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Thrilled to be recognized by the School of Natural Sciences and receive the Faculty Award for Undergraduate Research Mentoring! I am fortunate to have had very talented undergraduate researchers join the lab who have gone on from UC Merced to do amazing things in graduate school and industry. A big...

As of today I will serve as the Chair of MCB department.

Congratulations to Arlon Wizzard who was awarded one of 7 graduating seniors for the Fall of 2023 to win this award. Picture with Arlon, his mom and me!

Welcome to 3 new trainees in the Jensen lab - 1st year graduate student Jake Velen, and undergraduate researchers Aades Dhillon and Marissa Lopez. Your passion for science is inspiring and we are excited to see your career's unfold!

So amazing to participate in the Biology of Parasitism (BoP) 2025 course held at Woods hole, MA. Where 16 selected students were given lectures in the morning and laboratory approaches to study parasites in the afternoon/evening over 7 weeks. Special thanks to Jude Uzonna and Pedro Gazzinelli who...

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...

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...

The Jensen lab welcomes 4 new undergraduate researchers and a high school student in the lab. Undergrads Gabriela Ceron UC LEADs scholar, Litzy Lemus CAMP scholar, Sahil Malhi and Ahmadzakaria Arjmand are each budding young scientists. Essey Afewerki is a high school student researcher from Merced...

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...

April's thesis work is published in EMBO ( here). April shows for the first time that a live infection during pregnancy alters fetal stem cell development, severely retarding the ability of a subset of developmentally restricted stem cells to produce various immune cells following maternal T. gondii...