We are thrilled to welcome our incoming cohort of Immunology Graduate Students. Please keep this group in mind as you hear from students requesting laboratory rotations.  

• Jack Mauter, BA, Ohio Wesleyan University (immunology research both at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Nationwide Children’s Hospital); subsequent immunology research experiences at the NIH (postbaccalaureate IRTA fellow) and as a Research Associate at George Washington University (current position)). Iowa Pathways to Graduate Excellence Award.
• Kathy Nguyen BS, MS University of Colorado Boulder. Immunology research experience as a Research Associate at University of Colorado Boulder. MSTP student joining Julia Klesney-Tait's lab. 
• Maithreyi Prakash, BS, MS Christ University, Amrita University, MS University of Arizona. Currently a Junior Research Fellow at the BRIC-Rajiv Gandhi Center for Biotechnology. Prior research in non-coding RNA, microRNA, proteomics, epithelial homeostasis and most recently in CAR T cell development.
• Nathan Schwartz, BS, Univ of Wisconsin Madison; summer BSURP Immunology fellow at the Univ of Iowa. Additional immunology research experience at UW Madison.
• Yuliana Sokolenko, BS, MS; Cherkasy State University/Mississippi Valley State University; currently a Post-Baccalaureate Research Fellow studying immunology in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA. Iowa Pathways to Graduate Excellence Award.
• Joe Ward, BS, University of Kansas; research in fungal effects on plant diversity as well as well as gene regulation, evolution, and adaption in mice based on climates and how post transcriptional changes alter metabolic phenotypes.
• Shuyu Xian, BS, University of Iowa. Currently a Research Assistant at the University of Iowa whose current studies are focused on immunology, neuroinflammation and eye disease.