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Julia Alvarez is now a first year graduate student in the lab. Welcome Julia! We are excited that you have joined.

Not to be outdone, undergraduate student Julia Alvarez is awarded the School of Natural Sciences ‘Outstanding Undergraduate Student’ award. She was one of 5 undergraduate graduating seniors to be given this distinction. Well done Julia!

I was awarded an internal collaborative seed grant from our MCB department to explore how T. gondii perceives immune pressure. Collaborators on this seed award include Dr. Dave Ardell and Dr. Mike Cleary.

Congratulations to undergraduate researcher Anh Diep, who won First Place for Best Talk in the Microbiology and Immunology section at the 42nd Annual West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference! Great job Anh, well deserved and we are proud of what you have accomplished.

Sam receives an honorable mention on her NSF predoctoral fellowship proposal. Very difficult to do, so great job Sam!

April, now Dr. Apostol, was co-advised by me and Dr. Beaudin, and her thesis project is super interesting on how T. gondii infection during pregnancy impacts fetal stem cell development. Congratulation April, well done!

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...

Had a great time visiting UVA, and giving a seminar for the the Division of Infectious Disease & International Health.

Undergraduate researchers Neel Kaushik and Sahil Malhi were bestowed SNS Outstanding Student awards. Of the graduating seniors this Spring 2024, only 3 Biology major students were given this award for their scholastic and extracurricular achievements! Great job!

I was honored to be the lead organizer of the Woods hole Immuno-parasitology ( WHIP) meeting that I co-organized with Tajie Harris (University of Virginia) April 13-16, 2025. We had ground breaking trainee talks, and wonderful key note addresses from P'ng Loke (NIH), Jenny Ting (University of North...