PHAGE IMMUNOLOGY & PATHOGENESIS

We advance the understanding of viruses, educate the scientists of tomorrow, and impact human health worldwide.

OUR SCIENCE

PHAGE IMMUNOLOGY

Innate Immune Response to Phages

PHAGE PATHOGENESIS

Phage Control of Bacterial Virulence

PHAGE THERAPY

Antibacterials

OUR WORK

OUR TEAM

A collection of scientists with a passion for bacteriophages.

Dwayne Roach, PhD

Assistant Professor / Conrad Prebys Chair of Virology

Wai Hoe Chin, PhD

Post-Doctoral Researcher

Tiffany Luong

PhD Student
ARCS Scholar
Rees-Stealy Research Fellow

Nino Grdzelishvili

Visiting PhD Candidate

Johann Tailor

Rotating PhD Student

Andrew Sue

Master's Student
MRS Scholar

Zimri E. Mena

Master's Student

Lukeman Kharrat

Bioinformatics Master's Student

Viktoria Voragen

Research Technician

Jennifer Melendez

Post-Bac Researcher

Jorge Villanueva

Undergraduate Researcher

Nicholas Lam

Undergraduate Researcher

Lab Alumni

NEWS

Insights into our lab, research, and scientific news.

Jan 30

We welcomed Senator Wagner and Dr. Badaro to the lab

Last week Senator Jaques Wagner and Dr. Roberto Badaro from Brazil visited us to see “in action” our research and efforts to bring phage...

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Jan 24

IPATH SEMINAR SERIES: Dr. Daria Van Tyne

For the first “field trip” of the new year, the Roach Lab adventured to UCSD for the re-instatement of the IPATH “Translational Research...

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Jan 19

Introducing our very own cup of Jo-hann!

We’d like to give a warm welcome to PhD student Johann Tailor. Johann is currently on his second lab rotation and is a DRI/CGS Doctoral...

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Jan 17

Introducing Nino, our visiting Georgian (country not state!) PhD Candidate

This Fall-Spring we're hosting visiting PhD candidate Nino Grdzelishvili in our lab. Nino studies phage characterization and brings with...

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Nov 15, 2022

J&J, an Undergrad Company

We'd like to showcase our amazing undergraduates in the lab today. Jennifer Melendez is a senior at SDSU working on her Cell and...

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Sep 27, 2022

We're in euphoria, welcome Viktoria!

We'd like to welcome Viktoria Voragen to our team of phage enthusiasts! Viktoria originally joined our lab as an undergraduate (but we...

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