Kurre Lab Members
Peter Kurre
Peter Kurre earned his medical degree from Aachen University (RWTH), Germany. He completed his pediatric residency at the University of Chicago followed by fellowship training in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at the University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Dr. Kurre remained at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center for his post-doctoral training in transplantation- and stem cell biology.
Dr. Kurre joined the faculty at Oregon Health & Science University in 2004 with joint appointments in the Departments of Pediatrics and Cell & Developmental Biology. He is a member of the Papé Family Pediatric Research Institute and the OHSU Stem Cell Center.
Dr. Kurre’s clinical research interest is in bone marrow failure syndromes, including Aplastic Anemia and Fanconi Anemia, an area where he has published numerous papers.
Santhosh C. Verghese
Santhosh received his Ph.D in Applied Biology in 2009 from Mumbai University for the studies on HIV-2 based lentiviral vector development at Advanced Centre for Treatment Research & Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Navi Mumbai, India. The focus of the research was the design of a 3rd generation LV with user-friendly MCS and post delivery biodistribution enhancement by trafficking the protein products to neighboring cells. The vector is currently under use in different labs. With strong research interest in retrovirology & vector biology, Santhosh joined Dr. Martin Malcolm’s Lab at the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Deceases (NIAID), NIH, Bethesda as a postdoctoral fellow and received training in the field of S/HIV development & generation of shuffled expression libraries of HIV envelopes as a vaccine candidate. Santhosh received the prestigious Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) from Council for Scientific & Industrial Research, (CSIR) India.
Santhosh joined the Kurre laboratory in December 2011.
Natalia Goloviznina
Natalya Goloviznina graduated from Oregon State University in 2011 with a B.S. in Microbiology and a minor in Chemistry. As an undergraduate, she worked in Dr. Hiro Nonogaki’s lab at OSU studying seed biology, focusing primarily on seed germination and dormancy. She is the past recipient of many scholarships and undergraduate research grants including the Howard Hughes Medical Institute summer research grant and the Undergraduate Research, Innovation, Scholarship & Creativity grant from OSU.Natalya joined the laboratory in October 2011.
Jianya Huan
Noah Hornick
Noah graduated in 2002 with a BS in Computer Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he was supported by a presidential scholarship. He pursued a career in commercial software development for a number of years before developing an interest in biological sciences, which led him to seek additional education. He returned to RIT, receiving a post-baccalaureate certificate in basic sciences. He subsequently worked in the laboratory of Dr. Charles Duffy at the University of Rochester, studying the contributions of neurons in higher-order visual cortex to the perception of movement in order to better inform the diagnosis and management of patients with Alzheimer's Disease. During the course of this work, Noah became committed to the pursuit of translational research, and enrolled in OHSU's Medical Scientist Training Program.
Noah is an MD/PhD student in the Program for Molecular and Cellular Biosciences at OHSU.
Thomas Russell
Thomas graduated from the University of New Mexico (UNM) with a B.A. in Biochemistry in 2001 and a M.D. in 2006. He completed his pediatric residency at the University of New Mexico Hospital (UNMH) prior to starting his Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellowship here at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). Clinically, Thomas's interests include hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) and graft versus host disease (GVHD).
Thomas joined the lab in the fall of 2010 and is developing new methods of targeted cellular therapy.
Ashley Kamimae-Lanning
Ashley Kamimae-Lanning graduated in 2008 from George Fox University (Newberg, OR) with a B.S. in Biology and minors in Art and Chemistry. She is a Bill & Melinda Gates Millennium Scholar and has received numerous scholarships in the past. As an undergraduate, she worked in the laboratory of Dr. Trent Smith at George Fox, investigating whether Spring beauty latent virus can suppress the defensive mechanism of RNA interference in Arabidopsis thaliana. She later worked in Dr. Peter Spencer's Toxicogenomics laboratory at the Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology in Portland, OR, examining the common gene expression profile across brain and testis tissues in a mouse model for manganese exposure, in order to further elucidate how this dual toxin affects both tissues simultaneously.
Ashley is a graduate student in the Program for Molecular and Cellular Biosciences at OHSU and is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Ashley joined the laboratory in April 2009.
Amy Skinner
Amy Skinner graduated cum laude with a BA in Biology in 1998 from Concordia University in Portland, OR. In her subsequent graduate studies at Oregon State University/ Oregon Health & Science University, she worked with Dr. Mitchell Turker on the aspects of mismatch repair after oxidative and/ or UV damage in mammalian cells. Her curriculum includes appointments as Graduate Research Assistant at OHSU and Mathematics Instructor at ITT Technical College in Portland, OR. She is the past recipient of numerous scholarships and awards. Amy received her PhD from Oregon State University/ Oregon Health & Science University in 2006.
Amy is a member of the Society of Toxicology, Pacific Northwest chapter (PANWAT), and Science of Aging Knowledge Advancement (SAGE-KE).
Amy joined the laboratory in July 2006.
