Abby Ast
Research Assistant

Abby recently graduated from Skidmore College with a Bachelor’s degree in Cellular & Molecular Biology and Spanish. During undergrad, she had the privilege of spending a year studying and working in Madrid and Copenhagen. In her undergrad research labs, she worked on projects investigating phase shift asymmetry, bacterial heavy metal resistance, and the relationship between chemotherapy and circadian rhythm. In the Burger Lab, Abby is investigating the role of iron regulation in tumor immune evasion. Outside of the lab, Abby loves to rock climb, ski, camp, bake sourdough, read, and travel.

Rohan Chaudhari

Graduate Student

Rohan Chaudhari attended UCLA, where he studied Molecular Biology. Following graduation, Rohan joined the National Institute of Cancer as a post-baccalaureate fellow under the tutelage of Dr. Mathew Wolf Ph.D. Currently, Rohan's research interests are focused on therapeutic interventions to break antigen hierarchies found within tumor microenvironments. Outside of the lab, Rohan is an avid reader and loves to play video games and board games with friends. Rohan is also a huge fan of the San Francisco 49ers and has spent the last ten years watching his favorite team lose a total of 3 Super Bowls (we’ll get em next time!).

Alyssa Granados

Graduate Student

Alyssa recently graduated from UC Santa Barbara where she earned a degree in Cell and Developmental Biology. During her time as an undergrad, she was an NIH funded MARC scholar in Dr. Meghan Morrissey's lab and had the privilege of traveling to Harvard Medical School for a summer to work in Dr. Wendy Garrett's lab. Currently, she is interested in understanding how antigen clonality and tumor heterogeneity contribute to T cell immune hierarchies within the tumor microenvironment. Outside of the lab, she enjoys roller skating, participating in science outreach events, and going on fun hikes with her roommate.

Peter Matulich

Graduate Student

Peter Matulich graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in biochemistry. Following graduation, he spent three years at Parse Biosciences, where he focused on developing scRNA-seq methods. Currently, Peter's research interests in the lab revolve around the role of CD4 T cells in cancer immunotherapy and the competition of different antigens in the tumor micro-environment. Outside of the lab, Peter enjoys skiing at Mt. Hood as long as the snow lasts and playing tennis with friends in pleasant weather. He also loves exploring as many restaurants as Portland has to offer; an impossible but delicious task.

Bree Mohr
Graduate Student

Bree graduated from University of Oregon with a degree in Biology and French. After graduating, she worked for several years as a research technician and lab manager in the Zemper Lab at the University of Oregon, studying the dynamics of stem cell regeneration in inflammatory bowel diseases. More recently she worked as an R&D Scientist at Thermo Fisher before joining the Burger Lab, where her current research is focused on spatial profiling of lymphocytes in the tumor microenvironment using various imaging techniques. Outside the lab, Bree enjoys creating music and art, and playing video games with friends.

Grace Potter
Computational Biologist I

Grace graduated Cum Laude from the University of Portland with a degree in Biology before heading to Oregon Health & Science University, where she earned her Master’s in Bioinformatics and Computational Biomedicine. In the Burger lab, Grace serves as a computational resource for the team, specializing in multi-omic integration, data visualization, and building reproducible pipelines for high-throughput omics datasets. She is the lead developer of OmNI (Omics Notebook Interactive), an open-source framework published in NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics, and has spent recent months analyzing tumor-intrinsic immune system mechanisms in lung adenocarcinoma. Outside of the lab, Grace spends her time knitting, trying every chai in the Portland-metro area, and soaking up the Oregon sunshine as often as possible.