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.
More awards! Wow! At this years 22nd Annual Woods Hole Immunoparasitology Meeting (WHIP) graduate students Angel Kongsomboonvech and Scott Souza win AAI Young Investigator Awards for their oral and poster presentations, respectively. Congrats Angel and Scott!! I imagine there will be more in the...
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.