MEET THE TEAM
Principal Investigator
Jason Shepherd
Postdoctoral Fellows
Sven Bervoets
Eric De Hoog
Graduate Students
Kaelan Sullivan
Mitali Tyagi
Alicia Walker
Matt Grega
Postbac Students
Jaime Minaya
2025-2026 IM-PREP Trainee
Technicians
Administrative Team
Alumni
Alicia Ravens (Graduate student 2018-2023). Current position – Postdoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina.
Junjie Xu (Graduate Student 2020-2024). Awarded the Uta von Schwedler Prize in Retrovirology and James W. Prahl Memorial Award. Current position – Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University.
Alyson Stewart (Cell Culture Technician 2023-2024). Current position – Ph.D. student, University of Colorado.
Blake Highet (Postdoctoral Fellow 2022-2024). Current position – Research Fellow,
University of Auckland.
Radhika Chadha (Postdoctoral Fellow 2020-2024). Current position - Senior Scientist, Usana Health Sciences.
Michael Hantak (Postdoctoral Fellow 2019-2023). Current position – Biosafety Analyst, Northwestern University.
Jenifer Einstein (Graduate Student 2017-2023). Current position – Scientist, bioMérieux.
Tate Shepherd (Cell Culture Technician 2022-2023). Current position – Medical student, Oakland University.
Matthew Regier (Postdoctoral Fellow 2019 -2023). Current position – Scientific program manager, Taconic Biosciences.
Meredith Liddiard (Lab Manager 2020-2022). Current position-Lab Manager, Department of Health and Kinesiology, University of Utah.
Madeleine Kyrke-Smith (Postdoctoral Fellow 2017-2021). NARSAD Young Investigator Award. Current position – Clinical research coordinator, Huntsman Cancer Institute.
Kenneth Lyon (Postdoctoral Fellow 2019-2022). Current position –Scientist, GSK.
Andrew Taibi (Graduate Student 2014-2020). Current position – Senior scientist, Recursion Pharmaceuticals.
Cameron Day (Postdoctoral Fellow 2014-2017). Current position – Scientist, Echelon Biosciences.
Elissa Pastuzyn (Postdoctoral Fellow 2014-2019). Current position – Director of Biology, Recursion Pharmaceuticals.
Jenna Novy (Undergraduate 2017-2019). Current position – Senior Project Associate, Management Sciences for Health.
Kyle Jenks (Graduate Student 2014-2019). F31 NRSA NIMH, James Prahl Award.
Current position – Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT.
Mansi Saraf (Undergraduate 2015-2016). Current position – Ph.D. student, UC Irvine.
Nate Yoder (Lab Technician 2013-2014). Current position – Scientific Lead, Eli Lilly.