Julia Alvarez

18'-23', Ph.D., Current - Assistant Professor, Medical Education Department, UC Merced

Graduated from UC Merced. Julia is making fundamental discoveries on the GPI anchor of Toxoplasma gondii. Former President of RadioBio, and active baking blogger.
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April Apostol

Ph.D. '16-'22, Industry Becton and Dickson

April explored how maternal inflammation and T. gondii infection during pregnancy impacts fetal stem cell development with long term impacts on cellular immune function. April was co-advised by Dr...

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Jose Lopez Arce

Masters Student [1st year]

Jose is a Master's student in the QSB graduate program as a former top immunology student of mine. He desires to gain experience in mouse models for host-Toxoplasma interactions and immunology. Jose's...

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Angel Kongsomboonvech

Ph.D. '15-'20, Staff Scientist Stanford University

Angel obtianed her Ph.D. in my lab stydying how T. gondii virulence factors manipulate CD8 T cell responses.She graduated from UCLA with a B.S. and received her Master’s degree from Quinnipiac...

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Jamilla Situ

Ph.D. Graduate Student [2nd year]

Graduate student, Jamilla Situ, is very excited to begin researching Toxoplasma and host immune responses required to control it. She is also working on nanoparticles that may someday elicit...

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Scott Souza

Ph.D. '16-'21 Research Analysist, Becton and Dickinson

Graduated from California State University Channel Islands, and then obtained a Ph.D. in my lab.  Scott investigated how B cells mediate protective immunity to T. gondii, and determined that B-1 cells...

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Jake Velen

Graduate Student '25-'26

Jake had an extensive undergraduate research experience at Pepperdine University before briefly joining the QSB program and the Jensen lab. Jake was interested in understanding mechanisms of tolerance...

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