Elizabeth “Betzi” Norton, MPH, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Predictors or drivers of immunity, Mucosal immunity, Vaccination, Mucosal delivery, Adjuvants, Enterotoxins
Education: Emory University BS/BA; Tulane University, MPH, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Immunity to SARS-CoV-2
Education: Tulane University, MPH; University of Edinburgh, PhD
Ivy Trinh, BS
Laboratory Technician
Research Interests: Immunity to SARS-CoV-2, blood processing and sample inventories and amazing freezer racks
Saraswatie Rambaran, BS
Laboratory Technician
Research Interests: Mouse models, vaccination, adjuvants, protein purification
Addison Stone
(Former undergraduate trainee &) Research Technician
Research Interests: Everything AND LT adjuvants, ETEC vaccines, opioid vaccines, SARS-CoV-2 immunity
Education: Tulane University, BS
Undergraduate Trainee
Research Interests: Predictors of vaccine efficacy
Undergraduate Trainee/Technician
Research Interests: SARS-CoV-2 immunity
Previous Norton Lab Members:
2014 – 2015 Jacob Bowers, Tulane undergraduate, lab internship and Work-Study Program
2014 – 2015 Brianna Tatum, Tulane Microbiology & Immunology masters student, lab internship
2015 Lane Porter, Univ Washington undergraduate, summer student
2015 – 2019 Robin Baudier, lab technician and Biostastics MPH student,
2015 – 2018 Lauren Kodroff, Tulane Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Aging Studies
2016 Rong Fan, Tulane MPH&TM student, research work-study
2016 Saba Qurban, Tulane Microbiology & Immunology masters student, lab internship
2016 – 2019 Eduardo Valli, post-doctoral fellow
2017 Andrew Becco, Tulane undergraduate, research work-study student
2017 Keenan Ramsey, Tulane undergraduate, research work-study student
2017 Joel Rosenblum, Tulane undergraduate, lab internship
2017 – 2019 Amanda Harriett, Tulane MPH&TM, lab internship/research work-study; starting 2018 BMS PhD student
2017 Monica Blazek, Tulane MD student, DeBakey Scholars
2017 Ally Pitalo, Metaire Park Country Day School Senior, 45h humanities internship
2017 Luke Davis, Tulane undergraduate, summer & fall work-study student
2017 – 2019 Victoria Carle, Tulane undergraduate, research internship, summer work-study student
2018 – 2019 Margaret Nowakowska, Tulane undergraduate, independent lab research (Spring 2018, Fall 2019)
2018 William Provosty, Tulane MD student, summer research internship
2019 Zachary McSween, Tulane SOM Masters student, research internship
2019 – 2021 Joshua Linhuber, Tulane undergraduate, summer & fall research internship, independent lab research
2019 – 2020 Chase Goldberg, Tulane undergraduate, fall research internship
2020 Samantha Bilton, Tulane MD student, summer research internship (DeBakey)
2020-2021 Blake William, lab Technician
2020 – 2021 Chelsea Huerter, Tulane CMB Masters student, lab internship
2020 – 2021 Anyssa Aviles, Tulane Microbiology & Immunology masters student, lab work-study
*underlined text – individual presented first-author poster presentations at Scientific meeting(s); bold text – author on peer-reviewed paper(s) from lab; italic – author on manuscript in preparation or submitted from lab