Congratulations to the 2016 Microbiology Graduates!<\/h2>\n
A big congratulations to the 2016 Microbiology Graduates! Featured (from left to right) are Fadie Coleman, Suzanne Geer, Gregory Wasserman, Emily Nelson, and Kristie Hilliard. In addition to the students above, we would also like to congratulate Krishna Moody, who was unable to attend graduation, and Munir Mosaheb, who just defended and will receive his degree in September and be eligible to “walk” in the 2017 commencement.\u00a0 Great job, everyone!\u00a0 We are all so proud of you!<\/p>\n Congratulations to Munir Mosaheb in the Wetzler Lab<\/a> on the successful defense of his dissertation entitled, “Immunological Responses and Mechanisms of Action of the TLR2-ligand Neisserial PorB Vaccine Adjuvant.” Nice job, Munir!<\/p>\n Sila Ataca, in the Kepler Lab<\/a>, has received a renewal of her Faculty for the Future<\/a> Fellowship from the Schlumberger Foundation. Congratulations, Sila!<\/p>\n Stephanie D\u2019Souza in the Kepler Lab<\/a> gave a talk on her research entitled \u201cA draft genome sequence for the Egyptian fruit bat, the reservoir host for Marburg virus\u201d at the Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) \u201916 Conference<\/a> dedicated to Genome Annotation, April 4-6, 2016, in Barcelona, Spain.<\/p>\n We are delighted to announce the Microbiology Graduate Students who have won 2016 Russek Student Achievement Awards.\u00a0 Congratulations to:<\/p>\n 1st<\/sup> Prize\u00a0\u00a0 – Greg Wasserman (Jones Lab<\/a>) In addition to our two Microbiology graduate students, we would like to congratulate two \u201chonorary\u201d Microbiology graduate students who have also won Russek Student Achievement Awards:<\/p>\n 1st<\/sup> Prize:\u00a0 Caitlin Miller \u2013 Pathology graduate student in the Gummuluru Lab<\/a> Please note that the 22nd<\/sup> Annual Henry I. Russek Student Achievement Day<\/a> will be held on Friday, May 6, 2016.<\/p>\n Tom Kepler<\/a> has been selected to replace David Sherr as the Director of the Immunology Training Progam (ITP).<\/p>\n Kaitlin Sawatzki, from the Kepler lab<\/a>, recently received a 2016 AAI Trainee Abstract Award<\/a> for the upcoming Immunology 2016 Meeting<\/a>, 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!<\/p>\n Barb Nikolajczyk<\/a> and Lee Wetzler<\/a> are hosting the Boston University School of Medicine Inflammation\u00a0Symposium<\/a> May 23, 2016 in Bakst Auditorium. All are welcome to join the cross-talk amongst inflammation researchers at BUSM and beyond.\u00a0 Trainee talks will be selected from submitted abstracts. Please contact the organizers for more details.<\/p>\n Sila Ataca, a graduate student in the the Kepler lab<\/a>, was awarded the Graduate Medical Sciences Student Organization Community Service Award<\/a> for the spring 2016 semester. With these travel funds Sila will be able to attend the Rosetta Antibody Workshop<\/a> and Vanderbilt University in April. Nice work, Sila!<\/p>\n Kudos to Greg Wasserman in the Jones Lab<\/a> 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!<\/p>\n Congratulations to Emily Nelson in Elke M\u00fchlberger’s lab<\/a> 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!<\/p>\n Tessa Cressey, a graduate student in both the Fearns lab<\/a> and M\u00fchlberger lab<\/a>, wrote a blog on Addgene about Ebola virus minigenomes. Following this link http:\/\/blog.addgene.org\/minigenomes-a-safe-way-to-study-dangerous-viruses<\/a> to read Tessa’s blog.<\/p>\n Congratulations to the winners of the 2016 Microbiology Trainee Travel Awards!<\/p>\n 1st<\/sup> Place: Kate Sawatzki<\/strong> (Graduate Student, Kepler Lab), who will be attending\u00a0 the Gordon Research Conference on Antibody Biology and Engineering, from March 20-25, 2016, in Galveston, TX.<\/p>\n 2nd<\/sup> Place: Matt Gagne<\/strong> (Graduate Student, Henderson Lab) who will be attending the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Conference on Retroviruses in Cold Spring Harbor, NY, from May 23-28, 2016<\/p>\n 3rd<\/sup> Place: Ludy Registre<\/strong> (Graduate Student, Sager Lab), who will be attending the Keystone Symposium on HIV Vaccines in Olympic Valley, CA, from March 20-24, 2016.<\/p>\n John Connor<\/a> is showcased in a video by The Science Coalition<\/a> to promote the Super Science Tuesday Campaign. Additionally, clips from John’s video are also included in a compilation of Boston University Investigators <\/a>as well as a compilation of National Investigators<\/a> as part of the Super Tuesday Science Matters Campaign.<\/p>\n Congratulations to Krishna Moody in Ann Rothstein’s lab on the successful defense of his dissertation entitled, \u201cAttenuation of BCR-TLR Responses by Fc\u03b3RIIB.\u201d<\/p>\n MAY\/JUNE Welcome to Incoming Microbiology Students The department would like to welcome incoming graduate students Kimberly Barker (Mizgerd Lab), Jaileene Hernandez-Escalante (Dooms Lab), Sarah Nodder (Gummuluru Lab), Whitney Manhart (Mostoslavsky and M\u00fchlberger Labs), and Rachel Yuen (Wetzler Lab). Kate Sawatzki is the 2016 Corwin Award Winner Congratulations to Kaitlin Sawatzki, the 2016 Corwin Award recipient. 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Munir Mosaheb Successfully Defends his Dissertation<\/h2>\n
MARCH\/APRIL<\/h2>\n
Sila Ataca Receives Renewal of her Faculty for the Future Fellowship<\/h2>\n
Stephanie D’Souza presents at NGS ’16<\/h2>\n
2016 Russek Award Winners<\/h2>\n
\n2nd<\/sup> Prize – Kate Sawatzki (Kepler Lab)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n1st<\/sup> Prize:\u00a0 Akshaya Ramesh \u2013 Genetics and Genomics graduate student in the Kepler Lab<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nTom Kepler Named as Director of the Immunology Training Program<\/h2>\n
Kaitlin Sawatzki Receives AAI Trainee Abstract Award<\/h2>\n
BUSM Inflammation Symposium, May 23, 2016<\/h2>\n
Sila Ataca Receives GMSSO Community Service Award<\/h2>\n
Greg Wasserman Successfully Defends his Dissertation<\/h2>\n
Emily Nelson Successfully Defends her Dissertation<\/h2>\n
Cressey Blog on Ebola Virus Minigenomes<\/h2>\n
2016 Microbiology Trainee Travel Award Winners<\/h2>\n
JANUARY\/FEBRUARY<\/h2>\n
John Connor is showcased in Super Science Tuesday Video<\/h2>\n
Krishna Moody successfully defends his dissertation<\/h2>\n
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