Ryan Steger

Biography

 

Email: [email protected]

Program: Medical Scientist Training Program (MD/PhD)
Year Entered: 2024 (Entered MICaB in 2026)
Thesis Advisors: Carla Rothlin and Sourav Ghosh

Research:
My research is focused on cell death sensing and inflammation resolution. 

Degrees received: B.A., College of St. Scholastica, 2021. 

Ryan Steger

Audrey Hilk

Biography

Email: [email protected]

Program: Molecular Pharmacology & Therapeutics (MPaT) Graduate Student
Year Entered: 2024
Thesis Advisor: Ingunn Stromnes (lab website)

Research: My research interest/thesis work focuses on targeting a phenotypically distinct subset of myofibroblasts in pancreatic cancer using conditionally active therapeutics.

Audrey Hilk

Ece Kilic

Biography

Email: [email protected]

Program: MCDB&G Graduate Student
Year entered: 2025
Thesis Advisor: Tanya Freedman (Lab website)

Research:
Currently investigating signaling mechanisms that regulate myeloid cell trafficking to breast tumors

Ece Kilic

Aidan Edge

Biography

Email: [email protected] 

Program: Comparative and Molecular Biosciences Ph.D. Graduate Student
Year Entered: 2024
Thesis Advisor: Monica Campo

Research: My research interests include the genetic and environmental mechanisms of infectious disease, along with host-pathogen interactions.
 

Aidan Edge

Victor K. Yu

Biography

 

Email: [email protected]

Program: Medical Scientist Training Program (MD/PhD)
Year entered: 2023
Thesis Advisor: Mike Farrar

Research:
 

Degrees received:
BS, University of California - Berkeley, 2021

Victor Yu

James Berg, M.S.

Biography

 

Email: [email protected]

Program: Comparative and Molecular Biosciences Ph.D. Graduate Student
Year Entered: 2024
Thesis Advisor: Nathan Schuldt

Research:
Investigating potential impacts on immune cells during pregnancy and early life from hematopoiesis, as well as extracellular vesicles from the maternal-fetal interface in natural microbial exposure (NME) mice.

James Berg

Michael Chang

Biography

 

Email: [email protected]

Program: Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology Graduate Student
Year Entered: 2023
Thesis Advisor: Jesse Williams

Michael Chang