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Anita Koshy earned her M.D. from Duke University and trained clinically prior to her postdoctoral fellowship in molecular parasitology at Stanford University in the lab of John Boothroyd. During her time in the Boothroyd lab, she established an in vivo system that permanently marks and tracking the host cells that have interacted with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Anita started her lab at the University of Arizona in 2012.
Emily graduated from North Carolina State University with a degree in Biochemistry in 2010. After working in an environmental chemistry company in Wilmington, NC, and a subsequent stay in genetics lab of Dr. Ann Stapleton at UNC-Wilmington, Emily applied for graduate school at the University of Arizona. She joined the fun, yet stimulating Koshy lab in 2016. The focus of her research is to study how toxoplasma gondii infection modulates host pathways in Alzheimer's Disease.
Arun received his doctorate from University of Hyderabad, India. He worked on the molecular and immunological aspects of Leishmania donovani infection. He joined the Koshy lab as Postdoctoral research associate and will be working on transcriptional profiling of individual neurons, which have interacted with Type II and Type III Toxoplasma parasites.
Alison grew up on the Navajo Nation in Arizona. She received a MS in Applied Biosciences from the University of Arizona in 2022 while conducting research in the Johnson lab. She joined the Koshy lab in 2023, where her research focuses on understanding the mechanisms that T. gondii utilizes to persist in the brain. Outside of the lab, she loves spending time with her cats, watching movies, and going for runs.