Farber Lab

Lab Members

Principal Investigator: Donna L. Farber, Ph.D.

Top Row: left-to-right; Deepa Patke, Meena Chandok, Anju Kadavil, Vaishali Mane, Modesta Ndejembi, Anita Tang   Bottom Row: left-to-right; Smita Chandran, Nicolas Bushar, Francesca Okoye, Wendy Lai, John Teijaro

Current Graduate Students:

Nicholas D. Bushar, expected defense Fall 2008                                       
Thesis Project: In vivo signaling control of memory CD4 T cell generation, heterogeneity and function

John R. Teijaro, expected defense Spring 2009                                           
Thesis Project: Regulation of memory CD4 T cell protection and immunopathology in influenza virus infection

Smita Chandran, expected defense Fall 2009  
Thesis Project: Influenza of Toll-like receptor engagment on memory T cell generation and protective capacity. 

Postdoctoral Fellows:

David Verhoeven, Ph.D.
Project: Inflammatory memory CD4 T cells and influenza infection

Laboratory Manager:

Wendy Lai, M.D.
Project: Transcription factor activation in memory CD4 T cells

Undergraduate students

Gabrielle McRae, Umiversity of Maryland, Baltimore County, HHMI scholar

Former Lab Members:

Meena Chandok, Ph.D. postdoctoral fellow 2004-07
Signaling control of memory CD4 T cell recall

Anita Tang, M.D. research resident fellow 2004-2007
Generation and function of Allospecific memory CD4 T cells in transplantation; currently completing surgical residency UMMS 

Francesca Okoye, MD/Ph.D. student, Ph.D. 2007
Biochemical regulation of human CD4 T cell function; supported by NIH F31AI58924; currently finishing MD portion at UMB School of Medicine

Modesta Ndejembi, graduate student, Ph.D. 2006 
CD28 costimulation and regulation of memory CD4 T cell recall ; currently postdoctoral fellow  Ifakara Health Research Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania      

Vaishali Moulton (nee' Mane), graduate student, Ph.D. 2006
Generation and Heterogeneity of Memory CD4 T cells; currently postdoctoral fellow, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School 

Deepa S. Patke, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow 2002-2005
Modulation of memory CD4 T cell recall; recipient of AHA postdoctoral fellowship

Adam W. Bingaman, M.D., Ph.D., Transplant surgery fellow 2002-3 
Memory CD4 T cells and transplantation; currently Transplant surgeon, San Antonio, TX

David B. Leeser, M.D., Transplant Surgery Fellow, 2003-4 
Generation of antigen-specific memory CD4 T cells; currently Assistant Professor of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY

Mojgan Ahmadzadeh, graduate student, Ph.D., 2002
Functional Plasticity of memory CD4 T cells; currently Staff Scientist, Surgery Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 

Sandeep Krishnan, graduate student, Ph.D. 2002
Biochemical Signaling alterations during T cell differentiation; currently medical resident, George Washington University Hospital, postdoctoral training at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.

S. Farzana Hussain, graduate student, Ph.D. 2001
Signaling transduction in memory CD4 T cells; current position at the CDC in Atlanta, GA.  postdoctoral training in the  Department of Neurosurgery, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. and Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania

Shannon Chilcoate, former Lab Manager, graduated Law Student in the Law and Health Program, University of Maryland, Baltimore, currently Associate, law firm of Rosenberg, Martin, Funk and Greenberg, LLP, Baltimore, MD.

Amena Husain, B.S., MPH (Howard Hughes Undergraduate Fellow 1997-99), currently graduate student in the immunology graduate program, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Rotating Graduate Students:

(2001-2002): Calvin Williams (Fall), Modesta Njedembe (Fall), Dana Harzman (Spr), Leeann Massey (Spr), Chelsea Lane (summer)

(2003): Shailesh Satpute (Spring), Nicolas Bushar (summer)

(2004): Smita Chandran

(2005): John Teijaro (summer)

(2006): Holly Porter, Victor Ayala (winter)

(2007): Sunil Shreshtha