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Scott Souza has successfully passed his qualifying examination and advanced to candidacy!! Congratulations on all your accomplishments in this busy year.

Sam and Scott’s first research paper is published in Infection and Immunity. Congratulation! The manuscript details the limited role of immunotherapeutics in altering disease outcome during virulent secondary infections with T. gondii.

Undergraduate researchers Julia Alvarez and Felipe Rodriguez are recognized as two of three undergraduates from the School of Natural Sciences to win ‘Best Poster’ awards at UC Merced’s Undergraduate Research week. Fantastic job!

I’m excited to learn that we received an R15 award from the NIH on our project to identify novel T. gondii virulence factors that directly manipulate CD8 T cell responses! This is the Jensen lab’s first major award from the NIH. Pumped!

I was invited to give a seminar for the Northern California Parasitologists ( NCP) meeting at UC Davis. I really enjoyed the afternoon and meet with a fantastic group of parasitologists in the Northern California area.

Angel wins best overall poster at the annual QSB graduate program Spring retreat. Fantastic preparation and presentation Angel!

Undergraduate student Anh Diep joins the lab.

Voted “Best overall talk” at the QSB Spring retreat. Thanks QSB graduate students for the nod of approval!

Undergraduate researcher Brandon Justice joins the lab.

With Keke Fairfax, I will be co-organizing the WHIP meeting for 2024 and then lead organizer for 2025. I'm super excited and honored to do this. I have been to the WHIP meeting more than any other conference, and for years it has been the best place to support trainees in the field of immuno...