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 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 Poirier - MS Student at SDSU
Cecilia Gallo - MS student at SDSU
Venus Ghani - Preparing for PA School