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Congratulations Angel on your 5.5 years in my lab and defending your Ph.D. thesis! You did it! Such great discoveries were made and good luck in your upcoming postdoc at Stanford University in Elizabeth Egan's lab. I'm looking forward to seeing your career develop. Despite COVID the lab had to...

The bulk of Angel's thesis has been published in PLOS Pathogens titled, "Naive CD8 T cell IFNg responses to a vacuolar antigen are regulated by an inflammasome-independent NLRP3 pathway and Toxoplasma gondii ROP5." It is really a great paper that spans host and parasite requirements for CD8 T cell...

The Jensen lab welcomes 4 new undergraduate researchers and a high school student in the lab. Undergrads Gabriela Ceron UC LEADs scholar, Litzy Lemus CAMP scholar, Sahil Malhi and Ahmadzakaria Arjmand are each budding young scientists. Essey Afewerki is a high school student researcher from Merced...

Honored to have been a part of a guest session at the American Association of Immunologists (AAI) meeting as an invited speaker for the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) Symposium. Azza Idris (Harvard), Robin Stephens (Rutgers) and Romaniya Zayats (pictured below) gave...

April's thesis work is published in EMBO ( here). April shows for the first time that a live infection during pregnancy alters fetal stem cell development, severely retarding the ability of a subset of developmentally restricted stem cells to produce various immune cells following maternal T. gondii...

Our paper is published on the GPI sidechain of T. gondii. This is the first description of the entire GPI sidechain synthetic pathway for any eukaryotic microbe generated by two enzymes we named PIGJ and PIGE. This is Julia Alvarez' PH.D. dissertation in collaboration with Chris West at University...