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Principal Investigator

Jeffrey P Henderson, M.D., Ph.D, FIDSA

Professor of Medicine and Molecular Microbiology

Washington University School of Medicine

Division of Infectious Diseases

Center for Women's Infectious Diseases Research

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Email: hendersonj@wustl.edu

 

Jeff earned an Honors B.S. in Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin - Madison (1994) and M.D./Ph.D. degree (Molecular Biophysics) in the laboratory of Jay W Heinecke at Washington University School of Medicine (2002). He completed Medicine residency and Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, with post-doctoral research in the laboratory of Scott Hultgren. He is a Burroughs-Wellcome Career Awardee, an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), recipient of the 2017 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award from the Washingon University Graduate Senate, and co-Director of the new Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology (BBSB) Graduate Program at Washington University.

Lab Staff

Hung Tran, M.S.

Senior Research Technician

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Hung earned a B.S. in Chemistry at Saint Louis University and a M.A. in  Biology at Washington University. He has extensive laboratory experience in biochemistry and experimental disease models. He joined the Henderson Lab in 2014.

 

Jan R. Crowley

Research Lab Manager (joint with John Turk)

Email: janrcrowley@gmail.com

Jan earned a B.S. in Chemistry at the University of Missouri - St. Louis. She has extensive  experience in biomedical mass spectrometry using LC-MS and GC-MS. She has worked with the Henderson Lab since 2010.

 

John Robinson Ph.D.

Email: john.robinson@wustl.edu

John earned a B.S. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at the Yale University in 2011. He entered the Biochemistry Program at Washington University School of Medicine in 2011, completed thesis research with Steve Beverley, and joined the Henderson Lab in 2017. He is exploring the use of mass spectrometry-based metabolomic analyses in infectious and urological diseases.

Staff Scientist

Postdoctoral Fellow

Yiquan Xu

Email: yiquan.xu@wustl.edu

Yiquan graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry from Nanjing University in 2015. He joined the Chemistry graduate program at Washington University in 2015 and the Henderson lab in 2016. Yiquan is studying siderophore biosynthesis.

Students

John Wildenthal

Graduate Student/MSTP

Email: jawildenthal@wustl.edu

John graduated with a BS in Biochemistry from the Ohio State University. He did an NIH  postbaccalaureate year and joined the MSTP and DBBS Systems Biology program. In his graduate studies, John uses mass spectrometry-based metabolomics and microbial genetics to understand how secreted "exometabolites" from microbes influence the development of clinical infections.

Lindsey Steinberg

Graduate Student/MSTP

Email: steinbergl@wusm.wustl.edu

Lindsey earned a B.S. in Chemistry at Washington University and entered the Medical Scientist Training Program in 2013. She will begin her thesis work in the Henderson Lab in summer 2015. She is interested in the biochemistry of the host-pathogen interface during human bacterial infections.

James Heffernan

Graduate Student

Email: jheffernan@wustl.edu

Jim graduated with a BS in Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2012. He joined the DBBS Biochemistry program in 2016 and the Henderson lab in 2017. In his graduate studies, Jim investigates how bacterial siderophores interact with the host during infections.

Lab Alumni

Zongsen Zou (Ph.D., 2021).                          Postdoctoral Fellow, Hultgren Lab, Washington Univ.

George Katumba (Ph.D., 2021).                  Postdoctoral Fellow, Hultgren Lab, Washington Univ.

Anne Robinson (Ph.D.,2018)                        HHMI Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Joe Jez, Washington Univ.

Shannon Ohlemacher (Ph.D.,2017)             Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Carole Bewley, NIDDK

Eun-ik Koh (Ph.D., 2015)                          Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Chris Sassetti, Univ. Massachusetts

Robin Shields-Cutler (Ph.D., 2015)             Assistant Professor, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN

Kaveri (Chaturvedi) Parker (Ph.D., 2012) Chief Business Officer, Synedgen, Inc., Claremont, CA

Chia Hung, Ph.D.                                          UES, Inc., Dayton, OH

Agnes Briard, M.S.                                       Nouveal e-santé, Lyons, France

Jonas Marschall, M.D.                                 Hospital Epidemiologist, Bern University Hospital, Switzerland, Professor                                                                          of Medicine, Washington University.

Haitao Lv, Ph.D.                                           Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

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