WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS - Key Persons
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- Infectious Disease Physician, Northwell Health System )
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- SERB Young Scientist, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology ( IGIB ), Delhi )
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- Medical Student, Columbia University )
Andrew received his undergraduate degree in Cell and Molecular Biology from Tulane University in 2010. He then received his Master's of Science in Human Genetics at Tulane University School of Medicine where he studied behavioral neuropharmacology in the lab of Dr. Allan Kalueff. He attended medical school at Texas Tech University, graduating in 2016 and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Emory University in 2019. While at Emory, Andrew developed a clinical interest in HIV infection and worked in the lab of Dr. David Guidot where he studied the role of HIV in chronic lung disease. Andrew came to Washington University in Saint Louis in 2019 and started his fellowship in Pulmonology and Critical Care. He joined the Philips Lab in January 2021 where he is studying how macrophage and T cell interactions shape the immune response to infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
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- Clinical Assistant Professor, NYU )
Ekansh obtained his undergraduate degree in Biotechnoloy from the Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. He worked on his dissertation at the National Institute of Immunology in India and received his PhD in Biotechnology from the National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), Pune, India. The focus of his PhD was "Investigation of Topology and Mechanism of Functions of Rv1694, TlyA protein of Mycobacterium tuberculosis". He relocated from India to join the Jennifer A. Philips's lab in November 2015. His current research projects include studying host-pathogen interactions that govern the ability of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to evade host immune defenses.
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- Senior Medical Director, Healthcare Consultancy Group
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- SVP, Healthcare Consultancy Group )
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- Postdoctoral Researcher, Université Paris - Saclay )
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- Principal Investigator
- Co - Director, Division of Infectious Diseases
Jully graduated from Drexel University in 2015 with a major in Biological sciences and minor in psychology. Later, Jully completed her Master's in Microbiology and Immunology at Jefferson University. Her thesis research was performed at Integral molecular, specifically using high-throughput screening to discover novel receptors for Dengue virus serotype 3 using the membrane proteome array (MPA). Jully then joined the molecular microbiology and microbial pathogenesis PhD program at Washington University, where she joined the Philips' lab. Jully is interested in studying and characterizing Mtb effectors that regulate or undermine host immune responses to persist and establish infection. Her thesis project focuses on studying the Mtb protein CpsA and its role in inhibiting xenophagy through interactions with host factors. Additionally, she would like to study host-pathogen interactions, with a focus on Mtb biology and pathogenesis.
Krishna completed his 5-years Integrated M. Sc in Biotechnology at St. Xavier's College Kolkata, India in the year 2012. Later, he joined as a PhD student in Dr Arunika Mukhopadhaya's lab at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, India. During his doctoral research, he investigated the signalling mechanisms underlying the immune responses elicited by innate immune cells upon recognition of Vibrio cholerae outer membrane protein OmpU. He received his PhD degree in August 2020 for his thesis titled ‘Vibrio cholerae OmpU activate distinct signalling cascades in innate immune cells'. He started working in Dr Jennifer Philips lab in August 2020. He is new to the field of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection biology. He is beginning to understand how Mtb employs a plethora of effector proteins to evade the host immune defences, thereby causing tuberculosis disease.
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- Infectious Disease Specialist, Cooper Medical Center )
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- Graduate Student, UW / Fred Hutch Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program )
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- Medical Student, University of Tenn Health Sciences )
Pallavi completed her B.Sc in Biochemistry at Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, India. She received a master's degree in Biomedical Sciences from B.R. Ambedkar Center for Biomedical Research. During this time she worked with Dr. Munia Ganguli at IGIB, New Delhi for her dissertation where she studied development of peptide-based nanoparticles for gene delivery.
She joined Dr. Dhiraj Kumar's laboratory at the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi in the year 2009 where she studied host autophagy and its crosstalk with phagosomal maturation pathways in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections. In 2015, she received her Ph.D from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
She moved to Washington University School of Medicine at St. Louis in January 2016, to continue studying Mtb infection biology at the Philips lab
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- Senior Scientist, Takeda )
Steven graduated summa cum laude from Washington University in 2015 with a major in biochemistry and minor in global health and environment. His undergraduate thesis concerned the role of FtsZ in cell division in Bacillus subtilis. He then joined the Medical Scientist Training Program at Washington University School of Medicine. Steven joined the Philips lab in June 2017 and started his PhD work in the Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis program. The focus of his research is the mechanisms of immune evasion and drug resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. After finishing his thesis, Steven plans to return to the clinic and pursue a career in microbiology research and infectious disease medicine.
Vinod received his PhD degree in February 2017 jointly from University of Science and Technology and Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, South Korea. In his thesis work, he elucidated how bacteria sense phenols through structural analysis of transcription activators. He is applying his expertise in X-ray crystallography and biophysical approaches to gain a mechanistic understanding of how Mycobacterium tuberculosis effectors undermine the host innate immune response.