Dillon grew up in western Pennsylvania and earned his B.S in biology from Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pa. He stayed in Pittsburgh for his doctoral work, where he earned his Ph.D from the University of Pittsburgh in Dr. James Bina’s lab, where he studied the link between Vibrio cholerae RND multidrug efflux pumps and bacterial adaptive responses. In the Skaar lab Dillon studies the struggle for nutrient metals at the Acinetobacter baumannii host-pathogen interface.

Erin grew up outside of Pittsburgh, PA and earned her B.S. from the University of Pittsburgh. For her doctoral work, she studied in the laboratory of Dr. Joan Mecsas at Tufts University, where she used high-throughput genetic approaches to investigate mechanisms of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis survival in mammalian tissue sites. In the Skaar lab, Erin is characterizing ways in which Acinetobacter baumannii resists oxidative stress during pulmonary infection.

Seth Reasoner is an MD/PhD student in the Microbe-Host Interactions graduate program. He grew up in the Midwest (Minnesota and Indiana), and graduated from Berea College in Kentucky with a degree in Chemistry. He hopes to become a pulmonary and critical care physician. Seth enjoys long bike rides, hiking, camping.

I'm a native of Cleveland, OH and went to Ohio University for undergrad. I love cooking (especially homemade pastas), reading, and yoga. I also try to take art classes, usually ceramics, when I have the time.

I was born and raised in Boyle Heights, California! I graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2020 with a degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. During my undergraduate career, I studied bacterial pathogenesis and colonization in the lab of Dr. Victoria Auerbuch-Stone. Since then, I joined the IGP in 2020 and I am now in the laboratory of Amanda Doran MD/PhD in the Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology.

I grew up in a small rural town outside of Buffalo, NY. After graduating with a double major in Biology and Biochemistry from Case Western Reserve University, I spent two years working at the AIDS Vaccine Research Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I joined IGP in 2020 and Janet Markle's lab in PMI shortly after. In my spare time, I love to run, sing, and cuddle with my cat Miso!