Current Lab Members - Post-Doctoral Fellows

Yongzhi received his PhD from the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a lab member since 2015 and is working on the identification and charactization of new and functional host proteins impacting antiviral immune response to RNA virus infection including IAV and SARS-CoV2.

Natalia received her PhD from University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, working on innate immunity and infectious diseases with João Santana da Silva. She joined the lab in May 2018 to work on inflammasome regulation. She has been a Cancer Research Institute Postdoctoral Fellow since 2020.

Trey received his PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Louisville where he worked with Alphavirus capsid protein and how they inhibit detection by the innate immune system. He joined the lab in 2023 to work on identifying host-pathogen interactions with Alphavirus RNA.

Anukriti received her PhD from the Australian National University, Canberra in 2021 where she studied the role of inflammasome in infectious diseases. She joined the Fitzgerald lab in 2023 to work on nucleic acid sensing and inflammasome regulation.

Romana received her PhD in 2020 from University of Kashmir, India. She joined the lab in 2021 to work on elucidating the cellular and molecular mechanism of innate immune activation in Malaria. She is a joint postdoc in the Fitzgerald and Golenbock labs.

Ze received his PhD in 2021 from the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, where he worked on neuroimmunology and cell death. He joined the lab in 2022 to work on nucleic acid sensing and inflammasome regulation.