The Team
Una O'Doherty MD, PhD
Principal Investigator
I have been interested in probing how treatment-resistant reservoirs are formed and maintained in HIV infected individuals on antiviral therapy. I am also an apheresis physician: thus, the majority of our studies are conducted on banked T cells that were collected by apheresis over time. This resource enables my group to do longitudinal studies to characterize the HIV reservoir over time and to perform ex vivo as well as in vitro studies to model HIV reservoir dynamics. More recently, my laboratory has began to investigate the dynamics of white blood cell subsets in individuals with sickle cell disease.
Ashley Ginda, PharmD
"I am a translational clinician scientist interested in investigating white blood cell dynamics in clinical cohorts. Specifically, my research is focused on longitudinally studying individuals living with HIV who have varying degrees of immune control and individuals with Sickle Cell Disease."
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Alfonso Oceguera, PhD
"I received a PhD in science from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. I have experience working with RNA viruses and my interests lie in the intersection between basic and clinical science. As a postdoctoral fellow in Una’s Lab I’m using tools of Molecular Biology, Sequencing and Bioinformatics to study the dynamics of the viral reservoir of HIV during ART."
Flor Salgado, BA
"My role in the O'Doherty Lab is to generate and guarantee the implementation of the quality management system in accordance
with the requirements established in federal regulations, as well as carry out inspections to determine if all studies are carried out in accordance with these Principles of Good Laboratory Practice and the required confidentiality."
Julie Bashirian, MPH
"I am a scientist with a background in public health. In the O’Doherty lab, I plan to study longitudinal cohorts of individuals living with HIV and Sickle Cell Disease."
Junia I. Alsinawi
"I am an undergraduate student, studying Biological Chemistry. My interest in HIV and my plan to pursue an MD-PhD led me to join the O’Doherty lab. I want to investigate reservoir dynamics using both traditional and computational techniques, and have become interested in the development of programming tools to better understand the role of clonal expansion in these reservoir dynamics."
Rashmitha Anil Kumar, MA
"I joined the O'Doherty lab as a research assistant to study the role of Naive T cells in HIV infection. I plan to pursue a Ph.D. in Immunology to further study viral-host interactions"
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Jingyue "Oliver" Zhang
"I am an undergraduate student studying Cellular Biology and Economics. As a future physician I have a strong interest in "bench to bedside"research. In the O'Doherty laboratory, I mainly focus on understanding and perturbing CD4 and CD8 T Cell dynamics in clinical cohorts"
This Could Be You!
Join our Team!
The O'Doherty Lab is hiring talented postdoctoral fellows, research specialists, post-baccalaureate trainees, and technicians.
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