Luallen Lab (most of us) - Halloween 2024

Luallen Lab (most of us) - Dec. 2023

Anupama Singh, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Anupama received her PhD from the National Institute of Immunology (NII), New Delhi, India. She was a Jonas Salk Fellow and worked at the Salk Institute and at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute.

Ila Peeler

PhD student

Ila has a BS in Cell and Molecular Biology from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and an MS from SDSU. She is a joint student with Dr. Cristal Zuniga’s lab, conducting metabolic modeling of Lelliottia jeotgali in C. elegans.

Serena Meadows-Graves

Lab Manager / Research Assistant

Serena received her BS from SDSU in Biology

Alfredo Maldonado Garduno

Undergraduate Student

Alfredo is a senior at SDSU majoring in Biology

Catherine Reyes

Undergraduate student

Catherine is a 1st year transfer student majoring in Biology at SDSU

Dalaena Rivera

PhD Student

Dalaena got her BS from the University of Arizona. She is a fourth year PhD candidate interested in the gut microbiome and microbiology.

Wade Ingersoll

PhD student

Wade has a BS in Biology from Humboldt State University. He is studying microbiome bacteria transmission of adherence.

Truc Nguyen

Research Assistant

Truc is a recent graduate of SDSU with a BS in Biology

Breana Reyes

Undergraduate student

Breana is a senior at SDSU and majoring in Biology

Nicole Yarovoy

Undergraduate student

Nicole is a 3rd year majoring in Biology at SDSU

Candyd Lace Velasquez

PhD Student

Candyd got her BS from SDSU. She is a second year student studying natural host defense against intracellular bacteria and natural viral infection.

Cayla Cruse

MS Student

Cayla received her BS in Biology from UC Riverside. She is studying microbiome binding to mucin in the glycocalyx.

Yesenia Rodriguez Reyes

Undergraduate student

Yesenia is a third year transfer student majoring in Chemistry with an emphasis in Biochemistry here at SDSU

Ariadna Gomez

Undergraduate student

Ari is a 2nd year majoring in Biology at SDSU


Luallen Lab Alumni

Former Undergraduates

Tuan TranPhD StudentTuan majored in Biological Sciences at KAIST in South Korea. He is a third year PhD student interested in innate immunity.

Tuan Tran, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Pennsylvania

Kinjaal Nagindas

Anissa Valdivia

Makaela Levine - Research Technician at UCSD

Emily Morgan - Preparing for Medical School

Samuel Moore - Research Tech at Diazyme Laboratories

Alexander Varga - Undergrad at SDSU

Vivian Nguyen - Undergraduate at UC Berkeley

Niklas Perslow - Research Associate at Oath Soil Life

Dylan Matloub - Research Assistant at SDSU

Sandra Lee - Preparing for Medical School

Francis Sarmiento - Undergrad at SDSU

Priya Gupta, PhD

Aaliyah Ringor - MS student at UC Santa Cruz

Nathan Habte - Preparing for Grad School

Milan Abdalla - Undergrad at SDSU

Jace Buxbaum - EMT and preparing for Medical School

Amanda Haio - Preparing for PA School

Aysha Walker - Undergrad Researcher at SDSU

Meenakshi Nair

Kayla PoirierUndergraduate studentKayla is a junior at SDSU majoring in microbiology.

Kayla Poirier - MS Student at SDSU

Cecilia Gallo - MS student at SDSU

Venus Ghani - Preparing for PA School

Davin Lee - Medical student at USC Medical School

Munira Ali - Intern at Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

Jonah Fay Longares