Faculty & Scientific Staff

Kayla is a graduate student in the UW immunology program. She got her BS in microbiology from UMass Amherst in 2012 and then worked as a research technician and lab manager at UC San Francisco in Dr. Mark Anderson’s lab studying mechanisms of central T cell tolerance. She then moved into the biotech industry, working in pharmacology/toxicology and discovery immunology until deciding to pursue her PhD. Kayla joined the Lacy-Hulbert lab in 2021 and is studying trained immune responses in human macrophages. In her freetime, Kayla is an avid scuba diver who is always looking for her next dive trip.