Paige N. Canova is pursuing a Ph.D. at the Department of
Microbiology and Immunology, Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies at
Dartmouth. She received her B.S. in Biological Sciences from the University of
Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) in 2017. Her long-term project goal is to
identify viral and host mechanisms that modulate Herpes Simplex Virus type 1
(HSV-1) lytic and latent infection. Her current objective is to determine the
key role autophagy plays in the establishment and maintenance of latency in
innate and intrinsic immunity using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs).
Dr. Audra J. Charron has a position as a Senior Research Scientist and is currently working at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA. She was a Senior Scientist at the Washington University in St. Louis. She received her Bachelor of Science (BS) in Biology from Loyola University Chicago in 1992; and her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Cell Biology from the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, in 1999. She was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Washington University School of Medicine. Her graduate and post-doctoral training was centered on cell biology and microbiology, with a focus on cellular polarity and host–pathogen interactions. In the Leib lab, she investigates the molecular basis of immunomodulation by herpesviruses, hoping to discover a link between virus-altered mitochondrial energetics and neuronal pathogenesis.
Dr. David A. Leib has a position as a Chair and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and an Adjunct Professor of Biology and is currently working at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA. He received his B.Sc. in Biological Sciences from the University of Birmingham, UK, in 1983. He then received his Ph.D. from the Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Liverpool, UK, in 1986. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University with Dr. Priscilla Schaffer from 1987 to 1990. He was then appointed to the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis, where he served as Professor until 2009, before moving to Dartmouth. He became Chair of Microbiology and Immunology in 2018. His laboratory has studied the pathogenesis and biology of herpes simplex virus (HSV), with an emphasis on studying the interface of the virus and the host.
