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Marie True’s last day with the Jensen lab. She is entering a Master’s program at UC Irvine. Good luck, and excellent job starting the lab!

Research is featured in Merced’s Sun Star, the Modesto Bee, the Fresno Bee, the Central Valley Business Times and by UC Merced.

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...

Thrilled to be recognized by the School of Natural Sciences and receive the Faculty Award for Undergraduate Research Mentoring! I am fortunate to have had very talented undergraduate researchers join the lab who have gone on from UC Merced to do amazing things in graduate school and industry. A big...

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...

As of today I will serve as the Chair of MCB department.

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...

Congratulations to Arlon Wizzard who was awarded one of 7 graduating seniors for the Fall of 2023 to win this award. Picture with Arlon, his mom and me!

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...