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
Postdoc – Genetics
sylvesp@email.unc.edu
Durba Ojha
Postdoc – Genetics
dojha@email.unc.edu
Jack Sears
PhD Graduate student – Microbiology and Immunology
jdsears@email.unc.edu
Fulla 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
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
Isabella Law
Research Technician
ilaw@email.unc.edu