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I will be the WHIP organizer for 2024 and 2025

With Keke Fairfax, I will be co-organizing the WHIP meeting for 2024 and then lead organizer for 2025. I'm super excited and honored to do this. I have been to the WHIP meeting more than any other conference, and for years it has been the best place to support trainees in the field of immuno...

UCI Seminar

I was invited to give a seminar at UC Irvine, for department of MBB, hosted by Roberto Tinoco. Great time meeting the amazing faculty in the department, exciting research.

Scott Souza

Graduated from California State University Channel Islands, and then obtained a Ph.D. in my lab. Scott investigated how B cells mediate protective immunity to T. gondii, and determined that B-1 cells are important players in the immune response to the parasites. Drinking coffee in Columbia (above)...

Review on Host Forward Genetics in Apicomplexa is published

Check out our review on all host forward genetic screens that have been performed on Apicomplexa parasite infections in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. Reviewed are the many forward genetic studies over the past several decades that have revealed multiple aspects of host-parasite...

Felipe is heading to Graduate School!

Felipe Rodriguez, undergraduate researcher then mentored assistant in the Jensen lab, was accepted into UC Davis Graduate School in the Program of Immunology. We are so proud! Congratulations! Our socially distanced going away party below.

More awards! Wow!

More awards! Wow! At this years 22nd Annual Woods Hole Immunoparasitology Meeting (WHIP) graduate students Angel Kongsomboonvech and Scott Souza win AAI Young Investigator Awards for their oral and poster presentations, respectively. Congrats Angel and Scott!! I imagine there will be more in the...

Preprint on the GPI sidechain of Toxoplasma is online!

Very excited to share our discovery and characterization of the GPI sidechain sytnthetic pathway in T. gondii. This is a first for any parasite. This is the thesis work by graduate student Julia Alvarez, in collaboration with Christopher West at University of Georgia. Parasites that lack a GPI...