Current Lab Members
Mark Heise
Principal Investigator
mark_heisem@med.unc.edu
Sharon Taft-Benz
Research Associate, Lab Manager
sharon_taft-benz@med.unc.edu
Production of non-characterized viral open reading frames, contribution of host genetics and viral structure to disease pathogenesis
Paul Sylvester
Post-Doc – Genetics
sylvesp@email.unc.edu
Marta Cruz Cisneros 
PhD Graduate student – Genetics and Molecular Biology
mcruzcis@email.unc.edu
Host genetic regulation of antibody response to influenza vaccination
Jenny Loome
PhD Graduate student – Microbiology and Immunology
NSF GRFP Fellow
jloome@live.unc.edu
Novel open reading frames in Chikungunya virus.
Jake Dillard
MD/ PhD student – Microbiology and Immunology
jacob_dillard@med.unc.edu
Impact of host genetics and prior antigen exposure on immune responses.
Lily Adams
PhD Graduate student – Microbiology and Immunology
ladams@med.unc.edu
Coronavirus genetics, antigenic diversity, and pathogenesis
Jack Sears
PhD Graduate student – Microbiology and Immunology
jdsears@email.unc.edu
Anfal Abdelgadir
PhD Graduate student – Microbiology and Immunology
anfal.abdelgadir@unc.edu
Jaclyn Higgins
PhD Graduate student – Microbiology and Immunology
jaclyn32@email.unc.edu
Kalika Kamat
PhD Graduate student – Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
jkdkamat@email.unc.edu
Che-Kang Chang
PhD Graduate student – Microbiology and Immunology
chekang@email.unc.edu
Taalia Morgan
Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program – PREP Student
taalia@email.unc.edu
Ian Klevans
Undergraduate Researcher
ianwk@live.unc.edu
Determining the function of regions of interest in nonstructural proteins of Chikungunya Virus
Noah Morales
Research Technician
moraldo@live.unc.edu
Breantié Parotti
Research Technician
breantieparotti@med.unc.edu
Liz Anderson
Research technician
lizand@email.unc.edu
Host immune response to encephalomyelitic arboviruses; animal model development
Marcia Sanders
Research Associate
marcia_sanders@unc.edu
Jane Burdick
Research Technician
burdij@email.unc.edu
Katia Pressey
Research Technician
kpre@email.unc.edu
Sabian Martinez
Research Technician
sabianm@live.unc.edu