Current Lab Members
Nicholas Heaton, PhD – Associate Professor and Principle Investigator
Andy Miranda – Research Analyst
Xinyu Zhu, PhD – Postdoctoral Fellow
Katie Burke – Research Analyst
Zhaochen Luo, PhD – Postdoctoral Fellow
Sam Skavicus – Research Analyst
Becca Leonard – Postdoctoral Fellow
Ariel Spurrier, PhD – Postdoctoral Fellow
Vishwas Rao – MSTP Graduate Student
Satoko Nakano – UPGG Graduate Student
Steven Beruvides – Research Technician
Lab Alumni
Former Research Track Faculty
Brook Heaton, PhD – Now research assistant director of the Duke Regional Biocontainment Laboratory
Former Postdoctoral Fellows
Ben Chambers, PhD – Assistant professor of biology at West Chester University.
Lance Girton, PhD – Scientist with the US government.
Stacy Webb, PhD – Scientist at AskBio
Ryan Chaparian, PhD – Scientist at BioAgilytix
Lei Zhong, PhD – Scientist at Creative Diagnostics
Former Graduate Students
Rebekah Dumm, PhD – Completed a clinical microbiology fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania and is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology and Immunology and the Associate Medical Director of the BJH Clinical Microbiology lab at Washington University in St. Louis.
Alfred Harding, PhD – Completed a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT and is currently a senior immunologist at Draper.
Heather Froggatt, PhD – Completed a postdoctoral fellowship at UNC-Chapel Hill, now a program manager at the Duke Center for Virology.
Cait Hamele, PhD – Currently in a science advisory position.
Joe Trimarco, PhD – Currently a senior Scientist at Regeneron.
Former Research Technicians and Undergraduate Students
Sarah Nelson – Currently a PhD student in microbiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Griffin Haas – Currently a PhD student in microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Asmini KC – Currently in medical school at the University of Nebraska.
