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Laura and Juan win presentation awards at WHIP 2023

News: April 25, 2023

Congratulations to Laura for being awarded the "AAI Oral Presentation Award for 2nd Best Talk" and Juan for winning a travel award for select oral presentations at the 2023 Woods Hole Immunoparasitology (WHIP) meeting, Woods Hole, MA. For Laura this was her first conference talk, great job! Pictured...

Seminar talk - Univeristy of Virginia, Division of Infectious Diseases & International Health

News: October 24, 2023

Had a great time visiting UVA, and giving a seminar for the the Division of Infectious Disease & International Health.

Congratulations Neel and Sahil - SNS Outstanding Student Awards!!

News: April 29, 2024

Undergraduate researchers Neel Kaushik and Sahil Malhi were bestowed SNS Outstanding Student awards. Of the graduating seniors this Spring 2024, only 3 Biology major students were given this award for their scholastic and extracurricular achievements! Great job!

Arlon Wizzard

Person: 21'-23', Graduate School U Penn

Arlon worked on immune parameters discovered from the collaborative cross that may lead to better understanding of protective vaccines for parasites. Yes, this is the second Wizzard that has graced our lab and we love it!

Jake Velen

Person: Graduate Student [1st year]

Jake had an extensive undergraduate research experience at Pepperdine University before joining the QSB program and the Jensen lab. Jake is interested in understanding mechanisms of tolerance following Toxoplasma infection and will be performing large-scale genetic screens to this end!

28th Woods Hole Immuno-parasitology meeting - a success!

News: April 16, 2025

I was honored to be the lead organizer of the Woods hole Immuno-parasitology ( WHIP) meeting that I co-organized with Tajie Harris (University of Virginia) April 13-16, 2025. We had ground breaking trainee talks, and wonderful key note addresses from P'ng Loke (NIH), Jenny Ting (University of North...

Ferdinand Njume

Person: 20'-23', University of Liverpool, Postdoctoral Scholar

Ferdinand Njume former postdoctoral scholar in the Jensen lab. He performed his Ph.D. work at the University of Belgium where he researched surface proteins of the filarial nematode, Onchocerca volvulus. His current work involves the surface proteins of T. gondii and search for a suitable parasite...

Neel Kaushik

Person: 22' - '24 Undergaduate researcher, applying to medical school

Neel performed editing Toxoplasma genes and infecting wild-derived mice as he studied host-pathogen interactions. Neel is aiming for a future career in medicine.

Brazilian Parasitology Meeting - Seminar talk

News: September 05, 2023

Amazing conference featuring South America's best and brightest parasitologists. Honored to be an invited speaker for this meeting, and enjoyed meeting everyone.

Laura Garcia-Lopez

Person: Ph.D. Graduate student [4th year]

Laura Garcia-Lopez has joined the lab as a first year graduate student in our QSB graduate program. She comes from the University of Quindio, Columbia where she obtained her masters degree in Jorge Gomez-Marin's lab researching human immune correlates of occular toxoplasmosis. We are thrilled to...