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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.

PhD candidate Abigail Bolter, along with Drs. Alexandra Main and Deborah Wiebe, had a paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Behavioral Medicine entitled, "Division of Type 1 Diabetes Responsibility in Latinx and Non-Latinx White Mother-Adolescent Dyads." Congratulations, Abby!

A recent article was published in the UC Merced Newsroom based on the Valley Teens as Parents study on sleep and Latina teen mothers' mental health. English-language version: https://ucm.edu/1CEic5 Spanish-language version: https://ucm.edu/RsgeB7

The Family Development Lab presented on effective parent-teen communication at the 2017 Tri-District Medical Academies Conference at Cesar E. Chavez Middle School in Planada.

Family Development Lab graduate student Carmen Kho was awarded the Donald and Effie Godbold Fellowship, a fellowship designed to recognize the unique challenges that face international graduate students and the promise that they can contribute a unique perspective to our community. Left to right: Dr...

UC Merced University Communications article on Professor Main’s research on parent-adolescent conflict. This study found that to best resolve conflicts, mothers and their adolescent children should avoid reciprocating negative emotion and take turns validating each other’s views.

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...