Luallen Lab (most of us) - Dec. 2023
Anupama Singh
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.
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.
Truc Nguyen
Research Assistant
Truc is a recent graduate of SDSU with a BS in Biology
Kayla Poirier
Lab technician
Kayla is a recent SDSU graduate with a BS in Microbiology.
Aaliyah Ringor
Undergraduate student
Venus is a sophomore at SDSU and majoring in Biology
Dylan Matloub
Undergraduate student
Dylan is a senior at SDSU majoring in Biology
Francis Sarmiento
Undergraduate student - Host-Bacteria Interactions Workshop Student
Francis is a third year transfer student from Imperial Valley majoring in Biology here at SDSU.
Tuan Tran
PhD Student
Tuan majored in Biological Sciences at KAIST in South Korea. He is a fifth year PhD candidate interested in innate immunity.
Serena Meadows-Graves
Lab Manager / Research Assistant
Serena received her BS from SDSU in Biology
Niklas Perslow
MS student
Nik got his BS from UNC Greensboro. He is studying the molecular mechanisms behind nutrient-induced filamentation in vivo.
Amanda Haio
Undergraduate student
Amanda is a junior at SDSU majoring in Biology. She plans to be a Physician’s Assistant after graduating.
Samuel Moore
Undergraduate student
Sam is a senior at SDSU and majoring in Biology
Alexander Varga
Undergraduate student
Alexander is a Microbiology major, emphasis in Clinical Laboratory Science and he plans to become a Clinical Laboratory Scientist
Yesenia Rodriguez Reyes
Undergraduate student - Host-Bacteria Interactions Workshop Student
Yesenia is a third year transfer student majoring in Chemistry with an emphasis in Biochemistry here 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.
Emily Morgan
Research Assistant
Emily got her BS in Biology from SDSU. She is studying colonization and niche formation by adhering microbiome bacteria.
Ila Peeler
MS student
Ila has a BS in Cell and Molecular Biology from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, She is a joint student with Dr. Cristal Zuniga’s lab, conducting metabolic modeling in Bordetella atropi.
Venus Ghani
Undergraduate student
Venus is a junior at SDSU and majoring in Biology
Jace Buxbaum
Undergraduate student
Jace is a senior at SDSU majoring in Biology
Aysha Walker
Undergraduate student - Host-Bacteria Interactions Workshop Student
Aysha is a second year undergraduate at SDSU majoring in Biology
Milan Abdalla
Undergraduate student - Host-Bacteria Interactions Workshop Student
Milan is a first year student majoring in Cell and Molecular Biology at SDSU
Luallen Lab Alumni
Former Undergraduates
Makaela Levine - Research Technician at UCSD
Sandra Lee - Preparing for Medical School
Nathan Habte - Preparing for Grad School
Cecilia Gallo - MS student at SDSU
Meenakshi Nair
Vivian Nguyen - Undergraduate at UC Berkeley