PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Dr. Hart is an assistant professor in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology. He received his Ph.D. in Biology from the State University of New York at Albany in conjunction with the New York Department of Health where he examined the mechanisms of complement evasion by B. burgdorferi. He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Yale University School of Medicine where he used highly curated yeast display libraries to comprehensively map host-pathogen and host-vector interactions.

RESEARCH TECHNOLOGIST

Jiani Wang is a recent graduate of the Master of Bioinformatics program at Johns Hopkins University. She earned her B.S. in Molecular & Cellular Biology with honors from the University of Glasgow. Her research spans molecular biology and computational bioinformatics, including enzyme expression and SARS-CoV-2 genetic analyses. She is passionate about exploring the intersection of computational tools and biological research to address complex biomedical challenges.