Past Members
Andrea McBeth
Andrea McBeth graduated in 2008 with a B.A. in Biochemistry from the University of San Diego Honors College. As an undergraduate, she worked within the comparative immunology laboratory of Dr. Valerie Hohman at the University of San Diego, characterizing polymeric immunoglobulin receptor (pIgR) in lower vertebrates. She then went on to work in the laboratory of Dr. David Checkley at The Scripps Institution of Oceanography, aiding in a study examining the diet of albacore tuna. She finished her undergraduate education with an honors thesis, analyzing the isotopic fingerprints of albacore tuna livers, and the fingerprints of their prey's tissue in relation to their relative trophic levels.
Andrea joined the laboratory in August 2009.
Josh (Yung-Wei) Pan (BSc)
Josh majored in Chemistry/ Forensics Science and earned his Bachelor of Science Degree from Oregon State University (OSU) in Corvallis, OR. His undergraduate curriculum included a semester spent abroad at Lancaster University in Lancaster England. Mr. Pan was a 2003 OSU McNair Scholar, National Merit Scholar, OSU Dean’s List and graduated with Summa Cum Laude.
In his Undergraduate work Mr. Pan focused on Plant Virology and worked as a Student Research Assistant in the Laboratory of Valerian V Dolja in the Department of Botany and Plant Virology at OSU. He published his findings on Closterovirus Membrane Protein movement in the Journal of Virology and has made major contributions to subsequent work on Beet Yellow Virus.
Mr. Pan is an active member of the Asian Pacific American Student Union. He joined the laboratory in August 2004.
Josh joined the Graduate Program in Molecular and Cellular Biology at University of Washington / Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in the fall of 2006
Tammy Luoh (B.S.)
Tammy majored in Biochemistry with a minor in Economics and graduated in June 2005 with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. She is the recipient of a number of academic Scholarships including the John Jay Rogers Pre Med Memorial Scholarship, the Joseph K, Starr Scholarship and the Diversity Building Scholarship. Ms. Luoh is a member of National Society of Collegiate Scholars and a Student Affiliate of the American Chemical Society.
She served as Publisher and Program Coordinator for the Univ. of Oregon Chinese Student Association.
During her undergraduate studies, she received the University of Oregon Summer Student Research Award that allowed her to participate in toxicology research studies by Dr. Lloyd and McCullough at the OHSU Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology. As part of her research, she was involved in setting up research studies on mitochondrial DNA repair mechanisms.
She has also worked with Dr. Guillemin at the Institute of Microbiology at the University of Oregon to print the heliobacter pylori DNA microarrays.
Ms. Luoh joined our laboratory in October 2005
Tammy is a member of the OHSU Medical School class of 2010.
Lee O'Neill (B.A.)
After receiving an Associate of Arts Degree in Business Administration in August, 2003 from Clark College in Vancouver, Washington, Lee O'Neill (B.A.) majored in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and graduated in May, 2006 from Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Lee graduated with Highest Honors from Clark College and was awarded a Commendation for Academic Excellence in Scholarship from Reed College in May, 2006. She was also awarded an Arwen Isaac Scholarship in 2006.
As an undergraduate, Lee worked in the laboratories of Dr. Richard Brennan and Dr. Maria Schumacher at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston , Texas , researching the QacR protein, a protein involved in conferring bacterial resistance to antimicrobials in S. aureus. Her research in Houston , Texas was supported by a Reed College Initiative Grant.
Lee joined the laboratory in August, 2006. Lee is a member of the OHSU Medical School class of 2013.
Matthew Shurtleff
Matthew Shurtleff graduated from Cal Poly State University (San Luis Obispo, CA) with a B.S. in Microbiology and minors in Biotechnology and Psychology in 2006. He continued his education at Cal Poly earning his M.S. with Honors in Biological Sciences in May 2009. At Cal Poly, Matthew’s research interests lay primarily in the field of gastrointestinal microbiology. His thesis research was under the mentorship of Dr. Michael Black and involved the genetic engineering of probiotic bacteria to treat celiac disease. After earning his M.S., Matthew traveled to the University of Otago in New Zealand where he worked on utilizing high-throughput sequencing technologies for metagenomic and metatranscriptomic analysis of the human intestinal microbiome. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Matt joined the 2011 matriculating class at the University of California Berkeley in the Molecular & Cell Biology Program.
Josha Woodward
Josha's interest in biomedical research began after completion of an undergraduate internship at Colorado State University in 2006. There, his research investigated the effect of omega-3:omega-6 fatty acid dietary supplementation towards decreasing the prevalence of cardiovascular disease in America. Josha continued his omega fatty acid research at Oregon State University the same year, as his Honors thesis centered upon establishing the effect of maternal omega-3 fatty acid dietary supplementation on the production of Immunoglobulin Y in Broiler chicks. Josha was a member of Oregon State University's Honors College, graduating from OSU with a B.S. in Microbiology, A.S. in Chemistry, and A.A. in English Literature. He has received numerous academic scholarships throughout his undergraduate curriculum and plans to pursue a career in medicine.
Josha left the laboratory in April 2010.
