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Speaker at AAI Washington DC

News: May 14, 2023
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...

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In the Jensen laboratory, we study the immunology and pathogenesis of the obligate intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii, the causative agent of human toxoplasmosis. Toxoplasma has been dubbed the “ubiquitous” parasite because it infects all species of mammals, a variety of birds and a third of...

Editor's Pick mBio - paper on the GPI of T. gondii

News: September 20, 2024
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...

Bryan Castellanos

Person: ’15-’17 Cell Biologist, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Bryan was one of my first undergraduates to join the lab. He is now in industry!

Gabriela Ceron

Person: 21'-23' Undergaduate researcher
Gabriela, a UC LEADS scholar, and worked to understand the humoral response to the GPI sidechain of T. gondii.

Anh Diep

Person: ’15-’17, California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) Policy Fellow
As an undergraduate researcher, Anh probed the function of T. gondii ASP5 in relation to CD8 T cell activation to the parasite.