The Captain
Matthew E. Pipkin, Ph.D.
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Department of Immunology & Microbiology
Hometown: Miami, FL
Education:
1998 B.S. University of Miami, Microbiology and Immunology
2005 Ph.D. University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
2009 Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School, Department of Pathology
The Skipper
Veronica Padron-Schonhoff
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
Hometown: West Palm Beach, FL
Education:
Norwich University
2010 B.S. Criminology, B.A. Spanish
2012 M.P.A Emergency Management & Business Continuity
The First Mates
research assistant
Jihye Kim
Hometown: Seoul, South Korea
Education:
Ewha Women’s University
M.S. Human Nutrition
research assistant
Alice De Araujo
Hometown: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Education:
Bridgewater State University
2009 B.S. Biology
Harvard University
2014 M.A. Biology
research assistant
Thomas Venables
Hometown: Denton, Texas
Education:
Trinity University
B.A. Mathematics
Junior Officers
phd candidate
Shanel Tsuda
“Identifying transcription factors that switch T cell identity using in vivo pooled RNAi screens”
Hometown: Chantilly, VA
Education:
Virginia Tech ’15
B.S. Biological Systems Engineering
PHD CANDIDATE
Dominic Albao
“Developing molecular tools to dissect CD8 T cell differentiation”
Hometown: Zamboanga City, PI
Education:
University of the Philippines, Diliman
2015 B.S. Molecular Biology & Biotech
2018 M.S. Molecular Biology & Biotech
graduate student
Shashank Nagaraja
“Developing CRISPR tools to study CD8+ differentiation”
Hometown: Dallas, TX
Education:
2018 B.S. Molecular Biology, UCLA
2021 M.S. Data Science, Syracuse University
