Faculty Collaborators
We collaborate with Dr. Petti on various multi-dimensional single-cell analyses of NK cells. Dr. Petti has extensive experience on the application and development of single-cell analysis techniques for uncovering cellular heterogeneity. Dr. Petti is co-mentor with Dr. Fehniger for Jennifer Foltz on the American Association of Immunologists Intersect Fellowship for training immunologists in computational biology.
Staff
Patrick Pence (ppence@wustl.edu)
Research Technician II
Current Position: PhD Student at University of Colorado
Samantha Kersting-Schadek (ksamantha@wustl.edu)
Research Technician I
Carly Neal (c.neal@wustl.edu)
Research Technician II
Current Position: Associate Scientist II, Eurofins, St. Louis, Missouri
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Ethan McClain (mcclaine@wustl.edu)
Research Technician II
Current Position: Research Laboratory Technician, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, Washington
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Sweta Desai (bdesai@wustl.edu)
Research Technician II
Current Position: PhD student, University of Alabama Birmingham Immunology PhD Program
Cassie Keppel (2008-2012, 2016-2017)
Senior Research Technician and Lab Manager
Positions: Laboratory Operations Manager, Douglas Scientific (Alexandria, MN), Laboratory Operations Manager, Monsanto (St. Louis, MO)
Current Position: Otolaryngology Residency Coordinator, University of Iowa
Stephanie E. Schneider (2008-2014)
Research Technician II, Research Assistant, and Lab Manager
Current Position: PhD Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado (Boulder)
Brea Jewell (2014-2016)
Research Technician II
Current Position: PhD Graduate Student, Immunology, UNC
Sara Abdel-Latif (2014-2016)
Research Technician II
Current position: Research Technician, UC San Diego
Residents and Fellows
- 2009-2010 Jacob Smeltzer (Medicine resident)
Positions: Hematology/Oncology Fellow, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
- 2010-2013 Alexander Huang (Medicine resident)
Positions: Hematology/Oncology Fellow, U Penn, Philadelphia, PA
Current Position: Instructor, U Penn (Oncology)
- 2014-2015 Brian Hess (Hematology/Oncology Fellow)
Current position: Assistant Professor, MUSC (Hematology/BMT)
Post-Docs
- Nancy Marin, PhD
Position: Staff scientist, Washington University, Division of Oncology
Current Position: Scientist II (R&D), Miltenyi Biotec
- Miriam Jacobs, MD
Positions: Instructor, Washington University, Division of Oncology
Current Position: Georgetown University
- 2010 – 2012 Rizwan Romee, MD (BMT fellow and post-doc)
Positions: Assistant Professor, Washington University, Division of Oncology
Current Position: Associate Professor, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
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- 2012-2015 Max Rosario, MD, PhD (Laboratory Medicine resident and post-doc)
Positions: Clinical Immunogenetics Fellow and Director trainee, UCLA.
Current position: Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
- 2015-2018 Felicia Gomez, PhD (post-doc, co-mentored with Griffith Lab)
Current Position: Instructor of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine
Graduate Students
- Cody Ramirez, PhD (Graduation student, Bioinformatics, co-supervised by the Obi and Malachi Griffith laboratories)
PhD 2021
- Julia Wagner, MD/PhD (Graduate student, MSTP, Immunology program)
PhD 2019
Current Position: Residency at UCSF
- Ryan Sullivan, PhD (Graduate student, Immunology Program)
PhD 2014
Current Position: VP & Head, NK Cell Research at Wugen
Past Positions: Post-Doctoral Fellow (Drannoff Laboraotyr), Dana Farber Cancer Institute; Investigator II, Novartis Immuno-Oncology
- Jeffrey Leong, MD/PhD (Graduate student, MSTP)
PhD 2015
Current Position: Resident Physician in Psychiatry at University of California, Irvine
Prior Rotating Graduate Students
- 2009 Stephanie Rodriquez (Immunology Program)
- 2009 Elizabeth Germino (MSTP, Immunology Program)
- 2013 Rachel Wong (Immunology Program)
- 2016 Maximillian Schaettler (MSTP)
- 2016 Wei Meng (Immunology)
- 2017 Matthew McCullen (Immunology)
- 2018 Natasha Kafai (Immunology)
- 2019 Natalia Jaeger (Immunology)
- 2019 Noah Earland (MSTP)
- 2020 Shelby Namen (Immunology)
Medical Students
- 2018-2019 Margery Gang
Current Position: Residency at Washington University in St. Louis
- 2012 Julie Chase (University of Missouri, Columbia, MO)
Awards: ASH Trainee Award
Current position: Resident in Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University
- 2009 Joshua Mayer (KCUMB, Kansas City, MO)
Current position: Internal Medicine Resident, Saint Louis University
Undergraduate Students
- 2009 John Keller (Missouri State)
- 2010-2012 Keval Shah (Saint Louis University)
- 2012 Kristen Wondell (Southeast Missouri State University)
- 2012 Mo Huang (Washington University)
- 2013 Sally Cho (Washington University)
- 2014-2015 Anvita Singh (Washington University)
- 2014 Ramkumar Narendran (Washington University)
- 2013, 2014, 2016 Ari Ireland (Washington University)
- 2015-2017 Devika Jaishankar (Washington University)
- 2016, 2017 Carly Neal (Missouri University of Science and Technology)
- 2017 Lindsey Peck (Duke University)
- 2017-2019 Maddie Lee (Washington University), now Immunology PhD student at Stanford University
- 2018-2019 Jerry Chan (Washington University), now MD student at Case Western Reserve University
- 2019 Audrey Bochi-Layec (Washington University)
- 2019-2020 Tyra Baxter (Washington University)
- 2019-2021 Lily Chang (Washington University), now MD student at Virginia Commonwealth University
- 2019-2022 Onyi Onyeador (Washington University), now MD PhD student at Washington University