

Dr. Sara Sawyer
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
HOMETOWN: Olathe, Kansas
PhD: Cornell University
INTERESTING FACT: My first career was working on offshore oil drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.

Vanessa Bauer
LEAD SCIENTIST, HIV PROJECTS
HOMETOWN: Des Moines, Iowa
MS: Cornell University
INTERESTING FACT: I received a gold medal in snowshoe racing at the Empire State Games (NY).

Will Fattor
LAB MANAGER
HOMETOWN: Black Hawk, Colorado
B.S. DEGREE: University of Colorado Boulder
INTERESTING FACT: I am licensed to sail monohull boats.
Postdoctoral Research Fellows

Dr. Arturo Barbachano-Guerrero
HOMETOWN: Torreón, México
DEGREES: PhD @ SUNY Upstate; MSc @ National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico
INTERESTING FACT: I used to capture wild sea lions and howler monkeys for research on microbiology.

Dr. Adetunji (Tunji) Adesina
HOMETOWN: Ibadan, Nigeria
DEGREES: PhD, MSc @ Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
INTERESTING FACT: I am fascinated by the human mind; if I wasn’t a virologist, I would be a psychologist.
Graduate Students

Obaiah Dirasantha
HOMETOWN: Somasila village, India
B.S. DEGREE: Indian Institute of Technology
INTERESTING FACT: I like to sketch human faces

Sharon Wu
HOMETOWN: Foster City, California
B.S. DEGREE: MIT
INTERESTING FACT: I just took first place in my division in the Head of the Charles!

Emma Worden-Sapper
HOMETOWN: Boulder, CO
B.S. DEGREE: University of Colorado Boulder
INTERESTING FACT: I once crocheted a model bacteriophage.

Paul Gendler
Hometown: Foster City, California
B.S. Degree: University of California, Santa Barbara
Interesting Fact: I once grew an 8 foot tree from an avocado pit

Makky Mousa-Makky
Hometown: Iowa City, Iowa
B.S. Degree: University of Dubuque
Interesting Fact:I’ve hit a ping pong ball with a bow and arrow from 20 yards away.
Undergraduates

Sam Chappell
Hometown: Denver, Colorado
B.S. Degree: University of Colorado, Boulder
Interesting Fact: I once biked 135 miles from San Francisco to Aspen through the Rocky Mountains in 2 days.
Lab Alumni
Cody Warren, MPH, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Ohio State University
Qing Yang, Ph.D.
Postdoc, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
Nick Meyerson, Ph.D.
CEO, Darwin BioSciences, Boulder, CO
Kyle Clark
Scientist, Darwin BioSciences, Boulder, CO
Alex Stabell, M.D. Ph.D.
Medical resident (Infectious Disease), Columbia University
Emily Feldman, Ph.D.
Scientist, Inscripta, Boulder, CO
Jeff Hussmann, Ph.D.
Scientist, Prime Medicine, Boston, MA
Kyudong Han, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dankook University, South Korea
Alysia East, D.V.M.
Veterinarian, Austin, TX
Paul Rowley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
Dianne Lou, M.D. Ph.D.
Medical resident (Anesthesiology), Vanderbilt University
Ann Demogines, Ph.D.
Senior Director, BioFire Diagnostics, Salt Lake City, UT
Joe Timpona, Ph.D.
Scientist, Stealth NewCo, Boston, MA
Alison Gilchrist, Ph.D.
Research scientist, Raabe lab @ NYU Langone School of Medicine
Maryska Kaczmarek, Ph.D.
Scientist, EcoHealth Alliance, New York, NY
Scott Kerr, Ph.D.
Global Product Manager, BioFire Diagnostics, Salt Lake City, UT
Elena Judd
PhD Student, U. Washington Seattle
Ross McBee, Ph.D.
CSO, TOMTEX