People

People in the Bashey Lab

Farrah Bashey-Visser

Farrah Bashey-Visser

PI

Farrah is a senior lecturer and researcher in the Department of Biology and in the Human Biology Program. 

Morgan Familo

Morgan Familo

Ph.D. Candidate

2021 - present

Morgan has a broad background in several areas of biology.  She began working in our lab in Spring 2023.  Her dissertation research focuses on the evolution of symbiotic associations.  She's especially interested in understanding how and why associations evolve from beneficial to harmful.  

Jonathan Enriquez Madrid

Jonathan Enriquez Madrid

Ph.D. Candidate

2022 - present

Jonathan is motivated by the dramatic consequences that individual behaviors can have on whole communities. In our lab he's examining how nematode behavior may allow multiple species of entomathogens to coexist in same forest soils.  

Maddie Kaufmann

Maddie Kaufmann

Undergraduate

October 2023-current

Maddie started in the lab as a CEWiT REU, she is now a senior working towards an Honor's Thesis in Biology.

Luca Kim

Luca Kim

Undergraduate

October 2023 - present

Luca has been involved as a volunteer, via IUUR STEM Summer Research Program and as IU Research Ambassador.   

Katelyn Moore

Katelyn Moore

Undergraduate

Summer 2024-current

Katie started in the lab through IUUR STEM Summer Research Program, she has continued working in the lab as volunteer, and through the CISAB REU Program. She is now a junior working towards an Honor's Thesis in Biology

Lab Alumni

(if you are not listed and want to be, send me an update)

Ashwini Ramesh (2016-2022) Ph.D. 2022
Ashwini examined mechanisms of parasite coexistence using modeling and experimental approaches. She went on to Presidental Postdoc in the EEB Department at MSU and now is a Hutchinson Fellow at Yale. [Ashwini's Website].

Zoe Dinges (2015-2021) Ph.D. 2021
Zoe was a student with Curt Lively, in our lab she studied the ability of Xenorhabdus bovienii to partner with novel nematode species.  Zoe is now working in marketing for life science businesses  [Zoe's Website].

Amrita Bhattacharya (2013-2019) Ph.D. 2019
Amrita studied bacteriocin production, its relation to virulence, and how competition can limit the evolution of its resistance. She was a postdoc with David Kennedy at Penn State's Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics. Amrita is now a Data Curation Scientist at Rancho Biosciences [Amrita's Website].

Sofia Espada (Fall 2016-2019) B.S. 2019
Sofia entered the lab through the CEWiT program. She helped develop qPCR methods for nematode id. Sofia is now working for Cook Medical .

Aishvarya Agrawal (Spring 2019)
Visiting M.S. Student from Institute of Bioinfomatics and Biotechnology Savitribai Phule Pune University, India.

Shaina Lee (Fall 2014-2018) B.S. 2018
CEWiT REU, L490. Shaina is now at tech in the Chemistry Department.

Trey Embrey (Fall 2014-May 2017) B.S. 2018
STARS, L490. Trey went on to IU Medical School.

Mark Gaughan (Spring 2014-2017) B.S. 2017
L490. Mark went on to study biochemical engineering at University College London.

Sofia Bertoloni-Meli (Spring 2013-May 2016) B.S. 2016
NSF REU, Honor's Thesis in Biology, recipient of the IU Biology Undergraduate Research Award and Fox Glen Award 2016.  Sofia has now graduated from IU Medical School.

Nick Ivers (February-October 2014) B.S. 2014
Nick went on to be a Ph.D. student studying disease ecology in bees at UT Austin .

Leah Palmer (Spring 2013-May 2014) B.S. 2014
NSF REU, Honor's Thesis in Microbiology.
Leah went on to be a research scientist at Lilly.