Dr. Alfred LM Bothwell (He/Him/His)
Principal Investigator
Email: albothwell@unmc.edu
Dr. Bothwell received his AB from Washington University and his PhD from Yale University in Sidney Altman’s lab studying RNA biogenesis in bacteria and human cells. He did postdoctoral research at MIT in David Baltimore’s lab where he developed molecular probes for all mouse antibody genes and defined molecular properties of the murine antibody response. He joined the Yale Medical School faculty and has studied basic properties of lymphocytes and their receptors in mouse models of infection, autoimmunity, transplantation and novel humanized mouse models of vascular disease, type 1 diabetes and cancer.
ORCID: 0000-0003-2477-2104
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Olivia Ihedioha, DVM, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: oihedioha@unmc.edu
Olivia just completed her PhD in the fall from Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of
Saskatchewan, and she joined the lab in May 2022.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9079-0787
Graduate Students
Haley Marcarian
Graduate Student and Research Assistant
Email: hmarcarian@unmc.edu
Haley Marcarian received her bachelors of science from the University of Arizona Honors College in Molecular and Cellular Biology in the Spring of 2021. During her undergraduate career, Haley was as an undergraduate research assistant investigating the intersection of catabolism and anabolism in the Gcv3 protein in yeast. She also was a preceptor and teaching assistant in the Molecular Biology teaching labs at the U of A, and participated as a Toxicology and Animal Resources intern at Incyte.
LinkedIn: Haley Marcarian
Anutr Sivakoses
Graduate Student and Research Assistant
Email: asivakoses@unmc.edu
Anutr Sivakoses received his bachelors of science from the University of Nevada, Reno Honors College in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in the Spring of 2021. In his undergraduate laboratory, he worked under Drs. Heather Burkin and Dr. Craig Ulrich to develop a three-dimensional model of human myometrial tissue. Anutr joined Dr. Bothwell’s lab in the Spring of 2022 to study cancer immunology for his PhD degree.
ORCID: 0000-0002-4321-4645
LinkedIn: Anutr Sivakoses
Twitter: @anutr_sivakoses
Lab Alumni
Martha Dua-Awereh
Senior Research Associate Avery Therapeutics Tucson, AZ
Malini Sajeev
Visiting Masters Student MS Cellular and Molecular Medicine University of Arizona and Amrita School of Biotechnology Coimbatore, India
Anika Arias
PhD Student, Arizona Biological and Biomedical Sciences The University of Arizona Tucson, AZ
Bing Su, PhD
Director, Shanghai Institute of Immunology Shanghai JiaoTong University School of Medicine Shanghai, China
Elaine Dzierzak, PhD
Director, Regenerative Medicine Center University of Edinburgh Edinburg, Scotland
Alfred Slanetz, PhD
President and CEO Geneius Biotechnology Natick, MA
Ken LeClair, PhD
CTO, Chief Technical Officer Lycan Biosciences (cell therapy company) Hopkinton, MA
Scott Rollins, PhD (postdoc)
Chairman and CEO Tetherex Pharmaceuticals Oklahoma City, OK
Nancy Maizels, PhD (postdoc)
Professor, Dept. of Immunology University of Washington Seattle, WA
Dean Ballard, PhD (postdoc)
Professor of Microbiology & Immunology Vanderbilt University Memphis, TN
Russell Rother, PhD (postdoc
President and COO Tetherex Pharmaceuticals Oklahoma City, OK
Nataki Douglas, MD/PhD
Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health Director of Translational Medicine Center for Immunity and Inflammation Institute for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases New Jersey School of Medicine Trenton, NJ
Sang-Kyou Lee, PhD
Professor, Dept. of Biotechnology Yonsei University CEO, Good T Cells Seoul, Republic of Korea
Young Sang Kim, Ph.D. (postdoc)
Professor, Department of Biochemistry Dean, College of Natural Sciences Chungnam National University Former President of Korean Association of Immunology Daejon, Republic of Korea
Basel al-Ramadi, PhD FRCPath (postdoc)
Professor and Chair Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology College of Medicine & Health Sciences UAE University
Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
Mehran Khodadoust, PhD President and CEO Vexo Pharmaceuticals Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Bill Philbrick, PhD (postdoc)
Senior Research Scientist (Medicine/Endocrinology) Director, Diabetes Research Center Molecular Core Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, CT
Yalai Bai, PhD (postdoc)
Research Scientist, Pathology Dept. Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, CT
Arnar Giersson, M.D. (Resident in Surgery)
Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, CT
Zuzana Tobiasova, PhD (postdoc)
Associate Research Scientist Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, CT
Wook-Jin Chae, PhD (postdoc)
Assistant Professor Harrison Scholar, Massey Cancer Center School of Medicine Department of Microbiology and Immunology Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA
Je-Min Choi, Ph.D. (postdoc)
Professor of Immunology Chair, Department of Life Science, Hanyang University Seoul, Republic of Korea
Ashley Viehmann Milam, PhD
Assistant Professor Dept. of Biology St. Louis University St. Louis, MO
Jae Hun Shin. PhD
Postdoc, Section of Endocrinology and Metabolism Department of Internal Medicine Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, CT