Elizabeth “Betzi” Norton, MPH, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Predictors or drivers of immunity, Mucosal immunity, Vaccination, Mucosal delivery, Adjuvants, Enterotoxins
Education: Emory University BS/BA; Tulane University, MPH, PhD
Sruti Chandra, PhD
Research Scientist
Research Interests: LT-based adjuvants in the development of mucosal immunity, preparation and optimization of His-tagged and His-free expression systems.
Education: University of Calcutta, PhD
Mark Harrison, PhD
Research Scientist
Research Interests: neurodegenerative disease therapies, impact of viruses on neurophysiology, vaccine mediated protection of the brain
Education: Boston College, BS; Salem State University, BS; Tulane University, MS, PhD
Surya Palani, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Microbiology/Virology & Molecular Epidemiology, Vaccine Immunology (Research on evaluating vaccine adjuvants and predictors of vaccine efficacy in animal models/clinical trials)
Education: Indian Council of Medical Research/Regional Medical Research Centre-Port Blair, PhD
Gilberto Sabino-Santos, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Viral ecology and evolution, evolutionary patterns of viruses among wildlife and humans, Immunological approaches to assess virus-host interactions
Education: State Univ of Santa Cruz, Brazil, BS; Univ of Sao Paulo, Brazil, MS; Texas Tech Univ, MS; Humboldt Univ of Berlin, Germany, MS; Univ of Sao Paulo, Brazil, PhD
Ivy Trinh, BS
Program Manager
Research Interests: Immunity to SARS-CoV-2, blood processing and sample inventories and amazing freezer racks
Education:
Aiasha Hardin, BA
Laboratory Manager
Research Interests: Primate behavior, maintaining genetic variation through breeding to allow for well-rounded research model
Education: BA
Amelie Murrell, BS
Laboratory Technician
Research Interests: Immunity to SARS-CoV-2, Long COVID
Education: Tulane University, BS
Kaitlyn Redondo, BS
Laboratory Technician/Clinical Research Coordinator
Research Interests: Long COVID, neurological conditions, and immune responses to viral infections
Education: Tulane University, BS
Vincent Upreti, MS
Laboratory Technician
Research Interests: ETEC Vaccine Adjuvants
Education: Loyola University, BS, Tulane University, MS
Sherry Tong, BS
Tulane Biomedical Sciences PhD student
Research Interests: COVID-19 Immunity in children with asthma
Education: Tulane University, BS
Laraib Arain, BS
Tulane Biomedical Sciences Master’s Student
Research Interests: Long-term immune responses in individuals recovering from COVID-19
Education: University of Houston, BS
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
2020 – 2022 Saraswatie Rambaran, lab Technician
2020 – 2022 Enwono Eyoh, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow
2020 – 2022 Addison Stone, research technician
2020 – 2022 Nick Ditta, undergraduate trainee
2020 – 2022 Ethan Sontz, lab technician
2021 – 2022 William Bai, Tulane undergraduate
2020 – 2022 Jordan Scott, lab technician
2020 – 2022 Sean Litwin, lab technician
*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