Thomas starts his new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the University of California - Irvine School of Medicine in February 2022: https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/burkelab/
Cuong Joseph Tran, graduate student in the Welch lab, has been awarded an Irving H. Wiesenfeld fellowship from the Center of Emerging and Neglected Diseases (CEND):
Check out "Inflammasome-mediated antagonism of type I interferon enhances Rickettsia pathogenesis": https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/697573v1
Check out "A metabolic dependency for host isoprenoids in the obligate intracellular pathogen Rickettsia parkeri underlies a sensitivity for the statin class of host-targeted therapeutics": https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/528018v1
Congratulations Bisco!
Check out "Baculovirus Actin-Based Motility Drives Nuclear Envelope Disruption and Nuclear Egress": https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.05.027
Check out the paper online! http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0197012
Congratulations Nora!
Check out "Trypanosomes have divergent kinesin-2 proteins that function differentially in IFT, cell division and motility": https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/04/13/301127
Check out "A streamlined method for tranposon mutagenesis of Rickettsia parkeri yields numerous mutations that impact infection": https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/03/08/277160