Staff

Katherine graduated from Clemson University with degrees in Microbiology and Biochemistry and experience studying the heme biosynthesis pathway of Toxoplasma. They are now a Molecular and Cell Biology PhD candidate in the Goldberg Lab. She is interested in understanding Plasmodium’s endoplasmic reticulum stress pathways and inhibiting these pathways in the parasite.

Alvee studied Cryptosporidium sexual differentiation in the Huston lab at the University of Vermont for his PhD. As a postdoc in the lab, he is currently working on protein trafficking pathways of P. falciparum, focusing on proteins that travel to the RBC as well as proteins of the parasite's digestive vacuole.

Wesley is a current student at Washington University in St. Louis, who specializes in Health Sciences. In the Goldberg lab, he is assisting with therapeutic drug targeting in Plasmodium falciparum. Along with being a research technician, Wesley is also a certified Rat Tickler.

Eva has undergraduate degrees in chemistry and biochemical/biophysical sciences from the University of Houston. She did her graduate research at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center with Dr. Johann Deisenhofer where she learned protein crystallography and solved the structure of human HMG-CoA reductase. Eva joined Dr. Goldberg’s lab as a postdoctoral fellow in 2001. She is interested in the molecular mechanisms of antimalarial compounds and processes which lead to the development of resistance.

Melissa obtained here PhD from the University of Nebraska Medical Center where she investigated the contribution of Plasmodium falciparum proteostasis mechanisms to artemisinin resistance and as antimalarial targets. She is currently a postdoctoral research scholar in the Goldberg lab where she is investigating how blood stage parasites regulate cytosolic heme concentrations while residing within heme-rich red blood cells and in response to antimalarials.

Barbara completed her master degree on biochemistry at the University of Nebraska. Before coming to Washington University in St. Louis , she worked for a pharmaceutical company for several years. Since then, she has been at Washu working for different labs in the department of immunology. For the last 20 years, Barbara has worked in the Goldberg Lab in the Department of Medicine and Molecular Microbiology on different molecular cloning projects. She's described by many members as the "Cloning God" of the lab.

Xu Wang graduated from Xia Men University in China where she studied the regulation of ookinete development in rodent Plasmodium. Currently, as a postdoctoral research associate in the Goldberg lab, she is interested in the Cryo-EM structure of microtubules in Plasmodium falciparum merozoites and gametocytes.