People

Anita A Koshy, MD
Associate Professor, Neurology

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. 
Chandrasekaran Sambamurphy, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate I

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.
Chloe Park
Undergraduate/Volunteer
Derek Resio
Graduate Student/Volunteer

Alumni

Shraddha Tuladhar

Postdoctoral Fellow, Lab of Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti (Dept of Immunology, St Jude's Children's Research Hospital)

Anthony Aguilar
Volunteer

Anthony "AJ" Aguilar is a freshman majoring in Molecular and Cellular Biology as well as Microbiology.  Given his majors, he is passionate about the molecular mechanisms behind human health conditions such as Alzheimer's disease.  In the past, AJ has conducted research regarding transgenic mosquitoes and the malaria parasite.  Wanting to explore more about human health from a new lens, AJ joined the lab in Fall 2018.  In his free time, AJ loves to enjoy the outdoors, travel, and has worked with the KEYS research internship as a KEYS Crew mentor to high school students.  In the future, AJ plans to pursue a career in medical research by obtaining his PhD and/or MD after his undergraduate years. 

Alba Dominguez
Volunteer
Joshua Kochanowsky, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Jing Lu
Volunteer
Oscar Mendez
Graduate Assistant, Research
Emily Merritt
Research Professional

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.

Tessa Spangler
Volunteer