Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Ramya Barre

Ph.D. Student

Research Topic

Ramya works on generating reporter expressing influenza A viruses, and the development of live attenuated vaccines for canine influenza viruses. She also keenly works on in vivo studies using influenza viruses and SARS-CoV-2 in different animal models.

Education

M.S. in Molecular and Cell Biology - Long Island University, 2016 

M.Sc. in Zoology - Osmania University, India, 2012 

Current Program: Integrated Biomedical Sciences (IBMS) PhD program

Awards

2024 - Ph.D. candidate Ramya Barre awarded for having one of the top trainee poster presentations at both the Tropical and Emerging Infectious Diseases for Clinicians and Translational Scientists symposium at UTMB and the Conklyn symposium at UT Health. 

2023 - First place in the Texas BioMed Research Symposium in the graduate student division for her poster presentation titled "A bioluminescent reporter influenza A virus to evaluate viral infections".