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Undergraduate researcher Brandon Justice joins the lab.

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...

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...

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.

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.

Honored and thrilled to receive the ‘Young Investigator Award – for Outstanding Oral Presentation’ at the 59th Midwinter Conference of Immunologists at Asilomar. I’m really pumped to be recognized by some of the leading immunologists in the field. Pumped to receive the Young Investigator Award!

Scott gave an excellent talk that was well received at the 2019 Woods Hole Immuno-Parasitology (WHIP) meeting. Great bunch of scientists studying the immune response to parasites. 2019 WHIP Scott (3rd from the left) wins a Travel Award for being selected to give an oral presentation on his work.