Graduate Students
Ben Burwitz
Cellular and Molecular Pathology Ph.D. Dissertator
B.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Rotated in lab Nov/Dec 2006; joined as graduate student February 2007
Cellular and Molecular Pathology Ph.D. Dissertator
B.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Rotated in lab Nov/Dec 2006; joined as graduate student February 2007
Ben is studying the importance of epitope-specific T cell responses to SIV.
Ben Bimber
Cellular and Molecular Biology Ph.D. Dissertator
B.S. Kalamazoo College
Rotated in lab October 2006; joined as graduate student December 2006
Cellular and Molecular Biology Ph.D. Dissertator
B.S. Kalamazoo College
Rotated in lab October 2006; joined as graduate student December 2006
Ben is investigating natural killer cell responses and genetics in nonhuman primates. He is also half robot.
Melisa Budde
Cellular and Molecular Biology Ph.D. Dissertator
B.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Joined lab in July, 2008
Cellular and Molecular Biology Ph.D. Dissertator
B.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Joined lab in July, 2008
Melisa is studying mucosal immunology and characterizing epitope specific T cell responses in SIV.


Justin Greene
Cellular and Molecular Pathology Ph.D. Dissertator
B.S. 2005 University of Wisconsin-Madison
Joined lab as an undergraduate June 2005; as a graduate student March 2006
Cellular and Molecular Pathology Ph.D. Dissertator
B.S. 2005 University of Wisconsin-Madison
Joined lab as an undergraduate June 2005; as a graduate student March 2006
Justin is studying lymphocyte adoptive transfers and protective immunity in nonhuman primates. Justin was the lab's first graduate student. Or canary in the coal mine.



