I hail from the wonderful island of St. Thomas part of the US Virgin Islands. I earned my degree in biology with a minor in psychology from the University of the Virgin Islands. As an undergrad, I worked in Dr. Jennifer Robinson lab on Stegastes adustus erythrocytes infected with Haemohormidium-like apicomplexan parasites.

Awards and Honors:

OBGAPS Social Chair

Maggie McBride is proud to be from Chardon, Ohio. She majored in Biomedical Science at The Ohio State University, where she studied streptococcal adherence in the lab of Dr. Sam King. She joined the Vanderbilt MSTP in 2017, and plans to become a pediatric physician-scientist.

I graduated from Western Washington University in 2016 with a B.S. in Biochemistry. After graduation, I worked as a research assistant in the Tuberculosis Discovery Research Group at the Infectious Disease Research Institute in Seattle, WA. I joined the IGP in 2018 and began working in the lab of Dr. Mariana Byndloss in 2019.

Kaitlyn graduated with a B.Sc. in Biology from Samford University in 2014 where her research focused on restoration ecology of tropical rain forests. Upon graduation, she began working as a research assistant in the laboratory of Dr. Olaf Kutsch at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where she studied the host cellular changes involved in the long term persistence of HIV and Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections. Kaitlyn began graduate school at Vanderbilt University in the fall of 2017 and joined the Microbe Host Interactions program.

Awards and Honors:

President, American Society of Microbiology Student Chapter of Vanderbilt University

I graduated from University of California, San Diego with a degree in Biochemistry and Cell Biology in 2018. As an undergraduate researcher I worked in Dr. Jeffrey Esko's lab on a CRISPR screen aiming to uncover novel regulatory factors involved in heparan sulfate biosynthesis. After that I joined IGP, pursuing my growing interest in immunology.

I am originally from Northern Virginia, but earned by BS in Biotechnology and Molecular Bioscience from Rochester Institute of Technology in NY in 2018.  I worked under Dr. Andre Hudson while in school.  I immediately joined Vanderbilt University in 2018 through the IGP, and joined MHI.

Before coming to Vanderbilt, I got my B.A. in Biochemistry at the University of San Diego. I worked in Dr. Ellis Bell's lab for 3 years during undergrad focusing on the effects of nucleotides on the conformational flexibility and stability of glutamate dehydrogenase. I joined the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program right after undergrad in 2018. Outside of lab, I like to go hiking and to explore Nashville.