Divya Dubey

Divya Dubey began her research journey as an undergraduate research assistant in a plant virology lab at Rutgers University in New Jersey. At Rutgers, she learned about the evolutionary biology of Begomoviruses and published a study measuring the protein diversity between two proteins encoded on the secondary genomic segment of bipartite Begomoviruses. As a graduate student at UMass Amherst (MCB 2022), Divya made a big jump to immunology and now studies the effect of M. tuberculosis infection on alveolar macrophages (AM) in C3HeB/FeJ mice. She is interested in characterizing how mouse strain differences generate unique responses to TB vaccination and challenge in AMs.