Antiana Richardson
Research: Discovery and Characterization of RNA Quality Control Pathways in Innate Immunity
Antiana is a PhD. Student in the Microbe Host Interaction Graduate Program mentored by Dr. John Karijolich. She is from Kansas City, MO and earned her bachelor’s in biology from Washinton University in St. Louis in 2020. Her undergraduate research focused on the role of nucleic acid modifications in chromosome organization in the model organism Tetrahymena thermophila. After graduating she worked in the Karijolich lab as a Research Assistant for 2 years and started Vanderbilt’s Biomedical PhD program in 2022. Antiana’s current research investigates regulatory RNA mechanisms during infections and immunity.
Mentor: John Karijolich, Ph.D.