Katze Lab Staff

Principal Investigator

Dr. Michael Katze is Professor of Microbiology and Associate Director and Core Staff Scientist at the Washington National Primate Research Center. He received his Ph.D. from Hahnemann Medical College, was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Uppsala in Sweden, and conducted research in molecular biology and virology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center prior to joining the faculty at the University of Washington.

Michael Katze

Dr. Katze is recognized as a leader in applying genomic and proteomic technologies to the study of virus-host interactions and the interferon response. He is an author of over 200 papers and reviews and received the Milstein Award from the International Society of Interferon and Cytokine Research for his contributions to the interferon field. In 2006, Dr. Katze was awarded the prestigious Dozor Scholar Award by the Israeli Microbiology Society for his research accomplishments. He heads a laboratory of over 30 individuals, including graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, research scientists, software engineers, and bioinformatics and information technology specialists.

Michael Katze
honey@u.washington.edu

Administrative Team

	Cynthia Baker Program Manager cbaker1@u.washington.edu
Vickie Martin Administrative Assistant martinv@u.washington.edu
	Misty Nickle NIDA Center Administrator mistyn@u.washington.edu
Grace Park Fiscal Specialist gracep@u.washington.edu
	Douglas Vollgraff Program Coordinator douged@u.washington.edu

Senior Scientists and Fellows

Sarah Belisle, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow sbelisle@u.washington.edu
	Birgit Bradel-Tretheway, Ph.D. Research Scientist bradelb@u.washington.edu
Eric Chan, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow ericchan@u.washington.edu
	Cristian Cilloniz, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow cilloniz@u.washington.edu
Deborah Diamond, Ph.D. Senior Research Scientist ddiamond@u.washington.edu
	Marcus Korth, Ph.D. Senior Research Scientist korth@u.washington.edu
Lynn Law, Ph.D. Systems Biology Project Manager gllaw@u.washington.edu
	Yu Li, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow liyu@u.washington.edu
Robert Palermo, Ph.D. Principal Research Scientist palermor@u.washington.edu
	Angela Rasmussen, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow arasmus@u.washington.edu
Jenny Tisoncik, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow tisoncik@u.washington.edu

research scientists

	Lauri Aicher Research Scientist laicher@u.washington.edu
Victoria Carter Research Scientist victoria@u.washington.edu
	Jean Chang Research Scientist mspiggy1@u.washington.edu
David Purdy Research Scientist purdyd@u.washington.edu
	Elizabeth Rosenzweig Research Scientist elizr@u.washington.edu
Matthew Thomas Research Scientist mnkyboy@u.washington.edu
	Marlene Wambach Research Scientist wambach@u.washington.edu

research technologists

Cecilia Boyer Research Technologist cboyer@u.washington.edu
	Socorro Ortiz Research Technologist sortiz@u.washington.edu

Bioinformatics and information technology

Scott Droubay Systems Administration sdroubay@u.washington.edu
	Kaitlyn Grady Informatics Specialist kgrady15@u.washington.edu
Chester Ni Computational Biology Group Leader chestern@u.washington.edu
	Tim Owens Informatics Systems Manager tfowens@u.washington.edu
Xinxia Peng Computational Research Scientist xinxiap@u.washington.edu
	Sean Proll Bioinformatics Manager proll@u.washington.edu

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Stimulus money to boost study of AIDS

Dr. Katze Discusses Swine Flu Vaccine Testing on King 5 News