Biography

Hannah is an expert in COVID-19 (Coronavirus) research and the ecology and evolution of bat-infection interactions.

Hannah is originally from Pasadena, California. She graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude before studying ecoimmunology in a threatened reptile in New Zealand on a Fulbright fellowship. She completed her PhD under the guidance of Elizabeth Hadly in 2017 in the Stanford Department of Biology. Her dissertation explored the ecology and evolution of bat-infection interactions, with a particular focus on diverse Costa Rican bat species living in a rural, agricultural landscape. She is now a postdoctoral fellow in Scott Boyd’s laboratory in the Department of Pathology funded by a Life Sciences Research Foundation postdoctoral fellowship. Her postdoctoral research seeks to understand macroevolutionary patterns in the evolution of bat innate and adaptive immunity with a focus on generation of B-cell and T-cell receptor diversity.

Areas of Expertise (4)

Coronavirus

Ecoimmunology

Ecology and evolution of bat-infection interactions

COVID-19

Education (3)

Harvard College: A.B., Organismic & Evolutionary Biology

summa cum laude

University of Southern California: Post-baccalaureate Premedical Program, Microbiology and biochemistry

Stanford University: PhD, Ecology, Evolution and Population Biology track