Affiliation: Seattle Children’s Research Institute

Dr. Miralda is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Immunity and Immunotherapy at Seattle Children’s Research Institute. Dr. Miralda received a BS in Biology (2014) at the University of Louisville, followed by a MS(2017) and PhD (2020) in Microbiology & Immunology from the University of Louisville. During her PhD in the lab of Dr. Silvia Uriarte, Dr. Miralda studied the interactions between human neutrophils and the emerging oral pathogen, Filifactor alocis, and their contribution to the pathogenesis of periodontitis. Now, her postdoctoral fellowship in the lab of Dr. Adrian Piliponsky expands Dr. Miralda’s area of expertise to mast cells, which play an important regulatory role in the innate immune response in allergic reactions and infections in mucosal tissues.