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The Merg lab's first publication is published in J. Pept. Sci.! Congrats Anthony and Yumie!!
Read it here!
Merg lab awarded collaborative ARO grant with three other PIs on the development of responsive peptide/protein-based architectures!
The lab has new NIMH funding
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...
April's paper is published T. gondii congenital infection and fetal stem cells!
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...
MCB Chair
As of today I will serve as the Chair of MCB department.
Speaker at AAI Washington DC
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...
Hins Qiu wins CCBM undergraduate fellowship
Undergraduate student Hins Qiu who has been associated with our lab for almost two years now receives a CCBM student fellowship for the academic year 2023/2024. He will receive a stipend and additional mentoring from the CCBM - a NSF-funded center for biophysics/bioengineering on campus. He is...
NIH Grant Awarded
The National Institute of Health awarded a R01 grant worth $3 million dollars to Professor Maria-Elena Young. Young's project plans to span across five years looking at health care access and quality of life of latinos in rural communities and how immigration policies have an impact. The project...