Lab Members


Graduate Students:

 

ProfilePictureChristian Holcomb is a PhD student who just joined the lab in the Fall of 2020! He is the recipient of an NIH T32 G-RISE Fellowship! He is working on Inc proteins and looking at host immune modulation by Chlamydia trachomatis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Noopur Dasgupta joined our lab in the Fall of 2021 as a PhD student! She is excited to work on host kinase manipulation by C. trachomatis!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yingxin Zhang joined the lab in Fall 2022 as a PhD student!  She will be studying mechanisms of Pseudomonas aeruginosa host cell invasion.

 

 

 

 

a0ed7ec1 86fb 4959 98eb 1f058001245bTanisha Goyal joined the lab in the Fall of 2022 as a Masters student!  She will be studying protein-protein interactions between chlamydial proteins and host proteins.

 

 

 

 

 

Morgan Busby has returned for another summer of research! Morgan is a vet student taking part in the summer research training program and she will be working on the Chlamydia projects looking at the role of inclusion membrane proteins during infection.

Undergraduate Students:   

Jake Patterson is an undergraduate OK-LSAMP researcher and honors student who joined the lab in the fall of 2020!  He is studying Pseudomonas-Pseudomonas interactions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rebecca WilsonRebecca Wilson is an undergraduate Niblack Research Scholar who joined the lab in the fall of 2020! She is looking at the diversity of bacteria from the cystic fibrosis lung and multi-drug resistance.

 

 

 

 

 

Gracie Faver just joined the lab in the fall of 2023! She is working with Staph aureus clinical isolates to look at overall mutation rates! Gracie Faver

 

 

 

 

Lutter Lab Alumni

  • Christopher Laley
  • Ashley Means
  • Chloe Backhaus
  • Dillon Jones
  • Anna Wright
  • Elizabeth Pascual, MSc
  • Link Zheng
  • Brooke Romine
  • Wade Arthur
  • Matt Smith
  • Rachel Mcallister
  • Amanda Behar, MSc
  • Rawan Eleshy, MSc
  • Jordan Fleming
  • Nicholas H. Nelson
  • William (Colby) Starr
  • Emily Gietzen
  • Kaylea Bixler
  • Cheyenne Knox
  • Omid Darbandi
  • Ty Derouen
  • Dr. Melissa Brewer, PhD
  • Ryan Pruitt
  • Dr. Prakash Sah, PhD
  • Denver La Force
  • Katie Hergenreder
  • Dr. Biraj Kayastha, PhD
  • Ty Lutze
  • Clay Deal
  • Daniel Reed
  • Kayli Nail
  • Madison Tryzbiak
  • Morgan Busby
  • Kalen Strunk
  • Andre King
  • Madison Tryzbiak
  • Morgan Busby
  • Deepali Luthra
  • Swapnil Sengupta