Hannah Brown is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Dr. X.J. Meng’s laboratory at Virginia Tech. She earned her PhD in Virology from University College Dublin, Ireland, where her research focused on Hepatitis E virus (HEV). Building on that work, her current research continues to explore HEV, using complex culture systems to investigate viral replication and host … Read more
My work involves integrating mechanistic modeling with machine learning techniques for forecasting the spread of disease.
Samantha Grimes is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Adam Lauring’s laboratory at the University of Michigan. Samantha completed her PhD in Mark Denison’s lab at Vanderbilt University, where she studied the role of the coronavirus helicase and exoribonuclease in virus replication and fitness. Samantha’s project focuses on the evolvability of influenza polymerase and its role in … Read more
Zohreh Gholizadeh Siahmazgi completed her Ph.D. at Azad university, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, focusing on the effects of small molecules on cancer cells in 3D cell culture conditions. She is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM). Her research interests include tissue organoid modeling, drug discovery and … Read more
Dr. Kaushal Shakya completed his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, specializing in biomaterials. His research interests include tissue engineering, functional biopolymers, and nanocomposites. Currently, he is a postdoctoral associate in the Chemical Engineering Department at Virginia Tech, where he is working on liver organoids. His expertise lies in developing biomaterial-based platforms … Read more
Temitope Ojedele-Adejumo is a Ph.D. candidate in Rhetoric and Writing at Virginia Tech and a Graduate Teaching Assistant (Instructor of Record) in the University Writing Program. Her research interests include transnational rhetorics, diasporic African rhetoric, non-Western rhetorical traditions, user-centered communication design, and feminist rhetorics. Temitope’s scholarly work explores the complex dynamics of identity, culture, and … Read more
A world where we can accurately foresee pandemics and minimize their impact. We seek to forecast and control future viral pandemics by addressing the grand challenge of uncovering the genetic, molecular, cellular, and chemical rules of life underlying pathogen-host interactions through community-based and ethically grounded research.
Leslie Thornton-O’Brien, M.A.
Project Manager, NSF COMPASS Center
Virginia Tech | Computer Science
Blacksburg, VA 24060
lthornto@vt.edu
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Award No. 2412115. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.