We are delighted to announce the Microbiology Graduate Students who have won 2016 Russek Student Achievement Awards. Congratulations to: 1st Prize – Greg Wasserman (Jones Lab) 2nd Prize – Kate Sawatzki (Kepler Lab) In addition to our two Microbiology graduate students, we would like to congratulate two “honorary” Microbiology graduate students who have also won […]
Tom Kepler has been selected to replace David Sherr as the Director of the Immunology Training Progam (ITP).
Kaitlin Sawatzki, from the Kepler lab, recently received a 2016 AAI Trainee Abstract Award for the upcoming Immunology 2016 Meeting, May 13-17, 2016, in Seattle, WA. This award provides travel support to AAI Trainee members whose first-author abstracts submitted to the AAI annual meeting are selected for oral presentation in block symposia. Congratulations, Kate.
Barb Nikolajczyk and Lee Wetzler are hosting the Boston University School of Medicine Inflammation Symposium May 23, 2016 in Bakst Auditorium. All are welcome to join the cross-talk amongst inflammation researchers at BUSM and beyond. Trainee talks will be selected from submitted abstracts. Please contact the organizers for more details.
Sila Ataca, a graduate student in the the Kepler lab, was awarded the Graduate Medical Sciences Student Organization Community Service Award for the spring 2016 semester. With these travel funds Sila will be able to attend the Rosetta Antibody Workshop and Vanderbilt University in April.
Kudos to Greg Wasserman in the Jones Lab on the successful defense of his dissertation entitled, “A Discrete Population of Ciliated Cells Express the piRNA Binding Protein MIWI12 to Regulate Lung Inflammation.” Great job, Greg!
Congratulations to Emily Nelson in Elke Mühlberger’s lab on the successful defense of her dissertation entitled, “Examination of the Cellular Stress Response and Post-transcriptional Regulation of RNA during Ebola Virus Infection.” Nice work, Emily.