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.
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.
Cayla Cruse
MS Student
Cayla received her BS in Biology from UC Riverside. She is studying microbiome binding to mucin in the glycocalyx.
Truc Nguyen
Research Assistant
Truc is a recent graduate of SDSU with a BS in Biology
Aysha Walker
Undergraduate student
Aysha is a third year undergraduate at SDSU majoring in Biology
Nicole Yarovoy
Undergraduate student - Host-Bacteria Interactions Workshop Student
Nicole is a 3rd year majoring in Biology at SDSU
Priya Gupta, PhD
Postdoctoral Research
Priya received her PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Dehli, India. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Tel Aviv University studying plant-microbe interactions.
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.
Niklas Perslow
MS Graduate
Nik got his BS from UNC Greensboro. He is studying the molecular mechanisms behind nutrient-induced filamentation in vivo.
Aaliyah Ringor
Undergraduate student
Venus is a senior at SDSU and majoring in Biology
Breana Reyes
Undergraduate student
Breana is a senior at SDSU and majoring in Biology
Ariadna Gomez
Undergraduate student - Host-Bacteria Interactions Workshop Student
Ari is a 2nd year majoring in Biology at SDSU
Tuan Tran, PhD
Researcher
Tuan majored in Biological Sciences at KAIST in South Korea. He is a fifth year PhD candidate interested in innate immunity.
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
Yesenia Rodriguez Reyes
Undergraduate student
Yesenia is a third year transfer student majoring in Chemistry with an emphasis in Biochemistry here at SDSU
Anissa Valdivia
Undergraduate student - Host-Bacteria Interactions Workshop Student
Anissa is a senior majoring in Microbiology and Public Health at SDSU
Catherine Reyes
Undergraduate student - Host-Bacteria Interactions Workshop Student
Catherine is a 1st year transfer student majoring in Biology at SDSU
Luallen Lab Alumni
Former Undergraduates
Emily Morgan - Preparing for Medical School
Makaela Levine - Research Technician at UCSD
Samuel Moore - Research Tech at Diazyme Laboratories
Sandra Lee - Preparing for Medical School
Alexander Varga - Undergrad at SDSU
Dylan Matloub - Research Assistant at SDSU
Nathan Habte - Preparing for Grad School
Francis Sarmiento - Undergrad at SDSU
Kayla Poirier - MS Student at SDSU
Cecilia Gallo - MS student at SDSU
Milan Abdalla - Undergrad at SDSU
Jace Buxbaum - EMT and preparing for Medical School
Meenakshi Nair
Amanda Haio - Preparing for PA School
Vivian Nguyen - Undergraduate at UC Berkeley
Venus Ghani - Preparing for PA School