Affiliation: Colorado State University

Adeline Williams is a PhD student in Dr. Ken Olson’s lab in the Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology Department at Colorado State University. She is also working with Dr. Eric Calvo at NIAID/NIH in the Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research as part of a Graduate Program Partnership between CSU & NIH. Adeline earned a Bachelor of Science in Public Health and a Bachelor of Arts in English at Tulane University in 2015. She then received her Master of Public Health in Infectious Disease Epidemiology from the Yale School of Public Health in 2017. For her master’s thesis, she studied tsetse-trypanosome interactions. In 2017-2018, she worked as a post-baccalaureate fellow in Dr. Carolina Barillas-Mury’s lab at NIH/NIAID and aided in studies characterizing a transmission-blocking vaccine candidate against malaria. Her current PhD research aims to characterize transgenic lines of arbovirus-resistant Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.