Congratulations to Sila Ataca in the lab of Thomas Kepler on the successful defense of her dissertation entitled, “Biophysical Characterization of Affinity Maturation in the Human Response to Anthrax Vaccine” on April 25, 2018. Nice work, Sila!
Congratulations to Tessa Cressey in the Fearns and Mühlberger Labs on receiving a student travel award from The American Society of Virology. Tessa will use this award to attend the ASV Meeting at the University of Maryland in July.
Congratulations to Kimberly Barker in the Mizgerd Lab who was just awarded an F31 Predoctoral Fellowship Award from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the NIH for her work on Lung Memory B Cell Contributions to Heterotypic Anti-Pneumococcal Immunty. Nice work, Kim!
We are delighted to announce the Microbiology Graduate Students who have won 2018 Russek Student Achievement Awards. Congratulations to: 1st Prize – Stephanie Pavlovich (Kepler Lab) 2nd Prize – Matthew Gagne (Wetzler Lab) Honorable Mention – Alexander Barron (Browning Lab) Please note that the 24th Annual Henry I. Russek Student Achievement Day will be held on Thursday, May 10, 2018.
Congratulations to Stephanie Pavlovich in the lab of Thomas Kepler on the successful defense of her dissertation entitled, “Genomic Analysis and Examination of Innate Antiviral Immunity in the Egyptian Rousette Bat” on April 5, 2018. Well done, Stephanie!
Congratulations to Ian Francis in the lab of Lee Wetzler on the successful defense of his dissertation entitled, “The Characterization of Novel Transgenic Murine Models of Neisseria Gonorrhoeae Infection and Development of a Natural Outer Membrane Vesicle Anti-Gonococcal Vaccine Candidate” on April 3, 2018. Good job, Ian!
We are pleased to announce the 2018 Microbiology Trainee Award recipients, one first place and two second place winners, and they are: 1st place: Tessa Cressey (graduate student – Fearns and Mühlberger labs) will be attending the American Society for Virology 2018 Annual Meeting at the University of Maryland from July 14-18, 2018. 2nd place: […]