Students in Program

Current DEBVBD students:

Karen Click - Major Professor: Dr. Chris Barker

Carla-Cristina Edwards - Major Professor: Dr. Geoff Attardo

Songjun Lee - Major Professor: Dr. Lisa Baik

Samuel Schildhauer - Major Professor: Drs. Kristen Aiemjoy and Ezra Morrison

Alec Schmidt - Major Professor: Dr. Miriam Nuño

Will Swain - Major Professor: Brian Bird

Talia Wong - Major Professor: Chris Barker

Graduate student Kasen Riemersma wearing PPE by the Ultra Low Temp Freezer

DEBVBD Alumni:

Sarah Abusaa - Research Scientist, Public Health Institute, Oakland, CA

Christy Andrade - Associate Professor, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA

Veronica Armijos - Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Davis

Laura Backus - Major Professor: Janet Foley, PhD

Erin Ball - AFRIMS Bangkok

Nick Booster - PhD

Ashley (Horton) Brenton - Associate Director, R&D, Proove Biosciences, Irvine, CA

Sharon Brummitt - PhD

Brian Butler - Associate Professor, St. George's University, Grenada, West Indies

Jenny Carlson - Postdoctoral Fellow Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Jennifer Chau - Staff Development Scientist, Clinical Affairs, Beckman Coulter, Sacramento, CA

Shih-Yu Chen - PhD

Mary Beth Danforth - Research Scientist, California Department of Public Health, Sacramento, CA

Marisa Donnelly - California Department of Public Health, Berkeley, CA

Anna Drexler - Consultant, Vector Ecology and Management, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Anna Erickson - Postdoctoral Scholar at UC Davis in the Kuo Lab

Cusi Ferradas - PhD

Jessica Franco - Research Plant Pathologist, Corteva Agriscience

Elizabeth Glennon - Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Infectious Disease Research, Seattle, WA

Jessica Healy - Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Karen Holcomb - Biologist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, CO

Andra Hutton - Senior Research Associate II, California Animal Health and Food Safety, Davis, CA

Cileah Kretsch - Academic Clinician, Midwestern University Clinics

Anna Kawiecki - Postdoctoral researcher with the Global Health Resilience team at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Erin Kelly - Head Vector Ecologists, Santa Clara Vector Control District, Santa Clara, CA

Jennifer Kwan - Analyst National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Stanley Langevin - Senior Research Scientist, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Kelly Liebman - Postdoctoral Fellow, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

William Louie - Research Scientist III, California Department of Public Health, Sacramento, CA

Lindsey Mack - Postdoctoral Researcher, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Ridgefield, CA

Payal Maharaj - Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX

Adam Moore - PhD

Brittany Nelms - Entomologist, Lake County Vector Control District, Lakeport, CA

Sandra Olkowski - Data Analyst, Citrus Research Board for UCD and CRB

Norma Ordaz - Research Scientist, Clear Labs, Newark, California

Risa Pesapane - Tenure Track Faculty, Ecosystem Health, Ohio State University

Benjamin Plourde - Science Teacher, Albany Unified School District, Albany, CA

Mimi Portillo - PhD

Rashaun Potts - Research Scientist, Cerus Corporation, Concord, CA

Jennifer Reed - Epidemiologist, Decision Resource Group

Lisa Reimer - Lecturer, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK

Kasen Riemersma - Staff Scientist at Promega, Madison, WI

Tara Roth - Vector Ecologist, San Mateo Mosquito and Vector Control District Burlingame, CA

Francesca Rubino - Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Davis

Melody Schmid - Professor, Butte College, Oroville, CA

Nicole Stephenson - Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Davis

Pascale Stiles - Postdoctoral Epidemiologist, National Veterinary Institute, Sweden

Matthew Stuckey - Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, CDC

Win Surachetpong - Assistant Professor, Kesetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand

Tara Thiemann - Assistant Professor, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA

Sarah Wheeler - District Biologist Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito and Vector Control District, Elk Grove, CA

Olivia Winokur - Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA

Jaclyn Wong - Postdoctoral Fellow, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

Kyle Yomogida - Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Three Images: Top Left, Spraying Plants. Bottom Left, Contained Plants. Right, Jessica Franco in Lab