Sarah Cobey
Principal Investigator • cobey@uchicago.eduSarah is an associate professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolution at the University of Chicago.
Katie Gostic
Postdoctoral Researcher • kgostic@uchicago.eduKatie studies the epidemiological impacts of childhood immune imprinting, and the within-host dynamics that allow biases in immune memory to develop and persist. She also aims to understand why our immune system isn’t better at deploying broadly protective antibodies against multi-strain pathogens.
Lauren McGough
Postdoctoral Researcher • mcgough@uchicago.eduLauren studies how the mechanisms and dynamics of affinity maturation in the adaptive immune system affect the diversity of individuals' antibody repertoires.
Rachel Oidtman
Postdoctoral Researcher • roidtman@uchicago.eduRachel studies the development of immune protection to influenza using individual-level data from a longitudinal cohort study. She is generally interested in understanding drivers of inter-annual variation in disease dynamics.
Qifang Bi
Postdoctoral Researcher • qbi@uchicago.eduQifang is studying the effectiveness of seasonal influenza vaccines and the dynamics of immune responses to SARS-CoV-2. She completed her doctoral training in epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Phil Arevalo
Research Scientist • parevalo@uchicago.eduPhil is building models that integrate epidemiological and molecular data to infer how infection history, vaccination, and influenza epitope diversity influence protection against influenza infection.
Marcos Vieira
Research Scientist • mvieira@uchicago.eduMarcos studies the rapid evolution of B cells during the immune response and how this short-term evolution is enabled by the long-term evolution of immunoglobulin genes. He’s also interested in how immune history shapes the evolution and epidemiology of influenza and other antigenically diverse pathogens.
Diana Vera Cruz
Research Scientist • dveracruz@uchicago.eduDiana studied viral evolution across scales and how it is impacted by immune selection during her Ph.D. at Duke University. She is interested in the impact of immune history, particularly antibody response, on vaccine efficacy and influenza reinfection driven by antigenic drift.
Christopher Joel Russo
PhD Student • cjrusso@uchicago.eduChristopher studies the germline adaptive evolution of the naive antibody repertoire and of the immunoglobulin alleles.