Michael J. Boucher, PhD (he/him/his)
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences, University at Albany
BS, Microbiology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2013
BS, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2013
PhD, Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University, 2019
Postdoctoral Training, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco
Mike began his research career as an undergraduate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he studied mitochondrial DNA replication in African trypanosomes with Michele Klingbeil. Fascinated by parasitic protozoa, he completed his PhD with Ellen Yeh[1] at Stanford University studying organelle biology in malaria parasites. He then pursued postdoctoral training in fungal genetics and pathogenesis with Hiten Madhani[2] at UCSF. His research aims to understand the unique biology of eukaryotic pathogens, with the long-term goal of developing new treatment and prevention strategies for the diseases they cause.
Jaideep Mallick, PhD
Research Scientists
BS, Physics, St. Xaviers' College, Calcutta University, India
MS, Biophysics, Kalyani University, India
M.Phil, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
PhD, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Jaideep completed his PhD with Prof. Kasturi Datta working with Hyaluronic Acid Binding Protein (HABP1) and Schizosaccharomyces pombe for his PhD. He then moved to Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, NYC, to work with Prof. Jonathan Warner, on understanding multi-protein complexes controlling transcription of ribosomal proteins in ribosome biosynthesis. Further he has worked with Malcolm Whiteway on understanding major pathways in Candida albicans. Presently he is working with Dr. Michael Boucher to understand protein function involved in infection pathways of Cryptococcus neoformans, with the ultimate aim to develop new families of drugs for this and related pathogens.
Kimberly Acevedo, PhD
BS, Biology, Dominican University of New York, 2019
BS, Chemistry, Dominican University of New York, 2019
PhD, Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2025
Postdoctoral Training, Department of Biology, Texas A&M, Texas 2026
Kimberly completed her PhD with John G. Gibbons (hyerlink to: John G. Gibbons : Molecular & Cellular Biology : UMass Amherst[3]) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst studying population genomics of domesticated Aspergillus species. She is now pursuing postdoctoral training in fungal genetics and pathogenesis in the Boucher lab at the Wadsworth Center. Her research aims to develop next-generation functional genomic tools that will improve the study of fungal pathogens, enabling new insights into their biology and potential therapeutic targets.
Hayden Dillow, MS
PhD Student
BS, Clinical Laboratory Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell 2022
MS, Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell 2024
Hayden completed his education at UMass Lowell, where he started his research career studying food borne pathogens as an undergraduate. Hayden then entered the workforce as a member of the Pathology department at a CRO. He is currently a PhD student in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University at Albany, where he his pursuing his doctoral research in the Boucher Lab.
