The Van Doorslaer lab at the University of Arizona

In the Van Doorslaer Lab, we depend on your whole self
to tackle the genomic challenges of HPV cancers.


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Koenraad Van Doorslaer, PhD
Principal Investigator
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Dr. Van Doorslaer received his BS and MS from the University of Leuven, Belgium. He left the land of beer and chocolate to pursue a Ph.D. in the lab of Dr. Robert Burk, at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. For his post-doctoral work, he joined the lab of Dr. McBride located within the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease at the NIH. Dr. Van Doorslaer recently joined the faculty of the School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences at the University of Arizona. His current research combines thorough evolutionary analysis with state-of-the-art molecular techniques to understand why certain DNA viruses are oncogenic. His lab is particularly interested in a subset of human oncogenic papillomaviruses.

Kelly King
Research Specialist
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Rob Jackson, PhD
Research Associate
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Rob is recent PhD graduate from Thunder Bay, Ontario. In the lab, he seeks to understand the molecular basis for papillomavirus-related cancers using lab-grown 3D epithelial tissues, high-throughput sequencing techniques, and bioinformatics. Outside the lab, he is a sci-fi and space nerd.

David Williams
MD/PhD student
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natalie Payne

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Isabel (Issy) Tobey
Cancer Biology GIDP graduate student
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Amy M. Banka
Microbiology Graduate Student
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Esha V. Rajadhyaksha
Undergraduate Researcher
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Reid S. Loeffler
Undergraduate Researcher
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Sofia Ragonese
Undergraduate Researcher
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