Our Team
Simon Dove
Principle Investigator
Education
BSc, University of Warwick, UK
PhD, University of Dundee, UK
Post-doctoral training, Harvard Medical School, MA
simon.dove@childrens.harvard.edu
Pallabi Basu
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Education
MSc in Microbiology, University of Calcutta, India
PhD, India Institute of Chemical biology, India
Post-Doctoral Fellow, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Brendan O’Hara
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Education
BS in Microbiology, University of Michigan, MI
PhD in Molecular Microbiology, Tufts University, MA
Research Interests
Brendan joined the Dove lab in 2022 after completing his PhD in the lab of Wai-Leung Ng at Tufts University. Throughout his PhD he focused on the roles and regulation of well conserved mobile genetic elements in the pathogen Vibrio cholerae. He continues interrogating regulatory networks in his post-doctoral work in the Dove lab where he investigates the role of several sRNAs in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. These small molecules appear to have large global impacts, altering the way P. aeruginosa interacts with other organisms and impacting virulence.
brendan.ohara@childrens.harvard.edu
Marina Fonseca
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Education
BS in Biology/Biological Sciences, Federal University of Ceara
, Brazil
Masters in Microbiology, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
PhD in Microbiology,
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
marina.fonseca@childrens.harvard.edu
Kade Townsend
Graduate Student
Education
BS in Microbiology, University of Kansas, KS
kade.townsend@childrens.harvard.edu
Elizabeth Farland
Research Assistant III
Education
BS in Biology, Emmanuel College, MA
Elizabeth graduated from Emmanuel College in 2019 with a Bachelor of Science in Biology, a concentration in Health Sciences, and a minor in Psychology. After graduating, she worked at Massachusetts General Hospital as a clinical research coordinator in the Division of Cardiology. In this role, she assisted in the development and management of studies focused on Cardiovascular Genetics. As a research assistant in the Dove lab, Elizabeth is studying the regulation of virulence gene expression within Pseudomonas aeruginosa. She plans to pursue a PhD in cell and molecular biology.