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Congratulations Angel on your 5.5 years in my lab and defending your Ph.D. thesis! You did it! Such great discoveries were made and good luck in your upcoming postdoc at Stanford University in Elizabeth Egan's lab. I'm looking forward to seeing your career develop. Despite COVID the lab had to...

Postdoctoral scholar Ferdinand Fnjume officially joins the lab. He comes to us from the University of Belgium with much experience in the molecular biology of the filarial nematode, Onchocerca volvulus. Looking forward to the years to come.

The bulk of Angel's thesis has been published in PLOS Pathogens titled, "Naive CD8 T cell IFNg responses to a vacuolar antigen are regulated by an inflammasome-independent NLRP3 pathway and Toxoplasma gondii ROP5." It is really a great paper that spans host and parasite requirements for CD8 T cell...

I am excited to recieve this university-wide award bestowed by the Academic Senate of UC Merced. With all the amazing researchers at UC Merced, this is a true honor.

Undergraduate researchers Jennifer Eggleston and Darian Galvez join the lab! Welcome and we wish you the very best in your research pursuits studying Host-Pathogen interactions. A fantastic choice for a research topic.

We received an R21!! R21AI145403

Graduate Student Jessica Wilson successfully defends her Masters thesis. Congrats.

Gave a talk at UC Davis, for the Host-Pathogen Seminar series. Thank you for the invite, UC Davis does fantastic host-pathogen research.

Gave a seminar at UC Davis, for the Center for Comparative Medicine. What a fantastic group of immunologists to discuss host-pathogen interactions with! Thanks for the invite.

Graduate student, Angel, wins the School of Natural Sciences Distinguished Graduate Fellowship! Congratulations Angel, you deserve it. This is a competitive award across multiple scientific disciplines represented by SNS at UC Merced.