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Lab members
Tessa Bergsbaken, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Dr. Bergsbaken received her Ph.D. from the Department of Microbiology at the University of Washington in 2008. She continued her training in Micheal Bevan's lab at University of Washington, focusing on tissue-resident memory CD8+ T cell populations that develop in the intestinal tissue in response to local infection. She joined Rutgers NJMS Center for Immunity and Inflammation as an Assistant Professor in 2017.
Corey Gallen
Ph.D. Student - Infection, Immunity and Inflammation Track
Corey joined the lab in 2023 and is examining the role of CD103 in intestinal tissue-resident memory T cell function. cg961@gsbs.rutgers.edu
Jiangyan Zhang
Ph.D. Student - Infection, Immunity and Inflammation Track
Jiangyan joined the lab in 2023 and is studying plasticity in tissue-resident memory T cell populations during infection and cancer. jz982@gsbs.rutgers.edu
Abby Odle
Ph.D. Student - Infection, Immunity and Inflammation Track
Abby joined the lab in 2025 and is studying tissue-resident memory T cell differentiation during acute and chronic norovirus infection. aeo60@gsbs.rutgers.edu
Former lab members
Helen Fung, Ph.D.
2018-2022
Senior Scientist, AbbVie
Giuseppina Marchesini-Tovar, Ph.D.
2020-2025
Postdoctoral Fellow, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
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Menglin Cheng, Ph.D.
2018-2024
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