Team

Anusha is a Research Technician who joined the lab in December of 2024. She received her Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience in 2024.

Sneha is a research Technician who joined the lab in the August of 2024. She received her Masters in Biotechnology from the Department of Molecular Medicine in 2025 from USF

Brooke is a Research Technician and joined the lab in June of 2025. She received her Bachelor of Science in Health Science in 2025 from University of South Florida.

Brooke is a Research Technician and joined the lab in June of 2025. She received her Bachelor of Science in Health Science in 2025 from University of South Florida.

Dr. Sonia Sharma is a Ph.D. graduate from India and joined the lab in 2025. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Scholar working on Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease. Her research focuses on gene regulatory mechanisms in Borrelia, aiming to understand how bacterial gene regulators control pathogenicity and contribute to the molecular mechanisms underlying Lyme disease progression.

Chenyi Chu is a postdoctoral scholar and joined the lab in June of 2025. She received her Doctor of Medical Sciences in Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, China. She is interested in the molecular mechanism of transmission and pathogenesis of Borrelia burgdorferi, the pathogen of Lyme disease.

Dr. Ouyang is an Associate Professor at USF’s Morsani College of Medicine. He obtained his Ph.D. in Comparative and Molecular Biosciences at the University of Minnesota in 2007 and received his Postdoctoral training at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas between 2007-2009. He was an Instructor between 2009-2012 and an Assistant Professor between 2012-2017 in the Department of Microbiology at UT Southwestern.