Allison Houghton

Microbiology graduate student

Allison Houghton, a Microbiology grad student at IU, joined the Tuli lab in 2021. She graduated in 2020 with a B.S. in Biology and a minor in Chemistry from Truman State University. She has worked in Immunobiology, Synthetic Biology, and Neuroscience, but finally fell in love with Virology. In the Tuli lab she seeks to understand how alphaviruses antagonize the interferon pathway.

In her spare time, Allison enjoys cooking, cross stitching, reading, tending to her Animal Crossing town, and all things Taylor Swift.