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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...

Ramen (PI) and our wonderful collaborator at Purdue university –Dr. Emily Dykhuizen (Co-PI)– received a R21 award from NIMH. The funded grant is titled, "BAF complex inhibitors in neuronal development and functions". This award will fund Karen's project where we are studying the role of BAF complex...

Cumulative work from two graduate students, Angel Kongsomboonvech and Laura Garcia-Lopez, in which genetic mapping was employed to understand the parasite strain differences in eliciting CD8 T cell IFNg production to parasite infected cells. Over 120 parasite strains were screened, and ROP16 - a...

Honored to have been a part of a guest session at the American Association of Immunologists (AAI) meeting as an invited speaker for the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) Symposium. Azza Idris (Harvard), Robin Stephens (Rutgers) and Romaniya Zayats (pictured below) gave...

With Keke Fairfax, I will be co-organizing the WHIP meeting for 2024 and then lead organizer for 2025. I'm super excited and honored to do this. I have been to the WHIP meeting more than any other conference, and for years it has been the best place to support trainees in the field of immuno...

I was invited to give a seminar at UC Irvine, for department of MBB, hosted by Roberto Tinoco. Great time meeting the amazing faculty in the department, exciting research.

Ramen was awarded the 2023-24 UC Merced senate award to study a novel inhibitor of the neuronal activity-induced gene transcription. The proposal is titled, 'A study of BAF complex functions in neurons using novel inhibitor '704'.

Congratulations to postdoctoral researcher Juan Sanchez-Arcila who received a Young Investigator Award (BioLegend) for outstanding oral presentation at the Midwinter Conference of Immunologists (MCI) 2023. This is well deserved, and his work on the Collaborative Cross is super interesting! Pictured...