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I was invited to give a seminar at UC Irvine, for department of MBB, hosted by Roberto Tinoco. Great time meeting the amazing faculty in the department, exciting research.

Check out our review on all host forward genetic screens that have been performed on Apicomplexa parasite infections in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. Reviewed are the many forward genetic studies over the past several decades that have revealed multiple aspects of host-parasite...

Felipe Rodriguez, undergraduate researcher then mentored assistant in the Jensen lab, was accepted into UC Davis Graduate School in the Program of Immunology. We are so proud! Congratulations! Our socially distanced going away party below.

More awards! Wow! At this years 22nd Annual Woods Hole Immunoparasitology Meeting (WHIP) graduate students Angel Kongsomboonvech and Scott Souza win AAI Young Investigator Awards for their oral and poster presentations, respectively. Congrats Angel and Scott!! I imagine there will be more in the...

Congratulations to postdoctoral researcher Juan Sanchez-Arcila who received a Young Investigator Award (BioLegend) for outstanding oral presentation at the Midwinter Conference of Immunologists (MCI) 2023. This is well deserved, and his work on the Collaborative Cross is super interesting! Pictured...

Very excited to share our discovery and characterization of the GPI sidechain sytnthetic pathway in T. gondii. This is a first for any parasite. This is the thesis work by graduate student Julia Alvarez, in collaboration with Christopher West at University of Georgia. Parasites that lack a GPI...

Julia gave an oral presentation at the 2022 WHIP meeting in Woods hole, MA and a poster at the 16th International meeting on Toxoplasmosis and Toxoplasma meeting, Riverside CA. She won 2nd best talk at WHIP and best poster for her work on the GPI anchor of T. gondii. Pictured below are the awardees...

Our PLOS Pathogens paper by Souza et al. gained a lot of traction! The UC Merced News Room published an article written by former undergraduate researcher Anh Diep. Also, a Splotlight article published in Trends in Parasitology was written by Imtiaz Khan and colleague highlighting this important...

Undergraduate researcher, Safuwra Wizzard, graduated with a B.S. in Biology and we wish her the very best going forward.

Undergraduate Brooke Wilson joins the lab. Welcome Brooke, we’re excited to have you!