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I was recently featured in a Zippia's panel to discuss about current job market trends in public health. Check it out: https://www.zippia.com/public-health-advisor-jobs/trends/

The Merg lab visited Dos Palos High School and gives a presentation on nanotechnology in front of high school students. Great job Emil, Anthony, and Douglas for leading this event and providing high schoolers the opportunity to learn about graduate school, research life, and some exciting new...

Andie Venegas was accepted in the QSB Ph.D. program. Andie has chosen to pursue her Ph.D. with us and will start as a graduate student in Spring of 2022. We are excited to have Andie in the lab as a graduate student (along with Morgan and Karen). Welcome Andie!

Julia gave an oral presentation at the 2022 WHIP meeting in Woods hole, MA and a poster at the 16th International meeting on Toxoplasmosis and Toxoplasma meeting, Riverside CA. She won 2nd best talk at WHIP and best poster for her work on the GPI anchor of T. gondii. Pictured below are the awardees...

Our PLOS Pathogens paper by Souza et al. gained a lot of traction! The UC Merced News Room published an article written by former undergraduate researcher Anh Diep. Also, a Splotlight article published in Trends in Parasitology was written by Imtiaz Khan and colleague highlighting this important...

Undergraduate researcher, Safuwra Wizzard, graduated with a B.S. in Biology and we wish her the very best going forward.

Honored and thrilled to receive the ‘Young Investigator Award – for Outstanding Oral Presentation’ at the 59th Midwinter Conference of Immunologists at Asilomar. I’m really pumped to be recognized by some of the leading immunologists in the field. Pumped to receive the Young Investigator Award!

Scott gave an excellent talk that was well received at the 2019 Woods Hole Immuno-Parasitology (WHIP) meeting. Great bunch of scientists studying the immune response to parasites. 2019 WHIP Scott (3rd from the left) wins a Travel Award for being selected to give an oral presentation on his work.