.
Student, NYU University
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Mark Brown
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Research II
Technician
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Feb.
2010-March 2013
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Research
III Technician, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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Rachel Dam
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Undergraduate
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May
2011-April 2013
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PhD
Student, University of Washington
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Hannah Wand
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Undergraduate
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Jan.
2012-June 2013
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Research
Technician, Stanford University School of Medicine.
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Yaw
Adomako-Ankomah
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Graduate
Student
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May
2009-Dec., 2013
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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 |
Ananth
Srinivasan |
Undergraduate |
Jan. 2011-Aug. 2014 |
PhD. Student, University of Pennsylvania |
ARCHIVED
LAB PHOTOS:
![labphoto2014](20140726_160209_2014_pic_sized.jpg)
Lab photo in the Summer, 2014 at
a going-away picnic for Ananth Srinivasan (now a PhD student at Penn)
and Adair Borges (now a PhD student at UCSF). Front row,
from left: Jeff Danielson, Jon Harper, Ananth Srinivasan, Adair Borges,
Germine Alfonse, Elizabeth English, and Olivia Boyle. Top: Jon Boyle,
"The Spirit of American Youth" statue (Sculptor: Daniel Chester
French), and Greg Wier.
![labphoto2010](20120626_184732_cropped_again.jpg)
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.
![photo](lab_photo_7_2010_cropped_again_lo_res.jpg)
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).
![lab](lab_photo_1_2010.JPG)
Lab photo,
January 2010. From left to right: Yaw Adomako-Ankomah, Jon
Boyle, Tracy Meehan, Andrew Knappenberger, Edwin Kamau, Katelyn Walzer,
Gargi Bhattacharrya and Suman Sajjan.
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