Former Lab Members

Ava Butz, SURP Student 2023 | Ava developed and standardized a multiplexed amplicon pool for sequencing microsatellites in the Schistosoma haematobium genome

Dikchha Gurung, SURP Student 2023 | Dikchha compared multiple amplicon sequencing approaches for generating complete West Nile virus genomes

Rachel Wu, high school intern 2023| Rachel wrote python script to analyze gene sets to compare the accuracy of different de novo assembly approaches for multiple parasitic nematode genomes 

Sarah Chandler, INBRE Scholar 2022 | Sarah developed amplicon panels, RT-qPCR assays, and MinION Sequencing approaches for both Heartland and Bourbon viruses. 

Ethan Sajko, SURP Student 2022 | Ethan worked to build Nextstrain pipelines for Heartland and Bourbon viruses. 

Tiffany Elliot, MPH Student 2022 | Tiffany gathered and standardized West Nile virus surveillance data from across the state of Nebraska.