Current Lab Members:

	Jamie Orengo is a postdoc in Dr Rodriguez's lab, and has been a member of the lab since October 2002. Prior to joining the lab, she studied the epidemiology of microbial diseases at the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University's School of Medicine and received a Masters in Public Health in 2002. Her work at NYU focuses on Plasmodium induced modulations of the host's immune response. She began a joint appointment in the Day Lab in May 2006.
	Lisa Purcell is a visiting graduate student from McGill University in Canada
	Kurt Wong joined the lab of Ana Rodriguez as an NYU Sackler Ph.D. candidate in the summer of 2005. Before coming to New York, Kurt lived and studied in Canada at the University of Toronto, completing his Hon. B.Sc. specializing in immunology. He has held an avid interest in malaria and its interactions with the immune system ever since the second year of his undergrad degree. Under Ana’s supervision, he hopes to further study T-cell function during a malaria infection.

Previous Lab Members:

Daniel Carapau joined Ana Rodriguez’s lab as a PhD student with a scholarship from Portugal, his country of origin. Daniel studied Biochemistry in Lisbon University, then started working with Dr. Maria Mota in her lab at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia in Portugal. In 2002 he was granted a PhD Scholarship and moved to Dr. Rodriguez’s lab in 2004. His PhD studied the molecular basis of the Interactions between Plasmodium parasites and the dendritic cells of the immune system. He recently completed his PhD and has returned to Portugal.

Laura Santos recently completed her PhD and has returned to Portugal.