Current Lab Members - Post-Doctoral Fellows
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Yongzhi Chen PhD
Programs: Post Doctoral Fellow
Youngzhi received his PhD from the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a lab member since 2015 and is working on a novel regulator of cytokine gene transcription.
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Juliet Crabtree
Programs: Post Doctoral Fellow
Juliet received her PhD in 2016 from the University of Minnesota. She is a lab member since 2017. Her work focuses on the the role of lncRNAs in innate immune training during malaria infection.
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Liraz Galia, Ph.D.
Programs: Post Doctoral Fellow
Liraz joined the lab in September 2017. She did her Ph.D. at the Feinberg Graduate School, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel working on innate immunity. She is the recipient of an EMBO Post-Doctoral Fellowship and is working on the role of lncRNAs in intestinal inflammation.
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Fiachra Humphries
Programs: Post Doctoral Fellow
Fiachra received his PhD from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth working on innate immunity with Paul Moynagh. He joined the Fitzgerald lab in January 2018 to work on inflmamasomes and nucleic acid sensing pathways.
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Zhaozhao Jiang, Ph.D.
Academic Role: Lab Manager
Programs: Post Doctoral Fellow
Zhaozhao received her PhD in 2010 from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She is a lab member since 2006. Her work is focused on DNA sensing pathways in innate immunity.
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Natalia Ketalut
Programs: Post Doctoral Fellow
Natalia received her PhD in 2017 from University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. She joined the lab in May 2018 to work on inflammasome regulation.
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Tim Vierbuchen
Programs: Post Doctoral Fellow
Tim received his PhD in 2018 from Kiel University, Germany, working on microbial recognition pathways in the innate immune system. He joined the lab in 2019 and received a DFG Research Fellowship to investigate the role lncRNAs in regulation of innate immune responses.
