Our lab is delighted to welcome three new members, Drs. Satish Pasula, Kandice Tessneer and Ajay Nair.
Dr. Pasula is joining us as a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow and will continue our groundbreaking work focused on understanding the functional genomics of lupus risk loci TNIP1 and UBE2L3.
Dr. Tessneer is joining us as a Postdoctral Fellow with an emphasis in Scientific Writing. Her mission is to increase our publication speed and assist in garnering new grants to fund exciting new projects in our lab.
Dr. Nair recently completed his doctoral research focused on evolutionary developmental biology and genetics at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. He will be joining our lab in September as a new Postdoctoral Fellow. His research will focus on characterizing the functionality of TNFAIP3, a gene we recently identified as a lupus risk allele, as well as investigating the importance of the microbiome to autoimmune disease susceptibility.