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I am looking for a few highly motivated and stellar students to join my effort on a literature review looking at pregnancy outcomes in women with disabilities, and potentially some other projects. This is an unpaid and remote position, but you will learn important aspects of public health research...

I'm very excited to be collaborating with researchers from UC Merced other UC campuses on the California Policy Lab project. This project aims to develop data-driven solutions for some of California’s most complex issues, such as homelessness, poverty, criminal justice reform, education inequality...

It's been a while, but check out this podcast interview, through which I discussed my career path and research experience, and offered advices for undergrad students who are interested in graduate school. https://soundcloud.com/user-832513809/sjv-health-policy-podcast-ep1

Check out our newest paper on the long-term and intergenerational impacts of climate change. Abstract full text link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fertnstert.2022.06.007 Climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century. In addition to short-term reproductive health impacts...

Two new undergraudate researchers have joined the lab, Rachel Szymanski and Arlon Wizzard! We are excited to have you research with us as we delve into the immune response to parasites!

We received supplemental funding on our parental R01 to hire Jasmine Posada for a mentored year as a Senior Research Associate-1 (SRA-1)! Jasmine is preparing for graduate school in the fall of 2022, and this funding comes in response to the NIH call to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research...

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.