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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...

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

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...

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!

Our paper is published on the GPI sidechain of T. gondii. This is the first description of the entire GPI sidechain synthetic pathway for any eukaryotic microbe generated by two enzymes we named PIGJ and PIGE. This is Julia Alvarez' PH.D. dissertation in collaboration with Chris West at University...

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!