Marissa Padilla joins us this summer as a Harvard Summer Honors Undergraduate Research Program (SHURP) program intern. Marissa is a rising senior at New Mexico State University, where she is pursuing a B.S. in Biology. Marissa is working closely with Dr. Laura Murray-Nerger to study roles of the acetyltransferase enzyme ESCO2 in control of the Epstein-Barr virus genome and lytic gene regulation.
Clarisel is a summer research intern participating in the Brigham & Women’s Division of Infectious disease Brigham Research in Infectious Disease and Global Engagement (BRIDGE) program. The Bridge program is an 8-week summer fellowship program that provides development in clinical and basic research skills in the field of infectious diseases, building a bridge to careers in medicine, public health, infectious disease research, and administration. The…
Brenda joined the Gewurz lab in 2021 after recently graduating from Trinity College with a double major in Biology and Public Policy & Law. Brenda pursued her undergraduate research in the Toscano lab at Trinity, where she focused on invertabrate ecology. She was a technical research assistant for one year, and then moved west to pursue clinical research at Kaiser Permanente in California before matriculating…
Jewel is a summer research intern visiting from University of Rhode Island. Jewel is a member of the Harvard SHURP program and working with Eric and Eshaani to study the the ferroptosis pathway in EBV-transformed cells .
Brunno Caetano is pursuing his graduate studies with Deilson Elgui de Oliveira in Brazil, and is spending one year in the Gewurz lab for collaborative studies of EBV/host interactions in B-cell lytic replication
Yuchen’s graduate studies focused on how host histone chaperones regulate EBV latency in EBV-transformed B-cells. She identified key roles for the CAF1 and HIRA complexes in control of EBV latency. She also characterized epigenetic mechanisms that control EBV latency and reactivation. In separate studies, Yuchen characterized mechanisms by which SARS-CoV-2 induces folate metabolism to support virus-driven nucleotide biosynthetic demand. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow…
Jin Hua pursued her graduate research in the Gewurz lab. Jin Hua’s research focused on the regulation of nucleotide metabolism and NF-kB in EBV-transformed B-cells, where she identified key roles for the enzymes CTPS1 and CTPS2 in cytosine nucleotide metabolism in EBV-driven B-cell transformation, published in mBio. She is currently pursuing post-doctoral studies in the Department of Hematology at Nanjing University of Technology