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The Jensen lab welcomes undergraduate reseaerchers Mary (Mindy) Fernandez, Alex Jeronimo, Jasmine Possada, and Cienna Vongsa. Can't wait to have you in the lab when the COVID restrictions end!

Lab picture (below) after reading poems and giving gifts. Picture in front of UC Merced’s ‘New Beginnings’ sculpture with lights!

I was invited to give a talk at University of Pennsylvania, for the School of Veterinary Medicine, Parasitology Seminar Series. What a great institution and collection of scientists who study molecular parasitology and the immune response to these pathogens. My host, Chris Hunter, showed me around...

Congratulations to Scott, who received a travel award to attend and give a talk at the 2019 Woods Hole Immuno-Parasitology (WHIP) meeting!! Great job Scott.

Felipe Rodriguez does it again, receives ‘Honorable Mention’ for his poster presentation at the 43rd Annual West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference, held at St. Mary’s College, CA.

Graduate Student Samantha Splitt, successfully defends her Master’s Thesis. Awesome job! You have made major scientific contributions in such a short time. Good luck in your future endeavors, and we will miss having you in the Jensen lab.

Graduate Student, Scott Souza joins the lab. Welcome Scott and I look forward to having you in the lab!

Tina’s last day in the Jensen lab. She is heading off to graduate school to obtain her Ph.D. with the Graduate group in Immunology at UC Davis. Congratulations on this accomplishment and it was wonderful to have you in the lab! Good luck.

Graduate student Samantha (“Sam”) Splitt joins the lab.

Spotlight article in Trends in Parasitology is online “Antigen Presentation of Vacuolated Apicomplexans – Two Gateways to a Vaccine Antigen.” It is a brief review summarizing two papers from the Yamamoto and Blanchard laboratories, that collectively suggest (I think) two host pathways to acquire...