Dr. Jennifer Dumaine Carrasco

Dr. Dumaine Carrasco is an assistant professor and leads a team of cadet researchers studying the impact of bacteriophage therapeutics on the microbiome in the Biodefense Protection and Technology Lab. 

Dr. Dumaine graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in biology and Spanish from Hanover College in Hanover, IN, in 2013. She earned a M.S. in biology from Western Kentucky University in 2015, where she studied the impact of sleep interruptions on the immune system under the guidance of Dr. Noah Ashley. She then went on to pursue a Ph.D. in cellular and molecular biology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. 

At UPenn, she was a recipient of the T32 Training Fellowship for Parasitology and worked in the lab of Dr. Boris Striepen to identify the effector proteins used by the protozoan parasite Cryptosporidium parvum to modify the host cell during infection. Following completion of a Ph.D., she conducted a post-doctoral fellowship in the Molecular Pathogenesis and Immunology department at Texas A&M University in the lab of Dr. James Samuel to identify and characterize immune modulating effector proteins of the gram-negative bacterium Coxiella burnetii.