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A Congratulations to Julia who's abstract was selected to give a talk for the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), 2020! She recieved a Burroughs Wellcome Travel Award to do so. Great job.

Postdoctoral researcher Juan Camilo Sanchez-Arcila joined the lab. Juan has a wealth of experience in human and parasite immunology obtained his Ph.D. from FIOCRUZ in Rio De Janeiro. Welcome and we are excited to have you join the lab!

The International Toxoplasma Congress XV was held this year in the beautiful region of Decameron Panaca, Quindio Colombia. Our biennial conference was exciting as always and my graduate student Scott Souza and I each gave talks. This community of Toxoplasma researchers is extremely supportive and I...

Undergraduate student Safuwra Wizzard joins the lab! We are excited to have you, and wish you the very best senior year in our lab.

Julia Alvarez received Honorable Mention for her application to the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program! Fantastic job Julia, this is difficult to do!

Scott Souza has successfully passed his qualifying examination and advanced to candidacy!! Congratulations on all your accomplishments in this busy year.

Sam and Scott’s first research paper is published in Infection and Immunity. Congratulation! The manuscript details the limited role of immunotherapeutics in altering disease outcome during virulent secondary infections with T. gondii.

Undergraduate researchers Julia Alvarez and Felipe Rodriguez are recognized as two of three undergraduates from the School of Natural Sciences to win ‘Best Poster’ awards at UC Merced’s Undergraduate Research week. Fantastic job!

I’m excited to learn that we received an R15 award from the NIH on our project to identify novel T. gondii virulence factors that directly manipulate CD8 T cell responses! This is the Jensen lab’s first major award from the NIH. Pumped!

I was invited to give a seminar for the Northern California Parasitologists ( NCP) meeting at UC Davis. I really enjoyed the afternoon and meet with a fantastic group of parasitologists in the Northern California area.