Janet is an undergraduate research assistant at ARAC. She is currently a third-year student pursuing a Bachelors of Science in Biological Science with a concentration of Cellular and Molecular Biology and a minor in Public Health. She is interested in clinical research and hopes to pursue a career in medicine in the future, specifically in Pediatrics.

Tony is a research assistant at ARAC, working on numerous projects including characterizing the nasal microbiome. He received both his Bachelor’s in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology as well as his Master’s in Biotechnology from Boston University. His previous research includes studying microbial communities important to the nitrogen cycle at MIT.

Vanessa Quinlivan is a Senior Research Associate for ARAC. She completed her Ph.D in the Johns Hopkins University Dept. of Biology while working for the Carnegie Institution of Washington, where she studied fat and cholesterol metabolism using a larval zebrafish model. Previously, as a M.S. student at the College of William & Mary, she worked to characterize gene regulation in Helicobacter pylori.

Jack Villani is a Research Associate at ARAC. He holds a Bachelor’s in Biology from the College of William & Mary and a Master’s in Medical Microbiology from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Prior to joining ARAC, he spent over two years at the National Institutes of Health investigating pathogenic mechanisms of poxviruses. As a graduate student, he studied orbiviruses, and as an undergraduate spent three years investigating mechanisms of bacterial gene regulation.