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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...

Gave a talk at the 13th International Congress on Toxoplasmosis & T. gondii Biology, in Gettysburg PA. What a great conference and smart collection of scientists.

Received an internal award from UC Merced’s Committee on Research. The COR award will provide seed money to explore intestinal inflammation regulation by Toxoplasma.

My first day as an Assistant Professor at UC Merced. I am in the Molecular Biology Unit within the School of Natural Sciences.

It was a great 3 years with Ferdinand, who discovered fundamental things for the Jensen lab about the GPI anchor that will be published in years to come! Good luck with your growing family in the UK!

Excited to share that we recently received an R21 (R21AI176186) from the NIH to explore novel concepts in mRNA vaccines for Toxoplasma gondii. This is in collaboration with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories (LLNL) nanoparticle vaccine group headed by Dr. Nick Fischer and Dr. Amy Rasley.