Lab Members
Leadership Team
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June L. Round, PhD
Principal Investigator
Professor
H.A. and Edna Benning Presidential Endowed Chair -

W. Zac Stephens, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
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Ricky Bell, MS
Lab Manager
Clinical Investigators
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Amiko Uchida, MD
Assistant Professor in Medicine, Gastroenterology
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Nicole Pershing, MD, PhD
Assitant Professor, Pediatric Infectious Disease
Postdoctoral Fellows
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Emmanuel Victor, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Diego López, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Claire Doherty, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Isa Pratumchai, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Kristen Aceves, DVM, MS
Postdoctoral Fellow
Graduate Students
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Michaela Murphy, BS
Graduate Student
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Morgan Harwood, BS
Graduate Student
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Darci Ott, BS
Graduate Student
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Noah Armstrong, BS
Graduate Student
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Josiah S. Morgan, BS
Graduate Student
Lab Personnel
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Soh-hyun Lee, PhD
Senior Lab Specialist
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Elizabeth Cummings, BS
PS Lab Technician/Research Coordinator
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Annika Dankwardt, BS
Lab Technician
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Devin Connolly
PS Research Analyst
Students
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Open Positions
Undergrads welcome! Please email June Round if you wish to interview.
Alumni
Former Postdocs
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Jason Kubinak, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of South Carolina -

Lasha Gogokhia, MD
Gastroenterology Fellow
New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center -

Joao Carlos Gomes-Neto, DVM, MS, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Animal Sciences
Ohio State University -

Kyla Ost, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Immunology and Microbiology
UC Anschutz School of Medicine -

Jennifer Hill, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Cellular Developmental Biology
BioFronteirs Institute
UC Boulder -

Allison Weis, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of Utah Health
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
Former Graduate Students
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Ray Soto, PhD
Senior Epidemiologist
Adams County Health Department -

Charisse Petersen, PhD
Research Associate
BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of British Columbia -

Ty Chiaro, PhD, MS
Clinical Immunology Fellow
UNC School of Medicine, McLendon Labs -

Garrett Brown, PhD
Clinical Microbiology Fellow
NIH -

Kendra Klag, PhD
Med Student
University of Utah -

Diane Hernandez, PhD
Clinical Program Scientist
Sarah Cannon Research Institute
Former Undergraduate Students
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Erin Tracy
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Cody Tahmassebipour
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Haoyang Zhou
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Jourdan Penman
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Zhuowen Li
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Halli Baird
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Shulaine Byrne
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Morgan Smoot
Former Lab Technicians
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Kate Buhrke, DO
General Surgery Resident
Dignity Health, Arizona -

O’Connor Matthews
Graduate Student
Matthew Mulvey Lab -

Arevik Ghazaryan, PhD
CPEP Clinical Immunology Fellow
ARUP, University of Utah -
Logan Barrios, BS
Graduate Student
Department of Integrative Physiology
UC Boulder -

Gabby Ro
Medical Student
Blaser Lab, Rutgers -

Alexandra Call
Cello Teacher
Sandy Music Academy
Former Lab Managers
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Jin Liu, PhD
Ophthalmology Department
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Erin Bake, MBA
Senior Accountant
Huntsman Cancer Institute