Dr. Maureen Ty is a CDC LLS fellow assigned to the Dallas County Public Health Laboratory. She designs and performs verification and validation studies for Virology, LRN (Laboratory Response Network) and Sequencing units that leads to the rapid onboarding of new diagnostic systems during outbreaks. She is skilled in quality management systems, public health laboratory operations and safety risk assessments.Maureen received her PhD in Microbiology at New York University School of Medicine, where she studied innate immune response to parasitic infections, particularly Malaria, Chagas disease and Leishmaniasis. She continued her postdoctoral training at Stanford University, utilizing systems immunology approaches to determine mechanisms driving clinical immunity to malaria infections in children and pregnant women in Uganda.
Dr. Ann Carpenter is a veterinarian and Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officer working in the Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, in the Division of Vector Borne Diseases at CDC. She graduated veterinary school in 2019 with a DVM/MPH, and practiced small animal GP before starting at CDC in the One Health Office as an ORISE fellow. She is passionate about epidemiology, animal wellness, and public health.
Dr. Nicholas Olivarez is an APHL-CDC Infectious Disease fellow. He had graduated from the University of Missouri with PhD in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology. He is passionate about sharing his experience and knowledge with others beginning their path in science.
Useful links:
https://www.aphl.org/training/Pages/All-Laboratory-Training-Events-Search.aspx
https://www.cdc.gov/lls/index.html
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