Lab Personnel
Barbara L Kee
Principal Investigator
Barbara earned her Ph.D. in Immunology from the University of Toronto, Canada, in 1995. She performed postodoctoral work at the Salk Institute and University of Califonia, San Diego in La Jolla, CA before joining the faculty at the University of Chicago in 2001.
Randy Melanson
Graduate Student (mstp)
Randy is a student in the Medical Scientist Training Program and is pursuing his Ph.D. in the Committee on Immunology. He earned his B.Sc. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2018. Randy is interested in the mechanisms of natural killer cell function and dysfunction in the tumor microenvironment.
Cameron Frank
Technician
Cam is a technician in the lab. She earned her B.Sc. from Oregon State University in Corvallis, OR.
Mary Attaway
Graduate Student
Mary is a graduate student in the Committee on Immunology. She earned her BS in Biology from the City College of New York in 2021. Mary is interested in the transcriptional regulation of agonist selection in the thymus.
Past Lab Members
Munmun Chowdhury, Postdoctoral Researcher (2017-2021)
Mengxi Sun, Postdoctoral Researcher (2016-2021). Currently Staff Scientist at Cleveland Clinic.
Emma Hegermiller, Lab technician, currently a bioinformatics specialist at Long Island Health, NY.
Zhong-Yin Li, Postdoctoral Researcher (2015-2020), currently a Research Scientist at the Ichan School of Medicine, New York
Fatima Sattar, Undergraduate (2017-2019) and Lab Tech (2019-2020). Currently a medical student at UChicago
Andrea Deras, NIH Prep Scholar (2019-2020)
Xavier Bower, Undergraduate (2018-2019)
April Bell, Undergraduate (2016-2018). Currently a graduate student at Northwestern University.
Aditya Rao, Undergraduate (2014-2016). Completed Ph.D. at Stanford University.
Jennifer Jacobsen, MSTP/COI Graduate Student, 2012-2017. Currently a Resident at Stanford University
Erin Zook, Postdoctoral Researcher (2012-2016). Currently working at Becton Dickinson
Renee de Pooter, Postdoctoral Researcher (2010-2016). Currently in Biotech.
Yiying Xu, Graduate Student, Pathology (2011-2014) Currently works at Three Bridges Capital.
Tiffany Carr, Graduate Student, Immunology (2010-2014), Postdoc at Duke University with Maria Ciofani, Currently at Celgene.
Mihalis Verykokakis, Postdoctoral Researcher (2007-2015). Currently Head of research group at Institute Alexander Fleming/Biomedical Sciences Research Center, Athens Greece. https://www.fleming.gr/verykokakis-lab-personnel
Veena Krishnamoorthy, Graduate Student, Pathology. (2007-2013). Postdoc with Roger Sciammas at UC, Davis. Currently Senior Scientist at Lyell Immunopharma Inc.
Savita Bhalla, Postdoctoral fellow (2004-2006). Research Assistant Professor at Northerwestern University. Currently working at Abbott Labs.
Kevin Ramirez, Graduate Student, Immunology (2005-2011). Postdoctoral research at Scripps La Jolla with Wendy Harvran.
Stephanie McGregor, MSTP, Cancer Biology. (2006-2009). Pathology Residency at UChicago. Currently Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin, Madison. https://pathology.wisc.edu/staff/mcgregor-stephanie/
Sheila Dias, Postdoctoral Fellow (2005-2011). Currently Project Manager at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne Australia.
Markus Boos, MSTP, Immunology (2003-2008) Currently Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics (Dermatology), Seattle Children’s Hospital https://derm.uw.edu/faculty/markus-boos-md-phd
Wei Xu, Graduate Student, Cancer Biology. (2003-2010). Postdoctoral Research at Institute Pasteur with Jim Di Santo. Currently Assistant Professor, Dept. of Immunology, Fudan University http://medicine.fudan.edu.cn/immunology/en/show.aspx?info_lb=3&flag=3&info_id=56
Erica Reschly, Postdoctoral Researcher (2003-2005).
Christopher Seet, Technician (2003-2005) Currently Assistant Professor and Attending Physician, Division of Hematology/Oncology, UCLA https://cancer.ucla.edu/research/find-become-a-member/member-directory?id=857
Rachel Brumbaugh, Undergraduate (2002-2004)