Faculty, staff, and instructors listed for the 2023 Community Phages program.
Faculty, program staff, instructors, and mentors listed for this program year.
Faculty sponsor · Department of Microbiology
Tom has been interested in phages since graduate school, where he studied how phages lyse bacterial hosts. His lab studies bacterial cell biology, cell-surface biogenesis, and corynebacterial phages as tools for understanding how this group of bacteria grows.
Faculty partner · Biomedical Informatics and Microbiology
Michael studies bacterial evolution and computational genomics, with a focus on antibiotic resistance, horizontal gene transfer, and the roles phages play in both.
Faculty partner · Department of Microbiology
Philip studies how cells sense and defend against viral infection. His lab uses biochemistry to understand antiviral immunity in humans and bacteria, including the ways bacteria detect phage replication.
Program operations and lab manager · Bernhardt Lab
James is a former bench scientist and current lab manager. He coordinates lab setup, materials, safety, schedule support, and daily operations so students and instructors have what they need for the summer research work.
Past instructor · Kranzusch Lab
Sam studies the molecular basis of how viruses evade host immune defenses. His work focuses on how bacteria sense phage infection and how phages evolve to avoid detection.
Past instructor · Kranzusch Lab
Alex studies molecular weapons and defenses in phage-bacteria conflict. He is especially interested in electron microscopy and in using phages to discover new principles of molecular biology.
Past instructor · Jost Lab
Baylee studies how phages affect microbial communities, including the complex communities in the gut. Her work connects phage defense molecules with human immune recognition.
Past instructor · Dove Lab
Brendan helped students with bench work, troubleshooting, and student mentoring during wet-lab phage discovery.
Past instructor · Hochschild Lab
Kemardo began at Baltimore City Community College before studying biochemistry and microbiology. In the Hochschild lab, he studies bacterial prion formation using in vitro and genetic approaches.