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

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

Julia Alvarez is now a first year graduate student in the lab. Welcome Julia! We are excited that you have joined.

Not to be outdone, undergraduate student Julia Alvarez is awarded the School of Natural Sciences ‘Outstanding Undergraduate Student’ award. She was one of 5 undergraduate graduating seniors to be given this distinction. Well done Julia!

I was awarded an internal collaborative seed grant from our MCB department to explore how T. gondii perceives immune pressure. Collaborators on this seed award include Dr. Dave Ardell and Dr. Mike Cleary.

Congratulations to undergraduate researcher Anh Diep, who won First Place for Best Talk in the Microbiology and Immunology section at the 42nd Annual West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference ! Great job Anh, well deserved and we are proud of what you have accomplished.

Sam receives an honorable mention on her NSF predoctoral fellowship proposal. Very difficult to do, so great job Sam!

Our paper titled, ' Mild membrane depolarization in neurons induces immediate early gene transcription and acutely subdues responses to successive stimulus ' is now published in JBC. In this paper we show how neurons react in the aftermath of milf depolarization. This study was initiated in 2019 by...