Recent Lab Members
Ambily Abraham, PhD
Ambily Abraham graduated from Indian Institute of Science and joined Prof. Gary Ostroff’s lab to pursue her postdoctoral studies. Among other collaborative projects, she worked closely with the Levitz lab on developing glucan particle-based vaccines targeting fungal diseases.
Amina Bradley
Amina Bradley graduated from North Carolina A&T State University in 2020 with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. She joined the lab as a member of the UMass Chan Post-baccalaureate Research Education Program. Her research project was to study the contribution of antibodies to the cryptococcal proteins Cpd1 and Blp4 play in vaccine-mediated protection.
Christina Gomez
Christina Gomez graduated from Becker College with a Bachelor of Science in the Animal Science Program. She joined the lab in 2017. Christina maintained the mouse colonies and helped run the vaccination studies.
Chrono Lee, PhD
After getting his bachelor’s degree from UMass Amherst, Chrono Lee joined the Levitz lab as a research associate and later a PhD student where he studied a coinfection model of influenza and Aspergillus fumigatus. He successfully defended his PhD in September 2023.
Zhongming Mou
Zhongming Mou received his medical degree and training in surgery and pathology in China. He has worked at UMass Chan Medical School since 2013. Zhongming’s main project was to decipher the contribution of CD4+ and CD8+ T cells to protection mediated by Cryptococcus vaccines. He also helps with the Aspergillus immunology studies.
Bhawna Yadav, PhD
Bhawna Yadav received her PhD in 2015 from the National JALMA Institute for Leprosy & Other Mycobacterial Diseases in Agra, India. She joined the Levitz lab as Postdoctoral researcher in 2016. Bhawna’s research was focused on investigating the contribution of eosinophils and the IL-23/IL-17 axis to host immune responses to Aspergillus.